Cycle Gap

Thursday, November 22, 2007

OLPC Laptop Application Virtualization

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I was listening to a fascinating presentation (video)by Ivan Krstić , the director of security architecture of the One Laptop Per Child ( ...
Friday, November 09, 2007

It's not as bad as the Sendmail configuration file

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But the Apache web server configuration file is pretty close. I once heard one of the founders of the Apache project confess that, the only ...
Saturday, September 15, 2007

The Glorious History of HR in Software Companies

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Mitch Kapor's wife Freada was in charge of HR at Lotus in the early years. (As he is at pains to point out, they did not become romantic...
Tuesday, September 11, 2007

Extreme Pair Programming - Guy Steele and Richard Stallman

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"We sat down one morning," recalls Steele. "I was at the keyboard, and he was at my elbow," says Steele. "He was pe...
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Saturday, August 18, 2007

Beautiful Code - The Paris Hilton Connection

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The odds of finding truly beautiful code in most production systems seem to be on par with the odds of finding a well-read copy of IEEE Tran...
Saturday, June 09, 2007

Startups are not Democracies

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If you are not one of the founders of a startup , you really need to aware of this. I wish someone had reminded me about this :-( . Startups...

The Dirty Secret of Blogging

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That's one of the dirty little secrets of blogging: the discussion in the comments are often better than the original entry. ...
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Simplicity, a feature

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Recently, at work, I had to use the XML-RPC.Net library and couldn't help smiling at this tongue in cheek answer in the FAQ section. Why...
Tuesday, March 27, 2007

Why Developing Software for Indian Companies is Not Easy

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I was reading an article Indian IT biggies losing out to MNCs , when I came across a very interesting and insightful comment by Chanakya. Ye...
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Open Source Development - The Perfect is the Enemy of the Good

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Subversion developers Ben Collins Sussman and Brian Fitzpatrick in a talk titled How Open Source Projects Can Survive Poisonous People (And ...
Sunday, February 18, 2007

Dreaming in Code - Andy Hertzfeld Quotes

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There are some great quotes from Mac hacker, Andy Hertzfeld in Scott Rosenberg's book Dreaming in Code. "My style is to get someth...
Monday, February 12, 2007

Mary Lou Jepsen - Inspiring

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At age 29, Jepsen found herself suffering from blistering headaches, confined to a wheelchair, and sleeping ...
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Writing vs. 'A Real Programming Job'

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Financially, writing science fiction is to writing technical books as writing technical books is to having a "real" programming jo...

How Come ZeroConf is Not Yet Wildly Popular

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I have always wondered why Zeroconf adoption has been so poor. Stuart Cheshire of Apple who pioneered this technology, briefly explains on...
Wednesday, November 29, 2006

FOSS.in 2006 Notes

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Notes from some of the talks/discussions, that I attended at FOSS.in, held in Bangalore between 24-26'Nov 2006. Suparna Bhattacharya, th...
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Sunday, January 01, 2006

Indian Code contribution to FLOSS

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There have been some discussions about why there is so little code contribution from Indian programmers to free software/open source project...
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Marc Canter on Chandler

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Marc Canter says about Chandler: Three years later and at least $5M Chandler hits version .6 . Man oh man what we could do with that sort o...
Tuesday, October 11, 2005

The Best Program according to Don Knuth

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The Nerd TV interview with Andy Hertzfeld contains another interesting bit. According to Don Knuth, MacPaint was possibly the best program...

Andy Hertzfeld on GNOME

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I remember buying the Eazel T-shirt to show my appreciation for the folks who had shown the earliest signs of good taste in the free deskto...

The 37 Signals Way

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I remember 37 signals vaguely as the company that the Ruby on Rails guy works for and they seem to generate quite a buzz from time to time ...
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