April 2011
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March 2011
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WatchGtk+ 3.0 applications in a browser!
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“The difference between a bad programmer and a good one is whether he considers...”
– Linus Torvalds (http://lwn.net/Articles/193245/)
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Pay Teachers More
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Recent scholarship suggests that good teachers, even kindergarten teachers, increase their students’ earnings many years later. Eric A. Hanushek of Stanford University found that an excellent teacher (one a standard deviation better than average, or better than 84 percent of teachers) raises each student’s lifetime earnings by $20,000. If there are 20 students in the class, that is an extra...
February 2011
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“For what it’s worth: it’s never too late or, in my case, too early...”
– Benjamin Button
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September 2010
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“From a bit to a few hundred megabytes, from a microsecond to a half an hour of...”
– E.W. Dijkstra (via fooyeahcode)
“Intellectual workers don’t need academic freedom to service the status quo,...”
– Jeff Schmidt on Academic Freedom | Keyvan Minoukadeh (via ushaft)
July 2010
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What an American Graduate Did When He Couldn't... →
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“If you destroy a free market, you create a black market.”
– Winston Churchill (via hughbiquitous)
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Giving a Voice to the Voiceless in India →
Nalini Jameela, a sex worker, encountered writer’s block after one of her clients came across a line in an early draft of her book: “I am 49 years old.” She had told him she was only 42. Ms. Jameela lost the client and, briefly, her nerve.
In 2007, a publishing house agreed to publish the English translation of Ms. Jameela’s memoirs. Dignified in her crisp saris, Ms. Jameela would hold her ...
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Will the real programmers please stand up? →
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I assume I'm below average →
Most people are so worried about looking good that they never do anything great. Most people are so worried about doing something great that they never do anything at all.
June 2010
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The God Project: Hinduism as Open-Source Faith →
The key point of differentiation between Hinduism and other faiths is not polytheism vs. monotheism. The key differentiation is that “Hinduism” is Open Source and most other faiths are Closed Source.
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How anonymous are your comments on web? →
While news organizations debate scrapping anonymity, the ground may be shifting beneath them. With all of our identifying information getting sliced, diced, and sold, by everyone from credit card companies to Facebook, is there really such a thing as the anonymous Web anymore? Consider this demonstration from the late ’90s by Carnegie Mellon University computer science professor Latanya...
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“GDP measures everything, in short, except that which makes life worthwhile.”
– Robert F. Kennedy on March 18, 1968, at the University of Kansas
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Local messaging →
Noida-based Luna Ergonomics has developed a unique screen-based multilingual keypad, called Panini after the famous Sanskrit grammarian, which enables users to send SMSes in as many as 11 Indian regional languages from their existing mobiles. That’s not all, the new app lets you type faster, more conveniently, and even allows you to compress your SMSes to accommodate 210 characters, against ...
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Is the life you’re pursuing the life you want? →
If you don’t know why you’re moving in a new direction, if you can’t envision a remarkable life for yourself, you will struggle with every attempt you make to get rid of clutter. Don’t worry about what your neighbors and friends are doing — you’re smart enough to make choices for yourself.
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“Real men don’t use backups, they post their stuff on a public ftp server...”
– Linus Torvalds
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Studying Engineering Before They Can Spell It →
All 300 students at Clara E. Coleman Elementary School are learning the A B C’s of engineering this year, even those who cannot yet spell e-n-g-i-n-e-e-r-i-n-g. The high-performing Glen Rock school district, about 22 miles northwest of Manhattan, now teaches 10 to 15 hours of engineering each year to every student in kindergarten through fifth grade, as part of a $100,000 redesign of the...
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Funny Leave Applications
See, how people write leave Applications. It’s murder of English language. But Too Funny. Just Read It. The Leave Applications; )
Infosys , Bangalore
An employee applied for leave as follows: “Since I have to go to my village to sell my land along with my wife , please sanction me one-week leave.”
Oracle, Bangalore
From an employee who was performing the...
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Why should we suffer for TU's negligence
I have been lately asking myself the following questions: Does TU value the certificates it provide? And, should I take the certificate TU provides seriously???
My experience of going to Balkhu has never been good. Long queues, slow staff, rude behavior, inefficient work etiquette and an unwarranted sense of superiority is all that I have seen over there. One can easily guess the level of...
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Startups: Poverty is Underrated. Be Glad That... →
The point is that money by itself won’t make you successful; it may well cause you to fail. I will take an inexperienced, hungry, cash-strapped startup team over a well-oiled team of Google or Microsoft veterans any day. Hungry companies figure out ways to keep eating because they don’t know whether there will ever be another meal. Veterans and serialists worry less about failure and are...
May 2010
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“Many people with jobs have a fantasy about all the amazing things they would do...”
– Paul Buchheit
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You Aren't Crazy, You're Just an Entrepreneur →
A short account on the cycle of changes that an entrepreneur goes through.
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Quotations about patriotism →
A nice collection of quotations about patriotism.
All of them so thought provoking (well some in really funny way :D).
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50 is the age when people finally begin to have... →
Happiness is being comfortable in your skin and having a good time without trying too hard
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This is how Muslims should protest →
Muslim Students Association at University of Wisconsin-Madison exemplify how to protest.