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Stolen Beans: Great Indian IT and A Simple Indian Computer
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Just a few things I would like to share! Sunday, July 20, 2008. Great Indian IT and A Simple Indian Computer. A group of IT industry professionals and professors discussed the idea of a computer that has relevance and is affordable to the common man. It should have applications that would benefit users in smaller town and even villages. It should bring information to them in their own language and with an interface that would make it easy to use.". Six years ago, the Simputer. July 24, 2008 at 8:02 AM.
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Stolen Beans: June 2012
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Just a few things I would like to share! Thursday, June 14, 2012. On the Freshness of Math. It all started with a rather naive question asked by my 14 year old cousin, "Which programming language should I learn? And by instinct I blurted out, "C, then you move on to C ." In India, most schools follow this pattern. (However, during my undergrad days I had to face a monstrous task of learning 8-9 languages. Thanks to a misprint on the syllabus. What happened next was that, some time in late 1958, Steve Rus...
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Stolen Beans: July 2008
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Just a few things I would like to share! Monday, July 28, 2008. Superman returns, batman returns, now its turbo's turn? Was a Borland IDE and compiler for C. It was first introduced in 1987 and was noted for its integrated development environment, small size, extremely fast compile speed, comprehensive. Manuals and low price. In May 1990, Borland. Replaced the Turbo C with Turbo C . In 2006, Borland reintroduced the Turbo. From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. Experienced by OLD SCHOOL coders! Pascal fi...
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Stolen Beans: June 2011
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Just a few things I would like to share! Tuesday, June 21, 2011. O Tablet, My Tablet: Sakshat, India's $35 tablet. Five years ago, the then education secretary thought of taking on Nicholas Negroponte's $100 laptop. One and a half years after his demise,this June, HRD Minister Kapil Sibal unveiled a Rs 1500 ($35) laptop. But what is it actually? Started in 2000-01). [The ver. Y second post of this blog was on the Simputer.]. As a part of India’s National Mission for Education, Information and Commu...
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Stolen Beans: On the Freshness of Math
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Just a few things I would like to share! Thursday, June 14, 2012. On the Freshness of Math. It all started with a rather naive question asked by my 14 year old cousin, "Which programming language should I learn? And by instinct I blurted out, "C, then you move on to C ." In India, most schools follow this pattern. (However, during my undergrad days I had to face a monstrous task of learning 8-9 languages. Thanks to a misprint on the syllabus. What happened next was that, some time in late 1958, Steve Rus...
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Stolen Beans: O Tablet, My Tablet: Sakshat, India's $35 tablet
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Just a few things I would like to share! Tuesday, June 21, 2011. O Tablet, My Tablet: Sakshat, India's $35 tablet. Five years ago, the then education secretary thought of taking on Nicholas Negroponte's $100 laptop. One and a half years after his demise,this June, HRD Minister Kapil Sibal unveiled a Rs 1500 ($35) laptop. But what is it actually? Started in 2000-01). [The ver. Y second post of this blog was on the Simputer.]. As a part of India’s National Mission for Education, Information and Commu...
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Indian Temples and Iconography: The disaster called Immortals of Meluha
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Indian Temples and Iconography. The disaster called Immortals of Meluha. In the writer's own words:. What the bloody hell, which joker wrote this bullshit! This book or rather the series of books is the slaughter of the cult of Shiva with utter disrespect and irresponsibility, its the death of a very deep rooted faith. They made this bullshit a freaking best seller. What is wrong with that book! The rules of Shiva faith are strong and any follower of this cult will know how true they are. Shiva is no...
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Stolen Beans: July 2010
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Just a few things I would like to share! Wednesday, July 7, 2010. On C#, TFS, CIL and "Chai 4 All"! IEEE Transactions on Software Development Environment Work Ethics, Vol I, 2010]. Have you ever met a person who could wobble his ears? Or someone whose knowledge was as vast (and random) as Wikipedia? Well, if you ask me, I'd say "YES! Sent a mail without subject? Late for the morning assembly at 9:30 - Evening tea! Subscribe to: Posts (Atom). On C#, TFS, CIL and Chai 4 All! View my complete profile.
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Stolen Beans: January 2010
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Just a few things I would like to share! Thursday, January 7, 2010. Give this a read if you question why people who know much less than you are earning much more than you are. Dilbert’s “Salary Theorem” states that “Engineers and scientists can never earn as much as business executives and sales people.”. This theorem can now be supported by a mathematical equation based on the following. Postulate 1: Knowledge is Power. Postulate 2: Time is Money. As every engineer knows: Power = Work / Time.
