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I built https://brickwallacademy.com/ to practise sql challenges as part of a sql course I was conducting for some students.

I once had to fix a Rails project where the original developer chose not to use ActiveRecord, ActiveJob or any of the Rails built in features. Not sure why he wanted to go that rou…

How does firestore fare in terms of reliability? I heard it is a cleaner and more scalable version of Firebase.

I think it is really hard to compete with Amazon on cost. That is Amazon's strength and you will most likely lose that battle unless the government has some kind of protective meas…

Amazon is not doing a great job either. They shipped a Macbook Air when I had ordered a Macbook Pro. They didn't release my replacement until their supposedly superior system regis…

Play Framework

I would also try to build in as many self-service features that you can so that you are not bugged with routine maintenance requests such as adding master data. Otherwise, all main…

Flipkart's customer base is completely different. A large percentage of their customers will probably never own a desktop let alone access their application on one. Front is an app…

I have built a couple of apps running Play on Java and I like it. I still prefer Rails if the customer is starting on a clean slate but Play Java has worked out pretty well.

SEEKING WORK - Chennai, India, Remote I'm a full stack web developer with over 14 years of experience. I've been working on Play Framework, Rails, AWS & Ember for the past year. Cu…

Anand doesn't like playing long games. Carlsen doesn't give an inch even when he is down. Regardless of rating differences, Anand's game was in bad shape in 2013 and it just contin…

It isn't true just for a Stanford graduate audience. Extreme poverty and discrimination will shock just about anybody who hasn't seen it. I live in India in a nice city and interac…

I don't know where he got that idea from. Look at the recent candidates chess tournament, there were only two players in their twenties and the winner was 44. Yeah, the world champ…

Chennai, Remote, Contract|Part Time Stack: Play Framework, Scala, Java, Spring Integration Contact: ramkalari at gmail Looking to work on interesting Scala projects.

Play is simpler compared to Spring but idiomatic Play code also requires you to learn reactive programming, something you probably won't do in Spring MVC.

Having done many ALM integrations in the last year, Atlassian has been the most pleasant to work with in the enterprise space. They are young and modern compared to the other dinos…

I was working through the coursera functional programming course on scala which is modeled on SICP. While the content is really good, it suffers from the same problems pointed out …

I took the course and I found it very useful even though I had done good amount of work with databases before. The sections on relational algebra and relational models are really g…

The best cs book by a mile. One can't help but fall in love with programming after reading SICP. I'm now reading Peter Norvig's Paradigms of AI Programming. It's another classic. I…

I started playing around with Go on GAE just yesterday. I will probably try out a side project on Revel and see how it goes.

I was a big fan of Manmohan Singh and used to be a vocal supporter. I had high hopes too that we finally have someone who understands what India needs but his leadership through th…

I think Manmohan Singh gets far too much credit for the reforms. Those who have studied Indian Economics will know that liberalization was forced on us. We were close to bankruptcy…

Given that nearly 20,000 students completed ai-class, I think the number for this course will be much bigger than 3-4000.

It was a very well designed course and Tim is a fantastic teacher. I scored a 100 but I wouldn't say the course was easy. For the most part, it was obvious. I found some of the que…

Actually, I've found many live classes incredibly boring and the lectures uninspiring. Passion is a function of the instructor and not the media. The really good teachers would do …