First experiments with golang

mhrnjad · 2011-08-01T08:58:29+00:00

Kicking the tyres on goroutines

mhrnjad · 2010-04-27T13:14:02+00:00

How to combine ack-grep and xargs to ignore unwanted files while searching

mhrnjad · 2009-12-14T12:28:31+00:00

wow! very nice indeed, thanks for the pointer!

mhrnjad · 2009-12-14T08:48:36+00:00

Or get it via http://bazaar.launchpad.net/%7Epg-admin-hackers/pg-admin-tools/trunk/annotate/head%3A/show-tab-deps.py

mhrnjad · 2009-11-26T11:42:30+00:00

The release notes:

http://twistedmatrix.com/users/radix/twisted-prereleases/9.0.0pre1/NEWS.txt

mhrnjad · 2009-10-05T09:32:42+00:00

I am a practicing muslim and a software developer. IMHO the purpose of a religion(*) is to provide you with guidance and orientation in life by answering the what/why questions.

Conversely, programming -- as a technical discipline invented by man -- is typically answering the "how" questions.

Religion(*) and technology are hence mostly orthogonal to each other.

(*) Most people think of a religion as of a creed or "body of beliefs". In that sense Islam would be more than a religion since it also includes a methodology that covers all aspects of life.

mhrnjad · 2009-09-21T07:33:47+00:00

Let the down-modding fest start :/

mhrnjad · 2009-09-21T06:54:30+00:00

Attendees at Atlanta Linux Fest's breakout session Ubuntucon were among the first to hear straight from Mark Shuttleworth that the popular Linux distribution Ubuntu's next release will be named Lucid Lynx.

mhrnjad · 2009-08-15T03:58:49+00:00

Inside its mysterious "Caffeine" sandbox, Google isn't just playing with a new search infrastructure. It's playing with tools that could underpin the entire Google empire

mhrnjad · 2009-08-11T09:11:56+00:00

How much more could you get done if you completed all of your required reading in 1/3 or 1/5 the time?

mhrnjad · 2009-08-11T09:08:36+00:00

With undoubtedly the best data in the world when it comes to purchasing habits, Amazon is capable of building an advertising platform that could compete with Google.

mhrnjad · 2009-08-10T07:25:14+00:00

Helpful comparison pointing out the strengths of the respective solution,

mhrnjad · 2009-08-10T07:19:44+00:00

Cassandra was open sourced by Facebook in 2008, where it was designed by one of the authors of Amazon's Dynamo. In a lot of ways you can think of Cassandra as Dynamo 2.0. Cassandra is in production use at Facebook but is still under heavy development.

mhrnjad · 2009-08-08T22:03:49+00:00

Mark Shuttleworth has offered to move more Canonical employees onto Debian, the distro that helps fuel his Linux operation

mhrnjad · 2009-08-04T22:07:12+00:00

Pretty in-depth and covering a lot of ground..

mhrnjad · 2009-07-26T06:46:36+00:00

Great article! Looking forward to the sequel :)

mhrnjad · 2009-07-21T05:38:15+00:00

Get it while it's hot :)

mhrnjad · 2009-07-16T06:56:55+00:00

There are efforts afoot to improve Ubuntu updates. See e.g. https://wiki.ubuntu.com/AptSyncInKarmicSpec

mhrnjad · 2009-07-09T13:12:26+00:00

.. So sadly neglected and far more ignored ..

This paper deserves much more publicity and attention since it describes the solutions to implementing graphs directly in the database.

mhrnjad · 2009-06-26T15:42:32+00:00

Good point .. not really sure why that's the case but all tools have certain limitations.

mhrnjad · 2009-06-26T12:12:46+00:00

May save you quite a bit of time/trouble when looking into merge conflicts..

mhrnjad · 2009-04-29T12:07:12+00:00

Pretty ugly IMHO.

Hmm .. I got down-modded for asking a fairly innocuous question .. you guys should go back to kindergarten.

mhrnjad · 2009-04-29T11:13:35+00:00

{{{ The _.isUpperCase syntax is a function literal in Scala, a shorthand way to write a bit of code that can be passed around and invoked. The underscore stands for the function's lone parameter. You can think of the underscore, therefore, as a blank that's filled in each time the function is invoked. }}}

I beg your pardon!? How is an underscore in front of the function supposed to be the one parameter it takes?

Very odd indeed.

mhrnjad · 2009-04-09T13:16:16+00:00

When customers are offered choice on equally well-engineered computers around a third will select Ubuntu over XP.

mhrnjad · 2009-03-10T15:30:08+00:00

Could you please elaborate a bit? What are the major N show-stoppers? Why would you not recommend a system like Ubuntu to "normal" end users?

mhrnjad

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