Re: [silk] Influence of silklisters in India

2011-06-11 Thread Suresh Ramasubramanian
ss [12/06/11 07:46 +0530]: On Sunday 12 Jun 2011 1:45:55 am Srini RamaKrishnan wrote: I don't see @ShashiTharoor. I believe he's pretty influential on twitter in India, isn't he? No need. Atul Chitnis is there. Silklisters are in august company. [choke]

Re: [silk] Influence of silklisters in India

2011-06-11 Thread ss
On Sunday 12 Jun 2011 1:45:55 am Srini RamaKrishnan wrote: > I don't see @ShashiTharoor. I believe he's pretty influential on > twitter in India, isn't he? > No need. Atul Chitnis is there. Silklisters are in august company. shiv

Re: [silk] Influence of silklisters in India

2011-06-11 Thread Venkat Mangudi
On Sunday 12 June 2011 02:18 AM, Anish Mohammed wrote: > >>> You don't know this yet. But I'm totally influencing this conversation. > yes u are, btw congrats on getting on that list ;) You mean, *this* list, don't you? ;) --V

Re: [silk] Influence of silklisters in India

2011-06-11 Thread Suresh Ramasubramanian
The jackasses who bray the loudest get to become the lions of twitter .. --Original Message-- From: Srini RamaKrishnan Sender: silklist-bounces+suresh=hserus@lists.hserus.net To: silklist@lists.hserus.net ReplyTo: silklist@lists.hserus.net Subject: Re: [silk] Influence of silklisters i

Re: [silk] Influence of silklisters in India

2011-06-11 Thread Anish Mohammed
> >You don't know this yet. But I'm totally influencing this conversation. yes u are, btw congrats on getting on that list ;) Anish Mohammed Twitter: anishmohammed http://uk.linkedin.com/in/anishmohammed On 11 Jun 2011, at 21:20, Sidin Vadukut wrote: >> > > >

Re: [silk] Influence of silklisters in India

2011-06-11 Thread Sidin Vadukut
On 11 Jun 2011, at 21:17, Srini RamaKrishnan wrote: > On Sat, Jun 11, 2011 at 5:47 PM, Suresh Ramasubramanian > wrote: >> though .. twitter != social networking .. > > I don't see @ShashiTharoor. I believe he's pretty influential on > twitter in India, isn't he? > > Cheeni > You don't know this

Re: [silk] Influence of silklisters in India

2011-06-11 Thread Srini RamaKrishnan
On Sat, Jun 11, 2011 at 5:47 PM, Suresh Ramasubramanian wrote: > though .. twitter != social networking .. I don't see @ShashiTharoor. I believe he's pretty influential on twitter in India, isn't he? Cheeni

Re: [silk] The future of learning?

2011-06-11 Thread J. Andrew Rogers
On Jun 10, 2011, at 10:43 AM, Udhay Shankar N wrote: > > This list contains a large number of self-taught programmers. How did > you get started, and how did you get to a moderate level of skill? (If > you want to talk about what happened after that, great, but I am more > interested in the first

Re: [silk] The future of learning?

2011-06-11 Thread Sirtaj Singh Kang
On 10-Jun-11, at 11:13 PM, Udhay Shankar N wrote: [snip] This list contains a large number of self-taught programmers. How did you get started, and how did you get to a moderate level of skill? I played a demo of a then-current game: http://www.codinghorror.com/blog/2007/05/bill-gates

Re: [silk] The future of learning?

2011-06-11 Thread Eugen Leitl
On Sat, Jun 11, 2011 at 06:52:00PM +0530, Udhay Shankar N wrote: > That link works now, and didn't (for me) 5 minutes ago. Where's my > tinfoil hat? It showed three different messages on three subsequent visits. The third one was the real thing and it settled on that hereafter. I'm sure cookies w

Re: [silk] The future of learning?

2011-06-11 Thread Deepak Jois
> This list contains a large number of self-taught programmers. How did > you get started, and how did you get to a moderate level of skill? (If > you want to talk about what happened after that, great, but I am more > interested in the first two stages) > (Delurking for just a bit to take a trip

Re: [silk] Influence of silklisters in India

2011-06-11 Thread Suresh Ramasubramanian
Venkat Mangudi [11/06/11 21:07 +0530]: On Saturday 11 June 2011 08:46 PM, Thaths wrote: On Sat, Jun 11, 2011 at 8:08 AM, Suresh Ramasubramanian wrote: mahesh murthy is a silklister .. As is Jace. As are Sidin, Gautam (gkjohn) & Deepak Shenoy. though .. twitter != social networking ..

Re: [silk] Influence of silklisters in India

2011-06-11 Thread Venkat Mangudi
On Saturday 11 June 2011 08:46 PM, Thaths wrote: > On Sat, Jun 11, 2011 at 8:08 AM, Suresh Ramasubramanian > wrote: >> mahesh murthy is a silklister .. > > As is Jace. As are Sidin, Gautam (gkjohn) & Deepak Shenoy. --Venkat

Re: [silk] Influence of silklisters in India

2011-06-11 Thread Thaths
On Sat, Jun 11, 2011 at 8:08 AM, Suresh Ramasubramanian wrote: > mahesh murthy is a silklister .. As is Jace. Thaths -- Marge: Quick, somebody perform CPR! Homer: Umm (singing) I see a bad moon rising. Marge: That's CCR! Homer: Looks like we're in for nasty weather. Sudhakar Chandra           

Re: [silk] Influence of silklisters in India

2011-06-11 Thread Suresh Ramasubramanian
mahesh murthy is a silklister .. Anish [11/06/11 14:32 +]: Hi all, Came across this tweet, was pleasantly suprised that a few silklisters made to the top Pinstorm India Influencers http://www.pinstorm.com/ii/ Impact of early adoptors on society ? Regards Anish Sent from my BlackBerry® wire

Re: [silk] The future of learning?

2011-06-11 Thread Thaths
On Fri, Jun 10, 2011 at 10:43 AM, Udhay Shankar N wrote: > This list contains a large number of self-taught programmers. How did > you get started, and how did you get to a moderate level of skill? (If > you want to talk about what happened after that, great, but I am more > interested in the firs

[silk] Influence of silklisters in India

2011-06-11 Thread Anish
Hi all, Came across this tweet, was pleasantly suprised that a few silklisters made to the top Pinstorm India Influencers http://www.pinstorm.com/ii/ Impact of early adoptors on society ? Regards Anish Sent from my BlackBerry® wireless device

Re: [silk] The future of learning?

2011-06-11 Thread Udhay Shankar N
On 11-Jun-11 6:36 PM, Abhijit Menon-Sen wrote: >>> http://archives.aox.org/archives/silk/13492/thread >> >> I don't think the aox silk archive is still alive. > > What was there still works, and in particular, that link works. That link works now, and didn't (for me) 5 minutes ago. Where's my t

Re: [silk] The future of learning?

2011-06-11 Thread Abhijit Menon-Sen
At 2011-06-11 18:28:43 +0530, ud...@pobox.com wrote: > > > http://archives.aox.org/archives/silk/13492/thread > > I don't think the aox silk archive is still alive. What was there still works, and in particular, that link works. I never did subscribe it to live silk messages. I can't remember why

Re: [silk] The future of learning?

2011-06-11 Thread Udhay Shankar N
On 11-Jun-11 6:06 PM, ss wrote: > Here is a post I made on Silk in 1998 > > http://archives.aox.org/archives/silk/13492/thread I don't think the aox silk archive is still alive. It was started as a demo of crab's archiving software and didn't survive his parting ways with the company. You may wa

Re: [silk] The future of learning?

2011-06-11 Thread ss
On Saturday 11 Jun 2011 4:40:44 pm Eugen Leitl wrote: > Humanity as a whole has some pretty disappointing priorities, > unfortunately. > Here is a post I made on Silk in 1998 http://archives.aox.org/archives/silk/13492/thread shiv

Re: [silk] The future of learning?

2011-06-11 Thread Eugen Leitl
On Sat, Jun 11, 2011 at 11:51:57AM +0530, Biju Chacko wrote: > It seems formal study is a sure shot way to kill any interest in a subject. That possibly happened to me with chemistry. I didn't lose the interest to mess in the lab, as most chemists who left the field apparently did. But the actual