Life at its BEST

April 13, 2008 at 6:21 pm (personal)
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I received an internship offer from Yahoo! Research and Developement, India in last November. Since then, I have always cherished the idea of meeting people at Yahoo!, seeing their work culture and the ambiance at Y!.

Prasanna invited me to join them on Interns’ Day on 11-4-2008.. Luckily, I got permission from our HOD to attend the function. Rama, my classmate, and me first went to M.G. Road office. Pavan, our senior, who is working in Y! took us inside the office and GOSH!! Its a different world. Great place to work.

Then we went to the EGL office. I was told that I ll be doing my internship at that office.. The office carves a niche of its own :) Its simply superb. A huge mood chart welcomes u at the entrance. The most wonderful aspect is that each floor has a theme.. like historic monuments, music, sports etc. Whats makes Y! most special is its people. EVERYBODY is ssssssssooooo humble and sweet!! I was astonished at their simplicity. The work place also offers good food in LARGE quantities. I hope to put on weight during my internship ;) Pavan explained that the work is tooooo good and stressful situations are rare. We interacted with Sushma, our HR, also.

I met Prasanna. He is a really nice person… very humble, down to earth and a genius ( He is the one who took my interview for the internship :) .. his approach to optimization is amazing). We attended the interns’ day function. It was very very funny :D. Great performances and it was a very good stress reliever. It was a pleasure to meet all the seniors from my college interning @ Y!.

Prasanna did a great help by dropping me home.. For the first time, I experienced Bangalore’s traffic at its worst. Well, it took us 3 flat hrs to drive home :) I must admire Prasanna’s patience for tolerating my unending questions for 3 hrs.. Prasanna, Rama and me discussed about lots and lots of topics ranging from movies to tech. Prasanna even gave a treat at Coffee Day.. GOD!! If the higher-ups of everyone is so sweet and caring.. life would be so comfortable..

Thank God. it was a PERFECT DAY.

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Open source tools for children!!!

April 7, 2008 at 9:25 pm (open source)
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Yesterday, I searched for open source tools for my 9 year old brother.. The results were amazing.

Tux Paint is a wonderful program for painting. In particular I liked the magic and stamp section. The happiness on my bro’s face after seeing this tool was priceless :) The features like sparkle, drip, shades, rainbow, grass, stamps etc are very good.

Pingus is a game involving penguins (well, u can term it as a strategic game ). The best part is its UI and the ease with with which u can create a level.. I designed a level for my bro and he enjoyed it very much. The game stimulates children to think about the necessary actions to be taken to reach the goal..

So.. If u have small kids at home, try exposing them to these tools and i bet they wil enjoy!!!

Signing off,

-Netra

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Nested Comments

April 4, 2008 at 10:10 pm (Uncategorized)

One of the questions posed in 8th mile OSP prelims was :

Write a program to check if the compiler (C compiler ) allows nested comments.

Here is the solution I came up with :)

#include<stdio.h>
int main()
{

int i=10,*j,k,l=20;

j=&l;

k= /* /* */i */*j;/* */ 1;

if(k==i)

printf(”does not allow nested comments\n”);

else if(k==l)

printf(”allows nested comments”);

return 0;

}

I hope it works.. Comments and suggestions are most welcome. Please tell me if u have a better solution.

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