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by sateesh 13y ago
In addition to the lectures what has made the course interesting to me is the vibrant, active "Discussion Forum" associated with this course. Ullman himself frequently posts explanation on some of the topics here. It seems there a
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by sateesh 13y ago
Chapter 10 of the book "Foundations of Computer Science" ( http://i.stanford.edu/~ullman/focs.html ) which is available online provides an excellent introduction to automata theory. After that you can start ref
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by sateesh 13y ago
One of the subtle shell script mistake which I was unaware was that if a shell script is modified, currently running instances of the script might fail [1]. 1. http://stackoverflow.com/questions/2285403
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by sateesh 13y ago
It is specious to say that India has not invaded anyone in past 3000 years are so. The idea of India as a country is a fairly recent one. May be with some liberty we can consider 1857, year of Sepoy Mutiny as the starting point for idea of
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by sateesh 13y ago
>> While ideally comments would be prolific ... I would rather put that the comments should be succinct rather being prolific. Better to put some explanation on tricky parts of the code as comments, and have method/function/
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Agreed, ritual and superstition are not the same. But both are similar in nature that one cannot rationally question the set of steps that are followed (as in ritual) or the belief (superstition). Most of the times they are supposed to be a
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by sateesh 13y ago
My point is there is no rational bias to distinguish between ritual and superstition and to tell that one form makes better sense than the other. In my opinion both doesn't make any good sense.
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You seems to be reasoning that rituals are _not_ inventions of ordinary people where as superstitions are, hence one should give more credence/weight to rituals. My point is rituals are creations of ordinary people, just that they are
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As I see it rituals are set of elaborate steps involving a lot of ceremony, where as most of superstitions are usually in form of pithy aphorisms. A lot of ceremony doesn't necessarily mean consistency, though it might give a semblance
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by sateesh 13y ago
>> is that space programs everywhere have good luck superstitions, many of them making less sense than a religious ritual. Why so ? How does a religious ritual makes more sense than good luck superstitions ?
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by sateesh 13y ago
Nicely put. Yes, programming is part art and we are not like machines that can work no matter in what state we are. But often we mask our procrastination/laziness blaming it on lot many things and waiting for a right moment to magicall
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by sateesh 13y ago
In my experience tiny breaks away from the workstation are far more helpful than the ones that need you to use the computer. I have found taking a break from a programming session in form of checking HN, twitter makes the mind all more mudd
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Oh that has already been done too, using perl :) http://stackoverflow.com/questions/4231382/regular-expressio... (Check the answer from tchrist)
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by sateesh 13y ago
I would recommend you to read "Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can't Stop Talking" by Susan Cain (if you already have not heard of/read it). It is not a self help book prophesying shallow slogans and qui
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:: Take them one by one: one or two is probably enough. Or carry and use a handkerchief.
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And then there is Joe's (Joe Armstrong) Law of Debugging :) "All errors will be plus/minus three statements of the place you last changed the program".
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Maybe you could have requested him/her to use headphones. Many a times in a situations similar to above I have requested my coworkers to use earphones, and usually they would comply.
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but "can you be ready before this date? IMHO right answer to this is, Yes we can be ready but we might have to scale down on some of the features. But in reality most of the time only the initial 'Yes' part is heard with
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by sateesh 13y ago
My main takeaway from the McConnel's book has been not to provide an estimate as a single point number (say something like it will be done in 5 weeks) but rather as a range (say something like 5-8 weeks), as providing a single point nu
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by sateesh 13y ago
Thanks for the course pointer. It seems to me that there is no new offering of this course in near future. Do you have any pointers to similar online courses related to VLSI CAD tools ?
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Lunch with the FT: Shin Dong-hyuk (The North Korean born in a gulag)(ft.com)
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by sateesh 13y ago
May be he was lucky and it worked for him. I am not sure that would work well all the times. It is not necessary that the skills you acquire working harder would make you still relevant (as tech lead or manager) when you are in your forties
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by sateesh 13y ago
While I agree with most of your comment, your statement that majority languish in poverty without even hope of a squared meal quite hyperbolic. Yes in India poverty level is high, but it is not that dire as your above statement sounds.
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by sateesh 13y ago
I think the better term is "lack of civic sense". I don't think there is a lack of social intelligence or such thing, I see it more as a plain apathy to anyone other than self and one's kins.
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I hope and think so. PyCon 2012 videos are available at: http://pyvideo.org/category/17/pycon-us-2012
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by sateesh 14y ago
Though I have yet to come across book titled "Effective Python", books like "Python Essential Reference" by David Beazly and "Python Cook Book" covers lot of ares that you mention above.
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I don't see your example as a trap a self-taught developer would fall into. The non-usage of enumerate just indicates that it is a code from some one who has started with python and any self taught developer who groks pydocs would eventuall
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by sateesh 14y ago
You can be in any part of the world to take these online course. As long as one has a decent internet connection, willingness to study, has time (effort) to devote to the offering they can take the course and learn. I think this can be deem
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by sateesh 14y ago
In similar vein here is a case of the programmer who couldn't login to his system when he entered password standing up. http://netlib.bell-labs.com/cm/cs/pearls/sec0510.html
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by sateesh 14y ago
A datapoint, the desire to own a property is quite deep rooted in India as well.

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