Re: [silk] Bump in the road, or end of the road?

IT companies buying product companies in a desperate bid to innovate .. let us just say that I’ve seen a lot of that happen at a previous workplace. The usual end result is that the founders and key employees quit in disgust after a while and those that are left are gradually absorbed into the

Re: [silk] Bump in the road, or end of the road?

Social media analytics and cloud is the latest of so many flavours of the month. That a large corporation with hidebound rules and a process driven nature sucks at it all and is occasionally too slow to jump onto a trend - and even there tries to use stuff made by their existing enterprise

[silk] Fwd: [IP] Barlow benefit concert Oct 24 7:30pm at Sweetwater in Mill Valley

--srs Begin forwarded message: > From: "Dave Farber" > Date: 11 October 2016 at 11:47:36 PM IST > To: "ip" > Subject: [IP] Barlow benefit concert Oct 24 7:30pm at Sweetwater in Mill > Valley > Reply-To: d...@farber.net > > > > >

Re: [silk] Intro - Aanjhan

On 29/09/16, 12:19 PM, "silklist on behalf of Simmi Sareen" wrote: >> Congratulations on completing your PhD, Dr. Aanjhan! Yeah, finally!! Congratulations. --srs

Re: [silk] To retire or not - that is the Q.

On 18-Sep-2016, at 11:28 PM, Sandhya aka Sandy wrote: > > of how to steadily build it up over the years. I was wondering what you > meant by buffers in your statement: Things can become more expensive, your money needs may suddenly change (medical expense, fee

Re: [silk] An organic model of knowledge

On 26/08/16, 7:57 PM, "silklist on behalf of Deepa Mohan" wrote: > Has anyone watched the Sunday afternoon quiz that's supposed > to have started on some TV channel, I forget which? Siddhartha Basu and

Re: [silk] An organic model of knowledge

On 26/08/16, 6:14 PM, "silklist on behalf of Thejaswi Udupa" wrote: >I have a fairly simple model for quizzing. I treat it as an >amateur sport. >And derive the same joy out of it, that a guy Ah, but

Re: [silk] An organic model of knowledge

Absolutely nothing wrong with the bell centennial question. It let you work facts out based on what you know .. but well, you ought to have known a telephone directory beforehand so that’s experiential knowledge right there. I don’t even have a landline in my house for the past few years and

Re: [silk] An organic model of knowledge

<silklist-bounces+suresh=hserus@lists.hserus.net on behalf of wordpsm...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Aug 26, 2016, at 17:16, Suresh Ramasubramanian <sur...@hserus.net> wrote: > > I am not running down reading at all. But Eruv was probably a more trivial

Re: [silk] An organic model of knowledge

and then getting onto a tour bus for sentosa island. On 26/08/16, 5:06 PM, "silklist on behalf of Samanth Subramanian" <silklist-bounces+suresh=hserus@lists.hserus.net on behalf of wordpsm...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Aug 26, 2016, at 16:52, Suresh Ramasubramanian <sur

Re: [silk] An organic model of knowledge

On 26/08/16, 5:00 PM, "silklist on behalf of WordPsmith" wrote: > Intrigued by the phrase "second-hand nature of knowledge." > Can any knowledge be grouped into first- and second-hand? Oh I don’t know.

Re: [silk] An organic model of knowledge

On 26/08/16, 3:32 PM, "silklist on behalf of Venkatesh H R" wrote: > Btw, did anyone see Brahman Naman. I saw the first half of > the movie but was put off by a few things (such as the lack > of the default

Re: [silk] Podcast recommendations?

Samanth is on silk, is a published author + he and his wife Padmaparna run a lovely podcast. http://www.audiomatic.in/category/the-intersection/ On 09/08/16, 1:03 PM, "silklist on behalf of Srijith Nair"

Re: [silk] Eating Millet

at, and vice versa. Starch is > another thing altogether. > > --Venkat > >> On Monday 8 August 2016, Suresh Ramasubramanian <sur...@hserus.net> wrote: >> >> Both very useful suggestions but I sort of fail to see the point about >> adding fat and starch to som

Re: [silk] Eating Millet

is about the best way I can get anybody I cook for to eat it ☺ [And they are all vegetarians so I confine my experimentation to vegetarian food for the most part unless I cook for friends] On 08/08/16, 1:02 PM, "silklist on behalf of Suresh Ramasubramanian" <silklist-bounces+

Re: [silk] Eating Millet

Being the highly uninventive “daily meal” type cook myself, when I do get into the kitchen, all I do with millets are – 1. Steam them in a pressure cooker with about 2x the water and for 2x the number of cooker ‘whistles’ as when cooking ordinary rice 2. Use this for gruel / porridge mixed with

Re: [silk] Maacher Jhol

Arvi / Colocasia is called chepankizhangu at least out here in south TN I am not sure if this other tuber / kizhangu is a different one, there are so many of them, and there is no shortage of regional variants in the Tamil word for the exact same vegetable, household item or whatever. On

Re: [silk] Maacher Jhol

: On 05-Aug-2016 8:56 AM, "Suresh Ramasubramanian" <sur...@hserus.net> wrote: > > Arvi / colocasia or a variant? > > --srs > > No, koo'k is what's called sambranigaDDe in Kannada

Re: [silk] Maacher Jhol

Arvi / colocasia or a variant? --srs > On 05-Aug-2016, at 8:46 AM, Shenoy N wrote: > > There's a small, potato-like tuber available in southern Karnataka and > Kerala. It's called koo'k in konkani and is a lot like a potato to eat. > Anyonr heard of it? Is that a separate,

Re: [silk] Maacher Jhol

There are multiple references to meat eating in early pre aryan Tamil sangam era literature --srs > On 05-Aug-2016, at 5:57 AM, Thaths wrote: > >> On Fri, Aug 5, 2016 at 1:44 AM Dinesh wrote: >> >> Until Vaishnavism arrived people of the south

Re: [silk] Maacher Jhol

Quite common in West Bengal really, where the only pure vegetarian cuisine you'll get in a state full of fish and meat eating cultures is generally Vaishnav- from followers of Bhakti cult saints such as Chaitanya Mahaprabhu --srs > On 05-Aug-2016, at 1:44 AM, Dinesh

Re: [silk] Maacher Jhol

We had the Portuguese colonising parts of India - they never did get more than a toehold but they did give us - Pav bread (which along with the Chinese baozi comes from the Portuguese pao) Nav, the Hindi word for a boat - from the Portuguese naõ for a ship Potatoes - which the British knew and

Re: [silk] What replaces Landmark in Chennai?

She was doing a going out of business sort of sale a while back – the Connemara was damaged by the floods and they used that as an excuse to boot her. Pity – excellent if rather idiosyncratic collection crammed into a surprisingly small place. And she knew what she was talking about. On

Re: [silk] Tom Athanasiou's TedX talk on the climate crisis

On Thu, Aug 4, 2016 at 5:19 AM, Suresh Ramasubramanian <sur...@hserus.net> wrote: > >There's a known fix but it requires a mailing list server upgrade among other things for me to implement it I seem to recall that you know a little about email -- I'm sure you'll fix it. ;-)

Re: [silk] What replaces Landmark in Chennai?

There’s a store called “Starmark” in the Express Avenue mall. Worth a try. Are you in Chennai now, Thaths? On 04/08/16, 2:36 PM, "silklist on behalf of Thaths" wrote: Now that Landmark (the main bookstore

Re: [silk] Maacher Jhol

I do like smaller fish – but well, I seem to prefer seer fish in a rawa fry than in a curry. On 04/08/16, 12:35 PM, "silklist on behalf of Kiran K Karthikeyan" wrote: Yes, if the fish has been

Re: [silk] Maacher Jhol

My dear chap, with all three of these you might substitute paneer, or maybe even a bathroom sponge, with no perceptible difference in taste. --srs > On 04-Aug-2016, at 11:59 AM, Kiran K Karthikeyan > wrote: > > I like it best when made with Ney Meen (Seer Fish)

Re: [silk] Maacher Jhol

http://www.aayisrecipes.com/my-favorite-konkani-recipes-top-10/ On 04/08/16, 11:36 AM, "silklist on behalf of Venkat Mangudi - Silk" wrote: Keep them recipes coming. Suresh can get hungry as much as

Re: [silk] Maacher Jhol

Thejaswi Udupa [04/08/16 10:29 +0530]: On 04-Aug-2016 10:28 AM, "Suresh Ramasubramanian" <sur...@hserus.net> wrote: Almost every coastal state has a fish in gravy sort of dish This is a good time to mention fellow silklister Samanth's excellent book Following Fis

Re: [silk] Maacher Jhol

Almost every coastal state has a fish in gravy sort of dish Udhay Shankar N [04/08/16 10:22 +0530]: On Thu, Aug 4, 2016 at 10:20 AM, Deepa Mohan wrote: http://www.sawandutta.com/#!macherjhol/kf04t Are there equivalent "fish stews" in other parts of India? There are

Re: [silk] Tom Athanasiou's TedX talk on the climate crisis

Yahoo forwarded through a mailing list and then hitting gmail - gmail thinks it sees yahoo mail but coming from my server There's a known fix but it requires a mailing list server upgrade among other things for me to implement it --srs > On 04-Aug-2016, at 12:14 AM, Mahesh Murthy

Re: [silk] Intro

Hi Simmi – welcome to silk. You told Udhay your email isn’t coming through – did you check your spam folder? --srs On 02/08/16, 7:54 PM, "silklist on behalf of Simmi Sareen" wrote: Hello Silklisters

Re: [silk] On Silk, by Silk

Chugli is hindi for carrying tales / koL sollaradhu The knifeman is a certain bald, tubby and bearded guy who uses a lot of chef knives very effectively if I don’t miss my guess. On 02/08/16, 6:23 PM, "silklist on behalf of Deepa Mohan"

Re: [silk] kai dys- kai eu- topias

On 05-Jul-2016, at 11:16 PM, Dave Long wrote: > > Something which has been bugging me lately is that the schools do overlap. Goalposts shift, yes - and the trend is therefore much more towards a harder and grittier future if not an outright dystopian one. Even the ones

Re: [silk] "obligations" of a novelist?

On 05/07/16, 5:47 PM, "silklist on behalf of rajeev chakravarthi" wrote: > SF has an important role to contribute here, as it has done in the past. Much > of the writing that I have come across has taken

[silk] In bangalore over the weekend of June 12-13 (and monday June 14)

Anyone wants to meet up? —srs

Re: [silk] sanitary napkins in brown paper bag ...

Condoms too get brown bagged. Liquor stores seem to prefer opaque black plastic bags these days. --srs > On 18-May-2016, at 11:30 AM, harry wrote: > > One of the things that I find very odd is the way sanitary napkins are > treated. > > for example, if I buy it in a

Re: [silk] Holy Cow!

It is sort of fun to just watch well meaning desi colleagues’ faces on a visit stateside when you say you don’t support modi and have no intention of visiting his traveling circus .. > On 12-May-2016, at 3:13 PM, Kiran K Karthikeyan > wrote: > > I have some

Re: [silk] Cable Cars - A viable urban rapid transport system?

And hk has trams that run on a fixed schedule, dirt cheap. You could walk there faster though if not for hk traffic. You need nice straight lines for longish distances is all. And roads broad enough to allow traffic on either side. --srs > On 12-May-2016, at 7:03 AM, Heather Madrone

Re: [silk] The Need for Guaranteed Basic Income or why Kiran is worried sick

mana IS polynesian / hawaiian for just what they described - and the only way I know is by reading James Michener’s “Hawaii” so I could well be wrong > On 29-Apr-2016, at 11:58 AM, Kiran K Karthikeyan > wrote: > > Any silklister in Infosys top management who can

Re: [silk] What happens to pilots of planes that are hijacked?

Ptsd http://www.sltrib.com/sltrib/politics/52420857-90/majid-hijacking-pan-flight.html.csp http://www.amazon.com/Anxiety-000-Feet-Introduction-Psychotherapy/dp/1855759659 --srs > On 01-Apr-2016, at 12:09 PM, Rajesh Mehar wrote: > > Hello Silkies, > > This question

Re: [silk] Anyone with experience being deported ?

Did your friend work for an ngo or was he a journalist? That's getting very common with this current government and especially given family ties in india can be challenged in court. Look for the case of priya pillai, a Greenpeace office bearer who was prevented from leaving for London and had

Re: [silk] Anyone with experience being deported ?

will work. > On 08-Feb-2016, at 1:12 AM, Badri Natarajan <li...@badri.net> wrote: > > >> On 8 Feb 2016, at 01:01, Suresh Ramasubramanian <sur...@hserus.net> wrote: >> >> Did your friend work for an ngo or was he a journalist? That's getting very >> commo

Re: [silk] Rép : moskywood?

There's plenty of them smoking up, swigging feni and hitting on girls on the Goa beaches any given day. Not a far fetched idea. --srs On 01-Jan-2016, at 4:12 PM, Dave Long wrote: >> .. in popular cinema the flow has been from India to Russia. > No kidding! >

Re: [silk] moskywood?

The Russians have a long tradition of loving old Hindi movies so this isn't surprising --srs > On 31-Dec-2015, at 2:01 PM, Dave Long wrote: > > A while ago, I ran into a russian flick (billing itself as the first "karaoke > comedy") which was being advertised by

Re: [silk] Techfest

On 19-Dec-2015, at 9:42 AM, wrote: > > I don't know yet where I'm staying as the conference people are making the > arrangements. Expect to arrive 5AM on the 25th and the rest ... my GV # is > +1-617-454-2000. > > Seafood - yes Ah

Re: [silk] Techfest

Do you like seafood? And where will you be in Mumbai? Welcome to India --srs > On 19-Dec-2015, at 9:14 AM, > wrote: > > I'm going to be giving keynotes at Techfest this coming week in Mumbai. Look > forward to meeting any of the

Re: [silk] Legal adulthood

works for me - though I am not sure anybody at all is still flooded out in chennai right nwo > On 19-Dec-2015, at 11:05 AM, Udhay Shankar N wrote: > > It turns out that all friends and family are unharmed. So we shall just > defer the plans to meet. Perhaps sometime in

Re: [silk] Recommended Reading from 2015

On 14-Dec-2015, at 12:19 PM, Supriya Nair wrote: > > Anonymity for the > 1000-page edition seems puzzling -- if it was the > Penguin black classics edition, it's by Robin Buss. Well worth reading. The > novel form was invented for Dumas to have fun with. Buss is

Re: [silk] Recommended Reading from 2015

OUP and some others have excellent translations from the Russian - which is an extremely difficult language to translate. A lot of the humor doesn’t even translate well to English (especially in the case of Gogol, who used deliberately funny names for his characters to add to the humor, for

Re: [silk] Recommended Reading from 2015

The archive.org site has this text from the same edition gutenberg has - published by GEORGE ROUTLEDGE AND SONS LONDON AND NEW-YORK 1888 This adds the additional information .. Copyright, 1887. By JOSEPH L. BLAMIRB. There’s a Joseph L Blamire who is credited with some other works from

Re: [silk] Not quite your dad's cup of tea

Does the tea taste any different if you make it using aquafina or other bottled drinking water? > On 08-Dec-2015, at 5:22 PM, Udhay Shankar N wrote: > > Interesting thing I just noticed. > > I upgraded my water filter to an RO based system. The water tastes > different,

Re: [silk] Legal adulthood

Date? I’ll travel over. > On 01-Dec-2015, at 8:29 AM, Udhay Shankar N wrote: > > Somebody was commenting the other day about silk being really quiet these > days. And we wondered if it was a symptom of the various regulars getting > busy with other things all at the same time,

Re: [silk] Puns in other languages

The other canonical kannada example for this is tulu the language and tulu the female genitalia > On 24-Sep-2015, at 1:51 PM, Rajesh Mehar wrote: > > When you add to this the fact that heLu in Kannada means tell and helu > means shit, there is scope for an abundance of

Re: [silk] On the Road

On 13-Sep-2015, at 11:51 PM, Bruce A. Metcalf wrote: > > Add the use of 53-foot trailers and triples (20 to 25m long when the tractor > is added), and you get "Orange Barrel Slalom" where you try to dodge the > potholes, the barrels, the trucks, uneven pavements, and

Re: [silk] On the Road

On 14-Sep-2015, at 6:33 AM, Venkat Mangudi - Silk wrote: > > P.S: I really hate typing on iPads. Oh, don't get me started about > selecting and deleting, this email took 8 minutes 34 seconds. “bluetooth keyboard + ipad case”

Re: [silk] Renaming Aurangzeb Road

> On 12-Sep-2015, at 11:03 PM, Bruce A. Metcalf wrote: > > Now I need to go find something constructive to post. I don't suppose anyone > cares for a trip report of five weeks on a cruise ship or 8500 miles across > America by car? Perhaps an essay on how my wife has

Re: [silk] Renaming Aurangzeb Road

Ha, there WAS in fact a yes minister hindi remake starring Rakesh Bedi in the Jim Hacker role - as the CM of a state, though. > On 11-Sep-2015, at 3:26 PM, Shenoy N wrote: > >> I can imagine an indian Sir Humphrey telling an indian Jim Hacker, who is >> raring to change

Re: [silk] Renaming Aurangzeb Road

Ah, I am so glad silk list metta up with “Bonilla”, if it made Salil come out of lurk mode here :) As someone else said, we need a resident troll here - if only to keep conversation moving. Most of the infrequent threads on silk so far in the past several months have been about meeting up for

Re: [silk] [ADMIN] noise reduction

> On 12-Sep-2015, at 10:04 AM, gabin kattukaran wrote: > > On 11 September 2015 at 21:53, Sriram Karra wrote: >> I fully expect to be informed soon that someone, say Shiv, ran a social >> experiment on the list and to expect the results soon. >> >

Re: [silk] Renaming Aurangzeb Road

> On 11-Sep-2015, at 3:36 PM, Aditya Kapil <blue...@gmail.com> wrote: > > And what was it called? > On 11 Sep 2015 15:35, "Suresh Ramasubramanian" <sur...@hserus.net> wrote: > >> Ha, there WAS in fact a yes minister hindi remake starring Rakesh

Re: [silk] James Bonilla - Introduction

Boy, you have a lot to learn about list dynamics - even after scouring the list archives for people that you want to proactively block and announce that you're doing so. May I suggest that you take that apparently super sized chip off your shoulder and check it at the door while participating

Re: [silk] James Bonilla - Introduction

> All- Wow! This is exactly what I was talking about. This is the "Invisible > Man" phenomenon. (Reference to Langston Hughes, FTW!). Basically, black The reference is kind of obvious now that you mention it. And no, this is nothing to do with color or race. Not when most of the people on this

Re: [silk] List etiquette

Which specific message would you say is being moderated out? I host the list is all .. and haven’t set any filters, and nor has Udhay. And what “Suresh Ramasubramanian ‘himself’”? On silk, I’m just another member. And I’m getting all these emails you’re sending the list. I would suggest

Re: [silk] James Bonilla - Introduction

> On 10-Sep-2015, at 7:30 AM, James Bonilla wrote: > > Cc:ing BubblyS, who can also help you understand this better. > > Bubbly - please get back to Suresh in case he emails you. Not sure how Bubbly is going to read your email and get back to me. The email address you

Re: [silk] Renaming Aurangzeb Road

group regarding this. Let me dig it up. > > - James > P.S. It gives me great pleasure to talk about bringing greater economic > efficiency to the Land of the Buddha. > > > On Wed, Sep 9, 2015 at 7:46 PM, Suresh Ramasubramanian <sur...@hserus.net> > wrote: > >> O

Re: [silk] James Bonilla - Introduction

> On 10-Sep-2015, at 8:57 AM, James Bonilla wrote: > > Okay, folks. Off to drink some tea and maybe do some meditation. Nice > chatting. Until tomorrow or whenever I get some time. > > - 007 Er - from a past email you sent to this list not too long back - and given that

Re: [silk] Renaming Aurangzeb Road

On 10-Sep-2015, at 8:03 AM, James Bonilla wrote: > > There is much to be said for leaving historical names alone. But there is > much precedent for renaming roads (but not countries) named after a > "favcorite bad guy". Agree? Disagree? Comments? Having seen various

Re: [silk] James Bonilla - Introduction

I look forward with interest to exposing Horatio and the garbage man to buddhist philosophy. > On 10-Sep-2015, at 9:20 AM, Lahar Appaiah wrote: > > *1. Hamlet: "There are more things in heaven and earth, Horatio, than are > dreamt of in your philosophy!"* > This is obviously

Re: [silk] James Bonilla - Introduction

Por favor, señor -Madhu is a chef who also happens to like photographing food. --srs > On 08-Sep-2015, at 10:57 am, James Bonilla wrote: > > As I understand, > Madhu Menon is a food photographer. I call myself a "food recreater".

Re: [silk] Meetup - NYC/Bay Area

Which I guess is where he works Finding desis working for Walmart corp might be far less of an issue than finding silk listers in that wilderness :) --srs > On 01-Sep-2015, at 12:33 pm, Preetha Chari-Srinivas > wrote: > > Hi Ashwin, > I just relocated from the bay area.

Re: [silk] silklist Digest, Vol 66, Issue 12

Let us call it a hangover from the days of 9600 bps modems and slow uucp feeds. —srs On 25-May-2015, at 11:08 am, Lahar Appaiah thew...@gmail.com wrote: I find bottom posting a little .. dinosaur-ish. Corporate email has effectively institutionalized top-posting, and the default now

Re: [silk] Food spoilage question

Come on udups, even the name means Dal + Water. :) Though yes, I was sort of exaggerating. I grew up with konkani friends (half my father’s colleagues are from Karkala, with names like Shenoy and Pai) —srs On 20-May-2015, at 5:22 pm, Thejaswi Udupa thejaswi.ud...@gmail.com wrote: And if

Re: [silk] Food spoilage question

Thoya is water in sanskrit. Purely human error in etymology if it has a different derivation. On 20-May-2015, at 5:44 pm, Thejaswi Udupa thejaswi.ud...@gmail.com wrote: Where did you get this whole thoy meaning water angle from? thoy and thavve are cognates and neither has any relation to

Re: [silk] Food spoilage question

Make dal in your cooker the usual way but along with the turmeric powder just add some asafoetida, slit green chillies and ginger. Once done, top it up with water, boil it and temper it with the usual stuff (mustard, curry leaves etc) Like a weak and watery version of the basic dal made for

Re: [silk] Food spoilage question

Watery and mildly spiced dal by any name .. On 20-May-2015, at 7:42 am, Rajesh Mehar rajeshme...@gmail.com wrote: There's a Tulu dish called Thawwe. The recipe sounds identical. Is this Daalithoy the same dish but called so in Konkani?

Re: [silk] Food spoilage question

I did eat some roast chicken that was lying in an office fridge for a few weeks - and survived without any ill effects. But that was over 15 years ago and I think I was just lucky. It is not an experiment I’d personally try on myself. Feeding it to your dogs is potential cruelty to animals -

Re: [silk] Food spoilage question

Vatha kozhambu, especially the thickened to almost paste like consistency variant, has an almost indefinite shelf life - not that it lasts very long, you wouldn’t forget to use it up. On 19-May-2015, at 1:59 am, Thaths tha...@gmail.com wrote: To begin with, is it Sambaar or one of it's

Re: [silk] Will cell towers soon become obsolete?

Is Sarraju Narasinga Rao on the list? I think he was involved in a microcell type startup not too long back. On 24-Apr-2015, at 7:06 am, Udhay Shankar N ud...@pobox.com wrote: ​The true promise of P2P. Udhay http://www.cnbc.com/id/102603744 http://www.cnbc.com/id/102603744 Will

[silk] help - 3bhk apartment needed in sarjapur / bellandur

In and around the total mall area would be great. Somewhere around 25k rent. I'm moving to blr on thursday afternoon and joining apple wef next monday. --srs

Re: [silk] Bangalore Silkmeet?

weather, so have a great time! Suresh, you will come in during our early and not-cool-any-more summer. Cheers, Deepa. On Wed, Feb 4, 2015 at 4:25 PM, Suresh Ramasubramanian sur...@hserus.net wrote: Vinit Bhansali [04/02/15 16:17 +0530]: If you are working in whitefield ... the Marriott

Re: [silk] Bangalore Silkmeet?

Vinit Bhansali [04/02/15 16:17 +0530]: If you are working in whitefield ... the Marriott in Whitefield is a good option. Great rooms too! Hm. I will be out of town when Danese is visiting - but I'll have more than my share of silkmeets in the future, as I'm moving to bangalore by mid March

Re: [silk] So, hi! An introduction

Sriram Karra [14/01/15 16:03 +0530]: You can signup for an account on www.hackerrank.com and ease your way back into programming. Disclaimer: I work at HackerRank. there's this too http://mashable.com/2015/01/11/teach-yourself-programming/?utm_cid=mash-com-fb-main-link

Re: [silk] So, hi! An introduction

--srs (iPad) On 05-Jan-2015, at 21:13, Rajesh Mehar rajeshme...@gmail.com wrote: You can do what I did. Pick a language you are most comfortable with, and attack https://projecteuler.net/problems Udupa, people have suggested Python as a flexible language that will help Try it. Try the

Re: [silk] So, hi! An introduction

That's saying a lot, and a very little at the same time :) say 'major scifi fan and knows more than one successful sff author' and you're suddenly going to be far more popular than you expect :) Welcome finally, btw. Not sure why I didn't get you onto this list much earlier. On January 3,

Re: [silk] So, hi! An introduction

On 03-Jan-2015, at 21:08, Rajesh Mehar rajeshme...@gmail.com wrote: I've been looking to get back to it. Any ideas on how I can get started on this project? I may be able to afford a couple of hours a week. Go right back to coding in basic? There are clones of various basic interpreters,

Re: [silk] The least random number

Linux india I guess and from there moving to bangalore to work for ram and bharath at bpl in 2001 On December 11, 2014 5:45:42 PM Udhay Shankar N ud...@pobox.com wrote: Next week, on the 19th, silklist will be 17 years old. A fair number of the regulars have been around (almost) that long.

Re: [silk] best indian whisky and rum ?

http://indianwinetasting.blogspot.in Knowledgeable reviews and seems to be that the nasik wines are rather better, indage platinum, York, Tiger Hill etc are reasonable alternatives to Sula. Especially indage On December 9, 2014 10:53:19 AM harry listmans...@gmail.com wrote: On 9 December

Re: [silk] best indian whisky and rum ?

to purchase said wines in Chennai, where would one find them? Not the Wine shops or TASMAC stores, I presume. Thaths On Tue Dec 09 2014 at 4:28:05 PM Suresh Ramasubramanian sur...@hserus.net wrote: http://indianwinetasting.blogspot.in Knowledgeable reviews and seems to be that the nasik wines

Re: [silk] Recommended Reading from 2014

On 04-Dec-2014, at 16:33, Thaths tha...@gmail.com wrote: Where is everyone else on this thread this year? Sankarshan? Udhay? Rashmi? Lahar? Suresh? Divya? Sumant? Etc. Mostly studiously avoiding the thread. I just got done donating a ton of my books (mostly old pulp) to a colonel friend

Re: [silk] Books and libraries

Kindle has cloud storage available so that you can download books only when you need them. There are also kindle apps for iPads and android tablets (which last do take sd cards) --srs (iPad) On 10-Nov-2014, at 06:09, Charles Haynes charles.hay...@gmail.com wrote: I keep all my books in

Re: [silk] Subtitles for movies in Bengaluru theatres

The book is great. The movie was a classic too, one of the few I didn't mind seeing after I'd read the book Ernest Gold's music (with a recurring waltzing matilda theme) is another thing to watch out for in the movie. --srs (iPad) On 10-Nov-2014, at 11:27, Biju Chacko biju.cha...@gmail.com

Re: [silk] Books and libraries

Fully agreed. I have the entire set (also in pdf format besides paperback) and have reread the canon maybe over a dozen times so far. It reads like dickens would if he ever turned his hand to naval fiction. And I know ex Navy types and people who have actually built and crewed replica 19th

Re: [silk] Books and libraries

Antony Beevor's ww2 history, all what looks like 1000+ pages of it. Still plowing through it but it looks like a stupendous read On November 3, 2014 8:34:56 AM Thaths tha...@gmail.com wrote: On Mon Nov 03 2014 at 1:21:36 PM Bharat Shetty bharat.she...@gmail.com wrote: That said, which has

Re: [silk] Financial planning

If only most index funds (even the big ones) weren't regularly outperformed by heavyweight active funds - compare icici pru index fund nifty plan g with say icici pru focused bluechip Try one of pattabhiraman murari's calculators, the one available at

Re: [silk] Long Now's Manual for Civilization Lists

Hm I thought heinlein had it figured out  human being should be able to change a diaper, plan an invasion, butcher a hog, con a ship, design a building, write a sonnet, balance accounts, build a wall, set a bone, comfort the dying, take orders, give orders, cooperate, act alone, solve

Re: [silk] Financial planning

And do look up the paradox of thrift --srs (iPad) On 30-Sep-2014, at 10:12, Shyam Sunder shyam.sun...@peakalpha.com wrote: The most basic financial principle of all: spend less than you earn. As oversimplifications go, this is a relatively harmless one. Given this follows closely on the

Re: [silk] To retire or not - that is the Q.

It is where you do facebook and surf around using someone else's internet connection, and they pay you for it. --srs (iPad) On 27-Sep-2014, at 18:49, Udhay Shankar N ud...@pobox.com wrote: On 24/09/14 24-Sep-2014;1:19 pm, Thejaswi Udupa wrote: Retirement is when you leave your last job.

Re: [silk] To retire or not - that is the Q.

Essentially - have a few years worth of salary available in hand so you can live off your savings when you've quit, and till your income starts rolling in. Also - have a pipeline of customers that you are sure will call on you to consult for them. I can consult isn't going to work without that.

Re: [silk] To retire or not - that is the Q.

On 22-Sep-2014, at 23:26, Sandhya aka Sandy sandhya.varn...@gmail.com wrote: A few of you gave some good tips on consulting. Makes sense. During that post-Intel break, I had tied up with a firm who signed me up for x days a month and gave me y rs. That worked out well, and I have a few such

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