Adnan Masood, a Machine Learning Phd's musings on Life, Technology, Research & Development
I'm sitting here watching Garden State and trying to figure out Frank Buß's Mars Rescue challenge; kinda bummed especially after Prashant solved Einstein Riddle way faster than I did. It was like 15-20 minutes! Only if they give ignoble prizes for this! Bravo Prashant, you're the man. The Mars rescue challenge has been in news: Yahoo News:…
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Excuse my ignorance but before today when Prashant told us about Exceptions Dialog Box CLR exceptions debug option, I never have used it for breaking on exceptions; and now that I know about it, it makes me wonder why not? Rob & Jorge think its because we write such good quality code that it seldom needs debugging, I…
Rusty Ryan: Look, it's not in my nature to be mysterious. I can't talk about it, and I can't talk about why.
“To study, and when the occasion arises to put what one has learned into practice—is that not deeply satisfying?” Confucius, Analects 1.1.1 Google Suggest would be a classical example of it. Slashdot | Google Suggest Labs :: Google Suggest
I've been looking into achieving this capability with minimum amount of code for sometime; Using URL access in sQL Server Reporting Services to render the file in browser without having a save as popup nor using the Report Viewer Control. Just a plain old binary data streaming into broswer IOStream. I tried WebClient but it didn't…
I remember answering a question about what does ASMX stands for on ASP.NET forums a while back. The rumor is, it stands for active server module and the trailing x is actually a + rotated as it follows the same nomenclature to ASP+ (ASP.NET's former name). In other news, in the MSDN service station column,…
Some bits of trivia i found during my regular wikipedia surfing. Origin of Word 'America' Cosmographiae Introductio, explains that the name was derived from the Latinized version of the explorer Amerigo Vespucci's name, Americus Vespucius, in its feminine form, America (as the other continents all have Latin feminine names). The Italian name Amerigo is a…