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hashfold··on Why The US Can Beat China: The Facts About SpaceX Costs
u r racist. a capable person will take country higher. be positive!
hashfold··on Why The US Can Beat China: The Facts About SpaceX Costs
mine too.
hashfold··on Agni-V, India's first ICBM test-fired successfully
this makes Asia a safer place to live by neutralizing the forces. India follows 'no first use' policy.

so India is helping make a safer place.

hashfold··on Agni-V, India's first ICBM test-fired successfully
hopefully for playing a defensive role...look whom it is surrounded by....any country with similar situation would do it. just my thought.
hashfold··on Fake S3 – Save time, money, and develop offline
great concept. will use it this weekend.
hashfold··on A great list of command-line tips
loved all the commands...specially "python -m SimpleHTTPServer"
hashfold··on Programming is hard, let's go scripting..
Scripting? its another language used to program.

In my opinion, none of the language will solve the problems with programming or bad programs. The only thing which could help programmers is the way they think of the solution and how they approach to it. Thinking about long term solution for a given problem may help.

hashfold··on How India Became America
"we are a dirt poor country"...man only u r dirt cheap one... how could one say so confidently to whole nation,...any nation? rethinking needed here...
hashfold··on How India Became America
true!
hashfold··on Rails is Definitely Not for Beginners
not for beginners? how come one start with it?... I have tried it once and found it very easy to use and setup website.
hashfold··on Visualizing YouTube with my home-made JavaScript graph drawing library
nice work. will try it out.
hashfold··on Why so many Python web frameworks?
because one can't solve all the specific use cases people have. or may be Python is not so generic to help solve these use cases.
hashfold··on AT&T math: 250MB < 350MB < Unlimited < 3GB < 5GB
someone need to speak-up. comcast does the same...they advertise as unlimited speed...u know how much speed u get...how come internet speed be unlimited :-) its all about fooling consumers and collecting money by bad marketing campaigns....atleast comcast maintains monopoly so nothing could be done to them until we have some good competitors who deliver what they claim...then we will have good and genuine marketing campaigns...in Telecom, most companies boasts the same....some day the justice will be given to 'Unlimited' word and it will find its true meaning again...I'm hopeful...
hashfold··on A personal link mill
good idea..corte.si... I think adding a machine learning method on reordering/prioritizing the links would be a plus...the input data for the machine learning system would be the links user clicks to read as well as links to which user clicks as favorite... or may be pulling the keywords/tags from a given link's page and then checking how many links are clicked under a certain tag will surely help ordering the links by tags...its just my idea on how to help user to read his preferred links/topics....your inputs are welcome!
hashfold··on The evil unit test.
there are really nice comments below in this thread on why testing functionality is better than writing unit test cases to test the functions/methods/code. e.g. wr1472: test the what not the how MrEnigma: the higher level the test (i.e. unit -> integration -> functional) the better they catch things Keithnoizu: verify requirements not implementation details

we understand that the unit testing is trying to test the functionality and making sure that the acceptance criteria is also met at the same time. I would like to mention one more point is that we should also try to write unit test cases not just only test the functionality but also try to do a good code coverage. unit test cases are tools for: 1. functionality testing 2. comply with acceptance criteria 3. a tool to help good code coverage 4. be iterative. be backward compatible as long as it could. (anyway to add logic based on version of the code change? need to think on this). yes it makes it little bulky but will work and avoid needing code cleanup and redesigns.

let unit tests help come up with min 80% of code coverage.

hashfold··on Fun with math: Dividing one by 998001 yields a surprising result
love the math. thanks for sharing.
hashfold··on Yahoo Pipes a powerful composition tool to aggregate, manipulate, and mashup
true.I have been using it since it was launched. since then loving it.

my most cloned one is local search (kijiji, google base and craigslist): http://pipes.yahoo.com/pipes/pipe.info?_id=605e7d7d80e11d957...

hashfold··on Login to your Google Account on Without Typing Anything (using QR code)
tried and it worked.!

guys this is not a publicity of my post, wanted to share the breaking thing on the technology side.

hashfold··on Introducing the for-if anti-pattern - The Old New Thing - Site Home - MSDN Blogs
Terribly junk code.
hashfold··on Is there a printable version of all Paul Graham essays?
that would be wonderful if Mr Paul does it. after reading through the FAQs section, I think it would be ok to create pdf document for educational purposes as long as you keep the link to the essays on the page. read below: --------------------- ->Can I include an essay in my school newspaper?

Sure, go ahead. Please include the url of the original though.

->Can I put a translation into another language online?

Sure. Please include the url of the original, and send me the url of your translation so I can make a link to it. ---------------------