Your comment made my day.
Hilary Mantel's "Wolf Hall" and "Bring Up the Bodies" - historical fiction. Brilliantly imagined life of Thomas Cromwell - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Cromwell,_1st_Earl_of_Es...
"Customer Happiness Hacker/Intern/Person".
"Jugaad" is more make-do/being (very) resourceful in situations where there aren't other options. "Hack" has a more playful, irreverent connotation whereas jugaad is resourcefulness forced of circumstances, in…
"If I stay out late with a girl, it's almost automatic that I will escort her home regardless of the inconvenience to me." That works for those holding on to even the lowermost rungs of the middle class. Below that the…
+ elopements,adultery and the like.
Its a weekly magazine,this article being in the next week's print edition.
Original - http://too.blogspot.com/2008/09/lrrk2.html
Brin's blog post on his higher genetic predisposition to Parkinson's - http://too.blogspot.com/2008/09/lrrk2.html
My experience may be an extreme one but the last apartment I shared,my flatmate would go for long periods without talking to me at all,only communicating by writing note after note,which sometimes was so odd as our…
Reminded me of Mirinda
This might help - http://youtu.be/mWBvcJAXwu4 (Simon & Garfunkel)
Taking the article's numbers at its face value - 2.75 million vs 3.6 million is not huge difference.But apart from a smallish startup scenario in metropolitan areas,the situation is still grim.Most work is to be found…
Related - http://www.lrb.co.uk/v35/n03/rebecca-solnit/diary
You would lump the entire country being a "fucking mess"?
http://www.algo-class.org/
For anyone wanting to work in the software/startup/tech scene,Bangalore is the best.The weather is always on the cooler side,its smaller in size compared to other metropolitan cities and traffic situation has much…
I learnt Indian classical music till I was high school and then had to completely give it up for different reasons.I haven't practiced it much since then and I regret it badly. And I really regret not having been much…
The Language Instinct - Steven Pinker Interesting Times - Eric Hobsbawm The Great Crash, 1929 - John Galbraith
The C Programming Language(K&R) and The Unix Programming Environment are the best to start off with.
Yes,given that 1)you have money saved 2)your family won't starve 3)you are prepared for anything that comes next.
QA engineer from India.Worked for about a year and a half for Opera Software as QA on web applications.Would be good to know about remote work positions,if any.
India
Try this : http://www.opera.com/
Your comment made my day.
Hilary Mantel's "Wolf Hall" and "Bring Up the Bodies" - historical fiction. Brilliantly imagined life of Thomas Cromwell - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Cromwell,_1st_Earl_of_Es...
"Customer Happiness Hacker/Intern/Person".
"Jugaad" is more make-do/being (very) resourceful in situations where there aren't other options. "Hack" has a more playful, irreverent connotation whereas jugaad is resourcefulness forced of circumstances, in…
"If I stay out late with a girl, it's almost automatic that I will escort her home regardless of the inconvenience to me." That works for those holding on to even the lowermost rungs of the middle class. Below that the…
+ elopements,adultery and the like.
Its a weekly magazine,this article being in the next week's print edition.
Original - http://too.blogspot.com/2008/09/lrrk2.html
Brin's blog post on his higher genetic predisposition to Parkinson's - http://too.blogspot.com/2008/09/lrrk2.html
My experience may be an extreme one but the last apartment I shared,my flatmate would go for long periods without talking to me at all,only communicating by writing note after note,which sometimes was so odd as our…
Reminded me of Mirinda
This might help - http://youtu.be/mWBvcJAXwu4 (Simon & Garfunkel)
Taking the article's numbers at its face value - 2.75 million vs 3.6 million is not huge difference.But apart from a smallish startup scenario in metropolitan areas,the situation is still grim.Most work is to be found…
Related - http://www.lrb.co.uk/v35/n03/rebecca-solnit/diary
You would lump the entire country being a "fucking mess"?
http://www.algo-class.org/
For anyone wanting to work in the software/startup/tech scene,Bangalore is the best.The weather is always on the cooler side,its smaller in size compared to other metropolitan cities and traffic situation has much…
I learnt Indian classical music till I was high school and then had to completely give it up for different reasons.I haven't practiced it much since then and I regret it badly. And I really regret not having been much…
The Language Instinct - Steven Pinker Interesting Times - Eric Hobsbawm The Great Crash, 1929 - John Galbraith
The C Programming Language(K&R) and The Unix Programming Environment are the best to start off with.
Yes,given that 1)you have money saved 2)your family won't starve 3)you are prepared for anything that comes next.
QA engineer from India.Worked for about a year and a half for Opera Software as QA on web applications.Would be good to know about remote work positions,if any.
India
Try this : http://www.opera.com/