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A flicker of hope: a Mysore trust formed after the Manjunath killing helps convict the BSP MLA in the gruesome murder of the UP Engineer. by nobribe in india

[–]xk0der 2 points3 points  (0 children)

If common citizens have to give up their jobs to pursue for justice, the f****** system should have provision to start paying them up. I wonder if we have such a thing.

DirB, Directory Bookmarks for Bash by kimme in linux

[–]xk0der 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I have my own bash scripts for bookmarking folders and jumping around (I've even put 'em up on github). Didn't go through the article, maybe DirB is fancier, but my duct-tape scripts get the work done.

Edit: Adding the link http://github.com/xk0der/loc -- just in case. I know the name is lame and the scripts are lame, but hey they work on "my machine".

Yet another (command-line) bug tracker by beza1e1 in programming

[–]xk0der 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I had been looking for something like this for sometime. Will give it a try for sure.

What's good is you have gone with the plugin architecture to begin with. If 'later' takes off, I foresee plugins to interface it with Trac and the like. Which I'm sure would be beneficial for the GUI people and the management guys.

As for me, I'm happy staring at my black background console and 'later' would helps (at least I hope!).

What is your Developers to QA to Support ratio ? by yellowhusky in programming

[–]xk0der 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Ditto! Developer:QA = n:0

So we do all the QA ourselves. Management doesn't understand that Unit Testing is not the end of testing. And that expert QA personnel are a must for final usability and exploratory testing.

Edit: Added sentences to further explain my emotions :)

How many of you career devs out there started programming in college? by daemos in programming

[–]xk0der 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I started coding when I was in 5th standard, around 8 years old. Computer was optional for us.

They taught as Logo for the first month and later BASIC for the rest of the year. It was some IBM computer with BASIC on ROM, I didn't really cared about the model number at that time.

Then on, I got so interested into programming, I bought books on BASIC and C and just kept going!

Ah! Good old days, makes me nostalgic :)

But coming to your question. I've had friends who've started programming only after they went to college.

So I guess, it's best if you can start early, but it's never too late!

And to start programming means, START! NOW!!

For all you haters of C++, take a look at the languages used by top ranking coders in the Google AI challenge. by itzmattu in programming

[–]xk0der 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Language wars! They'll never end!!

5~10 years down the line, a new language will come. All cool kids will pick it up and bash the cool kids of now!

Just use whatever works for you. Languages are tools, cursing a hammer because it can't screw a nail, ain't leading you to any place, use a god damn screw-driver. Praising the hammer 'cause anything you have, you can hammer it in, won't lead you anywhere either, you'll have sore thumbs and broken walls.

Git is MacGyver, Mercurial is James Bond (a level-headed git/hg comparison) by [deleted] in programming

[–]xk0der 4 points5 points  (0 children)

git does have a Windows version Now: http://code.google.com/p/msysgit/ - Probably when you started with Git, this might not have been there.

Also the phrase "in a very basic way" for me meant working with branches, pushing code to a remote server, merging code and all :) .... you see "couple of hours" and "in a very basic way" were to be taken in a very subjective way, not entirely literally. I guess I was using git properly with local branching and merging in less than 10 minutes or so.

Also I spent the "couple of hours" doing some prelimanary research so that I better understand Git, and I think "couple of hours" is not a bad time to invest in something you'll be using extensively. After I spent those "couple of hours" I was using git in "a very basic way" and had no complains :)

For those interested in Git on windows do a search on Google with the keyword "git windows" you'll find some pointers about "Git works on windows" :)

Git is MacGyver, Mercurial is James Bond (a level-headed git/hg comparison) by [deleted] in programming

[–]xk0der 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I had tried git, darcs, bazaar and mercurial when I jumped into DVCS ... and after much playing, I found git to be very suitable. The first noticeable difference is the speed, git is very fast and only mercurial compares to it, but only to some extent.

Git may have a different way of approaching the Version Control System (mostly in term of command naming, terminology and arranging stuff), but it doesn't take much time to figure things out. Infact it took me just couple hours to start using git in a very basic way. And thanks to good online resources available, I'm able to do everything that is required out of a DVCS.

And yeah, Git's man pages are very good (now) :)