February 2012
5 posts
RIAA Totally Out Of Touch: Lashes Out At Google,... →
Excellent teardown by TechDirt of RIAA’s op-ed piece on SOPA and PIPA.
The RIAA & MPAA are increasingly looking like dinosaurs, old monolithic organizations failing to adapt to the new generation, the way music & entertainment is now being sold around the world.
If RIAA had their way, I would still have to buy an $18 piece of plastic with 10 songs just to listen to one.
5-year-old Analyzes Logos →
"Programmer" is an Overgeneralization →
It is no longer enough to simply ask someone if they are a programmer. Saying a programmer writes programs is like saying a scientist does science. The difference is that botanists don’t design nuclear reactors.
Apple's iPhone business alone is now bigger than... →
Not Windows. Not Office. Microsoft.
The iPhone did not exist five years ago. And now it’s bigger than a company that, 15 years ago, was dragged into court and threatened with forcible break-up because it had amassed an unassailable and unthinkably profitable monopoly.
The iPhone also appears to be considerably more profitable than Microsoft.
In the December quarter, Apple’s...
Facebook IPO: What are the most notable aspects of... →
January 2012
1 post
Uploaded.to, one of the most popular file-hosting... →
(via Instapaper)
December 2011
1 post
November 2011
7 posts
The new HP *Envy* - They couldn't have picked a... →
Why does HP need a design department when Apple has one? The name is perfect, Meg Whitman may be a closet Apple fan.
The Asus MacBook Air, sort of →
Stifling innovation, encouraging copycats.
BBC News - Social networking in its oldest form →
Social Networking, Message in a Bottle Style.
The Tambrahm Chart of Progessive Food Tolerance
tambrahmrage:
Inspired by a conversation with @anantha, @techrsr and @sarcasan
October 2011
8 posts
“Good interface design is as transparent as possible, because I don’t want to...”
– An interview with William Gibson
Business Still Needs Sysadmins →
Some things we now know to be good ideas:
Writing operating systems in a compiled machine-independent programming language.
Performing file I/O by reading, writing, or overwriting integral numbers of bytes at integral offsets.
Creating processes by duplicating existing processes.
Null-terminated byte strings.
Investing a substantial proportion of programmers’ time in building...
BBC News - Row over photo in shopping centre →
What a world we live in when you can’t take pictures in malls and taking picture of your own daughter is deemed suspicious
“When I was 17, I read a quote that went something like: “If you live each...”
– Text of Steve Jobs’ Commencement address (2005)
September 2011
3 posts
Why you should not go to medical school — a... →
“Why don’t you cover Irom Sharmila’s decade old fast with the same intensity as...”
– Rajdeep Sardesai: More takers for anti-corruption than anti-AFSPA | Firstpost
Sane RSS usage →
I got burnt by using RSS too much. I loved reading as many tech and photography blogs as I could, but after while the unread counter just kept increasing.
Now I’m RSS free, use a few aggregate sites and only use RSS for the sites that don’t update much.
August 2011
7 posts
How we found the file that was used to Hack RSA -... →
Now this is brilliant. Hacking a security company just to hack into it’s customers… using a flash file embedded in an excel file.
“It was a lesson I’ll never forget. CEOs should care about details. Even...”
– Vic Gundotra - Google - Icon Ambulance One Sunday morning, January 6th, 2008 I was…
Improving our file management basics: copy, move,... →
Some great stuff coming in Windows 8. Going back to the basics never hurts.
If PHP Were British →
This is brilliant!
Matthew Berry's fantasy football sleepers and... →
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How To Break Your Daily Caffeine Habit And Use... →
Caffeine is a trickier substance than we generally acknowledge. Here’s what you need to know to get more out of caffeine—starting with a suggestion to go cold turkey.
The Bobby Fischer Defense | www.nybooks.com |... →
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July 2011
1 post
And Sony wonders why they keep getting hacked.... →
December 2010
1 post
Don't shoot messenger for revealing uncomfortable... →
Well said!
September 2010
2 posts
BBC News - Games should not have gone to Delhi,... →
It’s sad, but I think they’re right.
10 Things Indian about Pakistan →
1. THE NATIONAL SPORT
Field hockey. The heights, the crash, and the struggle ever since. Eerily Indian.
2. THE SPIES
Extravagant spooks everywhere. They know much. They do much. But they still can’t get to the roots.
3. HYDERABAD
The name. The glass bangles. And the opulence of the past. The Indian Hyderabad had the best jewels. The Pakistani Hyderabad washed its roads with river water.
4....
August 2010
1 post
July 2010
2 posts
A Uniquely Indian Perspective On Gay Marriage :... →
June 2010
4 posts
WatchIceland is pretty!
Inspired by Iceland Video (by Inspired By Iceland)
May 2010
2 posts
The view from my room, pretty nice. But really...
via tweetie Posted via web from Rushi’s posterous | Comment »
The view from my room, pretty nice. But really...
via tweetie Posted via web from Rushi’s posterous | Comment »
April 2010
5 posts
apache.org incident report for 04/09/2010 : Apache... →
Apache.org and several of its JIRA, BugZilla installations were compromised due a XSS bug in Atlassian JIRA.
Its very interesting to see how the hacker(s) progressed from a simple XSS vulnerability to gaining full root access on the Apache servers
