Misc
Hipmunk – a quick review
Hipmunk is a website for searching flights that displays the results in a clever, intuitive format. . In my mind, it has the potential to be a key challenger to Kayak.com. Its biggest strengths are: A calendar-like layout that makes flight timings very easy to visualize. Color coding and airline branding of every flight segment [...]
Anger at Apple over flash: screenshot speaks for itself..
Startup learnings from Zynga
Learnings from Mark Pincus and Bing Gordon’s talk at the Entrepreneurial thought leaders series at Stanford: Don’t give up control of the company early or else you are effectively an employee of the investor. Can the company run fine on days when you aren’t in office at all? It should be able to.. Identify and [...]
Kandisa
It’s early evening. I’m in my car, inching inch-by-inch, literally, on 101. It’s Rajeev Motwani’s memorial concert at Stanford tonight. Indian Ocean is performing. Of Kandisa fame? The traffic jam doesn’t clear, but I eventually realize that only the right lanes are blocked. So I maneuver into the left lane and am soon speeding on [...]
3rd and 4th days of running 2009
I’m being somewhat lazy in updating my runnings logs and thoughts, but here they are. I did 2 other runs in the week of 03/15 – 03/22. I did a loop of the Stanford dish, and a 7.5 mile run in SF. Wake up call. I need to start getting serious about my runs. The [...]
Day 2 of running, 2009
I did a short, but tiring run on Lake Anderson park yesterday. I had gone on a hike to big sur earlier in the week, so I wasn’t very high energy. The wind was particularly chilly. I was thinking of 2 ideas/questions on this run: 1. How to do garbage collection in space. There is [...]
Enough is enough
For the past 2 days, I have been filled with outrage. Grief. Anger. People have been asking me if all is ok with my family. It’s not. It’s just a coincidence that none of my sisters or uncles or nephews was shot. What about the innocent Indians and foreigners who lost their sisters, fathers, kids? [...]
DP’s top 5
My top 5 list of technical books, of all time: 1. The C Programming Language, by Brian W. Kernighan and Dennis M. Ritchie 2. Introduction To Probability, by Dimitri P. Bertsekas and John N. Tsitsiklis 3. Signals and Systems, by Alan V. Oppenheim, Alan S. Willsky, with S. Hamid 4. Introduction to Algorithms, by Thomas [...]
Competition
I don’t like competition. I have never been a big time competitor, and I have never enjoyed competing against others. Inspiration is different. I was doing my usual hike on the Mission peak this morning and realized that I forgot to take my heart rate monitor or water. And I was thinking if I was [...]
On pushing limits
As I was hiking up Mission peak this morning, an important realization came to me. After my marin headlands half marathon I had rested for a while before resuming running. My first run after that was on the Stanford dish. And it was a breeze. But after about a week the Stanford dish runs became [...]
Paneer Masala
Yesterday I made paneer masala and it turned out to be really yummy. So here’s the recipe: 1. Cut paneer into cubes and deep fry in butter until it becomes spongy. Remove the paneer from the pan. 2. Chop 1 large onion, few green chillies, ginger and garlic. Chop 2 small tomatoes or use marinara [...]
Done
Graduated from MIT! Traveled to India. Starting a job soon… Yey!
Interesting stats
46,326$ = median US household income as resported by the census bureau 40,000$ = price of a limited edition louis vuitton handbag splurge!
Health entrepreneurship
John Swen ————- Big killers: Malaria, Very effective drugs. Increasin resistance to some strains of Malaria. Different in different countries. 1. Impediment to provide access? Main solution: political stability. In some African countries HIV itself is creating political unrest. 2. 3 things redq for access – the drug has to exist. 3 impt diseases for [...]
MIT Admissions director sacked
In a shocking revelation, the Dean for Undergrad education sent out an email this morning, informing that Admissions Dean Marilee Jones, who seems to be quite well known as a simple Google search will tell you, has resigned. This was after it was found that she had “misrepresented her academic degrees”. I wonder what that [...]
