ghosting in the Interweb

Summers are here and getting out of the house has become increasingly hard. I often find myself reading hackerstreet and where I chanced upon Brajeshwar's highly readable quip about jobs which highlighted towards the end that team serves as honeypot for talent.

I am right now working on Hireswift.com and I increasingly find that lack of talent is not restricted to startups. Hell it is not specific to technology sector either. While great team does attract like minded talent folks to the organisation. Are there specific steps that one can take to foster that talent? Let me use the dirty words here.

CAN TALENT BE MANAGED IN AN ORGANISATION?

There is increasing array of actvities which have become -as-a-service. Why not have Resume-as-a-service or RaaS?.

Increasingly you and I are expressing our ideas online. Our personality, our relations and our interpersonal skills also get articulated and spread over web. Still why do you need to write down a document which states what you are capable of doing, when it is all there. Why do even need to do it on services like LinkedIn? Anyway good recruiters go beyond the regular resume and find more about candidates online.

Is there a space for service which collects information about the candidates from registered sources and present a structured "resume"? With this kind of service candidates role becomes more of a modulator rather than a creator of resume. He could tone down certain parts of resume or enhance certain other. Services like Facebook, Linkedin, Twitter, Google+, User Blog could be  employed to keep adding information about the candidate.

Recruiters job also changes from archiver of resume as a resource to a netizen with constant access to individuals with interest in switching jobs.

The guy gets it dead on.

tl;dr DTC route data available at https://github.com/djinn/DTC-Routes

There is lot of dicussion about building great route maps for bus services and mostly they centred around http://busroute.in . Although route details are available in form of a booklet from DTC (Delhi Transport Corporation), digital format has been hard to come by. There has been similar efforts by individuals from IIIT Delhi. The project is called Disha. Although it is a brilliant work, it suffers standard issues of academic works. I decided to collect the route data from Disha and making the available online . I am assuming, although Disha is copyrighted work, this data is public domain.  

If you have doubts that your torrent traffic is slow compared to normal HTTP connection. Maybe your ISP is using bandwidth throttling. You can quickly check if your traffic is being throttled (requires Java). It is a way by which ISP can slow down or close certain kind of connections. ISPs use standard throttling features which can overcome with three easy steps:

1. Most bittorrent clients use standard port to connect and thus becomes sitting duck for throttling. Look into client preferences and change to ports between range of 1080-2000. This may confuse the a simple filter and you can get backup to speedy torrents
2. Use Encryption. In preferences look for Protocol Encryption or PEX switch that between optional to mandatory and see if that changes bandwidth usage.
3. Bittorrent over HTTP is the last resort and only meant for the brave. No ISP throttles web traffic so if torrent pretend to be web traffic, filters just would not work. Use the thunder mod for this purpose

Back to speed in three steps.

At an outset, I would have thought AMD E-450 would make perfect sense as my primary laptop. It is relatively fast compared to my Intel Atom netbook. It could be upgraded with 8 GB RAM unlike Atom. Built with powerful ATI video card, HDMI and normal video out. Additionally, its got hardware virtualisation and all at marginal cost difference to Intel Atom. It fits right between fulfledged laptop and netbook. 

Coming to why it does not fulfill the promise.

Video APU

• It does not handle external display well, unlike Intel Atom which for last year has been handling every video display I have thrown at it
• Proprietary driver is bad, with errors like [fglrx:mc_heap_map_virtual_space] *ERROR* Can not get virtual address happening often. It is not the kind of error you would want in between writing code or browsing
• The default opensource driver does not even recognise the laptops resolution which is even worse

Just this single point makes Fusion a bad preposition for Linux Desktop.