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Here is a detailed crowdsourced answer to the interview question ""What happens when you type google.com into your browser's address box and press enter?"" https://github.com/alex/…

I think it is time to move on with the critique of Jobs' bio and life.I read the whole bio and the net net I got out of it is that 1)Awesome design not just has aesthetic value but…

In a way I owe my job @ IBM which I got right out of college to that book.Of the many many C books at that time , K&R was obviously the one that was head and shoulders above the re…

The same thing can be said for pretty much every invention/innovation ever made even if it was a huge leap from the prior art - but then he was the one who did it and I guess that …

I think what they mean is for a typical average non technical user PCs do get slower as time progresses whereas chromebook they claim will just get faster

easy to say that in hindsight - IBM hired Lou Gerstner when it was at the brink of sinking and his previous experience did not have much overlap on what IBM did - he still managed …

The reason in my mind leadership is so valued is that there are problems worth solving that are too big for any one person to solve- anything from building companies to conquering …

I have seen several such posts on why working in a start-up type environment is great and I do agree with the points in such posts but what is missing is any appreciation of the ch…

can anybody explain how is Google able to do this or point to an explanation of it?

Interestingly India has so many people in qualifiers but none in the finals, now I don't know what that says about India!

Unrelated to the content of the article but by the UI - is it just me or does have pitch black background with white text is a bad design for the eye?

The whole idea that we try so hard to believe in "Everybody is born equal and we are the masters of our destiny" maybe be evolutionary in nature .I was reading a book introducing e…

Sometimes I wonder , what if there is no free will ( Its not like we know Free Will exists for sure yet) - This whole charade of using your drive and determination or the lack ther…

No great thing was ever accomplished without being passionate.Even the research field which is all about intellectualism needs you to be passionate about your ideas and ploughing a…

Einstein is an extreme example of such a case - when I read his biography the thing that caught me as very interesting is that he was able to immerse himself in physics irrespectiv…

I have had several instances in my life where I dived into what were difficult things for me with gusto - for example when I was in school and was trying to write a program in C to…