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by arocks 13y ago
Most of these seem like old familiar tried and tested ideas. That is because that is exactly what Enterprises need. To prepare a very specific business plan with solid return on investments, you will need to find someone else who has succes
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by arocks 13y ago
My response can be very simply stated as the well-known adage - Profile Before Optimizing I am not completely discounting Numerical Analysis here. Mathematicians can make entire mathematical models of a machine but it will be at a certain l
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by arocks 13y ago
This is a very important rebuttal to the “The Mathematical Hacker” article because it shows Maths is useful but should not be taken too literally. Even Knuth uses assembly language of a hypothetical machine in his Art of Computer Programmin
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by arocks 13y ago
Despite poor infrastructure in many areas, India has one of the best telecom infrastructure thanks to Sam Pitroda - the father of Indian telecom. From Wikipedia [1]: "As technology Advisor to the Prime Minister, Rajiv Gandhi in the 198
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by arocks 13y ago
Wouldn't a table have been a much better way of presenting this information? Also the user interface is a horrible timeline that gives no feedback while you mouse-over.
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by arocks 13y ago
Misleading. Please mention in the title that it was a study done for humour.
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by arocks 13y ago
I get the impression that you perceive building a "framework" as a self-aggrandising exercise created for the sole purpose of standardising software development into creating run-of-the-mill products. Such view would be too hard o
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by arocks 13y ago
Frameworks and libraries are tools of our trade. The reason to use them or not to use them depends on the context. While it is foolish to become a 'Backbone specialist' and look at every project with those eyes; it is equally fool
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Binary Clock(arunrocks.com)
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by arocks 13y ago
Also worth reading is "Don't come home to soulless Singapore" [1] that too went viral. [1]: http://sg.news.yahoo.com/your-view--don-t-come-home-to-soull...
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by arocks 13y ago
This is a great illustration of the difference between sites built with a CMS approach versus a custom built one, say using a web framework such as Django or Rails. It is usually easy for a non-programmer to build sites using a CMS but the
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by arocks 13y ago
or Haskell :)
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Real-time Applications and will Django adapt to it?(arunrocks.com)
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by arocks 13y ago
This is true. In the Q&A of this video [1], the creator of Z Mongo Admin mentions that the browser will hang if the collections are huge. [1]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yeF_b8EQcK0
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by arocks 13y ago
Was not sure what to expect when I first saw the title. It was a short documentary about the programming language Self highlighting some of its major features like modelessness and prototype based object oriented programming. The latter par
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by arocks 13y ago
A cool idea and very impressive time management (though I am not sure how much time he spent every day). I liked the fact that he spent very little time in polishing the graphics by selecting a simple enough setting and refrained from creat
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by arocks 13y ago
> in fact, I've heard that one of the criticisms of Django is that, in order to get to production quality, you essentially have to switch out every component of it with a third party. This is not necessarily true. Everything in Dja
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by arocks 13y ago
I think this is exciting and has a valid use case. The other day we were explaining Python list comprehensions which was heavily inspired by Haskell's list comprehensions. But it was no where as concise or expressive as Haskell. In man
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by arocks 13y ago
> "Tab-completion is now enabled by default in the interactive interpreter." Thanks! Now I don't have to do this on every box anymore for using Python.
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by arocks 13y ago
In case you are wondering too, the author finally chose musca as his default WM: http://crunchbang.org/forums/viewtopic.php?pid=206350#p20635...
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by arocks 13y ago
Of course, he is completely ignoring the continual Service Packs which keep fixing the bugs and adding features long after the OS has been shipped. Most of the time, windows users are advised to wait for the first or second service pack bef
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by arocks 13y ago
Don't understand why they are trying to fix what was not broken. Delicious was a fast and easy-to-use UI for social bookmarking. Over the last 3 or 4 years they made their UI progressively worse: replacing spaces for keyword separators
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by arocks 13y ago
Or pre-install Python on Windows like in all the other operating systems.
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by arocks 13y ago
Frameworks evolve and adapt to changing needs. But they try to stick to their core design philosophies. Django's philosophy is quite general[1] and might stand the test of time. Some of the reasons Rails and Django might fall into lega
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by arocks 13y ago
Netbooks was seen as a threat to both hardware manufacturers, due to their wafer thin margins, and software manufacturers, since they initially came out preloaded with Linux. The Wintel cartel quite deliberately killed it off.
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by arocks 13y ago
I think we are both talking the same thing. I was referring to the article which criticized the Infographic for its stress on form over function.
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by arocks 13y ago
Infographics sacrifice accuracy i.e. proportions, colors etc in favor of emotional appeal. Sometimes facts need to be packaged better for a greater impact. That's why they are primarily used for promotional rather than for reporting pu
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by arocks 13y ago
This should be the standard. Today, I'd argue that class based generic views are the most complex part of Django to learn. The concern is usually met with rather blunt responses like 'read the source code' or 'try harder
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by arocks 13y ago
This post captures very accurately the engineering education scene in India. I would add that many students today are actually aware of what they are getting into (Most of the times, they don’t need engineers but mere “coders”). Unless they
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by arocks 13y ago
Calibre is not only great for ebook management but an excellent command-line tool for converting between several ebook formats. It is like the swiss-army knife for managing ebooks.

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