Here is an interesting article on how the search giant Google works. The information in the article is provided by Urs Hoelze, Google vice president of operations and vice president of engineering. I found their redundancy theory very interesting and practically useful indeed. They are smart people, actually they must be, otherwise how they [...]
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How Google works!!!
April 28, 2006Corruption of I.C.T. Ministry
April 25, 2006At last some news of corruption of I.C.T. Ministry is coming through. I heard of rampant corruption by our honorable minister Dr. Abdul Moyeen Khan many times before. But news about it has just began to come up. I just read a headline news about the corruption in the Daily Prothom Alo few days [...]
Another great site on programming articles
April 20, 2006developer.* is an excellent site with great articles for programmers, software developers, software architects, quality assurance engineers, database designers, managers, researchers, professors – actually everyone involved in software development profession and computer science. The site offers articles, blogs and books. To start with, you can peruse the article What Is A Professional Programmer?.
C++ Templates Turing Complete???!!!
April 15, 2006Incredible!!! I did not believe it until I ran the program myself. I found that C++ templates are Turing Complete here. Reading the post, I immediately copied the code to my editor and tried to compile. I saw the CPU and memory usage going higher by time almost at an exponential rate. What a [...]
What is the essential difference between Dynamic Programming and Recursion?
April 15, 2006Digging out the net I found the answer here. I think it gives the appropriate answer in a pretty terse manner:
The essential difference is that Dynamic Programming keeps its intermediate results whereas recursion does not. This makes a huge difference to performance when a recursive function is called repeatedly with the same [...]
Can it be true?
April 15, 2006Russian scientists at Scientific Research Institute of Moscow claimed that they invented a device which can accelerate to infinity!!! Adding more to surprise, they told that the device contradicts Newton’s third law of physics!!! There is a 99.99% chance that this is a hoax but what if it is true? . I immediately started [...]
Sun Solaris 10
April 7, 2006I just installed Sun Solaris 10 in my PC. The desktop looks fine, specially the Java Desktop is a cool one. The browser’s rendering is also good, I think it is better than Linux GTK browsers. As it is free, I think Linux lovers can give it a try. It supports a minimal set of [...]
The most hilarious claim I have ever heard
April 2, 2006I never heard something like this in my life. Are these people thinking rationally or being driven by fanatic thoughts? I do not know whether their claim of holocaust is true or not, may be my history knowledge is very poor, but I can feel their rage.
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