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Apparently one of the best books on programming in Linux. It also helps that author used to maintain man pages for Linux. - Bharat Shetty

oh well.. the e-book *just* came out. it is $50USD - Deepak Jois

the best TV series of last season. And, MisFits. - gr0kk3d

What! Who watches horror stuff these days ? - Bharat Shetty

It is *not really* horror. No scary scenes at all. Just some gore, but mostly it is a drama with a zombie apocalypse theme. - Deepak Jois

This movie is so bad, it's funny - Deepak Singh

:).. I did not know the Wachowski Brothers produced it. Now I am a bit intrigued. - Deepak Jois

You have movie issues if you're watching that :) - Deepak Singh

Divya enqueued it on Netflix! I have no idea why - Deepak Jois

Hey hey hey. I likes The Rock. I loved The Mummy series. So I watched this :) Too bad it is not as fun. - divya

I look forward to the Algorithms list. Systems I knew most of them. :-) Pro site is pro! Kewl job by both! :-) - Bharat Shetty

Ah yeah, thought so. - Bharat Shetty

Sun was full of amazing engineers who used to write blogs and blogs. Not the case anymore :-( - Bharat Shetty

Others were http://blogs.sun.com/ahl/ ( Adam Leventhal) , my classmate's brother Chandan (http://blogs.sun.com/chandan/) etc etc. - Bharat Shetty

The most famous rguha I know is Ramachandra Guha, the writer :) - Deepak Jois

You should meet Rajarshi. He's Da Man ;). His brother ain't half bad either - Deepak Singh

WTF :( such conferences aren't in India much. :( - Bharat Shetty

http://www.youtube.com/watch... and remember to fill up your coffee pot - Deepak Singh from IM

Papers IMHO is the best way to rev-up interest in a field and see if you really like it. You do learn a lot of basic material in some great papers. Anyhow, why the sudden spurt in systems research :-) ? - Bharat Shetty

I had been doing too much web development before and that is limiting my options. So need to explore other frontiers. So trying to tackle a combination of distributed systems and systems level stuff like networking etc. - Deepak Jois

Yeah, makes sense. Networking knowledge is important for most of distributed systems. Reading these univ sites bring back the fun in CompSci that was missing in our schools esp for me. Sites like MIT OCW that help me hone up my Maths and Compsci are pure fun. :-) - Bharat Shetty

Wow, I've been looking for something like this! I just tried installing aspell with this and it worked perfectly. - Gaurav Vaidya

Macports only drives me to drink when gcc version incompatibility is involved. Wait, was it openmpi +gcc44 that is incompatible with linking to openbabel? Yes, yes it was. - Dan Gezelter

What is your reading speed dude ? - Bharat Shetty

Depends. http://deepak.jois.name/books should give some idea. - Deepak Jois

"“Tolerance” is a feel-good buzzword in our society, but I fear people have forgotten what it means.  Many folks are proud of their “tolerance” for gays, working women, Tibetan monks in cute orange outfits, or blacks sitting at the front of the bus.  But what they really mean is that they consider such things to be completely appropriate parts of their society, and are not bothered by them in the slightest.  That, however, isn’t “tolerance.” “Tolerance” is where you tolerate things that actually bother you." - Deepak Jois from Bookmarklet

Added 5p: Note that the people who are actually the most tolerant are marginalized folks with strong opinions, like fundamentalist Islamists in the US, or politically-right profs in academia. By necessity, most such folks frequently tolerate bothersome behaviors by others. - Deepak Jois

When my US colleagues first asked me about "racial tolerance" in Singapore my reply was, " *tolerance* sounds like something you do actively.. I think folks are just ignoring more than anything else" - choonkeat

Which brings us to the problem of re-reading several links again and again in this age. - Bharat Shetty

Umm.. there was an article in The Atlantic that was about happiness and maybe the title was very similar too. But this article contains case studies. I dont recall seeing this one :) - Deepak Jois

Try this instead: http://video.yahoo.com/watch... . 4 lectures of 0.5 hrs each. Divya was learning JS from scratch this weekend and I realised those 4 lectures are better than any book I have come across. Just treat it like you are back in school and try taking notes and trying out stuff in Firebug to solidify the concepts. - Deepak Jois

As for your original question, it is a 'public' lecture series. Not really meant to be a tutorial I guess :). And there are full transcripts. So you dont need to watch the talk if you dont want to. - Deepak Jois

No subtitles :( - Bharat Shetty

"The foregoing explains why open source has nothing to teach literature or indeed any artistic creation, since talent doesn’t scale as you give more and more developers check-in access to the version-control system set up for your novel. It further explains why one’s inability to hack an iPad means precisely nothing. Nobody needs to program an iPad to enjoy using it, except those who have no capacity for enjoyment other than programming and complaining about same." - Deepak Jois from Bookmarklet

I thought you were an emacs guy ? - Bharat Shetty

Yes.. Everything on my Instapaper Unread is just stuff that sounds interesting that I havent got around to reading yet. It shouldnt be interpreted as my 'take' on stuff :). Anyway the essay is more about the Vim 'philosophy' so I thought it might be an interesting read. - Deepak Jois

Sir, I use both. I find vim easier than emacs actually! :-) - Bharat Shetty

Congrats! - Parry Pon

Yes.. Seattle. And thanks! - Deepak Jois

Pretty staggering number for something that just launched. - Bharat Shetty

I am using Buzz only on mobile from now on..where it has a separate interface - Deepak Jois

"Today travel is mostly celebrated; people love to talk about their trips and admire the well-traveled, even beyond the wealth it signals.  But travel today doesn’t much threaten loyalty – intellectual contact with locals is limited, and usually selected to be like-minded.  Ooh look, another pretty building.  True intellectual travel, where you actually take the time to see things from different perspectives, is rare, more valuable, and yet elicits more suspicion than admiration." - Deepak Jois from Bookmarklet

True, immersive travel requires lots of time. An ideal way of traveling is if one spent at least a month in each country lazily taking local road transport across the country staying in cities for days on end. - Thaths

This is the reason I *hate* taking vacations, especially the long-weekend kinds. I dont want to go to a place just to see the standard tourist attractions. I would rather just be in the place and try to get a feel of the people, their culture, try out some food at some quirky off-beat place etc. But that kind of stuff takes time. I would rather take long sabbaticals and go travel to places instead. - Deepak Jois

Hear Hear! - Deepak Jois

"One reason is that Bollywood - or most commercial Hindi language cinema - is largely estranged from the realities of modern-day India. They reside in a strange, make-believe, ersatz wonderland and, as Suketu Mehta says, "disbelief is easy to suspend in a land where belief is so rampant and vigorous". There was a time when the films, even in their song-and-dance idiom, tried to engage with Indian society, and glorified the underdog hero. Since the liberalisation of the Indian economy, Bollywood's divorce from contemporary realities has been complete. Pretty-looking films with prettier faces, lilting songs and noisy soundtracks shot on foreign locations are good "timepass" - as they say in India - for most audiences. And the "diaspora film" is partly to blame for killing the industry's imagination. "The diaspora," says Mehta, "wants to see an urban, affluent, glossy India, the India they imagine they grew up in and wish they could live in now." The result, in my view, is some of the most mindless and regressive cinema to be produced anywhere in the world." - Deepak Jois from Bookmarklet

As sociologist Shiv Vishwanathan tells me: "Bollywood is mythical, not historical. It works at the level of the myth. There is no engagement with history." - Deepak Jois

"Keep truth and virtue utterly distinct in your mind...<snip>...Decide that it is better to merely lie to others than to lie to others and to yourself.  Realize that goals and world maps can be separated; one can pursue the goal of fighting against climate change without deliberately fooling oneself into having too high an estimate (given the evidence) of the probability that the anthropogenic climate change hypothesis is correct." - Deepak Jois from Bookmarklet

I am not sure. Havent watched it yet ;), which is why it is on my Instapaper. The speaker is the creator of this programming language called Self. - Deepak Jois

A humorous take on the travails of hiring managers in India and some ideas on how to change things going forward. - K Srikrishna

Oh well.. I just registered and posted a comment, and then the interface just came back to me with nothing :). I hope it is queued up for moderation or something! - Deepak Jois

"She is my Mrs. and I wanted to know what that 'Mrs' meant? It meant mistress. So, it's sort of a funny circle. I have been asking questions like they keep fighting and saying that's the oldest institution and how could you say it's failing just because yours failed. I think it is failing and it is not the oldest institutions and it's not the strongest holding institutions. The strongest holding institution is the family. You saw that between me and Shruti. That is family. That need not be clarified by something called marriage." - Deepak Jois from Bookmarklet

Strong words from Kamal Haasan..I concur! - Deepak Jois

Wow, Just Wow. Kamal is the man! - Bharat Shetty

"The contradictions never end. When someone shows up and acts without contradiction, we're amazed. When an athlete just does the sport, or when a writer just writes the words, we can't help but watch, astonished at the purity of their actions. Why is it so difficult to do what we say we're going to do?" - Deepak Jois from Bookmarklet

Ashwin: Ya I read both. But the whole lizard brain concept appeals to me more than a detailed explanation of the concept of 'resistance'. But anyway the point he is trying to make is the same. - Deepak Jois

She got her first camera 4 months after my wedding, in Jan 2009 :) - Deepak Jois

Which incidentally was the Lumix LX3 I got her. - Deepak Jois

"Interviews work better as a filter.  The job interview loop is more effective at eliminating bad candidates than identifying good ones. The bet is by the end only good candidates remain, but that’s not true. Like bacteria responding to antibiotics, strains of bad candidates that are immune to your process survive as well, and are hard to distinguish from good ones. The process can be prone to false negatives too (people who get rejected but would have thrived)." - Deepak Jois from Bookmarklet

No one else saw what happened. Interviewers are free to lie and distort, intentionally or not. All interviewers are free to invent pet theories on which questions work best, or how good they are an extracting the value of a candidate. They are the only record of what they asked, how they asked it, and how the candidate performed. If they have bad habits that bias the candidate, no one... more... - Deepak Jois

"The surprise came at the conclusion of the event. The winner was revealed to be not a grandmaster with a state-of-the-art PC but a pair of amateur American chess players using three computers at the same time. Their skill at manipulating and "coaching" their computers to look very deeply into positions effectively counteracted the superior chess understanding of their grandmaster opponents and the greater computational power of other participants. Weak human + machine + better process was superior to a strong computer alone and, more remarkably, superior to a strong human + machine + inferior process. he "freestyle" result, though startling, fits with my belief that talent is a misused term and a misunderstood concept. The moment I became the youngest world chess champion in history at the age of twenty-two in 1985, I began receiving endless questions about the secret of my success and the nature of my talent. Instead of asking about Sicilian Defenses, journalists wanted to know... more... - Deepak Jois from Bookmarklet

"One way is that it is too easy to assume that all our thoughts are conscious – in fact we are aware of only a tiny fraction of what goes on in our minds, perhaps only one part in a thousand. We have to deal with not only “running on error-prone hardware”, but worse, relying on purposely misleading inputs. Our subconscious often makes coordinated efforts to mislead us on particular topics." - Deepak Jois from Bookmarklet

"When what matters is how the world acts, not how you act, rationality on your part consists mainly in improving the rationality of the world’s beliefs, as determined by its main systems for deciding who to believe about what. Just wishing we had other systems, or acting as if we had them, is delusion, not rationality." - Deepak Jois