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Awesome Summer
This summer looks pretty amazing already. Apart from working on interesting projects, I will be travelling to Canada, Israel, Turkey and India. This is the best summer of my life. -
STM in real world
I am attending a symposium on Software Transactional Memory. It will be real in a couple of years from now.
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Howard Roark's do exist
Here is a truly moving story by Ram Gopal Varma. It's a brilliant story because it's a true story that said Howard Roark's do exist in an Indian context. Such stories in an Indian setting are typically told in the context of a brilliant IITian who gave it all up for true knowledge. But, the most intriguing part of this story is that this story took ( Read more... ) -
Star Trek
As part of the Ivy Film Festival, I attended a free pre-screening of the movie star trek in IMAX theater. I really enjoyed the movie and the visuals were stunning. It had a good dose of humor too. It's worth a watch in IMAX.
PS: Can't wait to watch the TV series.
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Webster Lake
Yesterday, on a whim me and my roommates visited lake Chargoggagoggmanchauggagoggchaubunagungamaugg in webster, MA otherwise called webster lake. We visited the lake because, it's the lake with the longest name in US. Even though the reason for the visit the silly, the trip turned out well in the end as the lake was beautiful. We also had a nice ( Read more... ) -
QoTD
Programming today is a race between software engineers striving to build bigger and better idiot-proof programs, and the universe trying to build bigger and better idiots. So far, the universe is winning.- Rick Cook
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Reusing Iphone2g
This sounds like a neat idea once my contract expires in september. I hardly use internet through EDGE on my IPhone, so I hope I won't miss much.
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Irony of credit ratings in US
I heard today from a cox executive that I should pay a security deposit for my internet connection because my credit rating is low. I usually pay the whole credit card bill on time and here are some reasons why my credit rating is low:- I have a credit card with a $1000 credit limit and I tried applying for other cards so that I can get a higher ( Read more... )
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Incentives
Now that I am learning a bit of economics, I realized that like everyone else, I respond to incentives. Here are some of the incentives I give myself to keep my habits under check:- If I work N hours per day, I go out in the evening or cook.
- Some routine coding tasks are tedious. So, I try new languages (ruby, haskell etc..) and tools (rake, emacs- ( Read more... )
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More about photo class
Today was the day of presentations in photo class. Everyone was supposed to do a presentation on a topic of their choosing. I did a presentation on people and their professions. It was OK. The presentation was not characteristic of any presentation I ever gave because for the first time in my life I was asked to sell a subjective view point rather ( Read more... )