Thought Stream — week of 14 Jul 2014

@amanmohla Are you trying to imply jQuery is not JavaScript? :p

@amanmohla That was pithy comment on the current state of web dev where people think jQuery is JS.

How to revert a revert in GIT - http://git-scm.com/blog/2010/03/02/undoing-merges.html (Last section). Something I had to do recently and pulled my hairs out doing it.

Crunchbase does not link to company’s website, weird.

geekgoodies.in - Indian version of http://www.thinkgeek.com/.

Is any biotech company working on diet fruits? Imagine mango without all the carbs :).

http://googleonlinesecurity.blogspot.in/2014/07/announcing-project-zero.html - How many will rant about this taking NSA’s name even though this is highly altruistic of Google?

Result of some higher up in Vodafone saying we need a social media strategy? - https://x.com/surnell/status/489079469919830016/photo/1

Wow, SGI was involved in Terminator 2.

A friend of mine is mightily confused between an init script and a shutdown script and laying down some asinine arguments.

Bitten by a bug due to naming convention not being followed. I just do not get it why people do not follow conventions. Argggh.

This is my go to doc for any doubts on HTTP caching - https://www.mnot.net/cache_docs/

Pick up the phone and talk is not a solution to all communication problems.

There is a scene in Humpty where one actor tries to avoid a fight but the hero goes in full on. Reminds me of this - http://goo.gl/qA0cle
@amanmohla @harish_io is emotionally attached to hump-tea because he designed a home page banner for the movie :).

Board games are great fun, started playing when I was in Zynga, stopped when I moved on form there, miss them - http://goo.gl/yD5vtX

Watched a great Kannada movie Oggarane at an old school cinema after eons.

Everyone is a climate expert nowadays.