Archive for the 'Rants' Category
Recently I had to make use of Google’s translation engine to translate phrases at work. Given the lazy big bum I am, I found using the Google’s web UI a bit tiresome to use. I thought “heck, why not write a little jabber bot to make things a bit easier..”. (Agreed, writing a bot is [...]
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Oh yeah!. With the power of DBus and libpurple APIs it is possible to give your boss the illusion of managing you. Just run the following script (under WTFPL). Tested with jabber accounts in a live office environment .
#!/usr/bin/env python
# By Sudharshan S, released under WTFPL
import dbus
import gobject
import time
class PointyHairedBoss:
def __init__(self, boss_id, source, [...]
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Tags: comicstrip, dbus, dilbert, im, moronity, pidgin, pointyhairedboss, purple, Python, snippet, wally, wtfpl
Burn, baby.. Burn
When it comes to fitness, I am one of those nerdy couch potatoes with a rather rotund tummy. Burning away calories has become an important priority now and boy, do I miss those Lays and the local Iyengar Bakery Bun Butter Jam and Puffs. For the last week, I have been waking up early and [...]
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Why Python?
Ever had that feeling of insignificance? The feeling that your very existence is a microscopic peanut in the grand scheme of things. By grand, I mean the Whole Sort of General Mish Mash. I am going through that right now. We are, according to our own theories an extremely smart species, yet for every answer [...]
Filed under: Life, Python, Rants, bleh | 2 Comments
Tags: bleh, carlsagan, cosmos, Life, mishmash, Python, universe, xkcd
Thinking inside the “box”
About 10 minutes ago, my brain switched from neutral to first gear and started pondering about ways to teach someone how to program (Not that I am particularly good at programming in the first place ).
For example, how would you explain the concept of variables, references, names. etc, which seemingly form the corner stone [...]
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Zero Productivity
For the last few weeks, my productivity has dipped to an all time low. Progit is to be blamed. Suddenly I find myselves hitting refresh to see what’s ‘hot’ leading to more time reading blogs and articles, and less time actually getting some work done. So, from this point on I am activating a self-imposed [...]
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Tags: ban, bleh, Life, productivity, proggit, reddit
Exams again…:/
Semesters start this friday, Nov 7th. . So will be missing in action for the next two weeks…..
Till then,
Ctrl-Z
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Tags: College, exams, Life
BhootKiddo..
As the summer holidays progress, I am finding myself become a nocturnal being. My sense of a “day” has changed a lot.
Wake up at 1200 or 1300 hours and fall asleep at around 2-3 AM, in a position as in the above photo (taken from my mobile which has a crappy camera). Back against the [...]
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Tags: bleh, Life, Rants
“What motivates you? Motivation”
I will be entering final year in a couple of months and this means…PLACEMENTS!!! yay! (..or the lack of it)
This means more “Mock Interviews Sessions” and “GDs” to “empower” engineering students to get placed in the only 3 software companies that exist in this physical Universe. Infosys, TCS and CTS (Apparently our college is too [...]
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Tags: bleh, College, humour, interviews
