You know you have been wandering too much on the web, when you read a newspaper headline "RSS conference from March 11" and think, "Oh, Great! They have a RSS conference in India! ", only to realise a bit later that RSS here means the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh, and not the RSS protocol for syndication
In case you have some spare time to donate, you can help GNOME reduce its memory bloat! And in recognition for this donation you can also pick some handful bounties. Link to the MemoryReduction wiki. As quoted at the site,
The plan is to reduce the amount of memory that Gnome applications consume. Gnome is barely usable on a machine with 128 MB of RAM; contrast this with Windows XP, which is very snappy on such a configuration.
Down with fever and extreme cold. And the Bangalore climate isn't helping either! Looks like its much hotter now here than in Chennai or Trivandrum!
Amazon has a development center in India and they have an interesting blog on blogspot too.
Update: Even though the novel was fast-paced, and the author had done his research well, the climax seems straight out of a bollywood flick. Other than the climax, a readable novel.
The Google India Code Jam 2005 Qualification round results are out. The qualifiers are being individually intimated of the result. Here is some info of what i understood of the selection process. A total of ~2500 people participated in the Qualification round. The qualification round was conducted in 20 online 'rooms', with 10 sets of questions. So two rooms shared a question set. The top 50 scorers in each set made it past the qualification round. That gives them 10*50 = 500 qualifiers for the next round. However due to internet connectivity issues a good number of people couldn't properly attend the test on Sunday. For these people, a makeup test is being conducted today evening starting at 6pm IST. So the final number of people for the next round may be slightly above 500. One interesting comment made by one of the contest admins was that they had to disqualify about 300 people who they suspect have been involved in cheating! Thats a pretty good percentage of the total number!
The next important moment in my life was in 1955 when I decided to become a programmer; I took that decision because I had concluded that of theoretic physics and programming, programming embodied the greatest intellectual challenge - Edsger W. Dijkstra
A blog that posts free fonts that don't suck
Another article about the Google founders.
Michael Brundage on "Working at Microsoft". A nice and interesting read.
After listening to days and days of ranting from bloggers about Autolink, someone has come up with a script that webmasters can insert in their webpages, which effectively kills Autolink.
This story of Saurabh Singh proves how the press is ready to just jump over any sensational story without really verifying the authenticity of the events. Coverage also by BoingBoing. Also try Google search on nasa exam for the press reports which reported the lad's success(!) in the exam.
Doesn't it make sense to have fingerprint identification for voting, instead of the voter id cards we are given? This should also prevent bogus voting to a considerable extent. Agreed that it will not prevent people from capturing entire polling booths and then mass voting for the candidate of their choice, but it will atleast make sure misrepresenting identity during voting would not happen.
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This year's competition rewards programmers who can plan ahead. As before, we'll announce a problem and give you three days to solve it. Two weeks later, we'll announce a change to the problem specification and give you one day to adapt your program to the new spec. And you guessed it: the second half will be worth considerably more than the first.That is an interesting competition idea!
I got this prompt when i plugged in my Sandisk USB drive into my Windows machine!
Look at the third entry in the list of options i have!