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How NOT to lead geeks

This interesting blog post lists the top mistakes managers make in leading geeky people. The one that makes a big problem for me is: Don’t give them tools. Here in my company, the IT guys have to 'approve' before we install some useful tool. What about you?.. more »

Kid solves Rubic’s Cube in 37 seconds

"There’s no reason for the video to be fake. The world record is under 12 seconds. With some training and practice, just about anyone can beat a minute.".. more »

Blogspot Blogs Banned by Indian ISPs: Read Tricks To Access Blocked Websites.

Amit Agarwal blogs that Reliance Infocom, MTNL, Star Hathway and Tata Internet Services may be blocking access to blogspot sites. Rumor is that it is government initiated. He also discusses ways to circumvent the ban... more »

Steve Wozniak audio - a must hear for techies

Woz talks about his life story, Apple and pranks..

"Rare and brilliant presentation by Steve Wozniak, a true geek's geek. His playing started with games and pranks, crystal-set radios, reading Popular Electronics."

"Woz wanted to be an HP engineer forever and never thought he'd start a company, but his friend, Steve Jobs, said, "Let's sell ..... more »

HowTo: Interrogate Your Boss

When an employees starts asking these sorts of things, and they led to extremely productive, revealing, even career-changing conversations. Even if they don't turn out to be immediately productive, they'll help to open the lines of communication, give you information that may be useful later, and make it clear to your boss that you're interested in ..... more »

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US Inc demands instant boost in H-1B visa cap

Although the US Cong has been arguing that H-1B visa has depressed wages for US technology workers, American high-tech industry expressed the urgency to raise the limit on visas, for the country is in need of 'highly educated foreigners'.. more »

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Watch the World Cup in ASCII

Telnet here to watch the live match: $ telnet ascii-wm.net 2006 "Some enterprising Austrian Über-geeks have solved the problem nicely by creating a Telnet stream with, believe it or not, live ASCII footage of matches being played.".. more »

Not all successful CEOs are extroverts

The list of well-known corporate CEO introverts reads like a Who's Who, starting with Gates, who has long been described as shy and unsocial, and who often goes off by himself to reflect. Others widely presumed to be introverts include Warren Buffett, Charles Schwab, movie magnate Steven Spielberg and Sara Lee CEO Brenda Barnes... more »

Review of Wallet365.com

India's first e-Wallet is launched by Mr.Amitabh Bachchan. Wallet365.com is a new service that lets you pay anyone, anywhere... more »

Orkut imposes limit on number of friends

You can have upto 1000 connections on Orkut. If you reach that limit, you will not be able to add new Orkut friends. This 1000 limit also includes Open Orkut Invitations - people you have invited to join Orkut but they haven't do so yet... more »

Boot up Windows before you even log in

If you’re sick of waiting for your environment to load after you login you would like this. Article presents tips to set your Windows desktop to boot up before you login so that you can avoid the second boot-up that occurs as your user environment loads... more »

US owes economy growth to India

The South Korean community had the largest number of businesses, with 9,406, while Indian-owned firms in Washington area pulled in the most revenue. The number of Indian-owned companies grew 46 per cent to 8,707, and they earned $3.8 billion... more »

Hans Bethe: Quantum Theory Made Relatively Simple

IN 1999, legendary theoretical physicist Hans Bethe delivered three lectures on quantum theory.The presentation makes use of limited mathematics while focusing on the personal and historical perspectives of one of the principal architects of quantum theory whose career in physics spans 75 years... more »

Microsoft Research Unveils MapCruncher [for Virtual Earth] Prototype

MapCruncher enables a user to take existing road maps and aerial imagery and overlay particular, specialized maps to create unique mash-ups tailored to the user's specific interests. 'MapCruncher' empowers anybody in the world to take whatever data is important to them,' explains Elson, the project lead, 'and share it with everybody else in a ..... more »

Munnabhai MBA: B'wood calling IIM grads

Bollywood is rolling out the red carpet for management professionals. Film production houses are shedding their one-man-show image and, in the process, giving the industry a professional makeover... more »

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Market Experience of a Naïve Stock Operator

If you are thinking of investing in stocks, read it! "I wrote this article based on my real life experience with the stock market. I wrote it with a humorous slant, but still hope you can learn a few things about how stock market works.".. more »

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The Joy of the Drop: 37 ghazals by Ghalib

37 poems by Ghalib, translated by Jim Yagmin.. more »

Idiomatic Ruby - presentation on the beautiful language

Idiomatic Ruby is an online presentation by Toby DiPasquale that goes through some of the more idiomatic features of Ruby, those that newcomers to Ruby might be confused by or overlook... more »

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