GAE setup

Posted on August 11, 2011 by Siddharth Jain

1. install python 2.5
2. install GAE SDK
3. download gdata, atom, webapp2 and copy to your application directory (no need to install them, since the production machines won’t have them installed and they will need to pick them up from application dir. However, do install them so that you can write python scripts from IDLE and have them accessible)
4. install git for windows
5. unittest2 (to install: python.exe setup.py install)
6. PIL (if you don’t install PIL, importing testbed will give error. for 64 bit windows you will have to install from uci.edu)
7. install pycharm
i know i am talking to myself in this post

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Changing cmd font

Posted on August 11, 2011 by Siddharth Jain

open regedit. goto HKLM\Software\Microsoft\WindowsNT\Current Version\Console\TrueTypeFont. add key as needed

 

ocraextended

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Form W8-BEN

Posted on August 11, 2011 by Siddharth Jain

When returning to india, you should file a form W8-BEN with your 401(k) and IRA custodian. The only tricky part is a line which should read:
I am claiming provisions of article 20 of US-India tax treaty to claim 0% withholding on IRA distributions

Without filing this form you will be subject to 30% withholding of any distribution from your IRA or 401(k)

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Announcing the launch of bookmine.net

Posted on July 21, 2011 by Siddharth Jain

Recently, I had a lot of books to sell. I found that craigslist – while a great resource, is not very well suited to buying and selling of books.
If you list your books on amazon, they will sell fast – provided you are offering the lowest price, but after deducting your shipping expenses, amazon commission, plus your time investment, you may just be a little burned out.
Thus, came the idea of http://www.bookmine.net. Think of it as an improved craigslist for books. Using the website is easy:

If you want to buy a book, just enter book title and your zip code (known as postal code in many other countries), and it will show you all sellers who want to sell the book within your zip code.

If you want to sell a book, just enter book details, your asking price, and your contact info. You can create an account if you have many books to sell – that way you won’t have to enter your contact info again and again.

I am hoping that this website is especially helpful for sellers who don’t wanna get ripped off by amzn or hpb.

A word about browser support: If you don’t know what a web browser is, just remember that the website is best viewed in Chrome, and skip this paragraph. I don’t intend to make sure that this website runs on every version of every browser out there. For better or worse, I have decided to stick with Chrome and will ensure that the website will work with latest version of Chrome. Thus, if you find that something is broken or doesn’t work, please try the website on Chrome, and if you still encounter problem(s), email them to me via the feedback link.

The idea for this website was conceived on 6/17/11

Thanks for reading.

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Quotes

Posted on May 7, 2011 by Siddharth Jain

We could hardly get excited about an effect so feeble as to require statistics for its demonstration — Hubel & Weisel

Statistics are like a bikini. What they show is interesting, what they hide is essential.

Theory is when you know something, but it doesn’t work. Practice is when something works, but you don’t know why. Programmers combine theory andpractice: Nothing works and they don’t know why.

The real danger is not when computers start thinking like humans, its when humans start thinking like computers.

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Management Consultant

Posted on March 9, 2011 by Siddharth Jain
Once upon a time
> there was a shepherd looking after his sheep on the side of
> a deserted road.
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> Suddenly a brand new Porsche screeches to a halt. The
>  driver, a man dressed in an Armani suit, Cerutti shoes,
> Ray-Ban sunglasses, TAG-Heuer wrist-watch, and a Pierre
> Cardin tie, gets out and asks the Shepherd:
>
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>
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> “If I can tell you how many sheep you have, will you
> give me one of  them?” The shepherd looks at the young
> man, and then looks at the large flock of grazing sheep and
> replies:”Okay. ”
>
> The young man parks the car,connects his laptop to the
> mobile-fax,enters  a NASA Webster, scans the ground using
> his GPS, opens a da tabase and 60 Excel tables filled
> withlogarithms and pivot tables, then prints out a 10 page
> report on his high-tech mini-printer.
>
>
>
>
> He turns to the shepherd and says, “You have exactly
> 1,586 sheep here.”
>
> The shepherd cheers,”That’ s correct, you can have
> your sheep.” The young man makes his pick and puts it
> in the back of his Porsche.
>
>
>
>
> The shepherd looks at him and asks: “If I guess your
> profession, will you return my animal to me?” The young
> man answers, “Yes, why not”.
>
> The shepherd says, “You are a Management Consultant
> from a top-notch consultancy like McKinsey,etc. .”.
>
>
>
>
> How did you know?” asks the surprised young man.
>
> “Very simple,” answers the shepherd.
>
> “First, you came here without being called.
>
> Second, you charged me a fee to tell me something I already
> knew, And
>
>
>
>
> third, you don’t understand anything about my
> business…
>
> Now can I have my DOG back?”
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Cheating Wife

Posted on March 9, 2011 by Siddharth Jain
“Hello?”

“Hi honey.

This is Daddy.

Is Mommy near the phone?”

“No Daddy.

She’s upstairs in the bedroom with Uncle Paul.”

After a brief pause,

Daddy says,

“But honey, you haven’t got an Uncle Paul.”

“Oh yes I do, and he’s upstairs in the room with Mommy, right now.”

Brief Pause.

“Uh, okay then, this is what I want you to do.

Put the phone down on the table, run upstairs
and knock on the bedroom door and shout to Mommy
that Daddy’s car just pulled into the driveway.”

“Okay Daddy, just a minute.”

A few minutes later the little girl comes back to the phone.

“I did it Daddy.”


“And what happened honey?”


“Well, Mommy got all scared, jumped out of bed

with no clothes on and ran around screaming. Then she tripped over the rug, hit her head on the dresser
and now she isn’t moving at all!”


“Oh my God!!! What about your Uncle Paul?”

“He jumped out of the bed with no clothes on, too.
He was all scared and he jumped out of the back window

and into the swimming pool. But I guess he didn’t know

that you took out the water last week to clean it.

He hit the bottom of the pool and I think he’s dead.”

***Long Pause***


***Longer Pause***

***Even Longer Pause***

Then Daddy says, “Swimming pool?



Is this 486-5731?”
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SORRY WRONG NUMBER…..

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Love at First Sight

Posted on March 9, 2011 by Siddharth Jain

Hi ,

Anybody can explain what love at first sight is.  I know that is tough to define.

Exact picture is given below.

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Ashcroft

Posted on March 9, 2011 by Siddharth Jain
General Ashcroft is visiting an elementary school in late 2003. After the typical civics presentation to the class, he announces, “All right, boys and girls, you can all ask me questions now.”
A young boy named Bobby raises his hand and says, “I have three questions:
1. How did Bush win the election with fewer votes than Gore?
2. Why are you using the USA Patriot Act to limit Americans’ civil liberties?
3. Why hasn’t the U.S. caught Osama bin Laden yet?”
            Just then the bell sounds and all the kids run out to the playground. Fifteen minutes later, the kids come back in class and again. Ashcroft says, “I’m sorry we were interrupted by the bell. Now, you can all ask me questions.”
A young girl named Charlene raises her hand and says, “I have five questions:
1. How did Bush win the election with fewer votes than Gore?
2. Why are you using the USA Patriot Act to limit Americans’ civil liberties?
3. Why hasn’t the U.S. caught Osama bin Laden yet?
4. Why did the bell go off 20 minutes early?
5. Where’s Bobby?
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AL-GEBRA TERRORIST GROUP NOTED IN CANADA

Posted on March 9, 2011 by Siddharth Jain

This is a very serious threat, particularly for young people. Please take extra precautions in your lives. Please also share this important information with your friends, so that no harm comes to them too.

            At Toronto’s Pearson airport today, an individual, later discovered to be a public school teacher, was arrested trying to board a flight while in possession of a ruler, a protractor, a setsquare, and a calculator. Justice Minister Ann McLelland believes the man is a member of the notorious al-gebra movement. He is being charged with carrying weapons of math instruction.
            Al-gebra is a very fearsome cult, indeed. They desire average solutions by means and extremes, and sometimes go off on a tangent in a search of absolute value. They consist of quite shadowy figures, with names like “x” and “y”, and, although they are frequently referred to as “unknowns”, we know they really belong to a common denominator and are part of the axis of medieval with coordinates in every country. As the great Greek philanderer isosceles used to say, there are 3 sides to every angle, and if God had wanted us to have better weapons of math instruction, He would have given us more fingers and toes.
            Therefore, I’m extremely grateful that our government has given us a sine that it is intent on protracting us from these math-dogs who are so willing to disintegrate us with calculus disregard. These statistic bastards love to inflict plane on every sphere of influence. Under the
circumferences, it’s time we differentiated their root, made our point, and drew the line. These weapons of math instruction have the potential to decimal everything in their math on a scalene never before seen unless we become exponents of a Higher Power and begin to factor-in random facts of vertex. As an American President would say, Read my ellipse.
            Here is one principle he is uncertainty of—though they continue to multiply, their days are numbered and the hypotenuse will tighten around their necks.
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