via blog.pmarca.com: Curiosity is a proxy for, do you love what you do? Anyone who loves what they do is inherently intensely curious about their field, their profession, their craft.They read about it, study it, talk to other people about it… immerse themselves in it, continuously. And work like hell to stay current in it. Not because they have to. But because they love to. Anyone who isn’t curious doesn’t love what they do.

Iron rusts from disuse; Water loses its purity from stagnation, and in cold weather becomes frozen; even so does inaction sap the vigors of the mind. - Leonardo Da Vinci

“Against the gods” is a beautiful narrative on the history of risk management. Peter L Bernstein , the author of the book has a done a terrific work of narrating the evolution of risk measurement. The book is divided in to 5 periods where the story of risk is presented. The five demarcated periods are Uptil 1200 ,1200-1700,1700-1900,1900-1960,Post 1960. In each of these periods, the author talks about various personalities involved.

Can a number be illegal ?? Well, I came to know about it very recently , that in fact, a few numbers are illegal…!!! Via Illegal prime - Wikipedia: An illegal prime is a prime number that represents information forbidden to possess or distribute, because when interpreted a particular way, it describes a computer program which bypasses copyright protection schemes. Distribution of that program in the United States is illegal under the Digital Millennium Copyright Act.

If you are planning to recruit a programmer for your firm, a quick way to filter out applicants is by asking a few basic questions, and this question falls in such a category of questions. Q) If I declare a character array char n[12] and code the line, strcpy(n,“radhakrishna”); what’s wrong with it ? A) character array is always NUL terminated. This means that strcpy writes a NUL at the 13th byte and you have no clue what you have over written on the 13th byte.