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| I am Utkarsh Sengar, a Graduate Student at San Jose State University with majors in Enterprise Software Systems. You can find my resume here & you can contact me on | ||
Australian Baz Luhrmann included this “essay-song” in his album Something for everybody.The original essay – “Advice, like youth, probably just wasted on the young” published in the Chicago Tribune can be found here .
Simply #awesome!
Find the lyrics here
Every one is talking about “large data sets”, “scalability” and “handling huge data being generated in the web day by day”. Which is supposed to be around 500 billion GB presently, according to the Guardian! Google, Yahoo, Facebook, Twitter, you think of a big company and they run Hadoop! Here are some of the companies which use Hadoop. In that last link, if you’ll notice Yahoo has a cluster of 4000 nodes!
Looking forward to the Hadoop Meet at Yahoo today! (More …)
Time to retrospect; during my school days, we had our daily prayers and we used to recite this poem by Tagore every day. At that time, we did not realize the real significance of this piece of Nobel winning literature. Now, after 7 years, I feel nostalgic and saddened. I understand it was not only a poem, but a thought, an attitude which our freedom fighters had and wanted the same to be inculcated in the future generations. His poems and thoughts are still alive between us, children recite them daily in schools, but why does that ideology die when we grow up? Where does the feeling of “Where the mind is without fear and the head is held high” go? Forget the world, why is India is still breaking up into fragments by narrow domestic walls? Because, we were never taught the true meaning of these lines, they were just a routine activity for us. Our class teacher used to punish us if we did not attend the daily assembly, but were we ever told, why do we need to attend the assembly in the first place?! Not really. At least not in school. (More …)
Recently I can across this amazing blog post by Mr Sujai Karampuri, CEO, Sloka Telecom (It’s an Indian startup in the telecom sector). It is one of the new breed of companies in India Inc who actually innovate and not provide services to the west.
His post addresses an answer to one of the most common topic these days,
India is rising, India will be a superpower in the next 10 years, west is going down, India has an edge over China with it’s English speaking people etc.
But is India actually in a position to take over the west? Can it manage to transfer the center of gravity of the worlds largest companies (Like MSFT, CISCO, IBM) to India and itself start new ones?! I don’t think so with our corrupt politicians, lack on (More …)
India is definitely a “power”, but an untapped power. As I said, “it’s an elephant”, so, I am waiting for my elephant to take longer and bolder strides forward.
I recently came across this question, Why is March 14, 2015 9:26:53 important? I wondered, “Is it a trick question?, Some body’s birthday? or The world is gonna end in 2015 now?!”. But it was actually very different, it turns out to be an “important” day for my geeky mathematics friends. Mathematics?! Yes.
Here is why, (More …)
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I have been using Ubuntu 9.10 for a while now and one major copy-paste problem in Ubuntu (GNOME DE) struck me!!
The problem is, if you copy some text from a file and you close that file (i.e. close the source), the copied text also disappears! Initially I ignored the problem, but after a while, I had it! It was really very annoying if you copied some important link and you close Firefox, the link was lost!
When I went out and searched for the problem then I found this, the actual bug report on the Ubuntu Bug Tracker. According to the Canonical guys, it is a system feature of the X-Windows System, as per its design, it does not have any persistent store mechanism and that sucks! (Here are the X-windows Clipboard manager specifications which is presently deployed on Ubuntu 9.10) (More …)
He is just a kid who had some videos uploaded from the Super Mario Bros like The Super Luigi Super Show: Luigi’s Room, The Super Luigi Super Show: Luigi’s Computer etc.
lukeywes1234 is one of the hottest keywords on the internet these days. Another star of the Web 2.0 world!
He requested YouTube users to subscribe to his channel, he had an target of 50 subscribers till Feb, 2010.
And here comes the shocker! (More …)
This logical puzzle is called Einstein’s Puzzle (its a variation of the original Zebra Puzzle by Einstein) because it is said to have been invented by Albert Einstein. There are rumors that Einstein claimed that only 2% of people can solve it mentally i.e. without using pen and paper, computer or any other medium. If you are allowed to use pen and paper the problem is very easy and is not interesting. (More …)
Even if you get the solution from the internet (which you will 
). Do not use pen and paper and try to solve it.
The German owns the fish?
You can get one of these Blinkx video wall by: 1. Hover the mouse to the top of the wall posted above; 2. Copy the embed code.
My current JAVA project requires a lot of check points, for example, 1. if the format of the ID passed is correct, then go ahead and 2. check if ID exists or not, if it does, 3. then check if ID has some kind of specific attributes or not and so on!
So, I was using the regular if-else for something like 6-7times!
if([condition]) { [do this] }else if([condition]){ [do this]}else if{[do this] }else if([condition]){ }else{ [do this]}
When I looked back at the code, it sucked! The deep nesting of the if-else construct made the code hard to understand and comprehend! (More …)
Amazing! Nice tip. All compiled at one place.
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Beijing most significantly counted on massive credit growth to spur the economy. The amount of new loans made in 2009 nearly doubled from the year before to $1.4 trillion – representing almost 30% of GDP. The stimulus plan worked wonders, holding up growth even as China’s exports dropped 16% in 2009.
But now China is facing the consequences of its largesse. Fears are rising that Beijing’s easy-money policies have fueled a potential property-price bubble. According to government data, average real estate prices in Chinese cities jumped 7.8% in December from a year earlier — the fastest increase in 18 months. The credit boom has also sparked worries about the nation’s banking system. Many economists expect the large surge in credit to lead to a growing number of nonperforming loans (NPLs). In a November report, UBS economist Wang Tao calculates that if 20% of all new lending in 2009 and 10% of the amount in 2010 goes bad over the next three to five years, the total amount of NPLs from China’s stimulus program would reach $400 billion, or roughly 8% of GDP.
India, meanwhile, isn’t experiencing nearly the same degree of fallout from its recession-fighting methods. The government used the same tools as every other to support growth when the financial crisis hit – cutting interest rates, offering tax breaks and increasing fiscal spending – but the scale was smaller than in China. Goldman Sachs estimates that India’s government stimulus will total $36 billion this fiscal year, or only 3% of GDP. By comparison, China’s two-year, $585 billion package is roughly twice as large, at about 6% of GDP per year. Most important, India managed to achieve its substantial growth without putting its banking sector at risk. In fact, India’s banks have remained quite conservative through the downturn, especially compared with Chinese lenders.
I think this should probably give u little hopes about india’s future…yes china has an edge in certain sectors..but u cant deny india’s strength like pharmaceuticals etc..