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	<title>Ramblings@DP's inn</title>
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		<title>Startup learnings from Zynga</title>
		<link>http://www.dpsmiles.org/blog/2009/11/03/startup-learnings-from-zynga/</link>
		<comments>http://www.dpsmiles.org/blog/2009/11/03/startup-learnings-from-zynga/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 04 Nov 2009 00:12:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>DP</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Learnings from Mark Pincus and Bing Gordon&#8217;s talk at the Entrepreneurial thought leaders series at Stanford:

Don&#8217;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&#8217;t in office at all? It should be able to..

Identify and get better at [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Kandisa</title>
		<link>http://www.dpsmiles.org/blog/2009/09/27/kandisa/</link>
		<comments>http://www.dpsmiles.org/blog/2009/09/27/kandisa/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 27 Sep 2009 08:34:15 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[It&#8217;s early evening. I&#8217;m in my car, inching inch-by-inch, literally, on 101. It&#8217;s Rajeev Motwani&#8217;s memorial concert at Stanford tonight. Indian Ocean is performing. Of Kandisa fame?
The traffic jam doesn&#8217;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 the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>3rd and 4th days of running 2009</title>
		<link>http://www.dpsmiles.org/blog/2009/03/30/3rd-and-4th-days-of-running-2009/</link>
		<comments>http://www.dpsmiles.org/blog/2009/03/30/3rd-and-4th-days-of-running-2009/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 31 Mar 2009 07:24:20 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;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 &#8211; 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 7.5 [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Day 2 of running, 2009</title>
		<link>http://www.dpsmiles.org/blog/2009/03/15/day-2-of-running-2009/</link>
		<comments>http://www.dpsmiles.org/blog/2009/03/15/day-2-of-running-2009/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 15 Mar 2009 19:59:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>DP</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[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&#8217;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 so [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Day 1 of running, 2009</title>
		<link>http://www.dpsmiles.org/blog/2009/03/12/day-1-of-running-2009/</link>
		<comments>http://www.dpsmiles.org/blog/2009/03/12/day-1-of-running-2009/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 13 Mar 2009 02:55:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>DP</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Today I went running on the Anderson Lake Dam Park. I was almost dead and panting in the first quarter of a mile and began having serious doubts when I couldn&#8217;t even walk, much less run. But I kept up, and ended up doing 2 loops of the park   . With many stops, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Enough is enough</title>
		<link>http://www.dpsmiles.org/blog/2008/11/28/enough-is-enough/</link>
		<comments>http://www.dpsmiles.org/blog/2008/11/28/enough-is-enough/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 29 Nov 2008 01:16:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>DP</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[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&#8217;s not. It&#8217;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? [...]]]></description>
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		<title>13 &#8211;  new horror movie</title>
		<link>http://www.dpsmiles.org/blog/2008/10/20/13-new-horror-movie/</link>
		<comments>http://www.dpsmiles.org/blog/2008/10/20/13-new-horror-movie/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 20 Oct 2008 20:36:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>DP</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Devil works, a bunch of amateurs from ISM who made spectre, are back with 13. Nice job. Click here to go to their webpage to download the movie. 
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		<title>Back to running</title>
		<link>http://www.dpsmiles.org/blog/2008/09/24/back-to-running/</link>
		<comments>http://www.dpsmiles.org/blog/2008/09/24/back-to-running/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 25 Sep 2008 01:29:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>DP</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.dpsmiles.org/blog/?p=247</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[After a brief haitus, during which I mostly ate delicious, unhealthy food, worked late and forgot running, I&#8217;m back. 
Last Sunday, I went hiking with the MIT Club of Northern California, which was fun. I met a bunch of people, from teens to septugenarians, as one member puts it. The hike was to the Castle [...]]]></description>
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		<title>DP&#8217;s top 5</title>
		<link>http://www.dpsmiles.org/blog/2008/09/03/dps-top-5/</link>
		<comments>http://www.dpsmiles.org/blog/2008/09/03/dps-top-5/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 03 Sep 2008 20:29:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>DP</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.dpsmiles.org/blog/?p=244</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[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 H. Cormen, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>iPhone blah blah..</title>
		<link>http://www.dpsmiles.org/blog/2008/07/29/iphone-blah-blah/</link>
		<comments>http://www.dpsmiles.org/blog/2008/07/29/iphone-blah-blah/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 29 Jul 2008 19:42:25 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I have been asked about the merits of buying an iPhone. Lets look at what&#8217;s bad with the iPhone:
1. Unlike blackberry, it has no physical keyboard. A friend thinks he might get RSI if he used the touchpad.
2. No bluetooth. Yes, you could use wireless(EDGE/3G/WiFi) to send stuff, or even plug the phone into a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Competition</title>
		<link>http://www.dpsmiles.org/blog/2008/06/17/competition/</link>
		<comments>http://www.dpsmiles.org/blog/2008/06/17/competition/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 17 Jun 2008 14:42:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>DP</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.dpsmiles.org/blog/?p=224</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[I don&#8217;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 overtaking [...]]]></description>
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		<title>On pushing limits</title>
		<link>http://www.dpsmiles.org/blog/2008/06/04/on-pushing-limits/</link>
		<comments>http://www.dpsmiles.org/blog/2008/06/04/on-pushing-limits/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 04 Jun 2008 17:18:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>DP</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.dpsmiles.org/blog/?p=223</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[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 [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Pikes Ascent</title>
		<link>http://www.dpsmiles.org/blog/2008/05/06/pikes-ascent/</link>
		<comments>http://www.dpsmiles.org/blog/2008/05/06/pikes-ascent/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 06 May 2008 08:02:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>DP</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.dpsmiles.org/blog/?p=222</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[hmmm, I ^^really^^ don&#8217;t know what I was thinking.. In a moment of madness, I signed up for the Pikes Ascent. Frankly, I don&#8217;t recall doing anything as daunting since I took the JEE way back in &#8216;99.
But then something I find exciting yet superhard really gets me excited. I hope I am not going [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Running Diary &#8211; 4 : a crazy marathon</title>
		<link>http://www.dpsmiles.org/blog/2008/04/06/the-marin-half-marathon/</link>
		<comments>http://www.dpsmiles.org/blog/2008/04/06/the-marin-half-marathon/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 07 Apr 2008 07:19:02 +0000</pubDate>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.dpsmiles.org/blog/?p=221</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[So yesterday, I ran the Golden Gate half marathon in 2 hours 50 minutes. This run took about 46 minutes more than the Boston half marathon. Compared to the Boston run, yesterday&#8217;s run was brutal. You gain an elevation of about 1500 feet in the first 2 miles, the trail keeps going up non-stop. The [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Paneer Masala</title>
		<link>http://www.dpsmiles.org/blog/2008/03/25/paneer-masala/</link>
		<comments>http://www.dpsmiles.org/blog/2008/03/25/paneer-masala/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 26 Mar 2008 06:03:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>DP</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Yesterday I made paneer masala and it turned out to be really yummy. So here&#8217;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 sauce. Fry [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Running Diary &#8211; 4</title>
		<link>http://www.dpsmiles.org/blog/2008/03/19/running-diary-4/</link>
		<comments>http://www.dpsmiles.org/blog/2008/03/19/running-diary-4/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 20 Mar 2008 07:24:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>DP</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Yesterday I ran on the Stanford campus. I had actually intended to run on the dish area, but I made the BIG mistake of taking central expressway. I arrived well after the dish area had closed, so I just decided to run on the campus. It has anyways been quite a while since I used [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Running Diary &#8211; 3</title>
		<link>http://www.dpsmiles.org/blog/2008/03/17/running-diary-3/</link>
		<comments>http://www.dpsmiles.org/blog/2008/03/17/running-diary-3/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 17 Mar 2008 17:35:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>DP</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[So yesterday I went running to the Marin headlands itself, the site of the actual half marathon 2 weeks from now. Now I didn&#8217;t have a map, and as usual I don&#8217;t like to carry anything on a run, including my iphone(which had the map). So I headed off just with my car keys. It [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The running diary &#8211; 2</title>
		<link>http://www.dpsmiles.org/blog/2008/03/14/the-running-diary-2/</link>
		<comments>http://www.dpsmiles.org/blog/2008/03/14/the-running-diary-2/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 14 Mar 2008 17:53:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>DP</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I have finally been able to figure out a way to not have to stop to catch breath when you reach the top of a steep incline. This must obviously be an old trick that I&#8217;ve rediscovered. So when I run an incline now, I do 2 things:
- I decrease the frequency of footsteps and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The running diary &#8211; 1</title>
		<link>http://www.dpsmiles.org/blog/2008/03/14/the-running-diary-1/</link>
		<comments>http://www.dpsmiles.org/blog/2008/03/14/the-running-diary-1/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 14 Mar 2008 14:33:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>DP</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Golden Gate marathon is round the corner. I won&#8217;t say I am scared, but I need some confidence boosting sessions on the hill. So far I have limited myself to one loop of the Stanford hill.
The Golden Gate is a hard marathon as Scott Dunlap says, from experience. Actually I didn&#8217;t quite know that [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A snowy weekend</title>
		<link>http://www.dpsmiles.org/blog/2008/02/29/a-snowy-weekend/</link>
		<comments>http://www.dpsmiles.org/blog/2008/02/29/a-snowy-weekend/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 01 Mar 2008 06:13:47 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Last weekend I went on a trip to Lake Tahoe. South Lake Tahoe for the split-hair specific-minded Jhajee. 
A week later, I have a very vague idea of what the lake looks like. Like, come on, having gone on a trip to &#8220;lake Tahoe&#8221; one is supposed to at least visit the lake, right? Not [...]]]></description>
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