Now I understand why developing and third world countries have such low contributions to the sciences and other creative stuff which contributes to global human potential. Because only a small percentage of people have the resources to reach the 4th and 5th levels. Most of the population is on par with animals, sometimes even lower. It's sad, isn't it, that ironically the lack of resources gives rise to people who have a 'me-me-me' mentality.…

Technology is clever people getting cleverer, so that dumb people can get dumberer. Variation 1: Technology is clever people doing clever stuff, so that dumb people can do even dumber stuff. …

My Quote. When a boy calls a girl, he pays double, listening to the girl talk and talk, and the phone company charge and charge …

Before beginning, I must admit I haven't messed with Factor for a couple of weeks now, nor do I contribute to it, I'm a Factor n00b. Please contradict peacefully. Of course there are the usual reasons that it is open source, most of the standard libraries are in Factor itself, and that it has a really cool development environment. But almost every popular language these days has all that stuff.…

If this survey represents a signifact portion of them. Of course these are the programmers who are involved on the web, not much of all the zombies coding for the sake of it. …

Not much posts here, and nothing of interest. Well there really isn't much I've been doing. I hacked a brainf**k interpreter in Factor, but since I've no time for Turing tarpits, someone should test it on more complex programs. Besides the number to string conversion does cause output problems. I also have a refresh ready for my website, but it isn't going online any time soon, because its not for 22bits, but a new one, which I might do after a few months.…

I Love LeftHandedToons because they create something like this. How cool is it! …

But it won't be enough. Because this is not, fundamentally, a technological problem. Nor is it, fundamentally, a political problem. This is a problem of appetites, and of narcissism, and of self-deceit. The planet is breaking, and it is breaking under the weight of our hunger for more. To reform the world, we must first reform ourselves." -- Affluenza.org This really resonated with me. It's so true and yet so few people know it.…

As found on IIT Bombay's Techfest On a side note, I SO NEED to be at BarCamp. Too bad I've got exams. Seriously next year I'm going to every damn festival. …

Welcome to the first of many PHR incidents to come in my life. I updated grub and rebooted. What followed was 6 hours of endless bootloader overwriting, staying awake till 2am, wiping out the windows bootloader twice, installing Elive, Arch, Mandriva on spare partitions, hoping that somehow i could get the bootloader to boot into my system. It kept complaining about not being able to find /dev/hdd2, the root filesystem.…