Prasad Ajinkya
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Database design: rows vs columns
The first approach is Relational, and it won't hurt to implement if you know how you are going to access and massage that data 😀 The...
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Sneak Peek @ Our Resume Builder App [ CrazyEnginees.IO ]
Can we request a feature? Can we have different layouts? Possible to pull date from social accounts? (FB, LinkedIn)
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Database design: rows vs columns
While theoretically I might agree with #-Link-Snipped-# ... in the world where prototypes and product apps get built overnight and we have to continually keep shipping...
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How do you select technology stack for your projects?
From a main line adoption point, go with stacks which are known to be stable - since you are building for production and don't want beta...
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how to create online database
If you need to do this for building reports, take a look at Google's Data Studio. It's a free tool which can talk to multiple data...
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Autocomplete With Remote Data Sourced From Plain File Vs Database
You need to factor in the speed of the clients as well. If its a relatively high end client, I'd go with json and do the...
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Which technology stack would you recommend for real time chat system?
Why not Slack? If the purpose is to build a Slack clone, then what #-Link-Snipped-# has mentioned might be a good stack to begin with. If...
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Rahul Yadav, Housing.com & Investors
Funny how the CEO can resign with a 7 day notice period. It's kind of naive to think that a CEO who owns 4.5% of a...
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The Great #NetNeutrality Debate - Telecom Operators Vs. Netizens
Kaustubh Katdare#-Link-Snipped-# - I'm wondering if the net neutrality issue is limited to the wireless data (2G/3G/4G). I personally use wired-line connection 10x more than I...
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.Net Salary Vs. Java Salary
#-Link-Snipped-# after a decade working on multiple platforms, you would (and should) be agnostic to these platforms. As a Tech Arch, it helps your cause to...
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The Great #NetNeutrality Debate - Telecom Operators Vs. Netizens
Why in the blazes did they quote so much for the bandwidth licenses? We had not stopped them during that time. The profitability issue is unfair,...
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CrazyEngineers.com is good for your health. Yep, Really!
Interesting, how many repos have the programmers on CE spawned as part of CE community effort? Pretty sure that some of the more awesome efforts can...
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How many of you have failed in IIT-JEE? How Did It Affect Your Life?
Was preparing to be a Doctor during 12th ... never bothered to appear for the JEE. Had a change of mind (ala 3 Idiots) and had...
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Minimum eligibility criteria for the company?
TheVThank you friends,,... But actually everyone say small companies can you please name some....And if when that small company doesn't come for campus in our college...
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Cloud certification
Register on AWS, and start playing with the micro VPSes, they are free for a new user in the first year (12 mths). These are just...
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Delete a column from a table
Know your DDL! Also Google! Alter table name drop column name;
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Anyone noticed malware or bad URLs on CrazyEngineers?
How are you securing the server? This could be a separate thread!
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Anyone noticed malware or bad URLs on CrazyEngineers?
#-Link-Snipped-#, you could fetch those via GWMT (Google WebMaster Tools).
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Tried Slack?
Since speaking at WordCamp Mumbai 2015, I have been introduced to Slack. WordPress dev co-ordination and discussion happens on Slack (and anyone is free to join)....
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Do We Have a Right to Be Forgotten Online?
Shouldn't it be simple, if you want to be forgotten online, remain anonymous. How can you publish content and then ask people to forget?
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Is the Internet worth saving in India? # Net Neutrality
Surprised to see that people here have not got the main gist of Net Neutrality. The OP did a decent job of linking to the AIB...
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Why MBA After BE or Btech? - How Would You Answer This Question?
This is the answer I believe in, and the one that I gave in my interviews - Being a Computer Science engineer, I understood that most...
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Approach involved while solving below questions
I'd say that the solution sheet is wrong 😀 Regarding the first question (money order), its a simple equation. commission = (floor((x - 0.01)/10) + 1...
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How to disable the value of Combobox in javascript ?
Prepopulate the language strings in an array On change of the first dropdown/selelct, empty the 2nd and 3rd dropdown and populate them with all strings except...
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Web based voting system
Perhaps you need to read about Digital Signatures and <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pretty_Good_Privacy" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">Pretty Good Pri...
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Most important topics in PHP
Look at classes, PDO, MVC patterns in PHP If you are starting with PHP, then start learning a framework thats easy to pick up (Laravel, Cake)
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Startup Jobs In India - Where to post? What are some good online portals?
For job seekers, you might want to look at <a href="https://hasjob.co/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">Hasjob</a>
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Should access to the Internet be 'Basic Human Right'?
Follow Maslow's Hierarchy of Need here folks, Internet is by far from the Hygiene factors for a lay person. For a web entrepreneur such as Biggie,...
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Happy Maharashtra Day!
For those in the state and from the state of Maharashtra .. cheers 😀 Otherwise, we can always celebrate Labor Day !!
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What are the technical ways hackers use and we should be aware of them
To add to this list, Use an good anti-virus, Pay for it even Use Ad Blockers on your browsers Stop using IE, start with Chrome/Firefox Look...
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uBuntu Server Vs. CentOS For Web Hosting - Advantages / Disadvantages?
A word of caution here Biggie, once you get comfortable with console, cPanel or WHM feels irritating. I'd rather have a clean VPS of my own...
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PHP 5.4 + APC Vs. PHP 5.5 With Built In OPCache - Performance Comparison
You do realize that Percona provides MySQL? If you are taking a look at Cloud DB + Managed Services do take a look at Amazon RDS...
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How Does A Serial(Daily Soaps) Earns The Money ?
One of the clients I work with is an Indian Food Channel. They earn money through a variety of methods - 1. Ads during programmes 2....
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WordPress Development - Beginner Questions / Answers
So did you attend WordCamp this year 😀
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uBuntu Server Vs. CentOS For Web Hosting - Advantages / Disadvantages?
I have been working with both CentOs and Ubuntu hosting. If you are intending to use something like cPanel or WHM, then stick to CentOs (since...
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What are the technical ways hackers use and we should be aware of them
I dont mean to troll you, but stop using Windows is one of the solutions!
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PHP 5.4 + APC Vs. PHP 5.5 With Built In OPCache - Performance Comparison
I hope all the software you are running on your box are uptodate! PHP is slowly going to deprecate the mysql_connect methods and bring PDO as...
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In which technology a site should be created which includes gamification?
I'd take a look at the Open Bages project by Mozilla (#-Link-Snipped-#). It's perfect for gamifying a site. What I'd worry more about is not choice...
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Ubuntu 14.04 Trusty Tahr LTS [News/Features/Updates/Changes]
Ohh cmon! Thats below the belt @#-Link-Snipped-# 😀 Using Ubuntu 12.04 LTS for dev, staging and live for all the organizations machines (except one mac).
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Blizzard's Heroes Of The Storm Versus Valve's DoTa2 : Who Will Survive?
Aye, it will be great. I have been following Blizzard games for quite some time now and my pet peeve against them is that they are...
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What should I do in linux mint?
Make a list of things that you would do on a Windoze machine. See if you could do that in Mint. If you can't, then try...
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PHP CEans wanted to work with Kidakaka
Hi folks, I have recently started an organization based in Mumbai, this time around, its an IT-Services firm squarely based on web technologies (although we do...
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CrazyEngineers is hiring kickass PHP (Zend Framework) developers!
So how many applicants did you receive so far Biggie?
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How to ensure user session destroyed wn browser closed Withought user logged out.
Can you try reducing the scope (time) of the session to match that of the user's browser session?
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Google Android 4.4 Is 'KitKat', Not Indian 'Kaju Katli'
I suggest Pan Pasand for Android 4.6.
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Entrepreneurs - How do you handle criticism?
If it is constructive criticism. I act on it. If it is criticism meant purely to bring me down, I ignore it. I was reading Soft...
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Dota 2 Is Arriving On Linux.
This is awesome news ... would increase my Dota2 manifold once it comes to linux.
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Suggest Me Some Good MMORPGs/MOBA/MMOFPS Games.
Yes, RIFT changed to F2P. I think they have limited the character slots, but yes, you can play RIFT for free. Some of the fun dungeons...
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Suggest Me Some Good MMORPGs/MOBA/MMOFPS Games.
They've hottest dark-elves I've ever seen in any mmorpg, I love this gameAren't they called Drow?
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Suggest Me Some Good MMORPGs/MOBA/MMOFPS Games.
Try Neverwinter, its a F2P MMORPG ... a decent play with a lot of player generated content. If you like MMORPGs, then give RIFT a check...
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Difference between a primary key and unique key.
Which RDBMS are we discussing? or is this a general DB question?
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Why Windows is better than Linux?
I have been in a similar mail war when I was in my engineering college days, that mail chain had lasted well over a 100 email...
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Linux Mint 15 'Olivia' Features Update With An Ambitious Release
I have been using Nadia on some of the PCs at my office, but it has its fair share of problems. Wine is an issue. I...
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Is it possible to install games with Crossover & run it in Wine ?
I tried Crossover but realized that they are based on WINE, so then did some search and found that the latest Wine is good enough.
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Is it possible to install games with Crossover & run it in Wine ?
Hey Abhishek! I rely on the latest version of Wine + Ubuntu for my linux gaming. Now that even Steam is here, most of my favourite...
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Today is National Technology Day!!
Hello CEans, I want to share with all of you that today (May 11th) is National Technology Day!! proof: <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pokhran-II" target="_blank" rel="nof...
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Why the hell IT Interviewers In India Ask 'Sorting Algorithms'?
I have been recruiting programmers for the past 6 years now, and I almost always ask a twisted sorting algo up front. Here is my reasoning...
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Keep Keyboard Ready...
Was this feature not already rolled out in previous CE versions? It was nerfed in later versions.
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Facebook Home to take over the mobile internet
Well Google do not exactly control the platform ... they contribute to it. So unlike Facebook who nuke apps which compete with on the Facebook App...
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Facebook Home to take over the mobile internet
All of use use FB right? All the time right? Well ... if their new product seems to deliver what it promises then the entire of...
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Linux File-Systems (Discussion)
Aye sir, that's the spirit! The best way to do so would be to read and then write about what you have assimilated. Which I think...
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Help Me With C++
Anand Tamariya#include <iostream> using namespace std; int main () { cout << "Help in C++ !!!"; return 0; }Would it compile :-D
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Linux File-Systems (Discussion)
Good effort Abhishek! What can be done to improve it is perhaps include a brief introduction on who should read this book and what this books...
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Answer this questionnaire
1). what is your current occupation? Business, CTO 2) What is your location, at present? Mumbai 3) What are three basic electrical appliances, which you would...
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Do you think Indian startups are just imitating companies in Silicon Valley?
Put yourself in the shoes of an individual who wants to be an entrepreneur. You want to start your own firm ... however you do not...
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Is Higher Education worth it?
So the question is, is the formal structure of imbibing the information presented deserve the premium that is being charged today?
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Is Higher Education worth it?
To understand the financials of a company, you can always do some basic course in finance (from one of the MOOC's offered ... Udemy, Coursera, Lore,...
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Can variable retain a value in PHP?
Another option is to use the localstorage in HTML5 <a href="https://www.w3schools.com/html/html5_webstorage.asp" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">HTML Web Storage...
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Is Higher Education worth it?
I received an infographic in my mail this morning .. it was so interesting that I republished it on my blog - <a href="https://kidakaka.com/blog/2013/03/22/rising-cost-of-higher-ed...
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Where do we really use C, C++, Java programming languages?
ianoopI guess #-Link-Snipped-# pointing to oracle apps not DB. Oracle DB is too old to written in Java. DB is written in assambly language, C, C++....
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Valve's Steam Installer For Debian (Unofficial)
Its already out on Ubuntu Software Center (the Valve version that is).
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Why is Indian government making set top box compulsory?
Multiple reasons - Stopping of revenue leaks Regulating the licensing of content Regulating what gets aired (remember Sushma Swaraj and her campaign against FTV? Well now...
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mysql access denied for user ''@'localhost'??
if you are at the console, then use the command, mysql -u <user> -p This will prompt the client to ask for a password. Hope this...
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Where do we really use C, C++, Java programming languages?
Many enterprise apps (such as Oracle) are built natively in Java
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How to fetch data from existing table using PHP while I'm using XAMPP
I think your table might not have any rows, hence the boolean variable being returned (false). Typically before running the mysql_fetch_array() method, always check with mysql_n...
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How to hack crack or bypass cyberoam websense
Praveen-KumarWe have TOR finder! Once anyone installs TOR, a message will be popped up and the System Shutdown dialog starts! 😔 Something like this: I have...
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Practo - Instant Doctor Appointment Service
Well, interesting concept. Do you charge the doctors for their listing?
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Query in program selection in MS
Akshay, better to talk to people who have already done an MS in this and ask them about career progressions, job satisfaction, work, etc. You can...
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How to intigrate tiles framework in php ?
umm, use php function include() 😁 you can also take a look at some of the cooler MVC frameworks in PHP out there - symfony and...
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My internet is going crazy.
Change your DNS to 8.8.8.8 and/or 4.2.2.2, that should help!
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What is deadlock in operating system?
Oh you should totally look up the Dining Philosophers problem - <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dining_philosophers_problem" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener noreferre...
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JavaScript Vs. CoffeeScript : Which one would you prefer?
If I had a custom JS codebase, I might think about migrating to CS (provided the compiled JS output is auto-minified and produces the best code...
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Best book for DWH and data mining ?
Try to look up Shubhamoy Dey's book on DWH and Data Mining. I had it as a text back in 2005, can't quite recall the name...
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Help Required on PHP
Tech, I could type this out in this forum, but this link on php.net explains it with sample code - <a href="https://www.php.net/manual/en/mysql.examples-basic.php" target="_blank"...
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CrazyEngineers Meet at Mumbai, India on Sep 1, 2012
Oye where are the photos 😁 The CE-Mug is awesome good work!
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CE Community Layout Updated - Feedback Needed
Request to the mod and the forum modders, can we have a "My Watched Threads" widget in the sidebar?
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Should marijuana(Ganja) be legalized ?
Troll_So_HardOkay don't get me wrong, I am not reefer head & puff puff passing is not my thing. But yesterday I was having chat with loads...
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an interesting game
whoa! hard to believe that its been six years since we started the first one. it all started when my friend and I were checking out...
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How Not To Be Nervous During Any Job Interview
Something that I find useful and very simple to do - Maintain a correct posture during the interview, sit up straight, no slacking and slouching Be...
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Was Facebook Overvalued?
I think the wall street movers and shakers wanted to see a giant IPO and that's about it. People want to see a success story ...
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Will YepMe.com Model Work?
This model is increasing the overheads of the business. Delivery is as it is, but now payment collection is an overhead. The good part is that...
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Satyam Eva Jayate - Episode On Drinking & Alcoholism
The_Big_K#-Link-Snipped-# : I do understand the points being made in favor of social / responsible drinking. The car analogy isn't quite right here; because cars are...
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Satyam Eva Jayate - Episode On Drinking & Alcoholism
The_Big_KPS: My views are pretty extreme on the topic of alcohol consumption and smoking. People find them Jurassic and old-fashioned, unfortunately.My views are libertarian ... Dr...
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Is it possible to make moblie os in .net or any other language?? how?
Try something more native than that Karan 😀
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Profile + Work for an MBA student
Typically, an MBA starts out as a Business Analyst in an IT firm. Depending on your orientation, this can change from person to person ... 1....
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Profile + Work for an MBA student
Hey pushkar, Post MBA, there are a variety of profiles which open up for you. They depend upon - Which specialization do you go for (Finance,...
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SQL Normalization
Hey, I also found this very simple and well explained article - #-Link-Snipped-#
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How to attract talented people for a startup?
Issue, one word - Stock options (start-ups on a very regular basis pay MORE than MNCs). It's not simply "challenge", but rather the fact that you...
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GRE Salary! I Am Surprised
In marathi, we have a saying - Lanket sonachya vita 😀 ... that should explain PPP or the Mac Index!
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Why Did Facebook Acquire 12 Employee / 30+ Million Users Instagram?
aviiDude FB mobile apps doesn't have ads. Obviously revenue will be Z-E-R-O !There are other ways than advertising to monetize. Look at Square, Tagtile
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Airtel 4G Now In India - What Will You Do With 100 Mbps?
Praveen-KumarHow are both of these related?Dude, setup your own hosting center and give our hosting at the same rates 😀
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Wikipedia's Report On Indian Students : Your Take?
Well, there are different ways to react to this - 1. and the easiest to do is to take the moral high ground and say copying...
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Airtel 4G Now In India - What Will You Do With 100 Mbps?
lol, I think we will need to merge this thread with this one - #-Link-Snipped-#
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Why Did Facebook Acquire 12 Employee / 30+ Million Users Instagram?
They don't add-up. But with FB behind them, they can definitely bulk up and define the mobile revenue stream for FB (which is non-existent at present).
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jsp doubts....
Nope. Its still Javascript. Why go into the trouble of AJAX? <html> <script language="Javascript"> function doMyThang() { var urlArray = ["https://google.com","https://crazyengine...
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Is copying of great things and showing our hand work, legal or not?
I dont see them using that logo anymore.
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jsp doubts....
Here's what you do - Declare a javascript array for the URLs. In the dropdown, the values of each option should map to the index of...
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Airtel 4G Now In India - What Will You Do With 100 Mbps?
What will you do with FUP? If they take out the FUP, then I would love to back up all my data (yes ALL of it)...
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Adwords For Videos : The Big Thing In Video Campaigns!
Yes, but the problem is that after 6 seconds, the viewer gets to opt-out. I still prefer the old CPC way and using the GDN for...
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http://shop.adobe.com/in -> Adobe India Online Digital Store!
I used to hate designing ... in fact Photoshop used to give me headaches! Too many controls I say! Then circumstances necessitated that I make my...
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educational website-khan academy
Serious bump! Guys, the good folks at Khan Academy, have released their code online. Worth a look at - code.google.com/p/khanacademy/
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About blog
The_Big_KI think you should definitely check out Tumblr. WordPress.com will embed their own ads without giving the publishing much control. But if you still want to...
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want to start a blog, which web hosting i can choose? need your suggestions
Use fatcow.com for hosting (roughly INR 2000 for hosting + domain in the first year). I would suggest wordpress because its highly customizable.
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google's Zerg Rush
Yeah! I have a Logitech gaming mouse 😁 ... a bit old now, but still beats the clicks out of a normal mouse!
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Why Did Facebook Acquire 12 Employee / 30+ Million Users Instagram?
Hey, if you take a look at Facebook's financials (available on SEC site, since they are going public in May), then you will realize that Facebook's...
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google's Zerg Rush
oh man, i also posted a thread here ... btw, reached 61. How did you do?
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How tough is CAT
If you want to do well in CAT, you should devote time to developing and honing a managerial aptitude.Can you tell us what is a managerial...
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jsp doubts....
This smells like an assignment 😀 But perhaps you need to do this via simply Javascript.
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Did you Google "Zerg Rush"
If not, then do try it! Go to Google Search for "Zerg Rush" More here - <a href="https://kidakaka.com/blog/2012/04/27/googles-zerg-rush-easter-egg/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow...
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Google Drive : Will It Kill Dropbox?
Well, Dropbox is pretty awesome (the paid version offers far more features). I dont think Google Drive will kill Dropbox.
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Dealivore.com Shut Down. Says Daily Deals Sites Offer Inflated Deals!
Well, I have had some good deals on Snapdeal. I don't buy them unless I require the offering and the discount offered is a marked difference.
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Creating website using Visual Studio 2008- help
Why are you trying to complicate your life and use VS 2008 for building a website? Unless if its a complex and dynamic site, I would...
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How to check popularity of a particular link?
Well, you could always try pro.seomoz.org, which gives you the popularity of the domain (crazyengineers.com), and that particular page (#-Link-Snipped-#)
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Google forces Google+ and Gmail Sign-ups
Piggybacking has always been around for quite some time now. The reason why Windows (came bundled with IBM PCs), and why IE (came bundled with Windows)...
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How Does FDI In Retail Sector Help Farmers?
Biggie, the profits are taken by the person/institution who does the business. So yes, Walmart will take home the money. But so what? They have earned...
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Misleading Advertisements Collection Thread
The_Big_KThis one is classic. The girl gets rejected because she's 'dark' (and Indians are dark skinned). Her father magically finds out a solution and offers it...
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How Does FDI In Retail Sector Help Farmers?
Biggie, I do not agree with your arguments. An organized player in an erstwhile unorganized sector means better processes, more information, and even better technology (logistic....
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Removing Objectionable Content From Social Networks - CS Problem?
Yep. Certain processes cannot be automated. Certain can.
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If you own a company, how will you recruit people?
Logical thinking for one. A certain jump in the step for another.
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Removing Objectionable Content From Social Networks - CS Problem?
hmm, take the case of Wikipedia, even in those case the becoming a mod process is still part-manual, part-automated.
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Any apt books to learn MySql..?
Just head on to w3schools. But perhaps before learning mysql, what you need to learn is sql (the basic commands, etc) and DB fundamentals, for which...
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Removing Objectionable Content From Social Networks - CS Problem?
Praveen, I think ian has a good valid point. By verified person, he means a trusted source (such as our CE Mods). If a Mod says...
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Indian Government To Take Action Against Facebook & Google
I should have mentioned that most of the folks that I consider intelligentsia are libertarians, who are not as moved by Anna and his fast. Perhaps,...
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Indian Government To Take Action Against Facebook & Google
Jokes apart, doing this in India would bring down the sanctimonious wrath of the Indian intelligentsia, not to mention the horrors it will trigger across the...
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Indian Government To Take Action Against Facebook & Google
Heh ... some impacts of stopping Google, FB, etc - Google - B-school students will not be able to complete their assignments on time IT companies...
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Removing Objectionable Content From Social Networks - CS Problem?
I think so. You can create a predictive model even. Statistics (more specifically correlation) tells us how to correlate two seemingly independent variables and predict one...
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Programming challenges I use to hire Programmers
Whenever I hire programmers, I prefer to give them programming tasks within the interview, or before coming to the interview. I thought that I might share...
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Removing Objectionable Content From Social Networks - CS Problem?
Create an expletives database! Whenever the keyword occurs, target that content. Obviously there would be false positives, but the algo can be made to learn from...
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What Contributes The Most To System Boot Time?
Biggie, thats precisely what I am saying. If you put your OS files in a faster memory, then the load times will go down. Which is...
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What Contributes The Most To System Boot Time?
Wow, it's been a long time since I frequented the forums, and I can see so much change. Awesome improvements. CE, your web team rocks!! Enough...
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Many More Happy Returns of the day to Biggie and CE :)
Whoa! the Big K touches the Big 30 😀 Happy birthday!
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Grace Marks For Girls To Enter IIMs - Good Or Bad?
Really, when did this happen? Sheez, I knew the ration on campus was skewed, but this is taking it a bit too far though. But to...
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Thoughtworks C++ Program : Inventory Control System
Hint: It's actually a Linear Programming Problem. Given a function of Location (where you want the goods to be delivered), Goods Ordered (how many ipods are...
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Port Blocking in Windows 2003 Server
Interesting problem. You can filter the requests at the DNS level, however there is no easy way of forcing everyone to use the DNS defined. A...
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Should human cloning be legalized
I see a lot of folks who are saying no to cloning, but I say why not? Just because we are touting the "ethical card"? I...
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Which PC to Buy ?
Assembled one is best. Suggest you up your C2D to i5 or i7. There are enough experts here to suggest more specific graphics card. Biggie, what...
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Basics Of Stock Markets - Special Course In Finance For YOU!
Thanks folks. Do ping me for any doubts and clarifications, if required!
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coding problem
I am not running this program, however, could you - 1. start using switch instead of the multiple ifs 2. stop using while(1) and put your...
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Innovative re-CAPTCHA Alternatives - Ideas Invited
I like the simple math captcha the best. Or how about a negative form element? By that I mean a form element (say a text box)...
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Basics Of Stock Markets - Special Course In Finance For YOU!
The_Big_KKidakaka : The Webminar -> #-Link-Snipped-# is free, right?Yes Biggie, The webinar is completely free. Any interested people can just click on the link provided by...
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Gone are the days of laptops and palmtops, Rolltops are here !
Seems like an offshoot of the e-paper design. Cool concept though.
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Basics Of Stock Markets - Special Course In Finance For YOU!
Dear All, I would like to introduce Upendra to CE. Upendra is part of the Pristine team and is going to be one of the instructors...
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Basics Of Stock Markets - Special Course In Finance For YOU!
praveenscienceQuants as in???Quants as in Quantitative skills, as in mathematical knowledge. Basics of statistics (what we used to be taught in the 10th standard).
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Basics Of Stock Markets - Special Course In Finance For YOU!
praveenscienceI am in too... 😀Glad to have you on board Praveen 😀
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Basics Of Stock Markets - Special Course In Finance For YOU!
AbraKaDabra@kidakaka: What are the basic qualifications/skills/knowledge required to enroll for this course? Is there some sort of 'prior knowledge' that would be nice to have so...
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Would You Be Interested In Learning Basics Of Finance & Stock Market Investing?
Sure Biggie, The Basics of Stock Market course is intended for people who are interested in the stock markets, but do not know of any definitive...
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CE Meet in Maharashtra!!
Hey Lonavala seems to be a good idea, although there will be a lot of hustle and bustle due to Mumbaikars trying to escape the heat...
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Which framework is most widly used in php abd why ?
CakePHP Symfony Always thought Zend as part of the basic PHP package and never as a framework. Can someone clear my confusion here?
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How to Post variables to url using function in php?
A simpler method would be to say method="GET" in your form tag. That way all the form inputs would be submitted as a GET and not...
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how to select the newest entries ?
in mysql, you have the LIMIT keyword, sort by the primary key in desc order and use LIMIT 10. that should do no?
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Problem In configuring Apache
Sushant, are you running an elevated command prompt (as admin)? Your command should do the trick
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Which DNS Do You Use & Why?
It will, at the start. But later on it won't. Net net there will be delta difference. However if you are using the crappy DNS servers...
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Probability Problem
And here is the solution! A: Sue wins B: Bob wins C: Bob wins in his second turn D: Sue does NOT win in her first...
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Problem In configuring Apache
Sushant, the best solution out of this is what slashfear said, use XAMPP. I think its a 50mb download.
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Probability Problem
Sorry cooltwins, perhaps its best that you discuss your approach, that way others can also help build the solution!!
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Probability Problem
@ishutopre - no, could you explain the logic as to how you arrived at that no? @vipandeep - no, although you seem to be thinking in...
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basic guidance please
Arvind, That's why I said, lets not get into this discussion at this early stage. However, if you would like to discuss this in more detail,...
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Reading Atlas Shrugged
Its the reason why I do not give alms to beggars, like Capitalism and have become more selfish 😀
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decreasing price of laptop.........
2 things - 1. Moore's law - <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moore%27s_law" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">Moore%27S Law</a> 2. Perceived Obsolescence
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Which DNS Do You Use & Why?
I use Google's DNS - 8.8.8.8 Have registered for OpenDNS, but Google's beats the hell out of OpenDNS in response times. And its much safer. As...
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Not able to login through my hosted php page..!!
The_Big_KNot sure about this but you may map the domain name to localhost through hosts file? [ Someone correct me please ]Err, Biggie, If the script...
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basic guidance please
Dietel, Please ignore what Arvind has said in the above post, his intent is good, but content is bad 😛 (sorry Arvind, I am not being...
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Probability Problem
Sue and Bob take turns rolling a 6-sided die. Once either person rolls a 6 the game is over. Sue rolls first, if she doesn't roll...
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Problem In configuring Apache
Sushant, You need to stop the Apache service first. Then do the edits, save and start the service again. Most likely you are using Vista/Win7/2k3 server,...
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How to transfer our data(of oracle) from one computer to another ?
Mohit, if its mysql you are looking for, then simply use mysqldump. If you are thinking about migrating tablespaces from one db to another (mysql to...
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Job for JSP Programmer
Dear CEans, A friend of mine is looking to hire a Java/JSP programmer. If interested, then do contact me at prasad dot ajinkya at gmail dot...
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Salary Negotiation Tips
Remember, in all negotiations there are clearly three zones - 1. the zone where you clearly win 2. the zone where you clearly lose 3. the...
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Solar Impulse: The First Solar Powered Plane To Fly Over Night
Making a new milestone in the use of solar power, a Swiss team has made headlines when they flew for more than 26 hours straight in...
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Fastest Kid On The Block: Opera 10.6
I confess, I am a Firefox fanboy. I am extremely biased towards Firefox and have been steadfastly sticking to that browser since 2002. Despite all the...
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Cupidtino: Now You Can Date An Apple Fanboy
Picture this. Boy meets girl, they both start chatting over the Internet. They both have something in common, because they hooked up on a dating site....
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Careers: Visibility Is Not The Only Problem
One of my assumptions about career design lays shattered today. I thought that students do not have visibility into their next career spaces, and that is...
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Technology does not make you dumber
Over the past 3 years, a lot of people have taken pot shots at Technology. Right from the #-Link-Snipped-# in 2009 to abolish the use of...
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The future of cloud computing
Two weeks back we had an interesting post on <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cloud_computing" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">Cloud Computing</a>; explori...
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Yahoo tells techcrunch to f*** off :)
Carol Bartz CEO, Yahoo! asks Techcrunch’s Arrington to F*** Off! Last month, Yahoo! has shown that it has a strong backbone of its own. After facing...
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Internet Of Things
Imagine a day when your refrigerator will monitor the milk you have, it will re-order it through an online transaction whenever it reaches a certain level....
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Diaspora: The open social network
The last month has seen the entire world go up in arms with Facebook’s privacy glitch. This was not the first time that Facebook had drawn...
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Facebook Privacy
On 22 April this year, Facebook changed its privacy policy. If you have been through privacy policies of different websites, you would know about what the...
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Old members ? Where are you oldies ?
SS, Have you tried LoL? I am on LoL for some time now ... have gotten hooked and de-hooked though 😀 These days into DDO
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i-become Career Camp @ Pune | Students & Professionals Meet | 22 & 23 May '10
Hello CEans, - Are you trying to figure out your future career and don't know where to start? - Are you concerned about the difference of...
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How important is dress code for work?
Crazyboy, I have 😀. Its more a question of what is acceptable norm. Places where casuals are accepted, people dress accordingly. Durga, For giving a presentation,...
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Most important factor you considered while deciding your career?
I disagree saurav. The question was - Are you happy doing what you are being paid to do? Not - Are you happy with what you...
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learning LINUX
Techworm, the best way to learn ubuntu is by trial. Start using it, whenever you face a problem ... search on google or the forums. You...
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Fresher 2010 passout. No Campus. How to get good job?
For starters, Improve your resume - #-Link-Snipped-# Sharpen your web presence to be that of a value creator. Create a list of companies in which sector...
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8 things a programmer should do
1.Read: Not only technical textbooks, but also other material. It gives you a good break from the programming, and it also builds your capacity to read...
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10 Google Analytics Tips
<span style="font-size: small;">Most of us who have been users of the web, have forayed into making their own site. Be it a personal blog, or acommunity...
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Mary Meeker on 5 trends in mobile Internet
Mary Meeker, Morgan Stanley's analyst and more popularly known as the "Queen of the Net" has come out with her yearly Internet analysis. I have been...
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MS Office 2010: 7 Features That Matter The Most
I am a big fan of Microsoft’s Office suite. It’s one of their best products ever, definitely geared at boosting productivity for office. The product is...
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Most important factor you considered while deciding your career?
Consider this as a factor. Are you happy doing what you are being paid to do?
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Factors that kill startups
Some more of these - 1. Lack of a sustainable business model 2. Team splitting apart
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how to know how many viewes of my blog page?
If you want to try, there is Clicky as well. But I use Google Analytics myself and the only complaint I have had with it is...
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i-become Career Camp @ Dadar | Professionals Meet | 15 May '10, 10:00 AM
Dear all, After the successful I-Become Camp in IIT Powai Campus, we are continuing the series with our next camp on 15th May, 2010 in Mumbai....
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What to choose between Pleasure & Passion
Goyal, you can strike the middle path and foray into the world of web development as Biggie has suggested. Believe me it has enough to keep...
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Resume tips
I had posted this on LinkedIn asking HR recruiters what are the top three things they look for in a resume, heres a summary of their...
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CrazyEngineers Is Hiring: Associate bloggers
Maybe, it will help you select if you asked for original posts which are not posted anywhere as material to selecting candidates.
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the KNACK!!
#-Link-Snipped-# Nice Dilbert video, I thought that I might share this with you 😀
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Campus Placements: Do you know what job you'll do?
Hi Biggie, I am glad you asked this question, and would ask all fellow CEans to really think through this before taking an action.
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Career in software testing
Abhi, it would be great if you could define the scope of your question a bit. I have known software testers (application testers), who moved into...
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What to do before deciding to do an MBA!!
Tim Berry has written an excellent article on the reasons why one should NOT do an MBA ... do read - #-Link-Snipped-#
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Ce - lug
Just installed MS Office 2007 on Ubuntu 9.1 with Wine 1.1.3 😀 Works like a charm, does give some issues with Powerpoint and Smartart. But who...
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CE Upgrade - Discussions
Love the new site!! My congratulations to the dev team and Biggie. Also to those who contributed to the making the site better. Re-visiting the site...
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Be Positive
Thanks for motivating US !!! Cheers ____________________ #-Link-Snipped-#
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when will India become a developed country
Baapre, I think before we get into this, we need to define what a developed country means. Look through this definition - <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Developed_country"...
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diplomacy or straight forwardness
Guys, If you want to see how diplomacy and straightforwardness are in real life, do read "The Fountainhead" by Ayn Rand. The story is about a...
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registry files deleting
I think you mean editing your registry. I guess you should try to avoid this (for beginners at least), and use some program like CCCleaner.
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What is very important skill a person should learn?
Here's a quote by Ricardo Levy on Success - Success is a metric; you never have enough. But only you can define fulfillment. We as individuals...
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Is it OK to open blocked sites in college/office?
vik, you are missing the point which is being discussed 😀. #-Link-Snipped-# says, tell me guys its way more immoral to kill people then why do...
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Big problem
Hey Rajiv, Apologies if it sounded insensitive or derogatory. I just meant to say that organize your life in a better way to overcome your memory...
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What are businesses looking for?
Rationalguy, Now be rational 😀. Here's a process we used to do in our b-school. 1. Make a resume where you write down everything about yourself....
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Which player to use ?
Try VLC player - <a href="https://www.videolan.org/vlc/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">Official download of VLC media player, the best Open Source player - Vid...
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Text to speech converter
AFAIK Neha, Microsoft has a speech SDK available which you can use.
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Big problem
Rajiv, You need to do a Ghajini 😀. In an interview you need to tell your interviewers how you conquered short term memory loss to achieve...
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How to answer for the question , Tell me about yourself?
csiscool, Do this - Write down a short introduction for yourself. Take the effort, dont expect to copy paste 😀 The exercise is well worth it!!...
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how effectively apply for job in online?
csiscool, Hey, if you are in Mumbai, then drop me a mail at prasad dot a at ckrinfo dot com. We are looking to hire some...
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Software streams for electronics and telecom. engineers
Hi Abhinav, Worry naught. The way Indian IT companies are hiring, they include all engineers in their agenda. Also, the telecom sector in India is booming,...
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Careers and i-become
Hi csiscool, Post your questions on CE, we would be glad to help you out. PS - All the best for your interview preps!!
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Can passions change?
Re: Is "Burn Out" due to Pavlovian conditioning? tashirosgtA common example of a change in passions is "burn out". For example, a person may pursue academic...
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Can I include hobbies & interests in my CV?
Good show Rajiv. You can put it under hobbies or if you have an extra-curriculars heading, that might also do.
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diplomacy or straight forwardness
Durga, IMO, as long as you are not negatively impacting anyone, it might make more sense to be diplomatic when the situation demands it.
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Artificial Inteligence: What you think?
vik001indMe too had taken it in my 7th sem as elective. As you have studied the subject, you must be knowing that a machine is termed...
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Artificial Inteligence: What you think?
I guess any place where automation is needed, you can have AI. The best example where many of us would have interacted with AI is games.
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Need to turn my blog into mini forum for readers
Vega, One more thing. Shift to Wordpress platform. It's wayyyy better 😀. I used to have my blog on the Blogger platform, but last year I...
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Success
I read this recently on a very popular blog. Many of our personal success aspirations have nothing to do with any “success” that an outsider would...
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Workshops on Aptitute Development - Are those really worth it?
AbraKadabra, They say practice makes perfect. The kind of aptitude tests that are out there are of that ilk. You keep on solving them, and sure...
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Artificial Inteligence: What you think?
I had taken this subject as my elective in the final year. You have a learning AI which creates new rule and keeps on updating it's...
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Ordered list in HTML (Problem)
Gaurav, Look up CSS, I think you can tweak the bullet points (<li> to prepend Q to it).
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Need to turn my blog into mini forum for readers
Vega, Use a shoutbox 😀 (Google it if you dont know what I am talking about)
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How to Reset / Recover Forgotten Windows NT / 2000 / XP / 2003/VISTA password
jhilmil07and if someone forgets his linux password??jhilmil, its a livecd, so no need for password 😀
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How to create a link to a website in a window?
I am not so strong in C (perhaps others can help you). But suffice to say you have to create event handlers and events. What say...
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blue window error message
Not necessarily, you dont have to reinstall windows. You can try making sense out of the text on that blue screen. Generally this happens due to...
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Online project development
Re: Projects If you want nothing but hone your skills, then check projecteuler.net
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how does web browser makes connection with internet?
Goyal, Socket programming it is. +1 with MaRo
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How to create a link to a website in a window?
Hey Gaurav, Why not use a simple VB application to do this?
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Apple Vs Microsoft
Gohm, even Applie does the strong arming. With iTunes and iPod, with iStore, with macintosh. Just because MS does it with a crappier product (IE) doesnt...
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how does web browser makes connection with internet?
Goyal, First you need to understand that the system you are talking about is a series of abstractions layered on top of each other. So the...
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Need a word of advice.
VegaMy thought on this is that if one goes for PG after some work experience, he can fetch more from his PG course. The work experience,...
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Where to do an M.tech from
Dainty, Something I learnt from 3 idiots. Padhai kaabil banne ke liye karo, degree ke liye nahi. Jobs, success, money, everything will follow.
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Software Engineering Or Computer Engineering??
Totalcrazy, I maybe wrong, since I am only articulating a guess here ... but if the course is on Software Engineering, then it would be more...
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What to do when you don't like your job?
Heh, in the morning today I had read this post by Susan Cramm (#-Link-Snipped-#). She says ask yourself this two questions about your job - If...
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redhat linux queries
samaira1.HOw to listen to songs in redhatI prefer xmms. You will need to download and install it separately. samaira2.how to see the videos in redhatI prefer...
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disk partitioning
I would have suggested Gparted if money was the deciding point, but I prefer Partition Magic to gparted, in terms of usability and outcome.
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Ideas for starting a small scale business in India
Robi, I disagree. The core of any business is not selling. It's the value it can create.
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Get Criss Messina on CE
Hey Biggie, It would be great if you could get Criss Messina on CE. I just read a piece on RWW, you can find it #-Link-Snipped-#.
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Which is better option GMAT or GRE!!!
+1 on the experience bit. Kunal, you may want to ask yourself these questions - 1. Why MBA/MS? 2. Where will I be after graduating? Do...
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virus in my c:/ drive
The_Big_KHave you tried AVAST? If yes, how does it compare with NOD32? -The Big K-I have tried Avast, heres my take - Updates are frequent on...
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Careers and i-become
Thanks Biggie, I have invited them to come over and introduce themselves 😀.
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a fundamental question on basic electricity flow
Lol. Piyush, some smart thinking there 😀 But I have to agree with reachrkata here, the difference would be negligible. Although by your reasoning, we should...
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Careers and i-become
Good question Biggie, Let's take software/IT as an example. This is where I want to tell you about the compensation you get as a software developer....
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Careers and i-become
Sreeram, It's good that you have started this discussion. More CEans can join in!! i-become is about gaining visibility - 1. internal visibility to know who...
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Careers and i-become
Dear All, With so many engineers graduating every year, it becomes necessary to ensure are we getting into the right jobs? A recent article in the...
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Powerpoint VBA:Oh! please help,
Goyal, He wants to use graphs. Which may not be images but objects. In which case the VBA makes sense. But cool, personally, I think for...
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Engineers and Terrorism
Heres an interesting read - #-Link-Snipped-# Two sociologists have studied 300 radicals to come out with this finding. An excerpt - The simple explanation is that...
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Powerpoint VBA:Oh! please help,
I know you will kill me for this, but why not use images instead 😀
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MTECh/MS or B.E
Vaibhav, There is a similar thread in this forum, I suggest you follow it. #-Link-Snipped-#
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dilemma on what to choose...embedded or dsp or dip
Teja, I was an average engineering student, and I found DSP an extremely incongruous subject. Partly because of the fact that I could not apply it...
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for summer training in delhi 2009 btech
Abhinav, Devil and Ankit. Does'nt your college help you folks out? What about educational institutes for projects (like IITD)? Have you approached smaller companies who might...
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interested in web development but...not able to choose what is best
Ghosts, You are getting confused between professional experience and hands-on experience. For hands-on experience, you dont need a job ... you need to just do it....
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which company to opt
Rahul, First question you should be asking yourself is what is it that you want to do? What kind of lifestyle do you want to lead?...
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India less corrupt than neighbours
hahaha .. do you have any incidents to support that Goyal? I am sure we CEans would be happy to share our experiences.
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Help me please
Kishore, Can you talk about your extracurricular activities and hobbies a little bit more? If you have an impressive list, that can easily make up for...
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Today's Featured Download : gDoc Creator
Mahesh, is this an alternative to MS Word?
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3 Idiots Vs Five Point Someone
Heh .. I dont see what the debate is all about ... especially after going through this site. #-Link-Snipped-#
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Should i do MBA after B.tech in IT ..
Moniza go through similar posts on CE. You can find them here - #-Link-Snipped-#
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which one use optimal techniques?
God knows! I dont think any of us know their algorithms to make a decision. I would say Google since its integrated with my browser.
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How to Block Ads : Tutorial
There is another way - Use firefox and use Ad-Block Plus add-on.
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