Adnan Masood, a Machine Learning Phd's musings on Life, Technology, Research & Development
Let’s say you have a customer base spreaded across several time zones i.e. from Hawaii to Alaska, all the way across mainland US and even some remote parts of Europe. You want a service to deliver a particular message at certain time via email, in that time zone. How would you do that? This problem…
Adi Oltean reported an interesting problem in his blog. Say that you have an array of N boolean values, with all values initially set to FALSE. At each iteration step, you arbitrary pick an element in the array and set it to TRUE. What is the average number of elements set to TRUE after K iteration…
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I just finished seeing Don Box and Chris Anderson's MSDN TV Special Holiday Episode III - Connecting People, Programs and Devices Using WinFX which gave the term CGI Joe completely new meanings. Their Holiday song which was sung with notes produced by XBOX Controller sending SOAP Messages to piano is as follows. code they told mepa-rum-pu-pum-puma new…
While reading David West’s Object Thinking, I came across some valuable quotes elaborating on “People’s Issue” from Robert Glass’s “Facts and Fallacies of software Engineering”. The most important factor in software work is not the tools and the techniques used by the programmers, but the quality of the programmers themselves. The best programmers are…
This post is definitely going under the narcissism category. Normally when people enter AdnanoTopia (it's in reference to Dilbertopia, Dilbert's cube), their first question is usually, "why on earth do you need three monitors"? I casually reply that It's because I'm so cool. They'd insist on knowing it "No Seriously?, why? Ok fine, I'll disclose…
I recently came across some real amusing/humorous/sad (depending on your context) answers from a candidate; please don't try these in your interview as it's quite difficult for interviewer to bite the tongue and try not to laugh.What is the difference between HTTP GET, POST and SOAP protocols?Answer:When you visit a web page, it's GET. When you click the…
My BIL Ken Nign once said that everything which makes you smart is usually pretty expensive; it was in context of prices of documentaries, history channel tapes, Mythbuster DVD's and such. However, with Google video, things are getting better. A friend recently recommended this documentary which I found to be very interesting and thought provoking. The Power of…
From Mix's site "A 72-hour conversation, the Pitch. As the web enters its second decade, the old barriers are blurring or breaking down completely. Media is transforming technology and technology is transforming media. Web “designers” are starting to write a little code, while Web “developers” are learning to twiddle pixels. AJAX is redefining the boundaries…
I usually try to mimic the ideology of "If you’re not living on the edge, you’re taking up too much space" while our architects are mostly like "If there is no SP1 yet, no way it's going to production" so you can see the difference of opinion here. Recently in order to follow the cutting edge…