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My thoughts on Kickstarter

Last year I found out about KickStarter and joined it and pledged on 4 projects. As per the way they classify, 2 of them are technology related, 1 design related and yet another fashion related. My pledge was in a … Continue reading

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me-na me-na me-na me-na

Making pre-school kids interested in anything requiring concentration is hard to do. And if the kid is very active and always in play mood, forget about it. Yet, I try my best to make my son learn something new regularly. … Continue reading

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Rant on commute

For many years I just lived one exit from work. So, never really had the experience of a long commute. I still live at the same place, but my work place changed for over 6 months now. Commute on 101 … Continue reading

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Rare breed of end to end developers

I had some interesting experiences recently trying to recruit. The employees entering in the workforce are grown up with Facebook, Twitter and Amazon.com experience and expect the same in their enterprise applications they need to use at work. So, unlike … Continue reading

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Getting rid of features deemed to be irrelevant

There is always something new to do with any piece of software. As new features are added, there are ways to turn them on/off and after a few releases, you need an expert or a large manual to operate the … Continue reading

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Graduating, like R&D, will enterprise software interest me?

I went to the MIT TBP Career Fair in February. I went back to Boston after 16 yrs! It was like yesterday I was walking in the infinite corridor, yet there is so much change. I vaguely remember walking the … Continue reading

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Little fun with Aurdino compatible board

All my professional life had only been about software and I never really had any exposure to electronics. Arduino was in my radar but I thought I would just keep it in the box like I did with another large … Continue reading

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Fix for iMac getting too hot

Recently I noticed that my iMac was getting too hot. This even after running an external fan next to it. It’s late 2009 model and more than 3 yrs old. It is likely that it’s clogged inside with dust. I … Continue reading

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Where to buy LEGO sets that are not retired

Recently I was looking at a few LEGO sets for my son (and me :)) and did a bit of research on LEGO. I used to think LEGO was either their robotic edition (Mindstorms) or those simple rectangular blocks which … Continue reading

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Securing mjpg streamer

I mentioned that I turned my raspi with the camera module into a video streamer (actually image streamer). I did this by using a very nice software called mjpg_streamer. Once I got that working and with NAT on my router … Continue reading

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