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Friday, June 22, 2007

Zenter - Working Habits for a succesful startup

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I am still "offline" but this was so striking I wanted to record my awe. from here , (emphases mine) What was a typical day or ...
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Thursday, June 21, 2007

Archive Visibility Fixed

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The archives for this blog were not visible. Now they are. Thanks to the reader who sent this in.
Friday, June 15, 2007

Blog On Ice For a While

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the nutshell version: I am *extremely* busy and won't be paying too much attention to this blog for the next couple of months. If you n...
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Thursday, June 14, 2007

Rogue Researcher's Route Map - Addendum

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I wrote about what I learned when attempting to do Comp Sci research on my own ( A Rogue researcher's route map ). Something I've ...
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Wednesday, June 13, 2007

The Stratal Effect

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Dr de Bono defines a "stratal" thus. "A stratal is a number of parallel statements or observations that are put together as...
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"Concentration is the Enemy"

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A fragment from a (chat) conversation with my friend Abey.Context == Talking about programming, me: Hey did you know about this " I t...
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Monday, June 04, 2007

On an unwillingness to pay the price

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This is something I've started noticing recently. A lot of people claim they want something and then balk at paying the price. The patte...
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FAQ (from my mail-box) #3 Can we hire you ?

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Probably Not. Some context. Every single day , I get 3-5 emails from people trying to offer me a job. The obvious form letters go into the ...
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Monday, May 28, 2007

FAQ (from my mail-box) #3 I am just starting out in the sw industry/I am still in shool. Can you give me some advice?

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Sure. Giving advice is easy. Following it is hard :-) If you like coding (and technology in general), seriously consider if you want to stud...
Thursday, May 24, 2007

FAQ (from my mail-box) #2 Should I apply to Thoughtworks and/or can you help me get in?

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This is a question that comes up a lot. My answer to questions of the form "Hi , I am ... my experience is ..... Do you think I shou...
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Wednesday, May 23, 2007

FAQ (from my mail-box) #1 What are development costs in Bangalore?

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[context] I get all sorts of questions in my email every day. I try to answer all my mail but I am getting tired of answering the same quest...
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Sunday, May 20, 2007

Back In Bangalore - A Ramble

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After some travel (and more to come soon) I am back in Bangalore. On Saturday, I went to the Thoughtworks "MasterClass" conference...
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Friday, April 27, 2007

IIT Grads ! (necessarily) == Good Programmers Redux

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When I wondered some time ago why the best programmers didn't come from the population of IIT grads , many people claimed I had all sort...
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Tuesday, April 24, 2007

Learning From Sudoku Solvers

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Ron Jeffries attempts to create a sudoku solver - here , here , here , here and here . (You really ought to read these articles. They are u...
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Thursday, April 19, 2007

Restored Comments

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A quick perusal of blogspot's comment moderation page showed me that some comments were pending. Generally I get a notification in my gm...
Sunday, April 15, 2007

Asok's Own Country

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Recently, a friend (we'll call him M) invited me to his company's annual day party. First the CEO made a speech about how they (the ...
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Sunday, April 08, 2007

Scribes and Programmers

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A long time ago, there weren't too many people who knew how to write. So if John Ancient wanted something written he would visit the loc...
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Wednesday, March 28, 2007

Paul Graham On Enterprise Software

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From his latest essay "If you don't think you're smart enough to start a startup doing something technically difficult, just...
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Tuesday, February 27, 2007

If Toyota outsourced its assembly line

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to "consultants" who charged x$/hour/person_deployed, would we have a Toyota Production System today? Think about it. Imagine som...
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Saturday, January 27, 2007

Tech Skills - An Investment Metaphor

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A snippet of a (yahoo messenger) conversation with a friend who thinks differently . "... friend: i'm actually quite happy...
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