Post-launch is a very exciting time. Listening to users and incorporating feedback into the product has been our primary activity for two weeks now. Feedback has been overwhelmingly positive and it quite clear that we have a winning technology on our hands. Bug reports have been pouring in as expected and what has surprised me [...]
Categories: veveo
After months of tinkering away, we have finally launched VTap – A ground breaking mobile search engine for videos. It’s been a very exciting time for all us from Veveo, especially the past few days. The joy of launching the product and watching people play around is simply inexpressible!
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I was digging through some old code of mine when I came across this script. To me, this script was a demonstration of the beauty and elegance of the python language. You might have come across a puzzle like this: AID + ICED = IDEA. What digits would you assign to the characters A,C,D,E,I so [...]
Categories: programming,python
Tagged: programming, puzzle, python, word arithmetic
This is related to the previous post and is meant in part to demonstrate how great Linux is for doing “weird” stuff . This is what we are trying to do. The circles in the background have been drawn by the python script below. To get the script running you should have python and pygame [...]
Tagged: desktop, gnome, graphics, linux, programming, python
What you see above is how my desktop looks now. You need to be using gnome to get this working. Nautilus draws the desktop (including the icons) for you in gnome by default. We have to tell it to stop doing that, so we can do the matrix animation in its place. Nautilus can be [...]
Categories: linux,programming
Tagged: desktop, gnome, linux, programming, python
I was reading the few entries I had written in this blog and felt an urge to restart. And so, here I am. It has been a long break. A lot of things have happened since the last time I blogged. I finished college and got a job in a Tech start-up in Bangalore. Been [...]
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I went to another short trek yesterday. This time we went to a hill in Guduvancheri near the “Pentecostal mission”. This one was around two kilometers from the main bus-stop of Guduvancheri. We chose this hill for several reasons 1) It is bigger than the one we went to last time 2) It is close [...]
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I went to a small trek yesterday with my friends. We chose a small hill near Potheri village, Kancheepuram district, Tamilnadu, India. This place is very close to my college and to the place I stay at. We started that trek at 4:30 P.M. A problem cropped up at the very start – We were [...]
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I did a very very stupid thing day before yesterday. My primary partition on which I had Windows installed ran out of space (although I allocated 5GB !) and I had to resize the partition. I used Partition Magic only to find out on rebooting that it screwed up my partition table. I ran scandisk [...]
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There are two things that brought me back to blogging after the initial burst when my enthusiasm lead me to post 1 blog! In anticipation of a gmail account! because I still think it is cool
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