I was browsing through facebook today (a facebook user visited my blog and I clicked on the incoming link to take a look). I found moneylet, a social bookmarking site for financial news. There was an item on Forbes report…
I was browsing through facebook today (a facebook user visited my blog and I clicked on the incoming link to take a look). I found moneylet, a social bookmarking site for financial news. There was an item on Forbes report…
I got this email as a Rapid Rewards member from Southwest Airlines today. It made me happy. If you do not use Southwest, some background is in order. There are no seat assignments in Southwest Airlines. You take seats on…
I was born in a city and lived my life in some of the most crowded cities in the world – Chennai, Bangalore, Hyderabad, Bombay, New York. About 10 years ago I moved to the Silicon Valley and now spend…
Vigorous Writing is Concise I borrowed this phrase from Jon Bentley, who in turn was quoting William Strunk Jr.’s observation in Elements of Style. Jon says that this is true in both English and Programming. In this chapter titled The…
From OLPC Wiki Children need to learn learning, which is primarily acquired through the passion that comes from access, the ability to make things, to communicate and to express. Writing a computer program, while seemingly esoteric, is in fact the…
OLPC Software – Software that runs on One Laptop per Child OLPC Wiki – The knowledge base
The Interrupt Driven Life I am on to about 5-7 such activities, myself with one or two primary ones that take up most of my time. Hacker News Just discovered it today. Through Reddit. Hype Cycle Technology Trigger ->Peak of…
For those of you who are not into software, unit tests are small test scripts/programs to check the health of software development. Unit tests are used to make sure that the code runs as expected and when you make changes…
Here is a nice list from 100 Blog Topics I hope you write. The nice thing about this list is that you and I can take the same topic and may end up writing very different things. I wonder whether…
