Importance of deadlines

Deadlines make your goals become reality.

Parallelizing program: chdir - fork() vs threads

When you are parallelizing your program and your parallel tasks require to change directory (chdir()) then use fork() instead of threads (OR you would need to maintain locks in case of threads and might need to sacrifice some amount of parallelization). The current working directory is maintained per process and not per thread.

DRY principle

Don't Repeat Yourself

10 "Googley" design priniciples

Learned - What makes a design "Googley"?

Tabbed browsing

Do not misuse tabbed browsing. [You can probably waste bandwidth if you just open a bunch of links and never read those. This generally happens when you do a Google search and just keep opening too many search result links without looking at those you have already opened.]

Hope[less] strategy

Hope is not a strategy.

Idea to generate Ideas

In case you are short of ideas, try idea generator.

If something doesn't work

If something doesn't work for you, you're probably doing it wrong.

The difference

There is a difference between knowing the path and walking the path.

BTW, yesterday I walked from Atta Market, Noida to Mayur Vihar phase I extension, New Delhi (Distance: 5Kms, Time: 1hr) :)

Eight principles

The eight irresistible principles of fun: http://www.eightprinciples.com/

Law of Industry?

My first Industry experience: You need to ask many questions to your juniors and answer many questions of your superiors. It's fun.

Relativity

Try to avoid use of relative terms like good, new etc. At some point, these terms doesn't make (right) sense, e.g. in longer run. These terms can make sense if used with proper relative base.

Two kinds

There are two kinds of people, those who do the work and those who take the credit. Try to be in the first group; there is less competition there. -- Indira Gandi

Free software stickers

http://raro.oreto.inf-cr.uclm.es/apps/stickers/

Editing wiki(pedia) pages is fun

If you haven't started yet, my suggestion is: start editing page related to your hometown and you will get started.

1 = -1

1 = sqrt 1 = sqrt (-1 * -1) = sqrt -1 * sqrt -1 = (sqrt -1) ^ 2 = -1

Found many new Delhis

Go, figure it out yourself - Delhi disambiguation

Learned - when I am not learning

If Sahaj understand what he is doing, he is not learning anything.

Skype

Oh, I didn't know that Skype is now available for debian too.

I bought something

I bought something. Something I wanted. Wanted to write. Write to solve. Solve to enjoy & earn. Earn to buy something.