Rendezvous with Scott May 21, 2007
Posted by Ananth in General, Sun.5 comments
Friday was a day to remember, for I had the good fortune to meet in person, Scott McNealy - Co-Founder, Chairman and erstwhile CEO of Sun Microsystems. He was here in India to preside over the Sun Technical Summit 2007, where I was one of the speakers.
LFY May 2007 May 11, 2007
Posted by Ananth in Solaris.add a comment
Linux For You, May 2007 edition shipped a Solaris Express DVD (3/07). It also had an step-by-step “How to install Solaris Express” article that I had written. As Murphy would have it, the DVD shipped with the magazine has a bug that might prevent users from installing Solaris Express to the hard disk.
0.99 - 0.90 - 0.09 = ? May 8, 2007
Posted by Ananth in Computer Science, Mathematics, Open Source, Programming.7 comments
I’d interviewed a few folks on Python lately as a favor for a friend. Without laboring into details, there is one question that seems to baffle most candidates consistently. The first time I had to ask this question was because I couldn’t think of anything else “sane” at that point in time - and since the reaction by the (otherwise smart) candidate gave rise to a vicious notion of a entertainment, I kept repeating the question to every single person I interviewed subsequently !
Question: If the expression (0.99 - 0.90 - 0.09) were to be evaluated by the cpython interpreter, what would be the result ?
Merkle Hellman Math May 3, 2007
Posted by Ananth in Computer Science, Mathematics.2 comments
One of my friends mourns that I write about technology and other obscure things that 99% of the world would not be interested in. He instead wants me to write more “personal stuff”. I wonder if that will worsen the ratio. Not that it is supposed to signify anything, but then for the heck of not disappointing Sid who threatens to “tag” me if I don’t ….
