Manas Garg Speaks

For those who don’t know, code reviews, as the name suggests, is going over the code you have written before you incorporate it into your product. Oh - I should have mentioned - you don’t review your own code - you get someone to review it for you. The primary purpose is to find bugs.
Though [...]

I know the title sounds boring, but just listen up, and tell me what you think.
We’ll build the WWWoE - World Wide Web of Energy. The WWWoE would be a worldwide network of energy transfer. This is how it would work:
1. Anyone would be able to connect to the WWWoE through a service provider.
2. You’d [...]

Has everything that could be invented been invented? Definitely not. There are so many things (or the lack of them) that bother me:
1. I hate batteries
Everything uses batteries - the laptop, the cell phone, the mouse, the electric shaver, the iPod, the wall clock, the remote, the UPS, the camera, cordless earphones… and something is [...]

I was talking to my little niece today, and asked her how was she spending her vacations.
Little Niece: “I’m taking a computer basics course and also Bharatnatyam classes”.
Obviously not interested in Bharatnatyam, I asked her what is it that she was learning in the computer class.
Little Niece: “Windows, Paint and all”.
Aha! Windows, Paint and all! Thats my [...]

Not knowing with what to do with the (however little) time I have in between my work and sleep, and being too tired to indulge in something that would involve more physical or cerebral activity (for example, soldering a new circuit or reading the latest Jhumpa Lahiri), I’ve chosen the most perfect of all lazy hobbies - [...]

Yesterday was a helluva busy day! I was just seeing my sent email, and was amazed to see what I’ll show you. These are the timestamps of all the emails that I sent yesterday. If you examine carefully, you can make out from what time till what time I slept, and what time I went [...]

Think about an Apple.
No – not the brand. I mean the fruit.
Think about a red, shiny, fresh apple, plucked from a green tree. Doesn’t it look good? This apple is a bundle of sweetness – full of that magical juice that will fill your mouth once your teeth bite into its dark flawless red skin.
Now [...]

STD-ISD-PCO. A small shop painted in bright yellow, with a couple of booths inside, where fans seldom worked, a table with a few displays and receipt printers. Throw in a couple of telephone instruments and a friendly operator and you have a PCO.
I still remember when the idea of PCOs came in - that was [...]

This one is about my reading table.
My dad actually got it made for me when I was around 6/7 years old. It was proper wooden, and when it was time to choose the top, my dad took me with him to the workshop where it was being built. I chose a light brown top, which [...]

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