hardik

My trick is to spot someone in the audience, preferably in the middle who is really interested and maintain eye contact with that person, it increases the level of comfort 10X and makes you feel less conscious about others in the room. Keep changing the "chosen one" every few minutes or so.

Watched 'Sex and Fury' last week. (Admittedly, that falls into 'Pinky Violence' genre.)

This is not the first time Cooks Source has copied something without permission. Check this out: http://www.edrants.com/the-cooks-source-scandal-how-a-magazi...

No offence, but I find "Good Will Hunting" as a perfect "bait movie".

I find 70s Japanese action movies very inspiring. Very hard to explain why, but just do.

http://corporategeek.info/files/img/study_image_pm/st6.png is very telling. Especially the two "red lights" highlighting differences in perceived needs of project managers; I completely agree with them. It is not uncommon to come across over-confident-but-clueless-about-the-domain people in key project management positions. The saddest thing is they get away with it so well.

As opposed to Facebook simply not allowing you to export your contacts?

What if you would have picked today (or rather any other day) to set up a new gmail account for your girlfriend and needed her facebook contacts?

If it weren't for people like you so many big companies will simply cease to produce any output at all!

I would be really interested to know what happened to him

Reminds me of the part in "On The Road" where Sal is at a party with Rawlins and others.. quoting from the book: "Suddenly, there was a great inrush of youngsters from the opera, who just grabbed girls and kissed them without proper come-ons. Teenagers, drunk, disheveled, and excited, they ruined our party."

Yes, they do. Just a few sites I can think of: elance.com, getafreelancer.com, etc

Makes you wonder about possibility of such literary hearts who would be chucking out "SEO-compliant" articles at "2$/100 words" rate on freelance websites while their heart aches with misery attributed to nothing but their own creations.

How was the google line trending when it was 6 years old? I am sure the acceleration of their traffic must have reduced over the past few years and would expect similar thing to happen to facebook.

It's not clear to me yet if this is a "programming-pusher-for-non-programmers" or "helps-you-learn-ruby" app? Should I try it if I am interested in Ruby but am OK writing simple code?

Some background info: I am into finance and am comfortable with basic PHP, write lots of VBA macros and also code for a propriety software used by my employer (its very basic, something like C).

I doubt that actions of quality raters of non-Indian nationalities would differ if they were paid the same wages.

Is it possible to be burnt out for extended periods? (2yrs+)

Think it should be "How mint.com works?" or "How does mint.com work?"

I find myself kicking me out of the zone just as it is created. Sometimes it is tiring, working on it (working on both, that is, "being comfortable" as well as not getting out too soon :) )

Does this imply staying in your comfort zone? Is this not counter-productive?

I agree, it lays out many economic concepts in easily understandable form for persons new to the subject.

Cool concept.. just a suggestion for the logo.. the mascot does look quite right.. looks like a mean person (no, this is not supposed to be funny or something, I mean it)

Is the site not working for non-US visitors? (tried about thrice since morning)

Which reminds me: NEVER, EVER use payphones on airports, especially with you credit card. They don't publish the rates anywhere and rip you off royally, paid close to USD 250 a couple of years back for about 10-15 mins aggregate calls from HK / KL to India.

May sound simplistic:

* Communicating with others what you feel.

* It is mostly chaos, everywhere.

* Do not drop your ideas thinking "Its so simple, someone must have already done it." People do much less that what you may expect"

* A very very small percentage of people within any system understand the "full picture"

Can anyone suggest a good app/tricks to make infographics?

So far, the results are throwing up mostly celeb-users. Looking forward to a tool that helps you discover normal people with similar tastes.

had to dig this out of my twitter timeline :)

http://www.forbes.com/2009/09/25/crossroads-vikram-akula-sks...

Mr Yunus has got a point.. Recently read an article about SKS lending no longer only for make-a-living activities like buying a rickshaw but also for consumer products like gold and TVs.

Bombay (pls don't dare call it 'Mumbai')

completely agree.. my home is an hour from work and switching to bus since over a year feels like sheer blessing