I’ve grown up speaking multiple languages, like most Indians1. My childhood was defined by clear-cut language separations: Gujarati for home, Hindi when talking with friends, English (and to a smaller extent, Marathi) at school. Each language ended up occupying a certain part of my brain. To this day, I can’t think of anything scientific or [...]
My plans for graduate studies have been pushed-back for another year, but I’ve decided to not waste any time either. In the coming year, I want to learn about as many new things as I can. I just ordered a few books from Flipkart.com—which is, by the way, fast becoming my favourite Indian book store—and [...]
I’ve been waiting for an Android-based phone to be ‘officially’ launched in India for a while now. My wait seems to be near its end; there are (again) some rumours flying around that HTC is going to launch one of its phones in India in the near future. Sooner or later, there’s bound to be [...]
Via the ever-helpful Wikipedia: [copy-editing] is the work that an editor does to improve the formatting, style, and accuracy of a manuscript. […] Copy editing is done prior to the work of proofreaders, who handle documents before final publication. Bloggers aren’t professional writers. Most of us don’t even re-read our posts once before publishing. We [...]
Use Plain English. Use grammatically correct English. Please don’t use slang, short-hand, or SMS-speak. Explain things. Assume that the person reading your report is a six-year old. Please mention how often the bug occurs (always, seldom, rarely, intermittently). Can you reliably re-create the situation that leads-up to the bug? If so, please list down the [...]
I’m thinking of publishing some ‘open’ bug reports. I’ll be posting mostly about websites that I (or people I know) use; and I’ll send this as feedback to the site as well, when possible. Lets see if I can get some responses. Here’s a bug report for bseindia.com: Sample URL: http://bseindia.com/price_finder/stockreach.asp?scripcd=500325 Issue: The Java applet [...]
I wanted to port my bookPrices script to run on Google’s AppEngine, but on reading the documentation, it seems that they don’t allow long-running background process. I hoped there would be a map/reduce API or something, but no luck.
Had some fun today—spent some time reading up on git; gave github a whirl; loved it; found out that it wouldn’t remain free for private projects for long; ended up installing gitweb on my site.