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vijayaggarwal
12y ago
> In a circular linked lists you can have easy access to end of the list. This is not true for circular linked lists in general. A few special cases where this is true: 1. If the list is doubly linked. 2. If the list maintains pointers t
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Whoa, did Super Mario Bros have a palette of just four colors? Amazing!
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Mobile A/B testing tool maker using Google CE to A/B test its own website
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Virtual Says It Can Emulate iOS Or Android Devices In The Cloud
(techcrunch.com)
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Around 8 years ago (the age of Google), perpetual beta was in vogue. So, the answer would have been always . These days (the age of iPhone, since iPhone is largely responsible for raising the bar of UX very high), we hardly see a public
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Read about the life and works of Alan Turing [1]. Not only did he do seminal work for invention of general purpose computer, he actually went on to study the limitations of this theoretical computer even before it became a practical reali
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Once, during an interview, the interviewer started asking me solutions to very real-world problems which I could immediately understand they must have been facing at that time. A high level discussion was fine to judge my ability, but he st
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Google has been adding lots of widgets to email recently, like RSVP on invitations, itinerary on flight booking emails, etc. These are pretty useful features and I believe a lot more are possible with the APIs being opened. However, I fee
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According to RFC 2617[1], Both Digest and Basic Authentication are very much on the weak end of the security strength spectrum. [1]: http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc2617#section-4.4
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Thanks! MongoDB and NodeJS are fairly big projects and take some experience to fully appreciate. Even Angular vs Ember is not a trivial decision and its better to have some experience with both. I agree with czbond's suggestion of star
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Oh yes, I also used to make casual games in flash for social platforms like facebook back in 2009. These days it's OpenGL and mobile. The market size is bigger and user experience better. Btw, 5m accounts in three months despite so man
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Since there are a lot of components involved, let's consider them separately instead of discussing the bundle as a whole. This also helps as M-E-A-N are very independent by design and can be used independently. In fact, we are currentl
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Disclaimer: I work for Visual Website Optimizer (VWO). Still, I will try to be as neutral as possible. > Bandit tests allow you to run as many variations at the same time as you want, versus A/B testing, which you limits to two. Tru
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Digital News Finally As Popular As Newspapers In The UK
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> http://domains.google.com > http://domains.google.com/ > https://domains.google.com/ > http://domains.google.com/about/ > https://domains.google
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In my original comment, I was not talking about poor service experience of domain name registrars. I was instead talking about the difficulty faced by an average SME owner in setting up DNS to point a domain to a hosted website. Visual webs
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Here in India, and probably in other developing countries too, google is making efforts to get small and medium businesses online. While it has offered easy website creators, the hassles of purchasing a domain name make the task difficult.
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Particularly interesting for game developers who can use it deeply customize maps to fit well into their gaming experience. I am tempted to build a monopoly-like game with the real world up for sale and purchase. And one like Need for Spe
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A cool dumb-looking smartwatch
(techcrunch.com)
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A quick and simple image placeholder service
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There are so may factors at play in determining the amount of gain from using such a service, e.g., 1. How widespread the usage is. The more widespread it is, the better the chance of finding the resource in the browser cache itself, instea
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Five ways Apple could push headphone technology forward
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[Edit]: added comment on Mozilla Persona. I would disagree. It's common knowledge (backed by many A/B tests) that shorter sign-up forms see less traffic drop. So, if OAuth can replace a number of things (name, email, password, ema
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FxA is primarily for Firefox's own products and services. Mozilla Persona (confusing name - personas is what they called firefox themes as well) is closer.
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We already have a fairly good solution to this problem in OAuth. However, current popular implementations of OAuth are third-party owned which is not desirable for many reasons (for example, google won't use facebook owned OAuth, and v
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You can still do Integration Testing with the system as a whole, although it is supposed to be done after Unit Testing. The disadvantage due to absence of Unit Testing will be that it will be difficult it isolate bugs found during Integrati
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It depends a great deal on what's your near-term and long-term professional goal. The first one will advance your career in engineering, and the second one will further you on the path of entrepreneurship. That said, these two paths ar
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Drones chased from National Parks after series of incidents
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I want to build a variant of TypeScript for a personal project. This seems pretty useful for that.
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Big retail chains in India are finding it difficult to compete with mom-and-pop stores primarily because of two reasons - 1) mom-and-pop stores operate at very low profit margins, and 2) weak taxation enforcement for small business owners.
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