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Thursday, June 23, 2005

Why Hackers Should Read History

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It all started very innocently . A manager at one of the many software companies in Bangalore announces a scheme to "tax" Indians...
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Thursday, June 16, 2005

Goodbye to Java

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Dear Java, These days I program mostly in Lisp and Ruby (with a smidgen of Erlang and a dollop of C ). Coming back to you from such incr...
Thursday, March 17, 2005

Levelling up in Math land

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(Edited on Feb 4 2011), This entry is correct but is now obsolete.I rewrote this with more detail here . Please use that instead. Concret...
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Monday, March 07, 2005

None So Blind... The Agile India Conference Experience Report Part 2

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Thanks to problems setting up the laptop I missed Brett 's presentation. I listened to Mridul's talk on "Kernel Programming + ...
Sunday, March 06, 2005

Slide, Slide on the wall... The Agile India Conference Experience Report Part 1

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I attended (and spoke at) the Agile India Conference . My speech about applying XP to a large AI classifier system I am working on was well ...
Thursday, January 20, 2005

Mathematics An Epiphany

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Today morning , I was at the Centre of Artificial Intelligence Research staring rather stupidly at a page covered with strange squiggles a...
Tuesday, January 18, 2005

RunAwayScreaming

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I came across Run Away Screaming so.... having nothing better to do .. i wrote When they sell you as cheap Indians Then tell you "y...
Monday, November 22, 2004

Back To The Seventies

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Sergei Dmitriev wrote an article on his blog about what he calls Language Oriented Programming. Sergei claims "It is time to begin th...
Friday, April 02, 2004

Spells and Software

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How hard is the software you write ? Most "business" software is more a matter of repeating endlessly minor variations on a fairl...
Tuesday, March 16, 2004

The Fowler Effect and The Thief's justification

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One of my friends said " You thoughtworkers , (conveniently ignoring the fact that I am no longer a Thoughtworker) always point at M...
Tuesday, February 03, 2004

A Tale Of Three Movies

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The last few days saw me in the grip of a flu/fever/cough infection that drew my temperature up and enthusiasm down. So the moment i showed...
Monday, January 05, 2004

Software@India

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I am beginning to despair of serious design level software development work ever coming to India. The (profit = number of bodies * x $$) pa...
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Thursday, December 18, 2003

The Thinking Programmer

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I was reading Edward de Bono 's Serious Creativity yesterday. The key insight that occured to me is that deBono discusses "think...
Thursday, December 11, 2003

The Five Levels Of Programming

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Just a mental exercise to distinguish multiple "levels" of programmers. Some of the observations are India and Bangalore specifi...
Wednesday, November 19, 2003

What If You Couldn't Program?

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I think this is a question every programmer needs to ask himself. Suppose for a moment that you got hit by a cosmic ray that removed the ...
Wednesday, October 29, 2003

A long road

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I just did a thought experiment on what one would need to know be a guru in programming and how long it would take. Of course that raises ...
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Thursday, October 09, 2003

Ruby vs Scheme vs Java ... and the winner is ..

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Well the loser is java . Some context Martin Fowler was kind enough to send me some ruby code he had written to generate his website. Sinc...
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