Anand Iyer

I recently forwarded someone's resume to an acquaintance of mine who is into recruitment. And the first thing he asked that person to correct: add your graduation date in the resume.

@averyx99 Maybe it's just me. But I personally prefer airports where the entry/exit is smooth. Rather than airports that look like a resort.

There are only 5 airports in the world you'd hope to get delayed in. Most airports are somewhere you wait to leave. These five make 6 hours feel like not enough. Here they are, ranked worst-to-best: #1 Singapore Changi (SIN)

Namma Yatri is killing it with these Odyssey memes 😭😂

@YashmiAdani Walkable streets? Which area is it?

nagarjuna is still the best meal you can eat in this city. the streets are still the most walkable, especially in the rain

@balajis What exactly is a startup city?

India is building startup cities.

@skyjoshii I think Matunga is the equivalent of Jayanagar or even malleswaram. Traditional area. Of course, both areas have South Indian restaurants that are almost a century old.

if i compare bombay areas with BLR bandra - indiranagar bkc - bellandur orr borivali - jayanagar marine lines - cubbon park colaba - koramangala navi mumbai - whitefield powai - hsr please add/correct if anything missing 😂

@Kartrag4991 Funny. Cricket was originally supposed to be a sport for the elite and high society. And football for the masses.

There's a 90s born Chennai elite mainly CBSE crowd which theevirama follow football because at that time cricket was followed by the common folk and by following football they can have their cool and elite discussions keeping out the common folk. When this is pointed out, they say it's not that, we truly love football nu. One of the reasons may be that I never really had an interest following this sport at any time in my life.

@AnandaniNisha Civic sense has nothing to do with education. I live in an area with a very high percentage of people with advanced/STEM degrees. Probably many who were in the top 5% of their class. Dont even get me started on the utter lack of civic sense I see often. Especially on the road.

Civic sense which is not taught at homes. Because their parents were not rich or educated.✅

Six times six is 36!

@RiaRevealed Did you check if your name is in the voters list? That should be enough to vote. I wasn't born in Dubai but I applied for voters id more than a decade ago too and never got it. But my name is in the list and I can vote.

I was born in Dubai because my Indian parents worked there. The UAE doesn't grant citizenship by birth. I've always held an Indian passport by birth , Aadhaar, PAN and every Indian document. If these aren't enough, then what exactly is an ordinary citizen supposed to prove? It's been 11 years since I'm back in India and I still haven't received a call from voter id office even after applying twice. Millions of Indians born abroad deserve clarity, not confusion. @PMOIndia @ECISVEEP, @ECISVEEP and @HMOIndia #Citizenship #VoterRights

A Japanese engineer invented the QR code for one job, tracking car parts on a Toyota line, then his company chose to give the patent away for free, which is the only reason it ended up on every restaurant table on Earth. His name is Masahiro Hara. The company was Denso Wave, a parts supplier owned by Toyota. In 1992 the problem landed on his desk, and it was not glamorous. Workers on the factory floor were drowning. Every car part had a barcode, but a barcode can only hold about twenty characters, so to track one component they had to stick five or ten barcodes on it. A worker would stand there scanning a single part ten times in a row. Some of them were scanning close to a thousand barcodes a day. The job had stopped being about building cars and turned into pointing a scanner at stickers all day long. And there was a second problem nobody upstairs cared about. This was a factory. Oil got on everything. A smudge of grease across a barcode and the whole thing became unreadable, and the line stopped. Hara was asked to make the scanner faster. He looked at it for a while and realized the scanner was not the problem. The barcode itself was the ceiling. A line of black bars can only hold information going one direction, left to right. He decided to build something that held information in two directions, up and down as well as across, so it could store hundreds of times more in the same little square. Then came the part that sounds made up but is not. Hara played Go on his lunch breaks, the old board game with black and white stones sitting on a grid. He was staring at the board one day and it clicked. The grid of black and white stones was already a way to store information in two directions. That was the shape of his code. But building the code was the easy half. The hard problem was speed, because the whole point was to be fast, and a scanner wastes most of its time just trying to figure out where the code is and which way it is turned. The fix came to him on a train. He was looking out the window at buildings, and one building stood out from all the others because of its shape against the sky. That was the idea. He put three little square targets in three corners of the code. The moment a scanner sees those three squares, it knows instantly where the code is and how it is rotated, even upside down, even at an angle. Now here is the detail that shows how far he was willing to go. Those three corner squares only work if nothing else on the page looks like them. If a magazine ad or a cardboard box happened to have the same black and white pattern nearby, the scanner would get confused and grab the wrong thing. So Hara and his tiny two-person team went and surveyed printed material. Magazines. Flyers. Cardboard boxes. Piles of it, for days, reducing every picture down to its ratio of black to white area, hunting for the one ratio that almost never shows up in print anywhere. They found it. One to one to three to one to one. That exact rhythm of black and white is baked into every corner square of every QR code on Earth, and it is there because it is the pattern the printed world almost never produces by accident. Then he solved the oil. He built the code so it carries a backup of its own information, spread mathematically across the whole square. You can tear off, smudge, or scratch out up to thirty percent of a QR code and it still scans perfectly, because the code rebuilds the missing piece from the copy it kept of itself. A worker could get grease on a third of the label and the line would keep moving. This is the same math that lets a scratched CD still play and lets a spacecraft send data back across the solar system without asking to repeat itself. He finished in 1994. He named it Quick Response, after what it does for the person using it, not after what it is. And then Denso made the decision that actually mattered. They held the patent. They could have charged a fee on every single scan, and given how many billions happen now, that would have made someone unimaginably rich. Instead they announced they would not enforce their rights to collect royalties, and they published the specification openly so anyone could use it. Hara later said it was not even a big argument inside the company. That one choice is the whole story. A code that costs nothing to use is a code everyone builds on. Airlines put it on tickets. Phone makers built readers into cameras. Then a pandemic hit and the world needed a way to hand someone information without touching anything, and the free little square that a Toyota engineer built for greasy factory workers was suddenly on every menu, every payment, every door. Hara still works there. He has said, more than once, that he never imagined it would spread this far, and that the part he is proudest of is that it got used to keep people safe. The man built it to survive oil on a factory floor. It ended up surviving everything else too. You have scanned his work a hundred times this year. Now you know whose it was.

Seen many such people. Once a smart guy driving on footpath said: I have plenty of work that's why I am driving like this. I guess these are very busy people who have to advise Modi, Trump and other world leaders on how to grow the world economy.

@Nivi_Chandru Lol. I indirectly knew someone who would reject dentists if they themselves have bad teeth.

🤣🤣🤣

@Nivi_Chandru Definitely. Saw him once live in concert. Almost a decade ago. ( I presume you are referring to the Srinivas who sang in padayappa movie)

Srinivas has one of the best voices.

@Pivot2Centre Actually, isn't it better to just pay a bit more and go by flight instead? Depends on city too. For smaller cities that dont have good flight connectivity, I agree 1 AC may work well.

True maturity is realizing that 1AC is the best. Mental peace, safety, and comfort!

@NeelChhabra Doesn't look dirty at all.

Singapore hawker centres. The one place in this whole antiseptic, jaywalking-is-a-crime, don’t-you-dare-litter fever dream of a city-state where things are allowed to be a little dirty, a little chaotic, a little real.

Navaneeth explains beautifully why this hindi yesudas song is so so tough to sing.. in a competition if you can sing this perfectly you win. The first reality show on TV this song was sung almost perfectly :) and he won

A 6-year-old girl came to the match with her mom holding a poster that read: “My daddy is behind the camera.” She waved at the lens… the camera turned… and there he was, her dad, smiling and waving back from behind it. Some moments in sport are bigger than the game. 🥹❤️

@keylimepie2000 This has nothing to do with tech. This is more a case of people not giving right of way to ambulance. Basic driving courtesy.

I travel from HSR to Indiranagar every week, and atleast see 1 ambulance get stuck in the traffic signal everyday in Bangalore traffic. On Sunday there were like 3. Honestly gives me chills. Whatever tech they using, it’s not working 🫠

@krishashok You also get iodized sendha namak these days. Dont know how good they are though.

Small side note: Influenzas are attempting to re-introduce goiter by hyping up iodine-free sendha namak and "himalayan pink salt". Don't be stupid. Use iodized salt

One unfortunate side effect of short-form social media content is that it has manufactured a hard binary between science and tradition. One is supposed to pick a team. But the real world has never been that tidy, and the history of vitamin deficiency diseases is a truly illustrative story of why trying to understand the world through social media and assuming content is knowledge is one of the silliest things we do