v4vijayakumar - Slashdot User

Comment I don't care... (Score 1) 494

by v4vijayakumar on Thursday August 20, 2009 @05:51AM (#29130747) Attached to: Is Typing Ruining Your Ability To Spell?

In India (south), even in last century, people used to write into palm leaves with a needle. I can not do that now, and I don't care. you will forget to type in couple of decades, when mind-computer interfaces become commonplace. Will you worry about your typing then ?

Comment Re:Wrong Side (Score 1) 178

by v4vijayakumar on Wednesday July 22, 2009 @12:33AM (#28778359) Attached to: Medieval UK Battle Records Released Online

cattle to steal

this is a way to start war. cattle then, oil now.

Comment don't drop it down (Score 1) 169

by v4vijayakumar on Wednesday May 27, 2009 @11:15PM (#28118801) Attached to: Using WiMAX To Replace a Phone?

I will be able to use my netbook as a cell phone

if you carry your netbook wherever you go, then chances are high for you to drop it down. is your netbook that tough ?! :)

Comment suppose, we have better batteries... (Score 1) 390

by v4vijayakumar on Sunday April 05, 2009 @03:21AM (#27463543) Attached to: ARM — Heretic In the Church of Intel, Moore's Law

then, who cares about ARM. 10 years battery life for ARM based processors, 1 year for x86-based. :)

Comment Come, Let us all learn English, and (Score 1) 1077

by v4vijayakumar on Wednesday April 01, 2009 @12:15AM (#27412105) Attached to: Shouldn't Every Developer Understand English?

build "tower of babel" :)

Comment Re:English thinking? (Score 1) 1077

by v4vijayakumar on Wednesday April 01, 2009 @12:13AM (#27412093) Attached to: Shouldn't Every Developer Understand English?

I'm Russian, and computer languages with Russian keywords look very awkward to me.

That is because, may be you started coding with English. Everything will be fine, once you are used to it. :)
PS: I am not a Russian, and I haven't seen non-English code so far.

Comment not because of ... (Score 1) 191

by v4vijayakumar on Sunday March 29, 2009 @11:05PM (#27383867) Attached to: Experimental MacRuby Branch Is 3x Faster

languages (?!) are getting faster and faster, because of more memory and faster processors ? right ? :)

Comment luck matters (Score 1) 238

by v4vijayakumar on Tuesday February 24, 2009 @12:44AM (#26965791) Attached to: Homemade PDF Patch Beats Adobe By Two Weeks

sometimes you got to be lucky to fix some kind of bugs. sigh.

Comment Re:...and then there's APL (Score 1) 311

by v4vijayakumar on Sunday November 30, 2008 @11:45PM (#25939607) Attached to: Solving the Knight's Tour Puzzle In 60 Lines of Python

APL has been called a "write-only language".

write-only..? how about execution..? ;)

Comment to empty a file (Score 1) 2362

by v4vijayakumar on Thursday November 06, 2008 @05:27AM (#25658367) Attached to: (Useful) Stupid Unix Tricks?

echo > file

Submission + - Bugs story

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on Thursday June 07, 2007 @04:52AM

v4vijayakumar writes: "I would wonder, if you are never stopped by a compiler/linker when you are developing softwares. Sometimes, it would be core dumps and page/segment faults. Some bugs are also interesting and leave their memories. First computer "bug" itself is an example for this. Errors/mistakes are not specific to softwares, even everyone of us should have stories to tell."

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