I was intrigued by Raditha‘s posts on learning Ruby and Python in a day (though they were dragged to 48 hours). Now I’m going to make that inspiration into action by trying to learn Haskell in a day. Why Haskell? I’ve always wanted to learn a functional programming language. Have never even written a Hello World with one. Heck, I ...
If there’s one single subreddit that’s worth subscribing to, it’s /r/explainlikeimfive. The subreddit aims at answering to questions like you’re explaining to a 5 year old, i.e. in a language that everyone can understand. When I come across a good explanation I clip them to my evernote. I was going through some notes today and came across this clip from ...
If there’s one single subreddit that’s worth subscribing to, it’s /r/explainlikeimfive. The subreddit aims at answering to questions like you’re explaining to a 5 year old, i.e. in a language that everyone can understand. When I come across a good explanation I clip them to my evernote. I was going through some notes today and came across this clip from ...
If there’s one single subreddit that’s worth subscribing to, it’s /r/explainlikeimfive. The subreddit aims at answering to questions like you’re explaining to a 5 year old, i.e. in a language that everyone can understand. When I come across a good explanation I clip them to my evernote. I was going through some notes today and came across this clip ...
So I joined app.net today. An year’s subscription costs $36 and there’s a monthly option for $5. I chose the latter for a start. The global feed, similar to Twitter’s public timeline It’s pretty much a Twitter-like service with a slightly different vocabulary. You create posts with a maximum length of 256 characters, as opposed to Twitter’s 140 limit on ...
So I joined app.net today. An year’s subscription costs $36 and there’s a monthly option for $5. I chose the latter for a start. The global feed, similar to Twitter’s public timeline It’s pretty much a Twitter-like service with a slightly different vocabulary. You create posts with a maximum length of 256 characters, as opposed to Twitter’s 140 limit on ...
So I joined app.net today. An year’s subscription costs $36 and there’s a monthly option for $5. I chose the latter for a start. The global feed, similar to Twitter’s public timeline It’s pretty much a Twitter-like service with a slightly different vocabulary. You create posts with a maximum length of 256 characters, as opposed to Twitter’s 140 limit ...
It’s been 5 days since Ubuntu 12.10 (aka Quental Quetzal) was released and I downloaded the ISO on 19th, but got the time to install only today. Finished the install just 30 minutes back from the time I started writing this. By the way, the following ain’t gonna be a review, just some stuff I did after installing and the ...
The Note started as a controversy, but in the end, it was a resounding success. Contrary to many initial reactions, people actually liked the big screen. More than 10 million were sold. I’ve been using the Note for over 8 months and was constantly asking myself, is it even possible to come up with a better phone? Turns out, it ...
Don’t you just hate wishing people on their birthdays? Especially when it’s not in real life? In real life, you can just ‘adoh happy birthday mchan, when’s the party?‘ and all. It’s simpler in Facebook: just a ‘happy birthday mchan!‘. But not so on Twitter. I try to ignore birthdays as much as I can. Nobody will tell you it’s ...
Learned that awesome people are generally lazy. Not quite sure where I got that from, but thought of giving it a try. It won’t hurt to try something like that, right? Being lazy has its share of problems though. You can’t regularly update the blog if you’re lazy. I would open up wordpress.com every once in a while and start ...
PayPal doesn’t fully support transactions for Sri Lankans. Yes, we can pay for stuff with Paypal, but we can’t receive money from others. This has always been a major problem for the country’s freelancers. Most clients prefer making payments via Paypal. There are several other options like Moneybookers, but none of them are as popular as Paypal nor are supported ...
The home screen Zoom with multi-touch to view albums n7player is perhaps the most visually appealing music player for android. I’ve been using it since it was in the beta stages and have never looked back. Of course, I’ve used doubleTwist Player (which I still use as a backup), PowerAmp and Mixzing; but none could compete with the beauty ...
The laptop won’t let me dual boot. That’s coz the lappy isn’t actually mine, it’s the office laptop. So I was running Ubuntu in Virtualbox all this time. Ubuntu 9.10 (I know!). But then I switched to 12.04 – Precise Pangolin. Unity is pretty cool now compared to what it was back then in 11.04. However it’s a no-no for ...
Life is boring. It’s the little things in life that helps you keep the interest. To keep the embers burning. To make the mundane stuff exciting. To keep it real. To keep you diverted from… oh well, I love being redundant. And what a thoughtful way to start a blog post. Now to the real stuff. Among the other bazillion ...
IFTTT‘s one of the most powerful tools in the interwebs and it keeps getting better by the day. (Take a look here if you’ve no idea what ifttt is). A few days back the site got a complete overhaul in the interface. Two new channels to automate WeMo devices have been added. It’s a set of magic tools that lets ...
Finally the Galaxy Note got its long awaited Ice Cream Sandwich update. Long awaited because Samsung first announced that ICS for Note will start rolling out on Q1 of 2012, but it didn’t until May. According to several Galaxy Note forums the update first appeared in several Eurpoean countries. And now it’s here in Sri Lanka. The update came on ...
I’ve begun subscribing to more and more Youtube channels lately. Mostly comedy shows. Everyone loves nigahiga and smosh. Then there’s My Damn Channel and Jenna Marbles. And dozens of others. Then there are other pretty interesting channels like sixtysymbols. Also subscribed to a couple of linux news channels in fear I’d get out of touch (am currently imprisoned in Windows). ...
Nearby.lk is a promising Sri Lankan startup which aims to create a platform that lets you find places around you easily. What? Another one of those? Well, yes. In fact, Sri Lanka is yet to get a proper location-based service that lets you find places and businesses nearby. Nearby.lk focuses on filling that gap. A service of this nature should ...
Remember your nursery days? How we were made to sing One little, two little, three little Indians and were taught how to count? And how some amused us with little horror stories, like, Hickory dickory dock, three mice ran up the clock, the clock struck one and the others got away with minor injuries? And those that taught us ...
