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by arocks 13y ago
Ah, ten years of separating content from style. It promised then that if designed properly, any page from the last decade can look contemporary by just changing the CSS. I think CSS Zen Garden is itself a proof of that.
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by arocks 13y ago
Misleading headline alert. All code is debuggable. Logging, mentioned in the article, is more similar to code tracing. It may or may not be useful, because the log might omit information crucial for debugging. There is no way someone can wr
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by arocks 13y ago
I recently moved my blog from Jekyll to Pelican and wrote about it [1]. Functionally some of the differences I found are: * Jekyll output directory structure has a one-to-one correspondence with its input. While Pelican tries to standardize
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by arocks 13y ago
Agree with a lot of points and appreciate someone writing it down. Way back in the days, I used to be a pencil and paper type programmer; there used to be very little distractions like social networks or even an online help systems. As a re
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by arocks 13y ago
> Programming is like a house builder. Sorry, but that analogy is completely wrong. I would recommend reading Fred Brook's "The Mythical Man-Month" (among many other books on software estimation) to understand why. He argues that unlik
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by arocks 13y ago
In fact Winzip recognizes extension-less README files quite well. It shows them in a different color and most users understand that it is something to be viewed. The name 'README' is pretty obvious. While we are at it, do we still need to u
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by arocks 13y ago
Implying that the Job's quote can promise future innovation is a bit of a stretch. It is a good story, I agree. Without the occasional frictions and collisions, it is almost impossible to make a group of highly talented people produce great
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by arocks 13y ago
It is not fully scripted. The game has enough random elements that it might result in an unplayably hard scenario e.g. key portal blocked by dozens of mobs. Hence the AI must be smart enough to reduce the intensity of the generated content
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by arocks 13y ago
Series 40 was one of the best operating systems built by Nokia. Unlike the Series 60/Symbian series, these Nokia phones are snappy and do not slow down with time. These feature phones were quite capable for basic phone features, but never e
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Why Your IT Project May Be Riskier Than You Think [pdf](arxiv.org)
2 points by arocks 13y ago|0 comments
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by arocks 13y ago
Direct link to the research mentioned in the article: http://arxiv.org/pdf/1304.0265v1.pdf It concludes that Big Bang risky projects should be avoided and smaller projects with comprehensive contingency plans should be preferred instead.
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by arocks 13y ago
Indian Astrology is quite a lucrative field. Almost every other person in India believes in it, including wealthy businessmen who are interested in everything from calculating the right time to start a new venture to the most numerologicall
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by arocks 13y ago
Shakuntala Devi had also inspired an entire generation to read and understand her books about recreational mathematics. Her books like 'Puzzles to Puzzle You' were used to prepare for interviews in IT companies which used to have several ro
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by arocks 13y ago
I am not sure if every product benefits from reducing Cognitive Overhead. Some of the areas where it would work are novel technologies (like Shazam or Wii) or mass market products. How many of us would use a music player that just had start
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by arocks 13y ago
Not just news, it is often better to be unplugged most of the time if you like to get your creative juices flowing. The constant distractions are actually the real roadblocks to critical thinking and creativity these days.
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by arocks 13y ago
The spider has been extremely well done. Spent a lot of time playing with it.
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by arocks 13y ago
You are right, such terms are ambiguous. But I would be happy even if employees playing the _same role_ achieving the same results get paid the same. But that is often not the case.
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by arocks 13y ago
> We always have to support HTML5 because so much of our traffic comes from email. When we were [serving] a smaller group [of users], we were hoping we could duplicate all that mobile web work to make our clients faster in terms of code
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by arocks 13y ago
Job market is just like any other market - governed by supply and demand. Currently, it is not efficient. In fact, not even close to being efficient. This is because, a key characteristic of an efficient market is perfect sharing of informa
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by arocks 13y ago
Service orientation allows specialization of architectural components. If you want to build on scale, it is easier to replicate specialized components than a generalized one. It also benefits from better fault tolerance. Additionally, servi
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Easy and Practical Web scraping in Python(arunrocks.com)
1 points by arocks 14y ago|0 comments
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by arocks 14y ago
Actually, the standard Django documentation on forms is an excellent guide: https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/1.5/topics/forms/
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by arocks 14y ago
This is how Emacs is different from other editors. Like the blog posts show - you start with a need and try to find how the existing Emacs LISP code is written. Next, you try to customize it to your need. Finally, you assign it to a keyboar
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by arocks 14y ago
Pyglet is vastly more pythonic than pygame for writing games. I have found it much easier to teach pyglet for newcomers and the code is easier to read too. Since it uses ctypes, it is very easy to port pyglet to a platform that supports Ope
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by arocks 14y ago
Since smart phones became ubiquitous, most of my friends have stopped wearing watches. The phone already tells you the time. So I find the trend of every smart phone manufacturer trying to built a smart watch as extremely ironical.
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by arocks 14y ago
> This is damaging to consumer interest and will undermine the Internet. If that is the case, then people will eventually stop using Firefox and sites will continue to put annoying popups that confusingly say 'We use cookies, do you agr
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by arocks 14y ago
Let's also clarify why experience is misleading in general. The candidate might have no experience but could have been an early programming enthusiast with tons of projects under his belt. Current recruiting systems reject such talent or of
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by arocks 14y ago
A trivial speed optimisation for the python example would be to use sets instead of lists for e.g. change line 8 to: NOUNS = {l.strip().lower() for l in f}
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by arocks 14y ago
> the RSS protocol was still dying because most people have moved on to other ways of consuming news Any evidence to validate this claim? Popularity of Twitter or Facebook doesn't have to be at the cost of RSS. Even if it was, it doesn'
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Moving Blogs to Pelican(arunrocks.com)
2 points by arocks 14y ago|0 comments

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