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Sandesh Singh
Using unicode to annotate emails
I have been using unicode characters like ★, ✘, ✔, ⚠ to annotate my gmail labels. I used it today to mark the subject of one of my mails as a high-priority mail. Wonder if it’ll work.
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So, I took my GRE …
… and scored pretty well. 1520, to be exact. For most of the people I know, the biggest hurdle to getting a good score in the GRE was our vocabulary. Most of us have our own way of learning the various word lists available in the market. Mine involved a book, a software made in [...]
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Using javascript to avoid the mouse and page scrolling
Here’s the problem. It is not very easy to scroll a document when you’re inside an input element. Arrow keys don’t work, and Page Up/Page Down jump in big increments. What if you want to see just a few lines below the current element? Our clients hate to scroll. And they hate having to use [...]
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Importing git history into a new svn repository
So the management has finally approved your project, and has asked you to start working on it. Heh … little do they know that you’d already been working on it, and have a nice prototype working, and it’s all saved on your local git repository. But your company is not as cool as you are [...]
Sights and sounds, in and around Vasai
This is what population growth, and the resulting competition, can do. ~ English is a foreign language to most Indians, and yet it seems to be preferred for dispensing information. It’s not uncommon to see a gaffe every now and then.
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Do you see me?
Updating my profile picture isn’t an easy task anymore. There are many sites where I own a profile, and I have to look just right on each one of them. As of now, these are the places you can see my shiny new profile picture: http://sandesh247.com http://www.google.com/profiles/sandesh247 http://www.linkedin.com/in/sandesh247 http://identi.ca/sandesh247/ http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=543752933 http://www.goodreads.com/sandesh247 http://www.last.fm/user/sandesh247 http://friendfeed.com/sandesh247 http://www.orkut.co.in/Main#FullProfile.aspx?uid=6964782234814101571 http://www.gravatar.com/avatar/f37a7393ce728b072aca55535f759e9f [...]
Tuning LINQ performance with Mr. P and Mr. S
I thought I’d take a second look at the Mr. P and Mr. S problem, which I’d posted more than a couple of years ago. The last time I tried it, I wasn’t successful. I had a strategy to solve it, but somehow I just couldn’t translate it into code. I’ve been programming a lot [...]
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Microblogging on identi.ca
If my journal template hasn’t changed since this post, you should see a µBlog roll on the sidebar. If you’ve clicked on any of the links, you’d now that those notices (or ‘dents’) come from identi.ca. identi.ca is a website very similar to twitter, only better. It’s built with the open source laconi.ca project, and [...]
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Good intentions
There’s a video about Intentional Software over at MSDN, and it’s definitely one of the more brilliant things to have come out in a while. Most of the times, people who best know how a software should function, are not the ones writing it. That is how people who write software for money, make money [...]
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The weaker sex?