January 2008
22 posts
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CS fresh grad salaries in the US
I was just reading a Techcrunch article on starting salaries for CS grads in the Valley (you’ve to normalize for top schools best companies to make any sense of this data). Avg pay seems to be around $50-70k and best students seem to get upto $90-100k. But based on one comment, investment banks still seem to be paying a lot more than the likes of Google, Facebook or Yahoo. Interestingly...
Django snippets: A custom 500 handler which is... →
A simple 500 error handler that I wrote which does not respond to AJAX calls with the full-blown 500 HTML page targeted at humans.
[Python-Dev] Monkeypatching idioms -- elegant or... →
by Guido Himself (discovered via Simon Willison’s blog)
James Carr » Blog Archive » TDD Anti-Patterns →
Brilliant article. I’ve to give TDD a try once.
Direct from Web 2.0 :: A Study of Ajax Performance... →
Performance analysis of common operations (which appear often in AJAX apps) in various browsers.
Joyeur: Bingodisk and Strongspace: What Happened? →
What happened at Joyent last week…
django-evserver - Google Code →
I need to check this out.
FrontPage - Pig Wiki →
Write queries in Pig Latin, and have it compiled for you into Hadoop Map/Reduce jobs.
Unqualified Reservations: A straightforward... →
This guy should write for NYT & WSJ!
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Macbook Air Song
If you watched Jobs’ keynote from yesterday, he showcased the ad for the Macbook Air. If you missed it, go watch it on the Apple website. The song played in the ad is called “New Soul” by Yael Naim, a Paris-born Israeli (which would explain the accent) and the album was apparently made in a studio in her apartment.
China set to replace US as India's largest trade... →
China has only one-third India’s arable land and is dependent on food imports - I didn’t know this.
Recreating a WWII war scene with just 3 people, 1... →
via Slashdot
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My blog is my OpenID
I just installed phpMyID and now http://poundbang.in is my OpenID. It works great!
Bug Blogger: CES 2008 : A Week to Remember →
BugLabs wins CNET’s Best of CES award for Emerging Technologies
Formula for victory →
Team Jordon -> Midlands -> SpyKar -> Force India! (Indian business tycoon Vijay Mallya has took over the Spykar Forumula-1 team and will be racing under the Force India banner in 2008.
YouTube - Hillary Clinton Cries on the Campaign... →
If I don’t win, I’m going to cry….and people fell for it! Damn.
BBC NEWS | Business | Tata Motors unveils cheapest... →
Tata launches their new low-cost car, Nano in New Delhi. It costs USD 2500 (cheaper than a MacBook Pro). Go figure.
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String interning
I learnt something new today - “string interning”. String interning is the idea of forcing strings with the same contents to share a single buffer in order to save memory. Apparently a lot of VMs including Java and .NET CLR do this. Java automatically interns all string literals and there’s an API call (called intern()) for the user to force interning manually on other strings....
Australian Centre for Visual Technologies |... →
(from SIGGRAPH 2007)
YouTube - Bye bye Billgates →
Funny self-deprecating farewell video from Bill Gates’ keynote at CES 2008.
Support Vector Machines (SVM) in Ruby - igvita.com →
Encoded Polyline Algorithm Format - Google Maps... →
Can someone explain this encoding algorithm to me?