there are two options. in option 1, you are guaranteed 90 points. in option 2, you get 100 points with probability p and 50 with probability 1 – p. when p is very low (very close to zero), which option will you choose? for me, 90 is close enough to 100 so i would rather [...]
the other day was cribbing that i haven’t written anything about my job. frankly, i haven’t had the time. this job is intense, extremely high pressure and at any given point of time there are at least half a dozen people bothering you with different things. the hours are long, and sometimes i’m made to [...]
today i refused to debug my teammate’s code because he used goto statements. both he and i got blastetd by our boss – he for using gotos and me for being so arrogant! //
On this particular project we are handling so much data that it’s infeasible to use excel. I being the compsci guy have been officially appointed as the “data monkey” of the team. and i’m trying to use M$ Access to crunch our data. now, this is the first time ever that i’m working on a [...]
too many relationships have been breaking up around me nowadays. people who were the best of friends, who were thought to be inseparable, suddenly seem to be having issues with each other. and promising to never talk to each other again. (i haven’t been personally involved in most of these, but when you’ve known both [...]
most people in our client site don’t seem to know about the concept of a silent mode in a phone. and on top of that they have these shrill polyphonic ringtones that blare out across the hall; and make sure a meeting is disturbed every five minutes. disgusting. //
French open semis line-up: Federer (1) vs. Nallapandian (3) Nadal (2) vs. Ljubicic (4) The top 4 men’s seeds are all in the semis! Something terribly gone wrong. Wonder when was the last time something like this happened at the French. Or is this the signal of a wave of claycourters dominating men’s tennis? Update [...]
i’ve noticed this reluctance among north indians a generation or half a generation older than me to give their first names. wonder why. so you have people introducing themselves as “R K Sharma” or even better “Mrs. R K Sharma” where R and K are the initials of the husband of the lady in question! [...]
i almost got mugged yesterday. was walking home from office at 11 pm (it’s a fairly short distance and autos refuse to come, and there was a nice breeze blowing so i thought i’ll walk). just come out of an ATM after withdrawing Rs. 2000. fancy phone (Nokia 6670) hand talking to mom. laptop bag [...]
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