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Indian Software Engineers: Firefox anyone?

by The Big K on June 20, 2008

Incredible folks at Mozilla Corporation released version 3 of kick-butt Internet Browser: Firefox. Mozilla claimed that the new version has 15,000 improvements and since I’m using it, Now, that’s an old news. ..but I’ve been thinking – while engineers at Mozilla were building the next version of the internet browser, what were our brilliant software engineers doing? Everyone knows how brilliant our software engineers are! So where’s our Firefox, fellas? Or probably all of our engineers were busy writing (ah, [...]

The sorry state of Indian engineers

by The Big K on February 15, 2008

 Who am I to comment? I’m an Indian with a first class degree in Electrical Engineering & I love my country. Engineers are the nation builders, they say. But when I see 90/100 engineering students (who visit Engineers Forum ) don’t even know how to construct a simple sentence in English, I feel bad. When I see them asking for “ready made code/idea/topic for my engineering projects”, I feel bad. I feel terribly bad. The common people depend on us [...]