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open beats closed... always! http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2009... - Sumit Chachra

"This is where I go for my evening coffee and a peanut butter cup. The coffee cake is pretty good too. The owners are super friendly and there are small items / antiques you can see at the back too.…" - Sumit Chachra

"There is not going to be another internet boom.".... thats been my biggest concern. Show me the new high paying jobs/revolution out there? - Sumit Chachra

typical hassles man... can't be discouraged by this. I think people need to stop looking at these moves as "I wanna help India"... cause in most cases nowadays its like "How can I eat home cooked food, earn almost the same money (adjusted for PPP) and truly enjoy life in a growing economy". - Sumit Chachra

Good point. People should face up whether they're moving back for altruism or for their self interest - Nagender Parimi

Berkley in decline? - Nagender Parimi from Bookmarklet

plain sucks. - Sumit Chachra

A worthy read, indeed. While I would like to agree with the author, I probably belong to the class of people whom this post was directed at. - Nagender Parimi

haha.... yeah. I think there is a certain sense of cynicism that is embedded in everyone looking at India from the outside. - Sumit Chachra from IM

Been traveling or reading? - Richard

This is a line from the opening para of Sarah Palin's new book! - Nagender Parimi

haha! - Sumit Chachra

"Brian is super friendly, helpful and conducts classes in just an overall engaging fashion. There is a lot of sweating involved, so take your own towel(s)! I took the 30 for $30 offer and plan to…" - Sumit Chachra

"What people wished they'd paid more attention to when choosing cofounders was character and commitment, not ability": Sumit, that's it, you are ruled out as a co-founder! - Nagender Parimi

haha... thanks! - Sumit Chachra

I disagree. I had asked myself the same question that Mr. Spolsky asks. And then I realized my answer to it: because learning all of (bug tracking, working on teams, scheduling, estimating, debugging, usability testing, and documentation) is not hard! Really, real world software is about engineering, not the science of software. You can and should pick engineering practices through... more... - Nagender Parimi

I agree. I think he himself is flip-flopping iirc - Sumit Chachra from IM

I agree with you Nagi. It's all about the algorithms and cutting code. A good computer science education should be a mixture of theory and practice, but should be about computers, algorithms, mathematics, logic and human computer interactions. Of course any degree should come from a mixture of disciplines and so students should be exposed to other departments like molecular biology,... more... - Richard

"I've been here a few times before. Had no idea it opens up at 6am. Came in after my jog/gym today and ordered the best Oatmeal I have had in a while and a cappuccino. George was great to talk to. The…" - Sumit Chachra

Another Yahoo! veteran doing an ad startup! - Sumit Chachra

Wow, that's a bold message! - Nagender Parimi

I imagine from now on she'll be known in India as the Yahoo girl! - Nagender Parimi

Who will be India's Kai-Fu Lee ? - Sumit Chachra

Who will be India's Kai-Fu Lee ? - Sumit Chachra

Could've sold them on eBay dude! - Nagender Parimi

but they are not being sent immediately... so where's the verification? - Sumit Chachra

Sumit, you must be getting smarter, for I agree with you once again! - Nagender Parimi

its just conventional wisdom....oh i meant wisdom of the crowds! - Sumit Chachra

"So I checked "subscribe to emails" on Opentable when I made a reservation. So begins the spamming.... I've emailed them 4-5 times to unsubscribe me, but they seem to not wanna use a proper email…" - Sumit Chachra

I whole heartedly agree. At the same time, I think it's a sad commentary on software engineering that we still can't write anything longer than 100 lines without potentially opening up Pandora's box of bugs. Humans are not good at writing software, I hope we get out of that business soon - Nagender Parimi

just not C++ yet :) - Sumit Chachra from IM

"We went here on a nice warm day and were the only ones on their picnic benches. The people at the bar seemed tired and disinterested. Gave us a few tastings and then heaved good riddance when we chose…" - Sumit Chachra

"Don't think NOPA needs yet another review, but I would rate it within the top 4-5 places to eat in San Francisco. The atmosphere is just phenomenal with high ceilings, a mezzanine section that feels…" - Sumit Chachra

I haven't used it enough to compare. But I'm quite positive no other company in the Fortune 500 is using Google Docs either. As much as Google would like to sell the service, no company would be willing to host confidential data on external servers, so it's a losing proposition - Nagender Parimi

Its like saying we'll run our own mail trucks cause I don't trust Fedex!! Its just a matter of time... - Sumit Chachra

Interesting. You're suggesting Facebook may well encroach on Amazon's business. So far much of the public focus appears to have been around how Facebook would gun for Google's coffers. Facebook has good momentum right now so it will be interesting if the company focuses on a few chosen segments or targets all online activity, risking spreading itself too thin - Nagender Parimi

Well they just need to focus on "transactions" not caring much about whats going on underneath much. Google they will go after anyway, Amazon not so much... at least not directly! - Sumit Chachra

Interesting. I don't completely agree with Scoble, but that'd be a long discussion - Nagender Parimi

wave is great... but how is it so drastically different from say Facebook conversations? They're betting developers are going to take to Wave like anything, but thats a big if right now! - Sumit Chachra from IM

"Dr. Nam is great, sadly this practice is very very expensive and he doesn't take blue shield. Otherwise I have no complaints, but I really feel they should be very clear and upfront about…" - Sumit Chachra

"Dr. Neimark is the best doctor I have had the pleasure of seeing in the last 6 years. No doubt about it. He is patient, funny and gives honest opinion based on x-rays, examination etc. He didn't push…" - Sumit Chachra

"THE ONE NUMBER YOU SHOULD KNOW ABOUT YOUR EQUITY GRANT" - Sumit Chachra from Bookmarklet

"This place is such a hit and miss, its not even funny. The "guys" who work here are super cool and always nice and smiling. Can't say as much for the women... specially a couple of them are always in…" - Sumit Chachra

Interesting, similar to the Wolfram engine? - Nagender Parimi

yup - Sumit Chachra

Look at the latest 10-15 publications here - http://www.cse.iitb.ac.in/~soumen... - Jeetendra Mirchandani

Whats Eclipse gotta do with it? - Sumit Chachra

I use Eclipse to inspect code, so if Eclipse were smart enough to follow method calls to implementing class (instead of base class or interface), understanding code would be much easier - Nagender Parimi

I know what you mean Nagi, you hit f3 go to definition and you're in an undocumented interface class. You can hit C-t and it will show you the type hierarchy, then you have to guess which subtype is being instanciated in the common case. If you click the class normally it takes you to the method method in the class that you're tracing. I'm using the latest eclipse, dunno about previous version. - Richard

"Friendly staff... not the cleanest place, plus pretty small. But 24 hour access and $30/month to get daily exercise, not bad. Staff was friendly and got me signed up in 15 minutes. I was member at…" - Sumit Chachra