Fun with high school arithmetic :-)

fun with school arithmetic

Explain this with high school arithmetic

Grr8 cartoon from http://geekandpoke.typepad.com

* “Quote of the Day: Part 21″

 He who knows others is wise,

 He who know himself is enlightened.

  - (Lao-tzu, The Way of Lao-tzu)

A Short story of a fly

A large spider in an old house built a beautiful web in which to catch flies. Every time a fly landed on the web and was entangled in it the spider devoured him, so that when another fly came along he would think the web was a safe and quiet place in which to rest.

One day a fairly intelligent fly buzzed around above the web so long without lighting that the spider appeared and said, “Come on down.” But the fly was too clever for him and said, “I never light where I don’t see other flies and I don’t see any other flies in your house.”

So he flew away until he came to a place where there were a great many other flies. He was about to settle down among them when a bee buzzed up and said, “Hold it, stupid, that’s flypaper. All those flies are trapped.” “Don’t be silly,” said the fly, “they’re dancing.” So he settled down and became stuck to the flypaper with all the other flies.

Moral: There is no safety in numbers, or in anything else.

– James Thurber, “The Fairly Intelligent Fly”

* “Quote of the Day: Part 20″

Strength does not come from physical capacity. It comes from an indomitable will.

- Mahatma Gandhi

* “Quote of the Day: Part 19″

“It seems that perfection is reached not when there is nothing left to add, but when there is nothing left to take away.”

- Antoine de Saint-Exupéry (1939).

* “My Google’s CHROME wish list”

Google has released a magnificient browser chrome. Its just too fast, clean

1) The most urgent: “Undo Close Tab” = Just to re-open an accidently closed tab. As in Firefox , you right click to get this option

2) It should pass acid3.acidtests.org for javascript compatibility across browsers. Right now Good’s chrome just gets 79 out of 100 in acid3 test and fails.

3) Support for Linux. Though google has committed on this.

4) Support for trusted third party extension, for example: for downloading flash etc from video sites etc etc.

5) Although google says that when a tab hangs then that tab should only freeze, you should be able to get on with other tabs surfing . But When one of the PDF in a tab hanged, i could not open the task manager of chrome, let alone switching to other tabs. It should improve upon its promises.

Ooh, now we have got plenty of options in browser space – IE, Firefox, Safari, SeaMonkey, Opera, Chrome. Let’s us see who wins next after Firefox. I am bettting on chrome.

* “Teri Yaad Saath Hai: Coool Video″

An excellent private video album made by amateur group of friends with mixing of audio “Teri Yaad Saath Hai” (taken from Movie : Namaste London).

Shot with just Nokia-N70 !!!

You will surely feel nostalgic about the days goneby with your close buddies.

a must see….

* “Quote of the Day: Part 19″

Pleasure without Conscience

The things that will destroy us are:
politics without principle;
pleasure without conscience;
wealth without work;
knowledge without character;
business without morality;
science without humanity, and
worship without sacrifice.

–Mahatma Gandhi

* “How to get an (IT) Project”

Programmer to Team Leader:
“We can’t do this proposed project.**CAN NOT**. It will involve a major
design change and no one in our team knows the design of this legacy
system. And above that, nobody in our company knows the language in which
this application has been written. ..So even if somebody wants to work on
it, they can’t. If you ask my personal opinion, the company should never
take these type of projects.”

Team Leader to Project Manager:
“This project will involve a design change. Currently, we don’t have any
staff who has experience in this type of work. Also, the language is
unfamiliar to us, so we will have to arrange for some training if we take
this project. In my personal opinion, we are not ready to take on a project
of this nature.”

Project Manager to 1st Level Manager:
“This project involves a design change in the system and we don’t have much
experience in that area. Also, not many people in our company are
appropriately trained for it. In my personal opinion, we might be able to do
the project but we would need more time than usual to complete it.”

1st Level Manager to Senior Level Manager:
“This project involves design re-engineering. We have some people who have
worked in this area and others who know the implementation language. So
they can train other people. In my personal opinion we should take this
project, but with caution.”

Senior Level Manager to CEO:
“This project will demonstrate to the industry our capabilities in
remodelling the design of a complete legacy system. We have all the
necessary skills and people to execute this project successfully. Some
people have already given in house training in this area to other staff
members. In my personal opinion, we should not let this project slip by us
under any circumstances.”

CEO to Client:
“This is the type of project in which our company specialises. We have
executed many projects of the same nature for many large clients. Trust me
when I say that we are the most competent firm in the industry for doing
this kind of work. It is my personal opinion that we can execute this
project successfully and well within the given time frame.”

* “IronRuby – Ruby running on .NET (Microsoft Project)”

Ironruby is a Microsoft initiative to run Ruby on .NET

currently it is in Pre-alpha1 , so only source code is available. You have to compile it to use it

I have compiled and uploaded it at IronRuby-PreAlpha1-BinDistribution-Ashish.zip

which is a just 422KB zip file

Download it and unzip it. Read the README provided into it and start to play. ( You require atleast .NET Framework 2.0 to run it, so download that from Microsoft website.)

HOWTO run:
install .NET framework 2.0 or greater
unzip THIS ironruby binary distributable
run rbx.exe

EXECUTE ruby lines: on the rbx, execute the following
>>puts “Hi Ashish”
will unsurprisingly print – Hi Ashish

EXECUTE .NET thingy from ironruby:
>>require ‘mscorlib’
>>require ‘System.Windows.Forms’
>>System::Windows::Forms::MessageBox.show ‘Hi Ashish’

will show a GUI window (messagebox) with ‘Hi Ashish’ written in it

to quit
>>exit

i am just dying to see it opened up to expand IronRuby

but my only concern is its license which is MSPL (Microsoft Permissive License) , which does not allow any entry to be in any license other than MSPL. though i am no lawyer, my only point of concern is that the ruby.NET initiative by QUT university is using BSD license. Now if one group of developer have developed a significant amount of ruby libraries in BSD, then that will not be distributable in the official distribution of IronRuby. It will lead to unnecessary duplication of effort in the sense of ruby libraries porting to .NET. Whatta say?

Microsoft has committed itself to move it to rubyforge in near future, which is a move to create confidence in ruby community.

anyways, for now rubyists can play with native .NET (without bridges) on ironruby.