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Re: Morning Coffee Notes (Scripting News)

shiva — Thu, 16 Oct 2008 06:58:28 -0000

You are always welcome to Vancouver. We have a vibrant tech community, socialized good quality health-care (but Seattle like weather), and a very multi-cultural society.

If you happen to drop by, a tweet (@shiva) will buy you a beer or a glass of wine! :)

Re: How I handle the 1000+ emails and 300+ blog posts a day

shiva — Thu, 16 Oct 2008 06:32:01 -0000

Yes really. I work in a software company. Do you realize how many bug reports I get?! :) I usually get around 40 to 50 personal mails (subscriptions, comments, friendfeed etc). Ofcourse, the 1000 is a little of an exaggeration.

In case the sarcasm was unclear, I have added note to the article to this regard.

Re: Bike ride -Chennai-Pondy

shiva — Mon, 29 Sep 2008 08:48:40 -0000

wtf?

Re: Sarah Teen USA Palin (Scripting News)

shiva — Fri, 26 Sep 2008 04:10:34 -0000

One word -- WOW! Is this is even possible?! except for a small part, the lip-sync was perfect! :)

Re: Obama: Name your Cabinet (Scripting News)

shiva — Mon, 08 Sep 2008 21:10:28 -0000

It's an amazing idea! Also, that would really be a trendsetter in democratic processes around the world. I don't think any democratic nation has ever had a party that has named the cabinet before the election. People would really be voting for a single unit, instead of a single guy. But then, some could also take issue with positions given to certain people, and ofcoure, the republicans would pounce on that and attack every one of the cabinet members.

Re: In the browser lies the power - Wave 2 of the Google takeover

shiva — Fri, 05 Sep 2008 19:21:43 -0000

hmmm... thanks

Re: In the browser lies the power - Wave 2 of the Google takeover

shiva — Tue, 02 Sep 2008 20:04:43 -0000

Well, I wouldn't go that far. I don't think google really does much with humanized thinking (the new avatar of AI). They just process lots of data. Again, even their ranking algorithm requires secrecy for ensuring proper functioning.

As you said, we are still far far away from modeling the human brain, but there are companies out there working on it.

http://www.technologyreview.com/Biotech/19767/

Once we can truly map the brain, the neural synapses and the neurons, and once we have quantum level computing capabilities, then we will be able to model the brain. I diverge, so I will stop now. :)

Re: In the browser lies the power - Wave 2 of the Google takeover

shiva — Tue, 02 Sep 2008 20:00:31 -0000

True. I shouldn't have said unique, since most features are lifted off other browsers.

Re: The Asus works (Scripting News)

shiva — Fri, 29 Aug 2008 23:29:18 -0000

There is nothing that is better than paint.net (in terms of free image editing software). GIMP is way too much for everyday needs.

Re: Meeting old friends

shiva — Mon, 25 Aug 2008 21:56:37 -0000

wow! Has he moved back to the same HCL division?! So is he back in Chennai now?!

Re: Meeting old friends

shiva — Mon, 18 Aug 2008 19:51:05 -0000

actually no! Do you have his email by any chance?! I moved to Vancouver last year, and have pretty much lost touch with my buddies in B'lore. Also most of them are busy getting married or producing babies :)

Re: Whaddup Mister?!

shiva — Sun, 22 Jun 2008 03:13:35 -0000

Seesmic video reply from Disqus.

Re: 75% of Facebook users are giggly and poke; 25% are serious and import bookmarks ԅ Hacking Startups

shiva — Sun, 22 Jun 2008 03:03:38 -0000

very true.. it is not just apps on facebook, but it is symptomatic of the web itself. It is the classical noise vs signal, and what is noise and signal changes based on user preferences. I think, this is something, that has to be built into the fabric of web browsing a.k.a browsers.

What we really need, one unique location to learn about current users preferences (read as openid, with preference/profile plugins, hosted on a unique url for every user). There is a product waiting to happen right there!

Re: 75% of Facebook users are giggly and poke; 25% are serious and import bookmarks ԅ Hacking Startups

shiva — Sun, 22 Jun 2008 03:01:04 -0000

sheeesh!! This is exactly the problem with segregating features!! Someone always takes offense at the way the segregation is done! (I need to stop saying segregation). So what would your way be?! How would you like the features to be split, and make it usable?!

Re: 75% of Facebook users are giggly and poke; 25% are serious and import bookmarks ԅ Hacking Startups

shiva — Fri, 20 Jun 2008 21:20:27 -0000

A very good point. I think this is more a general problem than just Facebook's. There are hardly any web2.0 apps/sites that treat users differently. Not every user visiting a site or using a tool, uses it equally. I think, the next step in the evolution is to bring user profiles, and make these apps understand how the user, uses the tools and change itself based on the user using it.

User based profiles, have existed in enterprise applications for pretty much the last 15/20 years. Web 2.0 apps do have a few things to learn from enterprise applications after all :)

Re: Would You Pay $715 for $630 in Cash? - Joe Lazarus

shiva — Wed, 18 Jun 2008 21:53:21 -0000

wow! Talk about throwing money around. Feels like Zune all-over again. I wonder why, Microsoft seems adamant on pushing an inferior product by spending money.

Re: Hey wordpress guys, have you heard of diff?!

shiva — Sun, 11 May 2008 08:38:50 -0000

you are right. I failed to do a diff -r, and did a on the parent dir instead. :). My bad.

Re: Hey wordpress guys, have you heard of diff?!

shiva — Sun, 11 May 2008 08:38:04 -0000

This is a very nice idea, and I just did that for my blog. Thanks. Of course this option only applies if one has CLI access to the hosting server (With svn support as well). I don't think very many web-hosts support that.

Thankfully mine do. I use webfaction.

My case to wordpress still stands. There should be some form of auto-installer for applying these fixes, some kind of plugin, that allows users to upgrade at the click of a button. I doubt that would be very hard to do.

Re: Google Reader sharing = kind of lame

shiva — Tue, 06 May 2008 05:19:44 -0000

I am thinking a wordpress plugin, that will allow for cross syncing comments using microformats. I think this problem is easier address if done in co-operation with the source for a post. (ofcourse it will not work well with non-blogs)

your thoughts?

Re: Google Reader sharing = kind of lame

shiva — Tue, 06 May 2008 02:56:25 -0000

I have to disagree with you on this. I really like this feature (no, I like important plugins to be folded back into the app (so that I can get rid of plugins) - see Wordpress/wp-cache for why).

Now, the stuff that shows lack of qualty:
1. I can't edit posted notes
2. Every time I add a note, it's a new shared item.
3. The power of this note sharing comes alive, when it tracks conversation. eg. If I add a note to something Scoble shared, then create a thread.
4. @adamstrow - cross posting would make it a killer feature (I can think of plugins for each blog that want to allow this kind of support)
Come on google guys.. you can do better.

Re: Well, this is a first…

shiva — Thu, 10 Apr 2008 02:57:16 -0000

Wow! It's human powered. How do I know?! Well, they managed to remove the "umms" from my post. Also, they corrected a grammatical error. Very kewl! Will I ever pay for such a service?! maybe not! I don't think I would need it. As you can I am the only one commenting here! :)

Re: Are you using Firefox 3? (Scripting News)

shiva — Fri, 04 Apr 2008 05:21:42 -0000

I am using the beta5 and have been using since beta 3. Here's why?
1. It's very stable
2. very good memory management (less memory leaks)
3. like the cleaner new interface (On the mac, it made me give up safari. )

Re: Campaign conference call MP3s, day 2 (Scripting News)

shiva — Thu, 21 Feb 2008 20:30:17 -0000

If only you could make this happen, it would change the baseline for accountability for politicians (in every democracy in the world ?)

Re: The first one who laughs at me is not my friend anymore

shiva — Mon, 04 Feb 2008 23:38:16 -0000

Nice to hear that you failed. (Welcome to the club of people failing driving test in North America). I failed the drivind test here, in Canada coz there was a stop sign that was hidden behind trees, on an uphill snow-laden, right turn (no cars)

Re: share.opml.org, retired (Scripting News)

shiva — Fri, 25 Jan 2008 07:16:56 -0000

hmmm.. I see this happening often. I mean sites being shut down. I used to share my opml on that site. Hey if only there was someway, I could lend my "excess" storage/bandwidth towards that service, so I could help keep it going.

If there was some way for multiple webmasters to lend there storage and bandwidth for hosting a single site (democratized s3?)