Tarun Dua

We are an experienced startup team looking for full-time telecommute workers/trainees for some exciting computing infrastructure projects.

Whats the deal :
You get:
1. Equity and stipend/salary depending upon the time commitment you can offer and efficiency of your effort.
2. Experience in building game changing technology
3. Lifetime bragging rights, this revolution was kick started by my company.
4. Learn and utilize highly marketable technologies.
5. These are entry level positions requiring fresh out of the box thinking where everyone starts off as a trainee proves value addition to the team and is only then made fulltime.

What are we looking for :-

Facilities

1. Electrical and/or Electronics Engineers/Research Interns: BEE, HVAC, Energy Star, UPS, Transformers, Power Distribution, Precision AC, excellent grasp of theory and practical applications of what you learned in your engineering.
System hackers who like to take apart old or new computers to learn and think they can build a better box are also welcome to try their hand at newest chipsets and processors.

Marketing and Sales

2. MBAs: Online Marketing PPC/SEM/SEO/Content creation, engaging in 2-way social media conversations, dealing with media contacts and generating buzz/PR hits by responding to questions in non-technical language, qualification of leads and closure of sales calls

Artists

3. Frontend Engineers: Are you one of those few Photoshop/Gimp geeks in your college who also knows how to slice and dice an image into XHTML and like to play with cool Ajax libraries and CSS frameworks.

Geeks/Mega-Geeks

4. System Lords: Do you sleep next to your server(s), are you a Linux/Unix geek who knows Perl or Ruby on Rails. We are waiting for you to take the blue pill and forever live in the matrix of virtual clouds.

Who should apply :-

0. These are remote telecommute positions, we aren't big fans of daily commute and would like to work with people who do not care for a physical office.
1. This is not a training, we are looking for fairly self-motivated individuals who can learn on their own without any hand holding. It doesn't matter if you have no industry experience.
2. You should at the least have access to a broadband connection with no download limits and either your own personal PC where you can use Linux environment (or a Virtual Machine with Linux). Or a University/College infrastructure where you have private diskspace (for storing the code) associated with your login account on a secure file server.
3. You shouldn't be encumbered by any Intellectual property, Proprietary rights and Non-disclosure agreements to work in your own time on any project and be able to assign the moral rights of the same to the company in lieu of equity and/or salary. We may at our discretion release parts of the projects executed under Open Source Licenses.
4. Please make sure you meet the qualifications before applying.

So if you want to contribute to an exciting early stage computing infrastructure startup for equity and/or salary then e-mail us at careers@e2enetworks.com

If there was an equivalent of Windows Modal dialog box in web applications, a similar one can be found in ICICI Direct stock trading application.

1. They keep showing the above dialog box requesting you to update your information and not providing you an option which says nothing to update.
2. If you choose the option "Will change later", their later is hardcoded to be "Just Now"
3. If you want to update anyway just to make it go away, there's a dialog box in javascript straight from the 90's which says Occupation not mentioned or something similar.

Now it is understandable that web applications can have errors pushed to production, though it is scary for a financial site.

What is not understandable is the response of their customer support at their call center:-

1. Sir there is a technical problem with the site, it should be fine by tomorrow ( oh yeah, you dolt you haven't even heard my description of the problem ).
2. Sir please click on trading ( ofcourse you doofus, I know how to click on trading to make the screen go away but it comes back when I click something else )

All in all an arrogant and pig-headed customer care of ICICIDirect designed to make people go away means that an easily fixable javascript problem won't be fixed until someone in their own QA detects this edge case. Why is it so hard to listen to customers instead of continuing to parrot inanities. The financial institutions like ICICI are extremely vulnerable to phishing fraud precisely because they have no culture of listening to people and also seem to think spamming with misleading e-mail subject lines is 'great marketing'

The educated classes have voted

Lets dissect the thinking of educated classes.

1. They abhor regionalism and sons of soil policies, selective support to sons of soil policies would boomerang on a party elsewhere.
2. There are two national parties, the educated class would normally vote for either of them, the communal tag doesn't bother them but they do care about rule of law. Karnataka comes to the mind. The Pink Chaddi campaign might be dead on Facebook but not its repercussions for the BJP.
3. The BJP marketed heavily to the educated class, their marketing indeed proved to be their un-doing. If you market a bad product heavily you fail faster. Moral: You can't make promises of bribery to the educated classes and win. Their election campaign never mentioned how they'll achieve what they promised only what they want to achieve. Who do they think they were offering an equivalent of Rs. 2/Kg rice. Going one step ahead of fiscally irresponsible INC is not what educated classes wanted at all.
4. The INC planned and went ahead alone in UP and got a windfall out of that it seems.
5. Manmohan Singh as a PM candidate has gone down well with educated classes, if educated classes had to choose between Advani who hasn't made one coherent policy pronouncement in the Parliament vs Manmohan who made sure the Nuclear deal went through then the choice is clear.
Personally I am worried for the future of Wind power and Solar Power in India though.
6. The best news is that Trinamool Congress Mahajot in West Bengal has been able to dent the Left citadel like never before. They have been cut to size they deserve.

RailWire Broadband Tariffs
The Good:-
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Their un-limited pricing plans sound reasonably priced ( by Indian standards).
Plan No. Port Speed* Plan Rental** (In Rupee)
iRW002 256 Kbps 320
iRW004 512 Kbps 620
iRW006 1 Mbps 920
iRW008 2 Mbps 1220
iRW010 4 Mbps 2120
iRW012 8 Mbps 3620
iRW014 16 Mbps 6920
iRW016 32 Mbps 13520

*Port speeds are on 1:4 contention ratio
**Plan Rentals are exclusive of applicable taxes and levies
</Quote>

Anyone knows what is the experience like ?

Its available in a very small part of Bangalore though
Area where RailWire is available
The bad:-
1. You can only use it on a single PC and authentication is bound to the MAC address.
2. Its available in a very small area.