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Criticisms about online programming contests and algorithm-focused interviews

What makes Go (or any) programming language productive for code churning?

I am writing a "technology catchup" post, hoping that it may be useful for some people, who want to know what has happened in the technologies in the last decade or so.

An advice to students who just start on programming to understand how to become a linux kernel developer.

Chromium Browser talks with Telepathy (IM/Chat Library) to provide an in-browser IM client - prototype

People use pre or post increments in for loops for maintaining the loop index variable. The blog post compares the impact on performance due to the two different styles of increments.

GNOME and Canonical seem to be in a tension over few things like Unity, appindicators etc. They are recently joined by KDE developer Aaron Seigo in a blog post attacking GNOME's attitude towards freedesktop.org. The blog post mentioned above is a summary of the events happened so far from a neutral perspective.

Desktop can get cluttered with too many files and icons. The blog shows a way to toggle showing/hiding files and icons in desktop so that the wallpaper can be enjoyed.

Download all the videos of an youtube user, using terminal, to your harddrive for offline viewing. The download is via shell script as there are no browser plugins or other solutions that seem to do the job.

Sqlite-Commander - A ncurses based tool to display the records and tables of a sqlite database, right in the terminal