xxkash

@xxkash (66)

India • Age 40

Joined myLot 18 years ago

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Why Nerds are Unpopular

xxkash @xxkash (66) • India 10 Feb 07

When we were in junior high school, my friend Rich and I made a map of the school lunch tables according to popularity. This was easy to do, because kids only ate lunch with others of about the same popularity. We graded them...

lord of the flies

navy seals

school lunch

why nerds are unpopular

have a glance...

xxkash @xxkash (66) • India 9 Feb 07

Recently I've had several emails from computer science undergrads asking what to do in college. I might not be the best source of advice, because I was a philosophy major in college. But I took so many CS classes that most CS...

3d animation

have a glance

writing courses

Mind the Gap

xxkash @xxkash (66) • India 9 Feb 07

When people care enough about something to do it well, those who do it best tend to be far better than everyone else. There's a huge gap between Leonardo and second-rate contemporaries like Borgognone. You see the same...

ancient rome

mind the gap

made in US

xxkash @xxkash (66) • India 6 Feb 07

A few years ago an Italian friend of mine travelled by train from Boston to Providence. She had only been in AmeriAca for a couple weeks and hadn't seen much of the country yet. She arrived looking astonished. "It's so...

The Hundred-Year Language

xxkash @xxkash (66) • India 4 Feb 07

It's hard to predict what life will be like in a hundred years. There are only a few things we can say with certainty. We know that everyone will drive flying cars, that zoning laws will be relaxed to allow buildings hundreds of...

long distance calls

high schol

xxkash @xxkash (66) • India 4 Feb 07

When I was in high school I spent a lot of time imitating bad writers. What we studied in English classes was mostly fiction, so I assumed that was the highest form of writing. Mistake number one. The stories that seemed to be...

at high school

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Design and Research

xxkash @xxkash (66) • India 3 Feb 07

Visitors to this country are often surprised to find that Americans like to begin a conversation by asking "what do you do?" I've never liked this question. I've rarely had a neat answer to it. But I think I have finally solved...

contour

design and research

jane austen

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The Other Road Ahead

xxkash @xxkash (66) • India 31 Jan 07

In the summer of 1995, my friend Robert Morris and I decided to start a startup. The PR campaign leading up to Netscape's IPO was running full blast then, and there was a lot of talk in the press about online commerce. At the time...

talk at

xxkash @xxkash (66) • India 31 Jan 07

Lately companies have been paying more attention to open source. Ten years ago there seemed a real danger Microsoft would extend its monopoly to servers. It seems safe to say now that open source has prevented that. A recent...

cubicles

radio channels

talk at

Being Popular

xxkash @xxkash (66) • India 30 Jan 07

A friend of mine once told an eminent operating systems expert that he wanted to design a really good programming language. The expert told him that it would be a waste of time, that programming languages don't become popular or...

autocad

beingp

Are Software Patents Evil?

xxkash @xxkash (66) • India 30 Jan 07

Are Software Patents Evil? (This essay is derived from a talk at Google.) A few weeks ago I found to my surprise that I'd been granted four patents. This was all the more surprising because I'd only applied for three. The...

are software patents evil

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This summer

xxkash @xxkash (66) • India 30 Jan 07

This summer, as an experiment, some friends and I are giving seed funding to a bunch of new startups. It's an experiment because we're prepared to fund younger founders than most investors would. That's why we're doing it during...

this s

Suits make a corporate comeback.....

xxkash @xxkash (66) • India 30 Jan 07

"Suits make a corporate comeback," says the New York Times. Why does this sound familiar? Maybe because the suit was also back in February, September 2004, June 2004, March 2004, September 2003, November 2002, April 2002, and...

men suits

suits make a corporate comeback

windows 95

some time....

xxkash @xxkash (66) • India 30 Jan 07

Thirty years ago, one was supposed to work one's way up the corporate ladder. That's less the rule now. Our generation wants to get paid up front. Instead of developing a product for some big company in the expectation of getting...

raiders

soneyears

Can u read this?? ..it is intresting..

xxkash @xxkash (66) • India 29 Jan 07

i cdnuolt blveiee taht I cluod aulaclty uesdnatnrd waht I was rdanieg. The phaonmneal pweor of the hmuan mnid, aoccdrnig to a rscheearch at Cmabrigde Uinervtisy, it dseno't mtaetr in waht oerdr the ltteres in a wrod are, the...

it is intresting

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A Lebanese Land Occupied by Israel

xxkash @xxkash (66) • India 28 Jan 07

Brief History: In 1978, Israeli forces illegally invaded the southern part of Lebanon, and in 1985 declared that part of the country a security zone for its border. In 1982, Israel continued with its invasion up to and...

a lebanese land occupied by israel

Who Was the Real Shakespeare?

xxkash @xxkash (66) • India 28 Jan 07

Many people have been named in the search to find the 'true' author of Shakespeare's plays, including Francis Bacon, the Earl of Essex, Christopher Marlowe, the Earl of Derby, the Earl of Rutland, the Earl of Oxford, and even...

francis bacon

who was the real shakespeare

Where Lightning Strikes

xxkash @xxkash (66) • India 28 Jan 07

Lightning. It avoids the ocean, but likes Florida. It's attracted to the Himalayas and even more so to central Africa. And lightning almost never strikes the north or south poles. These are just a few of the things NASA...

lms

space science

where lightning strikes

was princess Daina's death a natural accident or...

xxkash @xxkash (66) • India 16 Jan 07

everybory knows there is lot of contervercy about death of princess diana.even afret the latest investigation by the Brithis and french govenment ... which prove that diana's death was by natural accident and not a planned...

dainas death

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