Random Musings
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My Wife’s Cesarean
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5 min read
Considering I’m an Indian citizen, this might be the first of it’s kind in our country. Yes! I was allowed to see my wife’s cesarean operation. Two day before we had planned for the delivery of our Baby, we visited our Doctor to let her know of our intentions to go for a C-Section. It…
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Cyber Wars : Revision3 vs MediaDefender
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2 min read
A popular Internet Television network named Revision3 was brought to knees by a cyber attack from a company named MediaDefender, offering services to prevent copyright infringement using P2P distribution method. You can read the complete story here: Revision3 CEO: Blackout caused by MediaDefender attack. The story seems to be straight out from a Scifi movie.…
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Dying Democracy?
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2 min read
I do not know what to make out of the ruling by Supreme Court (SC) of India with respect to the quota for Other Backward Classes (OBCs) in “IITs, IIMs and other Central educational institutions” the ruling adds that the SC “excluded the creamy layer from the benefit”. Here is the full coverage of the…
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Good Design or Smart Engineering?
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3 min read
This is one question that haunts (new) software engineers day after day. We learned from the days of BASIC to Java and .NET that goto is an incarnation of devil itself, but we find goto in code written by the so called ‘elite’ programmers. What does this mean? Was all that computer science we learned…
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C# and .NET will die!
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3 min read
Not yet, but slowly! They may rise to a certain level before they die, but they will! Clarification Before I continue let me clarify that this post is not about whether C# or .NET is a good technology or not; .NET might be very good concept coming out of Microsoft’s closet, but again popularity and…
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Ruby – *The* programming language
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2 min read
I Happen to stumble upon Ruby lately, and this is one heck of a cool language! You may say! Oh! no… I don’t need another language now! Probably most of us(the coder specie) have spent years on our favourite language(or not so favourite language?). And would certainly not like to plunge into yet another language.…