One Man Hacking

I am still "offline" but this was so striking I wanted to record my awe. from here , (emphases mine) What was a typical day or ...

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the nutshell version: I am *extremely* busy and won't be paying too much attention to this blog for the next couple of months. If you n...

I wrote about what I learned when attempting to do Comp Sci research on my own ( A Rogue researcher's route map ). Something I've ...

Dr de Bono defines a "stratal" thus. "A stratal is a number of parallel statements or observations that are put together as...

A fragment from a (chat) conversation with my friend Abey.Context == Talking about programming, me: Hey did you know about this " I t...

This is something I've started noticing recently. A lot of people claim they want something and then balk at paying the price. The patte...

Probably Not. Some context. Every single day , I get 3-5 emails from people trying to offer me a job. The obvious form letters go into the ...

Sure. Giving advice is easy. Following it is hard :-) If you like coding (and technology in general), seriously consider if you want to stud...

This is a question that comes up a lot. My answer to questions of the form "Hi , I am ... my experience is ..... Do you think I shou...

[context] I get all sorts of questions in my email every day. I try to answer all my mail but I am getting tired of answering the same quest...

After some travel (and more to come soon) I am back in Bangalore. On Saturday, I went to the Thoughtworks "MasterClass" conference...

When I wondered some time ago why the best programmers didn't come from the population of IIT grads , many people claimed I had all sort...

Ron Jeffries attempts to create a sudoku solver - here , here , here , here and here . (You really ought to read these articles. They are u...

A quick perusal of blogspot's comment moderation page showed me that some comments were pending. Generally I get a notification in my gm...

Recently, a friend (we'll call him M) invited me to his company's annual day party. First the CEO made a speech about how they (the ...

A long time ago, there weren't too many people who knew how to write. So if John Ancient wanted something written he would visit the loc...

From his latest essay "If you don't think you're smart enough to start a startup doing something technically difficult, just...

to "consultants" who charged x$/hour/person_deployed, would we have a Toyota Production System today? Think about it. Imagine som...

A snippet of a (yahoo messenger) conversation with a friend who thinks differently . "... friend: i'm actually quite happy...