Deep Kapadia

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Today, I heard Nandan Nilekani speak to a small group of people about his opinions about India. Given that he is entering politics in Bangalore city, I was glad that a man with such background and accomplishments is getting into Indian politics, which sure could use such help.

I was glad that he...

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A small infrastructure change, 4pm Friday

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Farhad Manjoo for Slate:

If you study the PC industry over the past five years, you find only one company that had the means, motive, and opportunity. Apple killed the netbook, more or less single-handedly, and we should all be grateful for it.

Turns out, there were only two problems with netbooks:

1) Using them was a shitty experience.

2) Selling them was a shitty business.

Shocking that they ultimately failed. (And that Apple was right for not getting into the business in the first place.)

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Here’s a clever way to mass-unsubscribe from spam, marketing emails, newsletters, and other stuff you don’t want clogging your inbox.

In Gmail, do a search for “label:inbox unsubscribe OR email preferences OR subscribed OR newsletter” (without the quotes)

Select (checkbox) the emails you want…

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Brilliant.

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Great idea!

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I think this book or something similar is turning into an essential for every programmer these days

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One of my favourite Mongo resources. Makes using Mongo a piece of cake :-)

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WHAT MAKES YOU FEEL BETTER WHEN YOU ARE IN A BAD MOOD?

Quiet time away from everyone. Or a hug from a loved one.

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Can't wait to try this awesome looking hot dog

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A good alternative to the built in ruby functions URI.escape and URI.unescape.

Not that it does anything differently.