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I use emacs running in terminator, or WingIde as my preferred editors. I tried out PyCharm but it gathers dust. IntelliJ tried, but could not eliminate the Java smell completely.

I asked for paper ballot this morning. Many volunteers are cheerful and apathetic, for them its just another gig. Lost on them is the fact this is something fundamental. Scary !!

Its nice to know the grass is greener on my side of the fence..

Current landscape in the industry provides an out for this. Its become easy to blog, contribute code socially, or simply run your own startup on the side, while you slog in your mu…

In my personal experience, resisting the urge/pressure to get into management (vs. staying in engineering). Management in a larger setup invariably involves having political skills…

2 months back my 13-year old nephew flew from USA to India as an unaccompanied minor in Lufthansa, with a flight changeover in Frankfurt. This is a 21 hour journey. It went off wit…

Wiping windows off, and replacing the HD with a clean Ubuntu install would be the first order of business. To me Keyboard, battery, and lack of fan noise are important in an Ultrab…

Non-conformance, and non-compliance against authority runs the risk of being separated out from the pack, and being treated differently... Does this have any relevance to the debat…

There are companies out there still sloshing thru waterfalls. They don't know any other way. But really can you teach me how to breath if I am not already stressed out.? Agile is o…

I use this book as a barometer (scale) of how bad a person's business sense or money sense is. If he/she considers the Rich Dad series book of any value - that's a measure of their…

Given this is a collaboration of a government agency, a technology school (also funded by the government) , its a start. Hardware in India is not cheap. Moreover quality hardware s…

Good one.. Laziness, hubris and impatience come to mind.

If we asked a good sample of Chinese citizens if they valued freedom of speech more, I wonder what their choice would be. Based on my Chinese colleagues, it will be probably split …

This article has one sentence thats valid , i.e. microsoft will not ship on time. The rest is fluff. Typical CNET.