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novice blogger: Readibility

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To b(log) or not to b(log), that is the question. Friday, March 18, 2011. Quoted from http:/ bethesignal.org/blog/2011/03/18/moving-needle-gnome-leadership/. Contributors are your participants. If there is nothing to contribute, you have no participants. If you have no participants, you barely even have a project, let alone co-development! For FLOSS projects, change has an incentive beyond improving the software. Readability is the key to creating code that others will use. Because in the end?

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novice blogger: My new mobile

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To b(log) or not to b(log), that is the question. Saturday, March 5, 2011. At long last, i've got a new mobile, after years of using the venerable good old fellow Nokia 1100. My old phone: Nokia N8 (circa 2005). There was not much wrong with the old phone apart from battery problem. However there was one thing which made me buy new phone earlier. So this is my new phone, a silver Nokia N8. My new phone: Nokia N8. Here are some things which impressed me:. USB on the go: I can connect usb storage drives (p...

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novice blogger: Two Years @ Enthought: A Review

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To b(log) or not to b(log), that is the question. Sunday, August 25, 2013. Two Years @ Enthought: A Review. Last week, i completed two full years working for Enthought. To come clean on this, let me clarify: i am very well loving my work here and do not see any change in the status quo foreseeable future. I'm well into my comfort zone. In the last two years, we have hit several milestones (and probably missed more), and it has been a great journey of learning, doing and sharing. In summary:. Bugs: Howeve...

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novice blogger: cgroups: Maintain sanity of your development system while you screw it

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To b(log) or not to b(log), that is the question. Sunday, October 20, 2013. Cgroups: Maintain sanity of your development system while you screw it. For me, the most common instance of this has been using gdb. I usually install all the relevant debuginfo packages available in the Fedora repo to enhance my debugging experience. One downside of this is that gdb consumes a lot of memory. And coupled with python pretty-printing and ` thread apply all bt full. Not any more, i present to you a mechanism to main...

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novice blogger: benchmarking pitfalls

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To b(log) or not to b(log), that is the question. Monday, July 12, 2010. In this post i'm going to list some of the pitfalls which can happen when you are trying to optimize your code and test the timings of specific code snippets. As an example, consider the case of testing the performance of custom array class implemented in pysph at http:/ code.google.com/p/pysph/source/browse/source/pysph/base/carray.pyx? Which is a simple substitute for 1D numpy arrays. Cdef double t, t1, t2, num. Cdef int N, i.

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novice blogger: linux proxy problem revisited

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To b(log) or not to b(log), that is the question. Sunday, October 31, 2010. Linux proxy problem revisited. I posted how to setup a local forwarding proxy in linux so that u do not need to set your proxy password in each and every program that asks, and that anyone and everyone cannot see your passwords by simply typing " echo $http proxy. But again it was not so automatic, you still needed to set the proxy to localhost " http:/ 127.0.0.1:3128/. Create a specific user for 3proxy. Useradd -u 480 3proxy.

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novice blogger: SPH in movies

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To b(log) or not to b(log), that is the question. Monday, June 27, 2011. Superman returns – but who’s looking after his water? Is it a plane? No, it’s Smoothed Particle Hydrodynamics. Watching films such as Superman Returns or The Day after Tomorrow, you would have seen dramatic sequences of surging water and crumbling buildings. While doing so, mathematics was probably the last thing you thought about; but without it, scenes of this nature would be virtually impossible. Swapping droplets for particles.

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novice blogger: Nautilus media tag editor extension by yours truly

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To b(log) or not to b(log), that is the question. Tuesday, July 13, 2010. Nautilus media tag editor extension by yours truly. Over this weekend, i was searching for something to do (not that i dont have tasks piled up), and i remembered there was no easy way to edit audio files tags. I know there are some excellent programs out there such as easytag. However they need you to run a separate program to edit the tags. Now the mandatory screenshot:. Posted by Pankaj Pandey. Labels: audio tag editor. Hello, I...

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novice blogger: Python3 Adventures

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To b(log) or not to b(log), that is the question. Saturday, November 9, 2013. However, thanks to some members of the community ( burnpanck. Who has python3 compatible (though not 100%) forks of parts of our core ETS. Stack, starting with traits, pyface and traitsui), this is slowly changing. Based on his work, i have attempted to make chaco. Work on python3, and have largely been successful. The most significant changes were in the extension modules of enable. The story is not as so good for traits.

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novice blogger: Mathematics, History and worms eating manuscripts…

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To b(log) or not to b(log), that is the question. Tuesday, January 18, 2011. Mathematics, History and worms eating manuscripts…. Mathematics, History and worms eating manuscripts…. This is a sad story of forgetten history, indifference towards ancient knowledge and wisdom and callous neglect. 8230;Read on. From A search for India’s mathematical roots. 8230;“No country should allow the distortion of its own history,”. Photograph of K. Ramasubramanian,. 8230; The professors and students say they have to ba...