Thought Garage

It's really funny and made me lol. Tried accessing  http://joydefinesthefuture.com/ on my iPad. " This is an experiment that demonstrates the latest emerging web technologies. As a consequence, it will only work in the latest and most powerful browsers, such as  Microsoft Internet Explorer 9 Beta ." lol.

Below is an excerpt of some thoughts shared on a different discussion on the fight against corruption and argument that Anna's bill doesn't change a thing because most people are corrupt and we need a social transformation rather. The argument further goes to say that Anna should instead focus on educating people to elect honest representatives to solve the issue at its root.  I do not say we shouldn't try to fix the root cause, but we should be practical and consider the approach based on where we are now. Corruption in India is like a cancer evolved over generations. It would be a better and quite practical solution to do a surgery and use chemicals and medicine (even though they all have quite serious side effects). Fixing the root cause really mean reversing the evolution (social and systematic) and kind of irreversible (or impractical). We can start over after the surgery, for sure, and take steps for a grass roots approach. But grass roots approach alone is li...

Ryan Singer from 37signals talks about "UI Fundamentals for Programmers". UI Fundamentals for Programmers: Ryan Singer at WindyCityRails 2009 from Ryan Singer on Vimeo .

Wonderful hands-on video to learn Git basics. Tom Preston-Werner - Mastering Git Basics from Erlang Solutions on Vimeo .

For the first time, David Blaine shares his story about breaking the world record for holding his breath at TEDMED. Simply amazing!

Can you start a business if you are on H1B ? And Can that business sponsor your H1B and hire you as an employee ? Yes and Yes.  Under the previous interpretations of CIS rules, a highly skilled worker who is legally in the United States on an H-1B visa could start a company but could not work for it. CIS updated the H1-B guidelines to “clarify” that business owners on H1-B visas could work for their own companies, provided that they work full time for the company and are treated like an employee. For example, the company could have a board that is able to hire, fire, pay, supervise or otherwise control the worker like they would any other staff member. Source : On Immigration, a step in the right direction, Vivek Wadhwa Its really wonderful news and clarification to both questions. Even though many people knew that they could start a business while on H1B, its always a rather gray area with too many interpretations.

Nice info graphic illustrating various non-tuition costs of Education. I never thought students will spend so much on alcohol, coffee and entertainment ($2600, $1800 and $4000 respectively, about $700 a  month).  The Non-Tuition Costs of Education ( Source : http://www.coursehero.com/ ) Compare it to expenses of students coming from abroad, as I heard,  through friends that did Masters in the US, that they could survive at $350 to $600 on average per month (total expenses for month, excluding tuition).