I have an offer to join a startup as employee #41 (#16 in my country) that received ~10M $ funding from a VC besides smaller investment from a few well established companies. They have offices in 3 countries and are into core engineering work. On the conservative side, they expect a 9x increase in value in 4 years. On the upside, it's 41x. Even if successful, I don't see the company lasting...
I have mostly worked on hardware testing in my professional career and would like to get onto the software development side. I thought working on a practically usable project will help motivate me and help acquire some skills. I have decided to build a test plan management tool for the QA team I work in (We use excel sheets!).The test plan management tool should be browser based and should...
I remember someone who wrote about how he wanted to be a good singer but was put down by people who said he wasn't cut out for it. But he never gave up and in the end after decades of practice he got good at it. He wanted to take up programming next. Anyone has the link to this article?
But I agree with your last two sentences.
And I have read many other intellectually stimulating books, but those books don't make me feel like what I am feeling right now.
I have so far attempted to work through the book three times and then quit. Each time I start from the beginning, go through every line and do every problem in the exercises and then eventually stop somewhere down the lane (within less than the first 50 pages).After a lot of mental effort I decided to make another attempt. However this time I decided to analyze why I stopped the first three...
1) Importance and applications of computers 2) How it might be affecting the life of these kids without their own knowledge 3) How computers work in a very simplified way 4) Using computers for fun
A charity organization has donated about 6 computers which they have kept in a room. I guess the students will have access to these.
I am in India and I got an opportunity to teach high school physics to kids in a government school here this saturday. I will also be teaching both the teachers and the kids on how to use computers on Sunday.Good education in India at school level is mostly provided by private institutions which are generally expensive. Only kids from very poor families study in government schools. The reason...
Opening 3-5 windows command prompt and running DIR /S to list all subdirectories increases CPU load to 80%. I have seen this type of significant load on the CPU in different platforms. Any idea why a simple task like directory listing consumes so much CPU?
I am tired of spending my weekends watching serials, movies and playing games and I want a break from work.I was thinking that a two-day electronics project would be an ideal way to spend the weekend. I have built some robots before (http://www.beamindia.net) and have some fundamental electronics knowledge, soldering skills etc. A robotics project more complicated than the last robot I built...
Back in 1996 when I was learning C, disconnected from the rest of the world without an internet and no one to help me with and no books that decribed concepts of C in detail, I tried my hand in trying to make my own version of games like digger and dangerous dave. In the process of coding this game, I came across problems to which I couldn't find solutions and eventually gave up on game...