I am planning to start cycling and
considering a ‘portable’ one. Do you have any recommendations on which cycle i should buy?

“Kiruba, the classic snake oil salesman.”

Now you have done it.As we speak, Ms.Kiruba is buying up snakeoilsalesman.com/org/biz/tv/co.in and all conceivable domain extensions to gift to her humble hubby.

Great job, the roads of chennai are not biker friendly, but atleast you have started something good, which hopefully other people will take on to quickly

However he does it, someone seems to be buying his goods and services.

having browsed his blog I find nothing particlarly impressive about him, but he seems to push every mundane aspect of his existence.

But his bogus biking to work crap really takes the cake for sheer arrogance.

I would like to know how often he does this, and what distance he pedals each way. And what does he do when he gets to work all sweaty?

Instead of boasting of his ability to ride to work, maybe he can pass along some uselful tips so other tehno yuppies can do it too?

From this example, it seems you come from an Electrical Engineering/Control Theory background which explains why you know so little about how things are taught at the Masters level in Computer Science or Information Science.

In decent universities, students are graded on how they handle exceptions and whether their code is able to catch an exception when it is thrown. Instructors have their own test sequences that are created specifically to execute “stress conditions” on the code and a student is graded on how well his/her code can handle those sequences.

Incidentally do you seriously think that Kiruba Shankar’s company’s code does even input validation? I mean look at their CEO, a man whose blog has spelling mistakes, wrong grammar, mixed metaphors and even wrong unverified information (Kiruba once posted some pictures of an actress dressed up as a tennis player and called her Sania’s successor).

What does that say about the company?

in simple, good algo + 0 thought for error handling, reliability & security = academic programming.

not that good algo + error handling + reliability + security = industry standard programs

Actually, graduate students also have to handle error handling.In most decent universities, their programming assignments are stress-tested. What Kiruba in essence is saying that his company writes code that is about as challenging as writing code for bubblesort, insertionsort etc.

Thanks for answer. But please update your website.

Anonymous @ 10:22
Never underestimate anything. If an fresh grad writes that in 2 weeks, it may not be usable in real life ecom sites. Because many fresh grads don’t handle errors while writing programs.

- First Anonymous.