Monthly Archives: July 2009

Programming is all about decision making

As a programmer, you are continually making decisions when you program. Both at the macro level and the micro level. For any project, you have to select the programming language, the tools and the environment. Then as you design, you have to choose continually among multiple ways of doing anything. As you code, you continually [...]

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What does the bis in the 2547bis RFC stand for?

Google search revealed that “bis” means “twice” in Latin and the bis in 2547bis refers to the fact that this is the 2nd edition of the original 2547 RFC with updated sections. Who would’ve thunk?

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Starting Google Chrome in Incognito Mode by default

You can start Chrome in the Incognito Mode (called Private Browsing by IE) by providing the command line switch “-incognito” when executing the Chrome binary.

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Insight into raising VC funding

VC firms don’t like humans being involved in the scalability process; if your headcount grows at the same pace as your business, you’ve got a problem. From this Q&A with the founder of the Printed Blog that shutdown recently. May not always be true, but interesting insight nevertheless…

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“Premature Flexibilization”

The author of  this coins a new phrase — Premature Flexibilization: …the practice of adding complexity to your code to make it more “flexible”, in anticipation of future change. The article, triggered an “yes” response in me because I felt the same way many times. In all my coding, I find that I waste a [...]

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