On Sat, Nov 14, 2009 at 1:08 PM, Udhay Shankar N ud...@pobox.com wrote:
Srini RamaKrishnan wrote, [on 11/14/2009 5:17 PM]:
Weekend of 18th Dec; i.e. evening of 18th Dec / arrive 19th back
20th evening / 21st morning. I suspect I caused some confusion by
stating this weekend, which I meant
On Tue, Nov 17, 2009 at 7:25 PM, Zainab Bawa bawazaina...@gmail.com wrote:
[...]
The lack of condoms is typical of our hypocrisy
Jace and I once requested a friend if he could let use the bathroom in his
[...]
girls were not allowed inside boys' rooms in this Infosys guest house!
Indian
On Wed, Nov 25, 2009 at 9:00 AM, ashok _ listmans...@gmail.com wrote:
I am in Chennai till the 3rd of December -- if there is a meeting
being organized I would be glad to meet other participants on this
list ...
Ditto!
Cheeni
On Wed, Nov 25, 2009 at 9:22 AM, Srini RamaKrishnan che...@gmail.com wrote:
On Wed, Nov 25, 2009 at 9:00 AM, ashok _ listmans...@gmail.com wrote:
I am in Chennai till the 3rd of December -- if there is a meeting
being organized I would be glad to meet other participants on this
list
On Wed, Nov 25, 2009 at 2:14 PM, Suresh Ramasubramanian
sur...@hserus.net wrote:
Doesn't need a professor higgins
A swiss german speaker vs a german speaker.. well, coimbatore and kochi
aren't too far away and you can tell tamil and malayalam apart right
You mean Coimbatore and Palghat - and
I have some thing in the way of personal experience here, and so I say
- I agree.
Cheeni
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/11/28/business/global/28return.html?_r=1src=twpagewanted=all
Some Indians Find It Tough to Go Home Again
By HEATHER TIMMONS
Published: November 27, 2009
NEW DELHI — When
On Mon, Nov 30, 2009 at 1:15 PM, Srini RamaKrishnan che...@gmail.com wrote:
I have some thing in the way of personal experience here, and so I say
- I agree.
I am quoting here the bits I definitely felt myself relating to.
But a study by Mr. Wadhwa and other academics found that 34 percent
On Tue, Dec 1, 2009 at 7:33 AM, Mahesh Murthy mahesh.mur...@gmail.com wrote:
[...]
This is quite the Derrida-ish argument that everything is justifiable if
only we try to really really understand it, and that Charles Manson should
Whatever is being smoked in this room smells of religion to me.
On Fri, Dec 25, 2009 at 2:45 PM, Venkat Mangudi s...@venkatmangudi.com wrote:
Suresh Ramasubramanian wrote:
monday maybe? or sunday dinner.
Either day, dinner sounds good. You get to meet my wife and kids too...
:-) Who else is coming?
+1
Cheeni
On Mon, Jan 4, 2010 at 12:51 PM, Suresh Ramasubramanian
sur...@hserus.net wrote:
Jeez.
http://www.livemint.com/2010/01/03205001/Struggling-Air-India-looks-to.html
I find the phenomenal popularity of Ayn Rand and Adolf Hitler's Mein
Kampf among Indian readers at once interesting and scary.
On Sat, Jan 9, 2010 at 6:04 AM, Udhay Shankar N ud...@pobox.com wrote:
http://ignite.oreilly.com/
What Is Ignite?
If you had five minutes on stage what would you say? What if you only
got 20 slides and they rotated automatically after 15 seconds? Around
the world geeks have been putting
On Sat, Jan 9, 2010 at 3:02 PM, Divya Manian divya.man...@gmail.com wrote:
It is definitely not TED, it is a light-hearted gathering of geeks who
share, through Ignite, what they are passionate about in 5 minutes.
I can totally get behind that, but the tag line and marketing on their
webpage
On Sun, Jan 17, 2010 at 4:15 PM, Giancarlo Livraghi g...@gandalf.it wrote:
On banks and oilfields - wouldn't it be nice if we could get rid of both?
Oh, but you can. It's getting a lot harder with every passing year,
but there are still places on this planet where one can be a hermit on
the
On Mon, Jan 18, 2010 at 3:43 PM, Giancarlo Livraghi g...@gandalf.it wrote:
But it isn't happening even remotely as much as it could. The monstrous
growth of gigantic cities in many parts of the world (especially those with
severe poverty) remains a tragically strong trend.
If these mega city
On Mon, Jan 18, 2010 at 8:49 PM, Heather Madrone heat...@madrone.com wrote:
Why would living a nomadic life with tethers to society be faking it?
What Eugen said initially sums it up:
We do not yet have a technology for a truly nomadic existance
that is both comfortable and sustainable. If we
On Fri, Jan 22, 2010 at 5:08 AM, Charles Haynes
charles.hay...@gmail.com wrote:
of hack. ESR's editing of the Jargon File is better.
The canonical location of course is, http://catb.org/jargon/html/index.html
Hacks and Jugaads are close relatives, but they are IMO not the same.
The hack in the
On Fri, Jan 22, 2010 at 12:29 AM, Salil Tripathi sali...@googlemail.com wrote:
is that with greater urbanization a reality in India, it will get
harder to divide polyglot regions into exclusive ethnic enclaves.
Don't underestimate the power of caste to fight back.
I noticed this last month
ack
On Sun, Jan 24, 2010 at 9:49 AM, Suresh Ramasubramanian
sur...@hserus.net wrote:
On Sun, Jan 24, 2010 at 12:27 PM, Abhijit Menon-Sen a...@toroid.org wrote:
At 2010-01-21 11:51:34 +0530, ud...@pobox.com wrote:
The way I heard it, the very cheap truck/vehicle Suresh is referring
to above was actually called a jugaad and the generic usage of the
word for any hack of this
http://www.csmonitor.com/USA/2010/0125/US-oil-industry-hit-by-cyberattacks-Was-China-involved
US oil industry hit by cyberattacks: Was China involved?
MONITOR EXCLUSIVE: Breaches show how sophisticated industrial
espionage is becoming. The big question: Who’s behind them?
By Mark Clayton Staff
This is a very interesting idea, but of course not a silver bullet. There's
some interesting comments too. Can't easily quote the entire text via the
phone...
http://blogs.worldbank.org/publicsphere/paying-zero-public-services
Paying Zero for Public Services
Imagine that you are an old lady
On Sat, Jan 30, 2010 at 1:28 AM, Raj Shekhar spa...@rajshekhar.net wrote:
This anecdote is a bit hard to digest. Or maybe I have dealt with more
hardened bureaucrats.
The comments in the blog cover this actually. For a change this being
the World Bank blog, the comments are actually useful.
On Tue, Feb 23, 2010 at 2:13 PM, Biju Chacko biju.cha...@gmail.com wrote:
Silklister Jace is tweeting from inside:
http://twitter.com/jackerhack
Hope he gets out ok ...
He's out safely and on his way home - he's currently on the phone with
a TV reporter
On Wed, Feb 24, 2010 at 7:16 PM, Thaths tha...@gmail.com wrote:
Play Asia did come up in my searches. Their prices on game cartridges
are, on average, 50% higher than amazon (!) and shipping is said to
take weeks to India.
Try again in a few years, until then Burma Bazaar or courier via
friend
On Fri, Feb 26, 2010 at 2:51 PM, Suresh Ramasubramanian
sur...@hserus.net wrote:
In fact pick whatever
thinkpad
thinkpad works for you - the damn things are built
like tanks, have usable keyboards and excellent linux support
In my very subjective opinion the Thinkpad line has never been the
On Fri, Feb 26, 2010 at 4:01 PM, Kiran Jonnalagadda j...@pobox.com wrote:
I'm off photography until there's a decent camera that fits in my pocket and
can directly upload to the Internet.
A kludge, but http://www.eye.fi/
On Sun, Feb 28, 2010 at 4:24 PM, Eugen Leitl eu...@leitl.org wrote:
Around 400 EUR with 2 GBytes,
not
not counting an SSD upgrade (a must, and
Yes, the SSD upgrade is unfortunately disproportionately useful on net books.
Solid state storage for OS at least seems to be the future. I'm
On Sun, Feb 28, 2010 at 9:15 AM, Kiran Jonnalagadda j...@pobox.com wrote:
Ooh, pretty! But wait, 3.5 hours battery life?
There's a 6 cell battery upgrade for $99.
On Mon, Mar 1, 2010 at 9:21 AM, Srini RamaKrishnan che...@cheeni.net wrote:
On Sun, Feb 28, 2010 at 9:15 AM, Kiran Jonnalagadda j...@pobox.com wrote:
Ooh, pretty! But wait, 3.5 hours battery life?
There's a 6 cell battery upgrade for $99.
Oh wait, the reviewer also had a 6 cell battery, never
I am very surprised this wasn't already posted here. I have deep
concerns about the emperor's new clothes attitude that modern India
has taken.
Countries that can't take honest criticism and have a deluded self
image are a threat to the rest of the world - India, USA and China are
in their own
On Tue, Mar 2, 2010 at 2:34 AM, Udhay Shankar N ud...@pobox.com wrote:
Will need to think more about this, but broadly agree. However, it might
just be that India's brand of democracy is one mitigating factor to the
trend you speak of.
The great Indian democracy and its power to save the world
On Tue, Mar 2, 2010 at 3:14 AM, Suresh Ramasubramanian
sur...@hserus.net wrote:
you nailed it. they call it activist journalism and i hate activism - on
either side of the political spectrum (I detest the EFF and moveon as much
as I do the teabaggers)
Perhaps what you meant to say is that you
On Tue, Mar 2, 2010 at 5:10 AM, Udhay Shankar N ud...@pobox.com wrote:
I don't have any A Priori objection to
activism
activism. I *do* take serious
exception to _dishonesty_ masquerading as jounalism - whether it is
Sainath, Tom Friedman or Arundhati Roy.
Sainath's Everybody loves a good
On Tue, Mar 2, 2010 at 4:19 PM, Divya Manian divya.man...@gmail.com wrote:
[...]
*Almost* all journalism is of this kind, the rarer form that is actually
objective is almost never found,
Huh? Your average beat reporter (whose ilk forms the overwhelming
majority of the hack brigade) reporting on
BTW, can this thread gently drift back to the topic I originally
started? It's easy to beat up on individuals and their reporting
style, but I was hoping there'd be some debate on the larger issue at
hand.
On Wed, Mar 3, 2010 at 3:41 PM, Eugen Leitl eu...@leitl.org wrote:
People have been waiting for this for decades, but now we
could see it starting to really happening.
I don't deny the advances made, I was pretty much happy with Linux
usability too until last month when I had to spend 2 whole
On Wed, Mar 3, 2010 at 4:31 PM, Abhijit Menon-Sen a...@toroid.org wrote:
At 2010-03-03 16:14:51 +0100, che...@gmail.com wrote:
I was pretty much happy with Linux usability too until last month when
I had to spend 2 whole days getting sound to work on a realtek chipset
that shipped on a HP
On Fri, Mar 5, 2010 at 3:53 AM, Kiran Jonnalagadda j...@pobox.com wrote:
On Wed, Mar 3, 2010 at 9:19 PM, Srini RamaKrishnan che...@gmail.comwrote:
Not that I
don't have one lying around, and my favorite HK retailer
dealextreme.com even sells one for $2 (incl. free shipping),
I just lost
India has variants of this, but not as common or lethal. One has to
wonder how much blame the cultural revolution has to bear for all of
this - dumbing down 1/6th of the world is no easy feat, but it
certainly seems to have succeeded.
Cheeni
/magazine/03trolls-t.html?_r=1sq=trolling%204chanst=csescp=1pagewanted=all)
?
On Mon, Mar 8, 2010 at 6:52 PM, Srini RamaKrishnan che...@gmail.com wrote:
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/03/07/magazine/07Human-t.html?hp=pagewanted=all
On Fri, Mar 12, 2010 at 7:50 AM, Biju Chacko biju.cha...@gmail.com wrote:
No! Really?
How much of this is because of the lack of opportunity and
unemployment in Kerala? I grew up in an alcoholic town that quit its
habit over 2 decades as it gradually made its way out of abject
poverty.
Cheeni
On Mon, Mar 15, 2010 at 4:27 PM, Indrajit Gupta bonoba...@yahoo.co.in wrote:
5. The meal
of
of pork is well-known of course; this is the first time I have read all the
details.
I am no expert, but there are theories on the Internet that say that
Buddha ate sukara maddava i.e. Pig's
On Mon, Mar 15, 2010 at 12:49 PM, Srini RamaKrishnan che...@gmail.com wrote:
On Mon, Mar 15, 2010 at 10:38 AM, ashok _ listmans...@gmail.com wrote:
I dont know about the specific pieces of law mentioned above but a lot
of european civil legislative law and traditions are adapted from
islamic
I am with Charles. I'm only piping up to register my vote - not interested
in the debate.
Sent from my mobile device, apologies for terseness, spelling and style.
On Mar 24, 2010 9:45 PM, Charles Haynes charles.hay...@gmail.com wrote:
On Thu, Mar 25, 2010 at 5:37 AM, Sirtaj Singh Kang
On Wed, Mar 31, 2010 at 4:00 PM, Chandrachoodan Gopalakrishnan
chandrachoo...@gmail.com wrote:
Implied thread drift.
Why you Nazi you, you are no better than Hitler.
On Wed, Mar 31, 2010 at 4:27 PM, Pranesh Prakash
the.solips...@gmail.com wrote:
On Wednesday 31 March 2010 07:49 PM, Srini RamaKrishnan wrote:
On Wed, Mar 31, 2010 at 4:00 PM, Chandrachoodan Gopalakrishnan
chandrachoo...@gmail.com wrote:
Implied thread drift.
Why you Nazi you, you
On Thu, Apr 1, 2010 at 4:59 AM, Venkat Mangudi s...@venkatmangudi.com wrote:
http://xkcd.com/705/
You don't want to - I work with some of them and it's scary.
Cheeni
On Thu, Apr 1, 2010 at 12:33 PM, Salil Tripathi sali...@googlemail.com wrote:
Congratulations, an excellent article
http://www.livemint.com/2010/03/31210209/Maostan-of-Arundhati-Roy.html?h=D
Thanks, Suresh I'm hoping Shoba doesn't unfriend me on Facebook now.
I have no opinion on the
On Thu, Apr 1, 2010 at 6:19 PM, Suresh Ramasubramanian
sur...@hserus.net wrote:
ramanand sagar you mean? the one with the constipated looking actors and
actresses who look like they need to find a toilet just as soon as the
current scene is shot, cheezy firework tipped arrows and discordant
On Thu, Apr 1, 2010 at 10:12 PM, Deepa Mohan mohande...@gmail.com wrote:
they got the whole nation together and glued to the TV at the times they
were telecast
That had more to do with the era than the serials. No TV show today
can have the pan-India grasp that any half decent show on DD had
Apparently the catholic church has a form that you fill out, at least
in Switzerland. Seeing how Hinduism has all the bases covered -
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atheism_in_Hinduism how does one get rid
of it?
Cheeni
On Fri, Apr 9, 2010 at 8:58 AM, Danese Cooper dan...@gmail.com wrote:
Ah, but you're not born Catholic. You have to consciously choose it and
be confirmed before you can celebrate sacrament. Hinduism has a lower bar
to entry. My understanding is that pretty much everybody (even a future
On Fri, Apr 9, 2010 at 9:27 AM, Kiran Jonnalagadda j...@pobox.com wrote:
Mahesh Shantaram did that many years ago. Here it is:
http://bbs.seacrow.com/cix/106/829
http://bbs.seacrow.com/cix/106/881
Thanks, I am sure that this is the most practical solution, even if I
have to repeat some variant
On Sat, Apr 10, 2010 at 6:45 PM, ashok _ listmans...@gmail.com wrote:
[...]
Many times I have found it more worthwhile (and beneficial) to
temporarily (as in, for that moment) adopt a religion - rather than to
explicitly deny it completely. For one, it opens many doors if you are
traveling,
On Mon, Apr 19, 2010 at 8:40 AM, Biju Chacko biju.cha...@gmail.com wrote:
hands. I was merely pointing out that IMO Hinduism is equally guilty.
There were many merry blood thirsty battles for millennia between the
Indian religions before Islam Christianity made sufficient inroads.
Kings fought
On Tue, Apr 20, 2010 at 9:35 AM, Suresh Ramasubramanian
sur...@hserus.net wrote:
(fried? what do you call it when you pour batter on a
griddle and make pancakes?)
What's wrong with 'made'? It's not a twenty dollar word, but it fits.
Cheeni
On Wed, May 5, 2010 at 3:36 PM, Thaths tha...@gmail.com wrote:
And now the Supreme Court of India says narco analysis is
unwarranted intrusion of personal liberty:
Why does the SC always have to be the adult in the room? I find this a
disturbing phenomenon not just in Indian government but
On Tue, May 11, 2010 at 1:19 PM, Ramakrishna Reddy ramkr...@gmail.com wrote:
$40/ $10 laptop which leads to nothing but mockery on slashdot and
rediff forums .
Ouch, mockery on rediff forums, that's harsh. That's like getting
mocked by 6 year olds with indo-centric utopian delusions.
Cheeni
On Wed, May 12, 2010 at 3:33 PM, Thaths tha...@gmail.com wrote:
It has been almost 4 months since I wrote this. It looks like the pack
has decided to move on to other things. Since we don't read any more
about this it must mean the problem has been solved for good.
Have you ever tried going a
On Thu, May 13, 2010 at 6:16 AM, Shoba Narayan narayan.sh...@gmail.com wrote:
This sounds fascinating even though I've never tried it. I've tried being
away from cellphone for a month. On a practical note, where does one go to
get away from the news though?
It's not easy I agree. It's
On Wed, May 19, 2010 at 7:46 AM, Indrajit Gupta bonoba...@yahoo.co.in wrote:
The first kind is straight RP but without the 'spat-out' emphasis of a native
RP speaker. This is the kind that our types who were educated in Britain
generally speak, although some, including dear friends and
On Mon, May 17, 2010 at 7:23 PM, Biju Chacko biju.cha...@gmail.com wrote:
Folks:
My wife, Beena, and I, having thumbed our noses at Malthus, added to
the population problem today by adding Daniel Varghese Philip to the
mix. While I use the collective form, I have to admit that Beena took
Apropos an earlier discussion on the Indian news media.
Cheeni
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/05/08/world/asia/08iht-letter.html?pagewanted=all
LETTER FROM INDIA
In India, Sometimes News Is Just a Product Placement
By AKASH KAPUR
Published: May 7, 2010
PONDICHERRY, INDIA — A businessman I
On Tue, Jun 15, 2010 at 8:42 AM, Anil Kumar anilkumar.naga...@gmail.com wrote:
http://www.hindustantimes.com/News-Feed/books/Ten-toughest-books-to-read/Article1-557458.aspx
For me, any book that I don't care much about is difficult to read.
That said, I found Thomas Pynchon's Against the Day
On Tue, Jun 15, 2010 at 11:19 AM, Venkatesh Hariharan ven...@gmail.com wrote:
I abandoned The God of Small Things halfway after reading about turds
[...]
My list of abandoned books is rather long - often because I don't care
for or disagree with what the author has to say anymore. Sometimes
it's
On Tue, Jun 15, 2010 at 11:46 AM, Sruthi Krishnan srukr...@gmail.com wrote:
Usually I get screams of horror when I say this -- I couldn't get
through this book The Day of the Jackal by Forsyth. There was this
intense detailing on making a gun which was terribly boring, I
thought. I remember
On Wed, Jun 16, 2010 at 4:25 PM, Thaths tha...@gmail.com wrote:
A recent episode of the BBC Radio program In Our Time was about Al Beruni:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/b00smnlk/In_Our_Time_alBiruni/
I really liked this one, IOT has previously also done a show on Ibn
Khaldun which is
On Thu, Jun 17, 2010 at 3:45 AM, ss cybers...@gmail.com wrote:
I haven't read a single Mills and Boon in my life. Is that a world record? For
me it was a purely sexist phenomenon. It was for girls and sissies.
If so I share that record with you. My memory of MB is seeing mothers
and daughters
On Fri, Jul 16, 2010 at 3:25 PM, Thaths tha...@gmail.com wrote:
Before you go down this slippery slope, pause and think about:
[...]
The above line applies to many things in life. Hackers[0] call it yak
shaving [1], but the concept isn't new - the buddhist Jataka tales
talk about it in the story
On Fri, Jul 16, 2010 at 7:53 AM, Aditya Chadha fer...@gmail.com wrote:
If you're on a Mac, this is worth the $40: http://www.delicious-monster.com/
Bookpedia comes a close second and less main stream,
http://www.bruji.com/bookpedia/
There's a few apps on the Android, I've tried one called
On Mon, Jul 19, 2010 at 2:12 PM, Chew Lin Kay chewlin@gmail.com wrote:
Isn't this taking things a bit far?
Reaffirming one's identity can be a huge ego boost - it helps if you are a
millionaire - you can do things like this to tell yourself you are the
world's greatest sports fan / Sachin
Just $0.99 for me on Amazon Kindle, and Google Books has a limited
scan which usually means the book is still in copyright?
Lucky for you, Google translate just launched Latin translation
http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2010/09/veni-vidi-verba-verti.html
On Mon, Sep 27, 2010 at 6:27 AM, Abhijit Menon-Sen a...@toroid.org wrote:
Hi.
The following text is quoted from John Ray's (Joannis Raii) 1713
Synopsis Methodica
On Fri, Oct 8, 2010 at 4:22 PM, chandrachoo...@gmail.com wrote:
As I understand it, the artistic merit of the drawing is not relevant.
Things like total number of details, POV, what elements are included -
regardless of artistic ability - are measured.
Yes, but that also runs into a
On Fri, Oct 8, 2010 at 4:03 PM, Deepa Mohan mohande...@gmail.com wrote:
On Fri, Oct 8, 2010 at 7:10 PM, Sruthi Krishnan srukr...@gmail.comwrote:
That's why drawing should be made compulsory in schools. :D
No...I believe that it's something you can, or cannot, do...like
singing...I know
On Tue, Oct 12, 2010 at 7:24 AM, Udhay Shankar N ud...@pobox.com wrote:
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/national/a-radical-pessimists-guide-to-the-next-10-years/article1750609/print/
Douglas Coupland
A radical pessimist's guide to the next 10 years
A radical American pessimist's guide
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2ZHH4ALRFHw
I don't want to call things I don't understand names, but this talk
smells so strongly of BS I have to ask this online collective what
they think. Anyone who begins a talk with lashing out at critics, and
then taking every opportunity to feather one's
On Wed, Oct 13, 2010 at 2:48 PM, Udhay Shankar N ud...@pobox.com wrote:
Much as I love you, Cheeni, I'm not going to watch this.
What fascinates me is this: the speaker and her listeners are clearly
educated (maybe a little too much, they have the air of people who
have only hung around in
On Wed, Oct 13, 2010 at 3:15 PM, Giancarlo Livraghi g...@gandalf.it wrote:
Of course I don't understand the specific Indian implications of this
thread, but worldwide I find overintellectualised BS particularly
unpalatable.
She claims she isn't Indian in her thought - and anyone calling her
On Wed, Oct 13, 2010 at 2:48 PM, Udhay Shankar N ud...@pobox.com wrote:
Title: The Trajectory of the Subaltern in My Work
Length: 1hr 28min 55sec
I just completed listening and occasionally watching the entire video
in the background while doing other things of course. I have the
following
On Wed, Oct 13, 2010 at 3:16 AM, ss cybers...@gmail.com wrote:
Overcriminalization of society already exists (in many places). The criminals
stay out of jail. The world will feel like jail for anyone who doesn't belong
I guess.
In the US it's a particular aberration of the free markets - they
On Wed, Oct 13, 2010 at 3:18 PM, Srini RamaKrishnan che...@gmail.com wrote:
story in the NYT and many blogs mostly with other Bengalis (!) are
s/mostly with other Bengalis/mostly by other Bengalis/
On Wed, Oct 13, 2010 at 3:43 PM, Sruthi Krishnan srukr...@gmail.com wrote:
On Wed, Oct 13, 2010 at 6:58 PM, Aadisht Khanna li...@aadisht.net wrote:
On 13-10-2010 18:48, Srini RamaKrishnan wrote:
Ergo I expect to see a lot of shit flying around on the Internet
criticizing this lady (who
On Wed, Oct 13, 2010 at 4:16 PM, Srini RamaKrishnan che...@gmail.com wrote:
- only talks about her work3/4th of the way into her talk
Oh and also what's with the incessant name dropping? As I was saying
to xxx the other day, and yyy was there too - really, this is relevant
to a technical talk
On Wed, Oct 13, 2010 at 3:56 PM, supriya.n...@gmail.com wrote:
If a lay reader's criticism of a theorist's language is legitimate, is a
layperson equally right to criticise technical language in a scientific
discussion that her education has not equipped her to follow, as obtuse?
I'm not
On Wed, Oct 13, 2010 at 3:28 PM, Aadisht Khanna li...@aadisht.net wrote:
This may be a professional decision, so that work published throughout
her career is given citations under the same name.
I hope so - I was so annoyed at the end of the talk I was going for
attention whore, but you may be
On Wed, Oct 13, 2010 at 3:25 PM, Sruthi Krishnan srukr...@gmail.com wrote:
This kinda obscure stuff is what post-modern stuff is usually about.
Post-modernism was built on the might of intellectuals such as
Derrida, who relied on neologisms. Derrida's prose was referred to by
Foucault as
On Wed, Oct 13, 2010 at 4:13 PM, Sruthi Krishnan srukr...@gmail.com wrote:
By being obscure, the cultural theorist is making a statement about
the nature of language itself. For a layperson to understand this,
does take some reading beyond two or three line definitions. Hence the
impatience
On Wed, Oct 13, 2010 at 3:55 PM, Udhay Shankar N ud...@pobox.com wrote:
insert obligatory mention of Chip Morningstar piece [1]
Very useful - thanks Udhay, so my hunch was right (Chip's description
of the entire field can be summed up as pretentious wankers).
Cheeni
On Thu, Oct 14, 2010 at 9:54 AM, Indrajit Gupta bonoba...@yahoo.co.inwrote:
*All in all, a troublesome and difficult genius, with deeply abhorrent
personal traits.The only faint consolation I can draw is that her views
themselves are so clearly derivative of her places and her times. Ironic
On Thu, Oct 14, 2010 at 6:01 AM, Biju Chacko biju.cha...@gmail.com wrote:
On Wed, Oct 13, 2010 at 7:52 PM, Srini RamaKrishnan che...@gmail.com wrote:
I hate this about Agile programmers too, who I usually abhor
Um ... why?
ENOTIMETODAY
Short version:
I dislike Agile because it is guilty
Google search: 4th result:
http://www.cerium.ca/IMG/pdf/Is_there_an_Indian_Way_of_Thinking_An_Informal_Essay.pdf
Cheeni
On Tue, Oct 26, 2010 at 12:27 PM, Pranesh Prakash
the.solips...@gmail.com wrote:
Dear all,
I read A.K. Ramanujan's 'Is There an Indian Way of Thinking: An Informal
Essay'
On Tue, Oct 26, 2010 at 3:40 PM, Pranesh Prakash
the.solips...@gmail.com wrote:
On 2010-10-26 16:56, Srini RamaKrishnan wrote:
Google search: 4th result:
Silk-list: the place where your lack of google-fu becomes public. (Heck, I
even searched JSTOR!)
I prefer, Silk-list: the place where you
On Wed, Oct 27, 2010 at 7:49 PM, Jon Cox j...@experiments.com wrote:
Given that the highest costs are in the absorption of the content
itself (reading/listening/watching), it probably makes sense to
put a heavy emphasis on how to get stuff into your brain faster.
The key to enjoying an
On Sun, Oct 31, 2010 at 11:39 AM, ss cybers...@gmail.com wrote:
I willtry and get word
across that this Microsoft requirements needs to be fixed.
Don't bother, Microsoft is fixing this by killing Silverlight as it happens.
Cheeni
On Mon, Nov 1, 2010 at 7:43 PM, Kiran K Karthikeyan
kiran.karthike...@gmail.com wrote:
I thought they were going to continue with it for Windows Phone 7, though
they are
concentrating on HTML5 for the web/browser.
There's more than one way to kill a product. Going out and announcing
it's
The Upper house is where they store the loonies apparently. Following
a comment that someone had made on the blog I proceeded to enter
random impossible search terms into Hansard. For example, I just
entered corned beef into the search on Hansard,
Where is India's Grapes of wrath? In a country of a billion people
surely there isn't a shortage of human saga? Is it hard to rage
against bad politicians like Hunter S Thompson did in a country like
India?
I was reminded of this pet peeve of mine while reading
On Wed, Nov 24, 2010 at 8:17 AM, Sriram Karra ska...@gmail.com wrote:
[...]
Wonder why an overwhelming number of the responses on this the thread
are about animals of some kind. Aren't there any veggies, fruits,
'dairy' products (Hm, let's say - Blue Whale's Milk?) that people
yearn to
On Tue, Nov 23, 2010 at 6:05 PM, Udhay Shankar N ud...@pobox.com wrote:
I ask silklisters
to let us know what is the strangest thing they've eaten.
Sugar or uh, artificial sweetener. After consciously cutting sugar
and fat almost entirely from my diet for more than a year I was
offered a
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