Entries tagged as geek stuff
- July, 2009
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interesting meetup on July 14
I attended the Hackers and Founders meetup yesterday. It was a high energy meetup and I liked it. When I walked in, I was already 2 hours late but there were still quite a few people around. I walked in, took a name tag and tried to "merge in". Merging was easy - the folks were friendly and did not mind if you joined the discussion.
Some observations
- I did not have a good answer for "what are you working on right
now"
. This made me realize that from a technology
perspective, I have not worked on anything interesting for some
time now. I have tinkered with a few things in the past 6 months
(man!), but have not really done a deep dive on any of them. - There was a focus on programming language in the group. I am not sure if the choice of a programming language is really a big deal when creating a webapp. Rails, PHP, Python, Perl, Java - all have a good web framework. One of the arguments was that it would be difficult to organize PHP code in a coherent manner. In my opinion, that is a matter of discipline instead of language.
- I did not find people thinking of totally different ideas. Or
maybe, the folks were not telling those ideas . The ideas
floated around ads, community, social networking, websites etc.
- I am not a unique case when it comes to the case of creating a startup. A few folks there had a regular job and were planning on side projects.
- I did not have a good answer for "what are you working on right
now"
- April, 2009
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git-svn on macports
If you are using macports, you will notice that
git svn initwill give you this errogit: 'svn' is not a git-command. This is because the default build of the macportsgitdoes not build git-svn. You can do the following steps to fix thissudo port deactivate git sudo port install git +svn
Be preapeared for a long build - this will pull in svn and related dependencies.Defined tags for this entry: geek stuff -
nice facebook error page
So, if your user agent is curl or lynx, you will get this facebook error page.
You are using an incompatible web browser.
Sorry, we're not cool enough to support your browser. Please keep it real with one of the following browsers:
- Mozilla Firefox
- Opera
- Safari
- Microsoft Internet Explorer
- Flock
- March, 2009
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optmizing ORDER BY in MySQL
A few days back we were trying to optimize a sql query that was using an ORDER BY clause. When we ran an EXPLAIN on the query, we saw that the query was Using filesort and Using temporary. Since this query was run quite frequently, there was a benefit in optimizing this.
I had been under the impression that if your query uses filesort and then has to use temp tables for sorting, you cannot do much to save the query. However, that is not the case. If you have an index on the column being used to do the order by , mysql will use that index for sorting. Of course, there are caveats to this, the most important one being
The key used to fetch the rows is not the same as the one used in the ORDER BY:
SELECT * FROM t1 WHERE key2=constant ORDER BY key1;Hence, if you have a query which requires to be sorted, and it is being run quite frequently, it makes sense to add an index on the column on which you are doing the sort.
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interesting spam
This is from a spam I got recently. It had "Viagra" spelled out using table (like an 8x8 display). Interesting
Defined tags for this entry: geek stuff, humour - January, 2009
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happiness is ..
knowing you can still understand output from diff, even though it has been months you touched any code.
Defined tags for this entry: geek stuff, My take on life - December, 2008
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benefit of scripting lanuguage
I am using a Mac now, and this blog post is brought to you by the same php and lisp scripts that I was using on my linux box. Cheers!
Defined tags for this entry: geek stuff, programming
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