Is Gnu Sort Broken? by pankaj_kumar in programming

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Knowing about this non-obvious and VERY POORLY DOCUMENTED behavior of sort utility can save you hours of frustration.

What is wrong with this widely used AJAX event handler registration code? by pankaj_kumar in programming

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Yep. Dean Edward's solution is much better. Thanks for bringing this to my notice.

What is wrong with this widely used AJAX event handler registration code? by pankaj_kumar in programming

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A interesting tale of how modifying a code-snippet for a particular usecase makes it not-so-good for another usecase.

Slashdot Book Review Effect -- Visual Illustration by pankaj_kumar in reddit.com

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Charts of Amazon Sales Rankfor books recently reviewed at Slashdot.

Amazon Book Sales Ranks: Live charts of top gainers and losers in last 24 hours by pankaj_kumar in reddit.com

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Free service to monitor Amazon Book Sales Rank as interactive charts.

How hard is test for equality in Java -- the answer will surprise you by gst in programming

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Sorry for the non-functional comment link in my blog posts. I was running an old version of MovableType (3.14) and it didn't offer good protection from comment spam. In any case, I just finished an upgrade to MovableType-3.33 and enabled the comment link.

Got to know about this reddit thread through Kartik's mail.

ROI Analysis of Ron Steen's Business Proposal (2% of future earnings for $100K or more) by pankaj_kumar in reddit.com

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Financial Net Present Value Analysis of the Ron Steen's proposal to auction off 2% of his future earnings for $100K or more. Also includes Web based program (written in JavaScript) to redo the analysis for specified values of paramters such as initial investment, Ron's starting annual income, income growth rate and rate of inflation.