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Ramblings

A collection of 10 posts

Are you a Senior Engineer?

Are you a Senior Engineer?

What is this term Senior Engineer? Does it carry a lot of weight? Responsibility? Sense of achievement? Accountability? Answers may vary. But we can all agree that it's the person who has been with the organization for long, has great technical skills and domain expertise. But it's not enough. Over

What I need while writing a great code

What I need while writing a great code

1. A distraction free surrounding Programming is all about logic and thinking. Thinking and distraction are enemies of each other. However, when you are at workplace, lot of things can distract you. May it be sudden meeting, urgent call on app crashes, jokes with your co-workers or your neighbor playing

Why some big companies still maintain bad UI for websites?

Last week I had an opportunity to visit ADP's payroll website. I have been using ADP since last 3 years as my payroll processor system. I never felt comfortable with their UI. The website is dull, elements are faint, no consistent coloring scheme and website is not mobile friendly, nor

Thoughts on Elon Musk: Tesla, SpaceX, and the Quest for a Fantastic Future

Thoughts on Elon Musk: Tesla, SpaceX, and the Quest for a Fantastic Future

I just finished a Elon Musk's biography [http://www.amazon.com/Elon-Musk-SpaceX-Fantastic-Future/dp/0062301233] written by Ashlee Vance. Just speculating few thoughts on this amazing human being. Musk appears as a guy who was physically abused and mentally tortured in the childhood. Despite of all the difficulties he had to

Active on Twitter - I Love It

Active on Twitter - I Love It

I learned a new thing is last month that Twitter is so awesome. I wonder I never used it seriously before. It is not only about show off but you can keep up to date with recent affairs and tweets from your heroes and celebrities. It actually helped me to

Marriage - Leverage or Liability

Marriage - Leverage or Liability

When it comes to Marriage, people have choices. It's a big gamble to play and you have no choice to avoid it. Sooner or later you will fall into this trap setup from ages. However sometimes when I think about it, this could be good analysis on pros and cons

Lessons learnt from India Visit

Lessons learnt from India Visit

Well, 3 weeks flew so fast. I arrived in India on 5th March, stayed for hardly 3 weeks and left on the evening of 23rd March. 2 years and 2 months' gap is too big to observe any changes and variations in any country. Especially when you observe government transition

Winter Delaying my Recipes

Looks like winter had seriously begun in the Columbus, Ohio. It started almost a month late and now here we are. It's lightly snowing and temperature dropped to low 20s. It's not really possible to go out now without thick jacket, snow-shoes and gloves. Unfortunately I lost my winter gloves

Ramblings on Ping-Pong

Ramblings on Ping-Pong

As I may have mentioned in previous posts, we moved into a new office space couple of months back. Our CEO was too generous to setup new ping-pong table in the lunch break room. To be honest, I played ping-pong in the college and maybe was one of the worst

Rich or Happy

This post is deeply philosophical. My grasp of philosophy is not that good, but I am going to try it out anyways. I have been thinking about this for several months now. (Maybe 3 months or so). What is really important in life? Is it paycheck, bank balance or happiness