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Pretty good overview of rails. - Ganesh Swami

So you into Rails now? - Deepak Jois

Just playing with it as it comes built-in on the Mac. So far, very impressed. - Ganesh Swami

"The romantic image of an über-programmer is someone who fires up Emacs, types like a machine gun, and delivers a flawless final product from scratch. A more accurate image would be someone who stares quietly into space for a few minutes and then says “Hmm. I think I’ve seen something like this before.”" - Deepak Jois from Bookmarklet

I am catching up on my podcast backlogs and listened to that particular SO podcast just yesterday night :-) - Ashwin Nanjappa

Not just true for programmers. In non-creative/production type jobs you can be paid hundreds of thousands of dollars simply to go to meetings and not making decisions and then rating yourself! - Andy Croll

"For example, if you try to study a subject in depth without following a textbook or review, you’ll have to decide for yourself which sources seem how relevant to your topic. If you try to add something to the subject you’ll have to decide what changes are how feasible and interesting.  Doing these may feel awkward at first, but they will be very useful skills later in life.   Similar skills come from writing your own game or starting your own business or composing your own album." - Deepak Jois from Bookmarklet

"The decline of the MBA will cut off the supply of bullshit at source" LOL! - Deepak Jois from Bookmarklet

Seriously WTF! - Deepak Jois from Bookmarklet

"A Hindi slang word, jugaad (pronounced "joo-gaardh") translates to an improvisational style of innovation that's driven by scarce resources and attention to a customer's immediate needs, not their lifestyle wants. It captures how Tata Group, Infosys Technologies (INFY), and other Indian corporations have gained international stature. The term seems likely to enter the lexicon of management consultants, mingling with Six Sigma, total quality, lean, and kaizen, the Japanese term for continuous improvement." - Deepak Jois from Bookmarklet

"There are two challenges that people face when choosing to live a more simpler life: owning little and wanting little. Yet people fuse these challenges together into a larger “live simply” goal. Unfortunately, they’re two different beasts that need to be tamed in their own ways." - Deepak Jois from Bookmarklet

"Your intentions are much, much less powerful than your habits. If you set a system up in such a way that it consistently rewards some undesirable outcome, the undesirable outcome will predominate. If TechCrunch has a vague intention of journalistic integrity and works every day to achieve heavy blog traffic, it's going to get heavy blog traffic at the expense of its journalistic integrity. If Paul Graham has a vague intention of "writing to discover" and works every day to sell startups to bigger VCs, he's not going to "discover" certain things because he'll never do the research necessary to uncover the relevant facts. If Obie Fernandez has a vague intention of promoting pair programming and works every day to promote his company, both to potential customers and to potential hires, he's going to promote his company at the expense of promoting pair programming. And if Joel Spolsky has a vague intention of making sense at all, and works to recruit users for his new job-hunting web... more... - Deepak Jois from Bookmarklet

"Mr. Raghavan and others say India is held back by a financial system that is reluctant to invest in unproven ideas, an education system that emphasizes rote learning over problem solving, and a culture that looks down on failure and unconventional career choices." - Deepak Jois from Bookmarklet

The Core* stuff are Mac libraries? Amazing how small the code is! - Ashwin Nanjappa

Ashwin: Dont really have a good answer. I like C for its simplicity. There are fewer concepts involved to fully grok a C program. C++ confuses me :). - Deepak Jois

"At Multan just over five years ago, he pretty much ended the career of one very special offspinner, Saqlain Mushtaq. Saqlain had gone into that series speaking of a surprise ball, the teesra [the third one]. After much discussion in the media box, it was decided that it was the delivery that Sehwag kept whacking over midwicket for fours and sixes." - Deepak Jois from Bookmarklet

"You can thank The Dilbert Principle for some of this entrepreneurial zest.  The Dilbert Principle observes that in the modern economy, the least capable people are promoted to management because companies need their smartest people to do the useful work. It's hard to design software, but relatively easy to run staff meetings. This creates a situation where you have more geniuses reporting to morons than at any time in history. In that sort of environment you'd expect the geniuses to be looking for a way out, even if Plan B has a low chance of success." - Deepak Jois from Bookmarklet

"India produces 15 billion coconuts a year, a tropical bonanza that feeds a billion-dollar industry. Just about every coconut is plucked by hand." - Deepak Jois from Bookmarklet

"Kerala’s state government has responded to the crisis by sponsoring an international design competition that will pay $20,000 to develop three economically feasible coconut-picking machines. More than 350 people have sent in ideas." - Deepak Jois

They should use trained monkeys to harvest coconuts like they do in Thailand. - Thaths

"Much of business process functions to signal who is important and who is allied with whom, rather than to actually get stuff done.  Huge efficiency gains await the organizations that can figure out how to expunge these parasites." - Deepak Jois from Bookmarklet

Hmm, impressive lists you've been collecting. Whats up with you. Starting a new company eh ;) ? - Bharat Shetty

Oh, see the modesty. Anyways sure; let us say I'm just happy to see incremental larval and passionate learners of programming with interests that excite me. Thanks for recommendation. - Bharat Shetty

"Scientific management started as a way to work. How did it become a way of life?" - Deepak Jois from Bookmarklet

criswo@gmail.com Please Please Please!!!!!! - Wo

Thanks! - Ravi Shekhar S.

Balaji has 3 pages of gadgets! No wonder you added it into the "unread" list ;-) - Ashwin Nanjappa

Jois - oh ok apologies then! I've updated a couple of more items to the list, but a few more are pending for when I get time to create a gadget page. - Balaji Dutt

There seems to be some problem with the updated Instapaper bookmarklet. I too am getting the (Saving...) string into some of my unread items. - Ashwin Nanjappa

Yes.. Looks like it. No clue - Deepak Jois

Useful design patterns when programming Javascript - Deepak Jois

"Regulating your emotions can deplete your willpower. So if someone is giving you a hard time and you are suppressing your desire to strangle them then you are depleting your will to exercise. Stay away from people who cause you to exert more effort regulating your emotions." - Deepak Jois from Bookmarklet

I wanted to do this. This post finally made me get off my ass and do it. Hopefully it lasts - Deepak Jois

Ashwin : Download the repository and view the log.html on local machine for now. If you dont have Git, you can find a download button on top. - Deepak Jois

I'm trying to think of why you might be reading about Accounting regulations in Singapore and failing. What tweaked your interest in this may I ask? - Balaji Dutt

My fingers accidentally tweaked themselves and pressed the Instapaper Read Later bookmarklet while I was checking out their new design :). - Deepak Jois

Ahh ok. I've often gone in and cleaned up my unread queue for the very same reason :) - Balaji Dutt

"Written at the cusp of the 'consumer revolution', this book is both a quaint historical piece and a prophesy of what was to come. The tangential thesis of the book is that by the mid-fifties, the standard problems in capitalism -- those of production and distribution of goods -- were solved, but that this introduced another problem: all of these goods must be consumed. So, it became necessary to step up the techniques used to market these goods." - Deepak Jois from Bookmarklet

The blurb above is from one of the reviews - Deepak Jois

"I don’t know if this is a common phenomenon, but I’m always slightly horny at weddings. Maybe this is some kind of primal thing; the whole business is, after all, about sex, about anxious parents hooking their kids up for sex, about meeting exciting new strangers to sleep with, or at least eating like a tapeworm as a substitute for sex." - Deepak Jois from Bookmarklet

LoL, eating like a tapeworm as a sub for sex is real gem da :P - Bharat Shetty

"The Indian healthcare system is an anarchic hodgepodge, with little insurance, little regulation and a range of services offered by hundreds of government-run, trust-run and corporate hospitals. The care it produced for me was fast, effective, courteous and cheaper than American medicine, even when adjusted for the lower cost of living. But that was the care it produced for me, a middle-class woman in the big city. As America considers healthcare reform, the Indian system is a testament to both the triumphs and the pitfalls of letting the free market heal people." - Deepak Jois from Bookmarklet

If you need any of the papers, feel free to do the usual :-) - Ashwin Nanjappa

Thanks Ashwin! Will do. But looks like all of them are available as PDFs for me. - Deepak Jois

"Published by Raj comics, Doga is a hugely popular Hindi hero whose hunting ground is Mumbai. An orphan who works for a dacoit, he comes to Mumbai, where he is adopted by brothers with names like the Spice Girls (Adrak, Dhaniya, Haldi and Kalimirch). Doga and other Raj heroes like Nagraj and Dhruva sell five million copies annually. But while they have the fanatic affection of small-town and semi-rural India, they don’t seem to have set the metros on fire." - Deepak Jois from Bookmarklet

Deepak: I checked out the Gallery section of the Raj Comics website. Pretty neat! (A bit funny too.) I have not seen these comics in Bengaluru, they mostly have a North India market I guess. Anurag Kashyap is a good fit for the dark antihero Doga :-) - Ashwin Nanjappa

Great slides on scalability of web based applications. Slides can be downloaded from http://develooper.com/talks... - Deepak Jois

"In her attempt to showcase the ‘commonness’ around us, Deepti Jois chose the HSR layout BDA complex as her subject. Surely the BDA wouldn’t have dreamt that their building would be part of a photography exhibition! In her defence, she says, “The erstwhile BDA complexes have been sidelined with so many malls that have sprung up in the city. I have tried to showcase the HSR layout BDA complex which is just like any other BDA complex and yet different from the others.” Her artfully captured photography makes one want to visit the place and see it once more." - Deepak Jois from Bookmarklet

Jois: new links are working :) - Balaji Dutt