abhishekpathak

As an outsider, it is impressive to see the incremental, "chipping away at problems piecemeal" approach KDE has been taking since their Plasma release a decade ago. Slow, steady and intentional. To think that almost all of this is volunteer work makes it so much more heartwarming.

This. There's an almost inevitable orchestration involved in maintaining good documentation for a fast-moving codebase. Tools like Swagger[1] are good for automatically generating API documentation, but beyond that there is little help for maintaining generic README-style documentation.

How do large, fast moving projects like the linux kernel manage this?

[1]: https://swagger.io/

Defensive coding always breaks my flow during problem-solving. However, thinking of edge cases reflects a programmer's maturity. I usually trade off by writing a short comment (# check for null) during the flow and then revisiting that part later.

Are there any time zone restrictions for remote applicants?

(From Techie-buzz : http://techie-buzz.com/discussions/mozilla-vs-homeland-secur...)

"Recently, Mozilla started offering a new addon. called MAFIAAfire, in the Firefox Addons site. If you are using MAFIAAfire when you try to visit one of the seized domains, you’ll be redirected to the new address for that website, if they have created one.

Note: MAFIAA means Music and Film Industry Association of America

Naturally, Homeland Security didn’t like that and sent Mozilla a take-down notice for the new addon. Mozilla’s written response to the request was a classic “Why do we need to?”, in the form of 11 piercing questions that will probably never be answered."

Facebook can actually be (to use the cliche) the Google killer.Leveraging user preferences to give results is as revolutionary as Google's page rank algorithm.Combined with Bing,in the long run this could be a powerful tool as more and more of the world goes virtual,going deeper in facebook and e-commerce platforms.

What if someone has an innovative idea,but does not know how to make money out of it?

As someone over there said : If there is no hack as he claims and the DB schema is not theirs then what are they really investigating?

For all the supposed geekery associated with linux,there is actually a thriving community and superb documentation to help you with any stumble.The supposedly "geek" linux distros are not difficult,but rather require you to think more.

Start with Ubuntu though.It has reached a stage now where its pretty intuitive,and all the configuration you want can be done by points-and-clicks.There is also a lot of support and any problem can be solved by a mere google search.An alternative is Linux mint,it is designed to be even easier than Ubuntu for beginners.

THEN get your hands dirty,as you gain confidence.And have an internet connection handy.That's when the fun starts!

Symbian is dying out,slowly but surely.

Kind of sad to see the champion of the revolution in those old days,Firefox,going down steadily to Chrome,the new,talented kid on the block.

What happened to those generations before blogging existed?Turned out pretty okay,I guess.Even invented blogging.And then Tumblr.

Wow! Just contemplating how times have changed.The guy Jospeh Millar worked at the now-defunct FTP Software, Inc.Java was new.There was no google to search for programming help.Linux was totally nerdy.Windows was '95.Redmond was not that important a place.It was not hated that much. How times have changed.

Good news.

Zynga is already active in Bangalore!