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saurabhon Stuff (2007)

George Carlin also had something to say about "stuff".

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MvgN5gCuLac

saurabhon Ask HN: Tea or Coffee?

Chai or better yet, cutting.

saurabhon Firefox 18

PDF.js comes builtin with the recent releases of Firefox.

http://www.ghacks.net/2012/09/08/enable-the-built-in-pdf-rea...

saurabhon E17 is out

I use XFCE after having tried everything else. I use a low powered laptop and anything else feels slugish. I've tried Xmonad but I keep playing with it instead of working.

Enlightenment is different, faster and definitely cool. I'll try it again some other time.

saurabhon E17 is out

No bloat at all. I installed the enlightenment17 package from the extras reposiroty on archlinux a few minutes ago to check it out. Installed it, tried it by having "exec start_enlightenment" in .xinitrc followed by the running the command startx. Uninstalled it using the command sudo pacman -Rns enligtenment17.

saurabhon How do we read code?

I would be interesting to do a similar study on some Factor code.

saurabhon Documentation is King

I am lazy.

saurabhon Share your weekend/part-time startup (December 2012)

This is incredibly awesome.

saurabhon Documentation is King

Hey Kenneth, I saw your tweet about wanting a .org for your website. Any reason for the migration to a .org?

saurabhon Empathy represses analytic thought and vice versa

So does this mean the more friends you have on Facebook, the dumber you are?

saurabhon An Intuitive Guide to Linear Algebra

Proving theorems has theoretical applications. And the knowledge gained by doing so may have practical applications.

saurabhon Hostiness

There is a Smalltalk implementation in Factor

http://factor-language.blogspot.in/2009/04/sup-dawg-we-heard...

Also from that page,

"If you want to experiment with language design but don't want to spend five years implementing a language like we did, you should consider using an existing system to host your language on, and Factor is one of several great choices in this regard." - Slava Pestov, Creator of Factor

saurabhon Are You the Next Steve Jobs? A New Reality TV Show Might Be Looking for You

If it sells, it doesn't matter if its wrong. That's how the industry works.

I saw God Bless America the other day and this rant by Frank is relevant

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=52EnTtGstKg

saurabhon Ask HN: What books are you reading right now?

Zen & The Art Of Motorcycle Maintenance

saurabhon Show HN: Bubbles - my unfinished HTML5 Particle Game

franze, this is one of the best games I've ever played. It's strangely satisfying.

saurabhon What to read?

I have been reading "Zen & the art of motorcycle maintenance" since I got it couple of days back. I must say that the first chapters of the book are teaching me a few new things. The ability to see things for not "what they are" but "what they mean" is some new gum for me to chew on.

saurabhon BI : "Don't fund anyone over 30"

Don't upvote anything from BI from now.

saurabhon If VCs Understood UX…

>The fact that VCs exist and thrive proves that they are following what is right for them.

Correlation does not imply causation. I can imagine a world where VC's invest in research and teams instead of ideas and goals.

What if there was a 500hackers where 500 competent hackers from different fields under one roof get paid well enough to work on a variety of ideas? If I were a VC, I would definitely want a part of the action. Sort of like a modern day Bell Labs.

saurabhon Ebay's new logo

Google

saurabhon Ask HN - Your favorite programming font?

Terminus 10pt. I am done with fiddling around with fonts.

saurabhon Ask HN: How have you been celebrating programmer's day?

Had a haircut, shave and head massage.

saurabhon Numbers.vim - A vim plugin for better line numbers

Can anybody tell me what relative numbers are useful for other than navigation? I find Easymotion the state-of-the-art plugin for navigation.

saurabhon 16 days since last ruby drama

With a "Powered by Ruby" link on the top right of the page.

saurabhon Welcome to Linux From Scratch

I had installed LFS years ago and it was fun. Later I tried Gentoo and then Arch Linux(which I currently use). It was a good learning experience.

saurabhon 6 months with Clojure

One aspect of breaking up functions like described above, is that the operations involved are usually highly abstract and sometimes not very coupled to domain language. I find naming of those kind of functions very hard, and many times spend a long time and still not coming up with something I’m completely comfortable with. I don’t really have a solution to this problem right now.

"There are only two hard things in Computer Science: cache invalidation and naming things" — Phil Karlton

saurabhon A sudoku solver in 33 lines of Clojure

Exactly. Why would he write tests if it's just play.

saurabhon Ask HN - As a programmer, how would you feel if everyone became one?

They won't. I still find it difficult to write good programs after years of practice. On the contrary, I think if they learn't to program just a little bit, they would realise how difficult it is to actually make something work, let alone, make it aesthetically pleasing. Programmers would get more buck for their bang.

Algorithms, Patterns, Domain Knowledge, Interfaces, Usability, Deploymemt, Infrastructure, Maintenance, Data Integrity, Debugging..... What makes anybody think this is child's play? And who has time? Hell, I am a freelance programmer and I don't have that much time.

saurabhon Death by a thousand great ideas

>It worked for Thoureau, Ghandi, and Jack Dorsey.

Its Gandhi, not Ghandi.

I don't understand why so many people misspell his name.

saurabhon Why You Don't Need A Programmer

>This is why I charge by the hour and refer clients who don't like it to India.

Why don't you refer them to people in your own country? Why India?

saurabhon Ask HN: Best Python web framework

Cool. Interesting discussion on the latest benchmark.

https://groups.google.com/forum/?fromgroups#!topic/brubeck-d...