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With the UEFA Champions league going on, as usual there are always these crazy set of fans, the soccer maniacs. But many a times I see these young freaks, who are equally lunatic about soccer as the adults, but don’t get the opportunity to get a seat in the stadium. Simply because they can’t...
Read more →Sweden has one of the highest broadband internet penetration in the world, it had a 10Mb symmetric to majority of its citizens already in 1998. A Swedish Perspective consists of 3 lessons as i discovered from tpbafk.tv, movie website for the documentary The Pirate Bay – Away From Keyboard. Speaker: Jonas Birgersson. Lesson 1 – There...
Read more →No bazinga here, but what has been observed, mostly in cities and some developed towns, the no. of young people watching TV has gone down, yes, the youth have started quitting on TV and switched to youtube and other web alternatives to watch movies, shows and other general videos. This was expected and the...
Read more →This post is just a small initiation, to share hacker stories with you, There are few more Movies and Books, I would like to talk about and share with you, but for now, lets talk about Clifford Stoll. The Cuckoo’s Egg is a true story of tracking down of a Hacker Markus Hess, something...
Read more →User Experience (UX) is the most important factor in making a product a success. Its the awesome UX that makes apple products stand out from the crowd and that’s what even microsoft is trying to achieve with its new windows 8 phones. I have been an open source guy for the past 8 years,...
Read more →The mobile is taking over the usual desktops and laptops, the number of users accessing Internet from cellphones is increasing. Hence, we see most of the websites, have been made compatible for the mobile or have created their own mobile app. The common approach I found in startups, recruitment starts with looking for developers...
Read more →For a software industry entrepreneur, programming is a must, you need not be an expert, but you need to have some programming basics under your belt. codecademy, udemy, codeschool, pyschools are some of the sites which help you learn to code the interactive way. Python is one beautiful programming language. Simple yet extensive, flexible...
Read more →Ubuntu launched the desktop environment Gnome 3 integrated with Ubuntu’s Unity shell interface with ubuntu 11.04, and from there started the rage against gnmoe 3 and ubuntu’s unity shell interface. I have been a ubuntu user for past 6 years. I installed the new ubuntu 12.04 on my desktop, its really annoying. I understand,...
Read more →Beautiful is better than ugly. Explicit is better than implicit. Simple is better than complex. Complex is better than complicated. Flat is better than nested. Sparse is better than dense. Readability counts. Special cases aren’t special enough to break the rules. Although practicality beats purity. Errors should never pass silently. Unless explicitly silenced. In...
Read more →I have seen experts from various tech fields and have also met and have been fortunate to work with a few and also those few who have expertise on multiple domains, technologies or programming languages. Working with these experts, i observed a lot of things, and i’ll classify them in two, two different practices...
Read more →Javascript, the language that gave new life to the web. It changed the way how websites worked and functioned. I’ll say, it took out the dullness and turned the web into something more aesthetic and exciting. But I won’t forget and i know, similiar to me many of the web developers won’t forget those...
Read more →This post is not about Spain winning the Euro Cup, Its about an Entrepreneur, Vihang, whom i know personally and someone who i look up to. He withstood the most difficult obstacles while running a startup, And most of the startups would surely throw in the towel if faced with nuisances that he went...
Read more →I am not sure if this is correct, but what i find is most of the entrepreneurs are very much similar to day dreamers. Every time something comes to their view and they start developing ideas, and even start planning, for a day dreamer, he just dreams, feels good about it and forgets. But for an entrepreneur, it...
Read more →“In the time you set aside each day to work your ass off, ignore the things that makes you consider stopping.” - Merlin Mann Believe in yourself: Assume there will will always be tools that are better than the ones you have now. Assume that events in the world will continue to happen or...
Read more →“Quality begins on the inside… then works its way out.” – Bob Moawad it took me long to understand this, and its an important aspect of life, people don’t understand, they just keep ignoring it. Most of the time these are the people who are filled with excuses on why are they not doing...
Read more →Nobody tells this to people who are beginners. I wish someone had told me. All of us who do creative work, we get into it because we have good taste. But there is this gap. For the first couple of years you make stuff, it’s just not that good. It’s trying to be good,...
Read more →Life is tough that’s a given, when you stand up, you gonna be shot back down, when you are down, you are gonna be stepped on, my advice to you doesn’t come to you without a lot of bells and whistles, its no secret, you’ll fall down, you’ll stumble, you’ll get pushed, you’ll land...
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