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This blog will primarily feature technology stuff. But, there are no clear-cut bounadres for subjects diovo will deal with. You can expect things like: Design, Usability, Development, Security etc.
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Recursion & bad examples
If you ask a typical computer science graduate from Kerala to write a program to print the nth Fibonacci number, most of them* will invariably give you the following function: int fibonacci (int n){ if(n<2){ return n; }else{ ...
More on ads
For the last one year or so I have been using a desktop application that displayed an ad (something like 800 x 60 pixels) in its header. Since yesterday the ad is not showing up. Now, I cannot recall what the ad was about! It is a real shame that ad...
The map is not the territory
An abstraction derived from something, or a reaction to it, is not the thing itself. I bet you will read that sentence again. Anyway, let me explain. What you see below is not a laptop. What you see is the picture of a laptop. Not meant to be funny....
The myth of career growth
Conventional corporate hierarchies make sure that there are only a handful of managers for every hundred employees. So your chances of becoming a manager are very small. This is the same reason why only a small percentage of employees in any organiza...
Innovation
What if when you search for a solution to one of your problems you find that there are no solutions listed anywhere in the web? What if there are no google results for your query? This essentially means that there are no solutions to your problem any...
Waiting
Today a friend told me: “I am waiting for the right time to start working on my startup” Nobody ever achieved greatness by waiting. You may want to try preparing. Planning and preparing almost always yield better results than waiting and whining....
Orkut Vs Facebook
You guys wont believe this: I have a hard time convicing some of my friends that facebook is having more users than orkut !!! Why is there a confusion? It is because in India orkut is more popular than facebook. So they think that facebook is just a ...
Perspectives
When I send you a personal text message, it can mean either of the two things: I miss you - I really want to tell you something. I want to tell you something - But I don’t feel like calling you....
What else do you do?
What are the things you do other than your day job? People do all kinds of stuff in their free time. They write books, compose songs, develop websites, design buildings, learn new languages, work out at the gym, practice martial arts, solve the rubix...
Being nice pays off in the long run
People behave amazingly different in similar situations. What should you do when somebody is just rude to you? What should you do when it look like somebody is deliberately trying to abuse your emotions in public? What to do when people write a blog ...
Why Outsourcing Sucks
Most of you don’t even need to read this post to know why outsourcing your software development work to cheaper countries may not ultimately help you. You already know why. The thing is that many people outsource their work to IT hubs like Bang...
Development of Voidy started
Voidy is a IM tool. It will be mainly used for simple group chats. The development of voidy just started. I will update on it when anything intersting comes up. If you really are interested, you can sign up for a beta account by sending me an email....
Amazing way to leak your passwords
Any system will leak information in every possible way if we don’t carefully plug the holes and design the system. The last day I was attending a telephone conference. The host dialed the phone number in a big conference enabled phone which made bi...
Inevitability
When you have no say in what happens, You become a spectator, a cold spectator; Enduring the pain you are suffering, You enjoy the plot as it unveils… And finally you realize, What is broken is not the mirror… It is you....
Learning from the real time technocrat
Flooding your advertisements with keywords and buzzwords usually means that you have nothing much interesting to offer. From an advertisement I recently came across: Some things I could make out from it: The master is a “real time Technocrat&...
Message boxes are dead
Every one of us have experienced the bitter taste of a message box staring us at when we try to accomplish some task with our software. Message boxes are used to convey some information, usually thought as important information, to the user and ask h...
Start today. Refine tomorrow.
If you are waiting for the perfect moment to start or the perfect product to start with, my bets are that you will keep on waiting for ever. Quality is important when there is enough of quantity. If you have not yet started doing something, start doi...
Two Questions
If you do know the answers, please let me know. Thanks in advance. (1) There are many people (typical persons) around us who do not read books, blogs or anything else. They don’t want to learn anything new and they are happy as they are. They act...
I had my food in your privacy*
All of us know the importance of privacy. Privacy is one of the corner stones of trust and security in any business, online or not. We all try to ask for privacy in the services we use in day to day life and every company worth their salt try to impr...
Losing in style
If your career depends on your personal skills, chances are that you will lose to the competition one day or the other. But you can try hard, desperately, with your full heart so that when you lose, you lose in style. That is what the great Roger Fed...
