April 2012
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On Code etc.: The Haskell / Snap ecosystem is as... →
dbpatterson:
This may be controversial, and all of the usual disclaimers apply - this is based on my own experience using both of the languages/frameworks to do real work on real projects. Your mileage may vary. Because this is something that has the potential to spiral into vague comparisons, I am going to…
September 2011
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hgrc - my hg config
Beware, hg’s defaults are annoying you would want to modify the defaults for sure.
Here is my config.
January 2011
1 post
“Am I the only Tumblr user who is finding random dns resolve failure when using...”
December 2010
1 post
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My XMonad Config
Here is my xmonad config required to run xmonad inside gnome session with hacks for youtube, flash full screen video etc.
Just copy paste it to .xmonad/.xmonad.hs and issue a xmonad —recompile command.
To make xmonad as the window manager for gnome, issue the following command,
gconftool-2 -s /desktop/gnome/session/required_components/windowmanager xmonad --type string
Xmonad config:
November 2010
1 post
My Git Config
Here is my git config. It has colors for the common commands (http://jblevins.org/log/git-colors) few aliases for whatchaged, diffs yesterday and changes in the way git log shows output. Instead of the time, it tells (10 days ago etc). It also has git lg which shows a pretty graph
May 2010
2 posts
Quick hacks for emacs configuration
You might have to reload emacs quite often to see how your configuration works. Here is the quick reload
now use M x reload-emacs. There you go!
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#CouchDB does not support chaining map/reduce
#couchdb does not support chaining of map/reduce jobs. people in mailing lists suggest creating temporary databases that will hold the output of the map function(again a json doc) and run map jobs on it. Will work like a charm. Sounds like what we do in traditional RDBMS world. Chaining map/reduce is basic to any map/reduce based db is what i thought. Will that be added to future versions of...
January 2010
3 posts
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Deadlocks and Legislature
When two trains approach each other at a crossing, both shall come to a full stop and neither shall start up again until the other has gone.
— Illogical statute passed by the Kansas Legislature
Wow, what an example for deadlock!
Source - Wikipedia article on Deadlock
“Impact of earthquake in Haiti. Gruelling sight - http://bit.ly/8La8N0”
– Source
“Piaget’s Theory . The best-known developmentally-based conception of...”
– Jean Piaget
December 2009
6 posts
1 tag
“Fake Hillary : Global Warming is caused by a Man.
Fake Sara Paulin: And i...”
– From Saturday Night Live!
“On the theory side, recognizing a problem has been harder than solving it. Since...”
– Leslie Lamport on Some of the important problems in distributed systems.
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“Set theory serves as Foundations of Mathematics. The significance of this is...”
– Set Theory - Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy
“With the exception of a few girls who were not unintelligent, but simply lacked...”
– Jean Piaget on To Understand is to Invent - The Future of Education
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“To understand is to discover, or reconstruct by rediscovery, and such conditions...”
– Jean Piaget on To Understand is to Invent - The Future of Education
“That’s my favourite and a kick in my butt!
Most great scientists know...”
– I love your quote “it’s always best to assume a yes for anything you want to do in life.” Going on my wall now!
Richard Hamming: You and Your Research
I love this. On a broader scale, I’ve learned that it’s always best to assume a yes for anything you want to do in life.
(via timoni)
(via...
November 2009
2 posts
We need: A programmable Twitter client
Isnt Tumblr close enough to this execpt for the focussed discussion part? It allows you to do pretty much everything!
senthilnambi:
Hmm Supertweets. That sounds familiar. (Most of the posts are gone, but there is enough.)
rsscloud:
Unix had a shell language. DOS had a batch language. Lotus 1-2-3 had its macro language. Emacs is a programming tool as much as it is a text editor. We have...
October 2009
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September 2009
16 posts
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“Evolution is a fact. Beyond Reasonable doubt, beyound serious doubt, beyond...”
– Richard Dawkins on The Greatest Show on Earth
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Windows NT vs Linux, Bloated everywhere
Is Linux Kernel is Bloated, Torvalds says yes its so!, But Is it not already self evident? Also, here is another one - “So do you think each version of Linux kernel is really providing marginal new features, all the while increasing the size of the kernel ?”. Also, “The word bloat is historically associated with Microsoft Windows because each major updates in the form of...
“You can say, “It just plugs right into your existing framework, it works...”
– Simon Peyton Jones on Functional Programming in the book, Coder’s at Work
Douglas Crockford on Internet
The whole web is built on one mistake over the other. We have a big pile of accidents - Douglas Crockford
“Thats not teaching how to program, thats how you teach where the semi-colon...”
Awesome story of Procastination →
9970.) Every day I wake up and do the same thing...
(via blogsecret)
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“The happiest of people don’t necessarily have the best of everything; they just...”
– Karen S.Magee (via amberjarvis)
9963.) I love you, yes you, reading this. Dont be...
(via blogsecret)
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100 Followers in Twitter
hurray!!! Just crossed the 100 follower mark in twitter :) :) :)
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“She did not know the nature of her loneliness. The only words that named it...”
– Great words!
Ayn Rand - Atlas Shrugged (via ordinarythings)
March 2009
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Curious Case : The Inquisitive Child
“When you tell the kid that Earth revolves round the sun, the kid asks, why?”
“When you tell the kid not to eat without washing hands the kids asks, why?”
Our first reaction to such a question is fairly straightforward. “Wow! What an inquisitive child!”. We always encourage inquisitiveness from children and everyone agrees that an inquisitive child is more intelligent. Lets try to explore this...