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What are some signs to figure out you've nailed the interview?

Prasanna Kotamraju
Updated on 09-May-2022 05:22:46

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After we come out of the Interview room, we definitely will have one of the feelings either you have nailed it or completely bombed it. The curiosity kills you till the results are out. But there are some telltale signs that can help you figure out whether the job offer is coming your way or not.Nodding and Smiling − You will get hints from the body language of the interviewer. If he is smiling and nodding a lot, that means he is agreeing to and enjoying your answers. It shows he is listening intently and genuinely interested in your answers. ... Read More

How high can a plane fly?

Prasanna Kotamraju
Updated on 09-May-2022 05:15:04

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In the present day fast-forward culture, everything should happen at jet speed. People do businesses across continents and Airplanes are a very convenient way to travel. But many people are not delighted to travel above 35, 000 feet up in the air.How High can a Plane FlyEvery airplane has a certified maximum altitude. The highest certified altitude of an airliner was Concorde's 60, 000 feet. Many of the corporate jets can fly at 51, 000 feet.Regular passenger international flights fly between 35000 to 42000 feet. That is considered as optimum height. "Each individual aircraft has an optimum altitude (for minimum ... Read More

How can I improve my English speaking skills? I’m really afraid to talk in public.

Prasanna Kotamraju
Updated on 27-Jun-2020 09:50:36

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“For any challenge, there will be a difficult and an easy solution, you just have to be smart enough to choose the right one.”Speaking English is a very difficult task for many people. I have seen people with great vocabulary and good grammar sense also fear spoken English and fail in interviews because of that. There can be many reasons behind it. Strong Mother tongue influence, being an introvert, not surrounded by many English speaking persons, having their primary education in their mother tongue etc., can be some of the reasons.Whatever may be the reason, it is very important to ... Read More

How to turn mobile into a universal remote control?

Prasanna Kotamraju
Updated on 06-May-2022 11:10:23

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In this digital world, life has become very easy. Gone are the days to reach out to your TV remote to change the channel. Turn your mobile into a Universal remote control using some very accessible and simple apps and enjoy operating your smart TV, home theatre systems and streaming boxes without putting down your mobile.There are a number of apps that you can download directly to your smartphone or Android devices with IR blasters. The Android phones with these IR blasters can enable the mobile to communicate with any device that takes the command via infrared light beams. There ... Read More

How did Google get its name?

Prasanna Kotamraju
Updated on 06-May-2022 06:52:40

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The Google story began in 1995 when their founders Larry Page and Sergey Brin were in Stanford University. They were always interested to build a search engine “to organize the world’s information and make it universally accessible and useful.”In their own words how Google got its name ...Working from their dorm rooms, they built a search engine that used links to determine the importance of individual pages on the World Wide Web. They called this search engine Backrub. Soon after, Backrub was renamed Google. The name was a play on the mathematical expression for the number 1 followed by 100 ... Read More

Where do waste goes from the ships or boats?

Prasanna Kotamraju
Updated on 06-May-2022 06:31:40

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Cruise ships are sometimes carrying 10, 000 and more people on board which amounts to the population of a small town. When they are set for a sail it will be usually 10 days to one month for a commercial ship to touch the land. Meanwhile, they have to take care of food, washing of clothes and disposing of human excreta for that period.Not just human waste, there can be leftover food, bottles, cans, cardboard and everything which has to be handled on the land, has to be handled on the ship too.Where does the waste go from the ships? ... Read More

What would happen if there were no Moon?

Ankith Reddy
Updated on 27-Apr-2022 05:25:47

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We cannot imagine our night sky without the bright moon. It adds the whole lot of beauty to the nights and has been the main subject for romantic poets for ages.Coming to the science, without the Moon, Earth will not have the steady tilt and scientists say that life on earth might not have evolved the way it is now. Here are the top five things that would happen without a moon.Nights will be much darker. The way the Moon lights up the night sky, cannot be done by all the stars put together.We know that days and nights are ... Read More

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