"Crash Course" on marine biology : the do it yourself kit!

  • Harish: :)
  • so, what are you gonna do with a GRE?
  • Karthik: If I write it well and get good marks... I might get a free trip to US to spend sometime there, get rotten with their education.. and probably comeback to india.. get a better dumb ass job here or in the US.. and live the shit out of my life ?
  • Doesn't that sound like something that get blurted out of the most depressed human being's mouth ?
  • ;-)
  • Harish: is it just me, or am i getting the idea that you're pretty pissed with your life right now! hmm?
  • Karthik: Well, the point is, to go to US for another couple of years of education with a hope that I could put my ass to something better than sitting around munching samosas and typing in my already depressed keyboard ;-)
  • Harish: what are you planning to study?
  • Karthik: Definitely not marine biology!
  • : D
  • Harish: you don't have to go to the US to do that
  • Karthik: Well, I don't have to go to US for other subjects too :D
  • I would like to learn more about Programming Languages, Artificial Intelligence and my most beloved Math!
  • Harish: just stick your head into the toilet..... that's marine biology..... i learnt that when i was in school :)
  • Karthik: I can't stop laughing at your humor! It's one of the best I ever heard in the recent past!
  • Harish: its the only thing that i live for.....! i'd be dead without it
  • Karthik: You mean sticking your head into the toilet is the only thing you live for ?
  • : -D
  • I can't believe it!

Trouble with friends explosion in GTalk :-)

  • Ram: hi da
  • Karthik: Hi
  • Ram: started to office or still at home?
  • Karthik: I am working from home..
  • I am in bangalore btw
  • where are you working ?
  • Ram: hmm....
  • i am sorry which karthik is this...????
  • Karthik: I am again sorry.. which ram is this ????
  • : )

Open Source and the corporate world

As a part of our “regular” TTT (Tech Talk Tuesdays) at S7, Chandra(our CTO)  continued with his second session of licenses. In the first session we discussed about Copyrights, Patents and MIT and Apache licenses. In today’s session GPL and LGPL were the main targets of discussion. Open source can have great influence on the work the corporate world does, especially if developers are unaware of the licensing concepts and more specifically in outsourcing industries. For eg, the moment you take source code from a GPL’ed software and use it for some of your company projects, that project had to be thrown open which is definitely not what the client wants.

It’s more of an involuntary action that when we see some open source code, we try to get influenced by the design and unbeknowst to us, it gets copied to the client’s project. These can turn out to be very serious issue. Infact, companies like IBM conduct licensing sessions once in every 6 months.

Bottom line is - one has to be very carefull when looking into open sourced code especially GPL’ed ones.

“Immortality first, rest all can wait.”
— Ray Kurzweil (Author of “Singularity is Near”)

Tired of Multitasking

Multitasking always sucks! You just can’t train your mind to work on multiple things. It will eat up time and you wouldn’t do anything good. But again, time is running out. I want to read books, do my daily work, participate in topcoder, pursue my passion and so on and so forth.

-Karthik 

“Love and Suspicion can never exist together. At the door where the latter enters, the former makes its exit.”
A very nice photo of a small girl in Kansas
A very nice photo of a small girl in Kansas

“I take life with a grain of salt, a slice of lime and a shot of tequila”
— Kumar’s t-shirt