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Lucky him, atleast he got to face tech interviews. As for me I never got the chance to prove myself. I got my call, was inquired about my projects and current offers by HR and then…

Ken Thompson, Guido Von Rossum, James Gosling : Good going Google.

To make a Lisp interpreter you need to know Lisp. But I liked the idea of writing a shell.

As told by the blog author in the comments: " HTML + CSS3 is Turing complete (github.com) – http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2300836 "

Mine is 2009 model and I have yet to face this issue. Although my Optical drive died this January and it throws out DVDs when inserted but that is the only problem I have faced so …

"Bounce Evolution" is supposedly the best game available on N900. Although N900 itself was never a successful platform but the game had immersive quality, just like Angry Birds. [ …

Apple did far better then Microsoft atleast. http://www.geekwire.com/2011/bings-japan-tweet-tasteless-mar...

Just yesterday I was unable to access twitter from my university. It blocked me by saying something like 'API calls exceeded'. A university have generally a single IP address and t…

>Nokia has always "gotten" the phone side True, but my current phone N900 is weaker in terms of a phone. It is a hacker's delight with a real terminal, apt-get etc but the phone ex…

Just 2 hours back I though of writing my project report in LaTex, but then after 1 hour of tinkering I switched back to MS Office because I needed to get work done today. May be if…

Yes, they do. In India the average price of sending an SMS is 1 rupee, the same as making a call for 60 seconds. EDIT: Which carrier ? Unless you buy SMS pack, the default rate per…

I highly value "Programming Pearls" by Jon Bentley in this regard. He proposes a problem and then solves it in naive way followed by the right way/ways. I realized the importance o…

Not counting 7 years of GWBASIC on MSDOS, my first experience was with LOGO in class II. REPEAT 360 [FD 1 RT 1] for making a circle, nostalgic. :) EDIT: Downloaded BASIC from http:…