Here are the 3 languages I’ll be focussing on for the rest of my career: * JavaScript: Because it is ushering in a revolution for web programming. * Erlang: Because it scales linearly with cores, is fault-tolerant, and is the wisest language around. See Evan Miller’s post on why he
A lot of Go enthusiasts are saying that Go is a better Erlang, all the while only pointing out Erlang’s flaws. They’d be better off by learning from Erlang’s Actor model and shared-nothing architecture. In Erlang, a faulty process wouldn’t take down the entire program with
Lets face it – Dribbble makes you cry. The luscious designs really make you think whether optimising your algorithms is the right way for better (and quicker) way to achieve UX goodness. However, I’m yet to come across any web app that actually uses such amazing UI skins. I leads
MIT’s Technology Review has announced its India TR35 list for 2011 representing innovators, all under age 35, who exemplify innovation in business and technology. Eighteen young men and women, all under the age of 35 are a part of the list of hottest technology innovators from India. Coming from
Experience is only a chance to learn. It does not guarantee any lessons or skills. A resume for someone who worked at a company for ten years, even a fancy one, ensures only that they learned how not to get fired. Maybe they slept with the boss, or were the
“I want to be first. I vehemently want to be first. First in my profession…For that I give all the thought, all the power, that is in me. To stand at the head of my rank: it is all I ask…so I have struggled and fought. I have
There are two ways to convince people that you are intelligent. Talk fast. Or talk slow. Fast talkers overwhelm you with the sheer quantity of information they can project. Surely someone that talks this fast must also be able to think fast! Slow talkers convince you of their wisdom by
Generally people are not obsessed with their work. Be it school work or office work, many do it because there is no other way round.. This thought post is not about them. It is not about the people who do just because they have to do, but about the people
* It is best to declare variables in one statement, i.e. use the single var pattern. * Avoid eval. Use $.parseJSON(). * Pass arguments as objects rather than individual variables * Take care to structure your function body properly, or else you’ll fall prey to hoisting. Declaring local variables anywhere with a
Would you continue to use Google if it charged you a very tiny fee for every search? No ads would be displayed in this case. Similarly, would you continue to use any other web service such as Youtube or Facebook or Twitter if they charged you a very tiny fee
This is a game that Aldrin and I developed for our Spring 2010 class. We used the Unity3D Game Development Engine. Since we didn’t want to spend any time fabricating the 3D models, and focus only on the programming part, we decided to go with the stock models provided
How about we have a lender of some sort, which provides housing loans to entrepreneurs only? This post is a reaction to an article I saw a while ago on Pluggd.in, entitled “Housing Loans Kill Entrepreneurship”. I am thinking of the following parameters: * The lender could own the house,
Apple
Steve Jobs and his team sure did a great job of getting out the iPad.. And what a wonderful price point. However, there are some things that the iPad v1.0 lack. As with the original iPod and the iPhone 2G, the most desirable features will surely show up in
India
The vast literature, the magnificent, opulence, the majestic sciences, the great realized should, the soul touching music, the awe inspiring gods. It is already becoming clearer that a chapter which has a western beginning will have to have an Indian ending if it is not to end in the self
Design
The letterpress type style, or inset type style as some would call it, is quite easy to do in Photoshop. Here I’ll outline the steps I took to achieve this effect. Rather than use Photoshop, there are always a couple of ways you can achieve this using just CSS.
Random
1. Reason is highly over-rated. 2. If you need more data to prove your point, you’ll never have enough data to prove your point. 3. Analysis paralysis. 4. “Time flies like an arrow. Fruit flies like a banana.” (Groucho) 5. You already know what to do. 6. You’re
Design
Made this in Photoshop!
Writing
I have often heard and read these days that the art of the essay is dying. Magaiznes are churning out smaller and smaller bytes of text that the reader can digest in seconds. The blame lies not on the texting generation but on the schools and universties that demand bullet
iPhone
Managed to click a few photos of my first iPhone with the Nokia N81
Design
I will be posting the papers I write for Champlain courses. I am required to maintain the “academic standards” and thus my language in these kind of posts might be dry and boring. But I have really done research for these. So take them seriously. Shneiderman, B. “Universal Usability.” Communications
Photography
Apple
Here’s the phone that started it all.. Check out the yuck-ness with which Steve Jobs introduces the ROKR..
Travel
I remember David (Brodie’s dad) asking me on my second day here what are the places I would like to visit when I am with them. I said I have no such list. I just managed to say Apple Store. And that was the only place I thought I
Photography
Fortunately Brodie lives by the beach.. I went for a walk there alone today.. The beach here is unlike the Juhu beach.. Totally deserted and clean.. And it has a fully functional refreshment room also..