“It is hard to generalize about a country so big. There are many Chinas, not one.The most obvious thing about today’s China is how internally varied and contradictory it is, how many opposite things various of its people want, how likely-to-be-false any generalization is.”
Lessons and Impressions from China - By Ben Casnocha
link1. When I try to select a contact from the contact lists, 9 of 10 times, nothing happens. The details of the contact does not appear. 2. When they appear, if I click on edit button and make modifications, the changes are not saved after I click on save button. 3. When I select a contact from the contact list and click on the call icon, nothing happens. 4. Search in the contact list does not work. Suppose I just added a contact adam smith. Searching on adam yields 0 search results.
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link“Listen carefully! You will hear a lot of clicks around you. mouse clicks. click! click! click! interspersed with typing on keyboard..”
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I read this insightful, funny blog post by Jeff Atwood of Coding Horror - How to Motivate Programmers. It immediately got me thinking.
It would be so cool to have a programming competition in my dream organization. I would like to call it Code Fight competition. Let me dream up a invitation to enter this competition for the employees of my dream company.
— Code Fight competition 2011 —
Are you bored by day to day job and want to develop a cool, exciting project all on your own? Well, here is your chance to unleash the beast and win 1000$. We are hosting a company wide Code Fight competition. We invite all developers to enter this competition.
You can choose any idea of your choice and implement it. Generally you want to be useful (to someone), because that is one of the factors you will be evaluated against. If it is useful for use inside our company, all the more better.
To enter the competition, you are required to submit your entry within 8 days by xyz date. Please mention your project title, brief description and technologies you plan to use. All entries after XYZ date will be rejected. You can enter individually or as a team. In case of team, you will be
Competition deadline is ABC date. You have 2 months (till ABC date) to conceptualize, design and develop your application. On abc date, all the entries will be made available for company wide evaluation. Winner will be decided by public voting/scoring. Entry with maximum score will be the Winner. Anyone can download, evaluate and give scores for all the projects for following evaluation criteria.
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linkI learned a thing today about making a good conversation. I going to share it with you.
I have a very good friend, with whom I talk in english, like most of we do. Let’s call him ‘guy A’. The problem with this guy is, he is not very good at speaking english. He finds himself struggling for words quite often. He is from one of the third world countries and his accent is different than most popular accents in america.
I have another good friend, whom I highly regard as a good conversationalist. Let’s call him ‘guy B’. He is so good at making a conversation, he can talk for couple of hours without you getting bored and without you uttering a word. He has varied interests from busines to politics, from sports to technology. He has lot of ideas and opinion about everything he comes across. Talk to him on any subject, he may tell you a thing or two worth pondering.
The funny part is, guy A and guy B are the same person. How can a person be not good at speaking a language and still be very good conversationalist, you ask? I say why not? You don’t have to be good at language to make a good conversation. What you need is lot of good ideas and boldness to put them forth. You need to have confidence in yourself and what you are saying. If you have ideas don’t worry about the language, go ahead and try to express your ideas.
Related to this topic, I stumbled upon a very good blog post today - Seven Tips for Making Good Conversation with a Stranger by Gretchen Rubin of Happyness Project. Check it out, you may like one of the tips.
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Cheers,
Tejas Joshi
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linkNandan Nilekani, visionary CEO of outsourcing pioneer Infosys, explains four brands of ideas that will determine whether India can continue its recent breakneck progress.
Ideas which have arrived
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linkPeter Zarris - CEO of OPIC “If you get to thirty and you still think persuasion is about making a logical argument, you have already lost”
I first came across Peter when one of my businesses built a website for Peter that would allow them to select the best psychometric tool for any situation. Downstream we became friendly and he also did some testing for my staff. On one discussion with Peter over coffee about why a business partner couldn’t see sense in a particular course of action, Peter stated “If you get to thirty and you still think persuasion is about making a logical argument, you have already lost”. I came to realise that what was logical to me, was based on my values and experiences and others would intepret the same set of facts according to their own values and experiences. It was a real slap in the face to me because up to that moment, logic had been king. Peter also told me that if you really want to change, understand its going to hurt. And if it doesn’t hurt, your not doing right. Peter’s insights fundamentally changed the way I deal with people.
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