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Projects

Nov 2

Posted by kosh in usual | No Comments

This is pretty much the first time in college that I have felt this hopeless, working on a project. I’m taking ‘Compilers’ this quarter and it’s probably the hardest class ever and I have no idea how to complete my project. I have 3 of 6 parts done and have no clue where to start with the rest. And guess what??!! the project was due last night! :(

On a side note, I participated in a programming competetion this weekend for a crack at the ACM regionals. Our team was placed 7th and we got some free Google t-shirts for our finish. If you are interested, here is a link to the problems and solutions as well – http://www.cs.washington.edu/homes/reges/acm/results.html

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Testing

Sep 21

Posted by kosh in usual | No Comments

I think Google ran out some quality testers in the company…look to the top right. In their defense, they are in their beta :)

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The browser war

Sep 7

Posted by kosh in Technical | 1 Comment

The past week has seen a couple of new browsers in the market, namely IE8 beta 2 and Google Chrome. And I must say that the winner. by far. is IE8. Now I’m not just saying this because I worked at Microsoft this summer. I’m saying this because Chrome, in my opinion, is a pre-alpha or alpha release at best. Sure, all the Google websites load up in a fly and the javascript engine is awesome but this crap isn’t supposed to be in the market just yet. It can scroll pages down but not up, has issues with doing simple functions on Facebook and other sites,  and starts keeping the cpu busy for reasons beyond my cognition. (Maybe it’s analyzing your cache to convert it to Google Cash).

Now, Internet Explorer on the other hand has definitely been a step forward in the right direction. In fact, I’ve moved from using Firefox exclusively to 50-50 share among the 2 now. The built in search similar to Firefox is good, doesn’t break any existing sites, has a compat mode, safe-browsing mode, an addon site, and a host ofother features and the usability going for it. Go ahead, try it out. I bet you would be pleasantly surprised.

A note to Google – I’m sure the browser is going to in beta forever, just like GMail and other services, but that isn’t an excuse to roll out a POS browser and expect people to forgive you. If you break it, you fix it. Here’s a funny take on the Chrome being touted as the new Web-OS and Windows-killer.

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