Learnings & Experiences
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Jackie – Kannada Movie
Last weekend I had gone out with my wife and cousins to watch this Kannada movie called “Jackie“. The movie is about a 8th standard drop-out called Jackie who goes about his life dreaming of making it big by not doing any hardwork. Life takes a twist for him when his adopted-sister(s) go(es) missing and…
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Internet Explorer 9
I downloaded “Internet Explorer 9 Beta” a couple of weeks ago. I have been consistently using it since then. I must say that the experience so far has been awesome! Browsing is smoother – Windows 7 Integration is nice! – It is much much much much faster than IE8 – It renders most of the…
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Werner Erhard : The man behind The Forum
Werner Erhard is the creator of transformational models and applications for individual, organizational and social transformation. His innovative ideas have stimulated academic conversations at many Universities, most recently in the areas of integrity, leadership, and performance. A brief history: Content derived from Wikipedia entries on ‘Werner Erhard’ and ‘Erhard Seminars Training’ Werner Erhard was known…
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Integrity. Without it nothing works!
For most of us Integrity is about being sincere and honest. And “honesty is the best policy”. And sincerity is about being good and true to oneself. We keep going down that road and eventually land up discussing about morality and ethics in the name of Integrity. Following are relavent excerpts from an Interview with…
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The origin of negation
When we go about the world, we have expectations which are often not fulfilled. For example, I go to meet an old friend. I imagine that he will be happy to see me after all these years and that we chat for hours sharing about our lives. I go there and I find that he…
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Equated Monthly Installments
About two weeks ago we bought a 40×60 site in Shimoga, right next to my father in law’s plot. The site is in a good location. We hope to construct our house in there in about 10 years time and move there in about 15 years time. One of the top thoughts in my wife’s…
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Why is work = giving-presentations?
Have you noticed that almost any ad/movie about a guy or gal doing work has something to do with giving-presentations? And usually the presentation has a chart (line-graph going up or bar chart growing taller) and then everybody in the room listening to the presentation is wearing full 3 piece suit and shining glasses. Each…
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Using vtkRenderWindow with QGraphicsView
We are about to begin on a project that requires us to have floating and transparent widgets over VTK render-window output. About a year back, we had wanted to provide something similar to VTK Designer 2. We wanted users to have the ability to load UI (created using Qt Designer) directly on the VTK output…
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Moving to CMake
Over the past few weeks we have been playing around with CMake and we figured that it would be a good idea to have GCF build-able using CMake. There are a few open-source projects that make use of GCF with CMake anyway; we figured it would be a good idea to have a CMake build-system…
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“It is about the current step…”
Yesterday, my wife and I joined Murali, Meera and two other friends (Charan and Krishnakumar) on a bike-trip to Skandagiri. We started from Murali’s house at 5:00 AM. By 7:15 we had reached Nandigrama – a village near Nandi hills. We had breakfast there and from there we continued our journey to Skandagiri. By 8…
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Detachment.. what it means?
Almost every book on philosophy and enlightenment seem to suggest that the most important stage in the path to enlightenment is “detachment”. I was reading the Bhagavad Gita a couple of months back. In Chapter 3, Verse 9, Sri Krishna tells Arjuna – all actions, other than the ones done in detachment and as sacrifice…
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Messenger and the Message…
The finger pointing at the moon is not the moon. What’s the meaning of this statement? Suppose a kid comes and tells to you – “I have never seen the moon, can you show it to me.” You take the kid to the terrace of your house and point your index finger to the moon…
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Many times we do not ask – why we do what we do
Eight monkeys are put in a room. In the middle of the room is a ladder, leading to a bunch of bananas hanging from a hook on the ceiling. Each time a monkey tries to climb the ladder; all the monkeys are sprayed with ice water, which makes them miserable. Sooner enough, whenever a monkey…
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Possibility of IT Returns!
For the very first time in my life work-life have I noticed someone in my circle actually getting IT returns. I am infact supposed to get some money back from the IT department myself, however I had (until-now) given up hope on actually receiving the returns. Even after repeated follow-ups, I have until now never…
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Cadence acquires Taray
About a year ago I had blogged about how Taray had signed an OEM deal with Cadence. [http://prashanthudupa.livejournal.com/42294.html]. Today I find out from Ravi, VP of Taray, that Cadence has acquired Taray. Read the complete news here: http://www.cadence.com/cadence/newsroom/features/pages/feature.aspx?xml=taray How much they got acquired for is something they are not sharing as yet (or maybe never).…