Archive for the ‘Computer Science’ Category
First ever issue with GMail
Sunday, July 20, 2008 23:43 No CommentsGoogle just doesn’t seem to get its counting correct. It was with Orkut communities (there were, and I believe there still are, those famous “Showing 1-10 of 5″, “Showing 1-20 of 0″ kind of bugs in orkut community threads pages, and the eternal wrong counting errors of number of friends), now I see it with [...]
Computer Science and Toilet Paper
Friday, July 4, 2008 14:43 No CommentsThough it is very famous and well known (even works for me), that the best ideas come in the washroom, a place where you are invariably alone. Having said that, I have to accept that I could never have thought of this: Yikes. We never realized that you had to be a computer scientist to [...]
How’s that!!
Tuesday, April 4, 2006 17:35 2 CommentsImpressive isn’t it? Well as my partner puts it in his own words.. “This is the beauty of Ray Tracing”. What you see in the image is the scene you will get when you have two white light sources(one placed near top left and one placed near bottom right), and the objects as shown in [...]
Ray Tracing Rocks!!
Sunday, March 12, 2006 12:50 No CommentsYou just had a look at my first ray traced image. This is what I am doing in my present assignment in my course in Computer Graphics. You can see 2 spheres, well, one of them appears as an ellipse because of perspective view from eye, which does not affect the shape of the first [...]
Compu Corridor Cricket…
Friday, March 10, 2006 20:57 No CommentsSleepless again. But this time a weekend.. So banta hai yaar!! Wing cricket has long been a tradition of Jwala since many years. It feels great to live it when we play wing cricket at 1 am with this cool breeze blowing and touching us as it crosses the wing from one balcony to other. [...]
And the day I made it to Google(Intern)…
Wednesday, February 15, 2006 16:43 2 CommentsGetting through an interview is special.. at least to me, who hasnt experienced success in an interview before. And when its Google, the significance is manifold. I got the great news from a very good friend of mine and could not believe it at the first instant. And did not till I confirmed myself. Its [...]
Google Dot Com
Wednesday, February 8, 2006 14:58 1 CommentGoogle is… different and interesting! Everywhere you will find stuff like.. “Google spends most of its time in hiring”. Thats actually true. A company of this caliber wont and shouldnt compromise at all.. be it interns, be it jobs.. anything. I have had 75 minutes of telephonic interviewing with Google in 2 days. And if [...]