Harsh J

Days are getting a little tiring, but plenty interesting things to do nevertheless. There always will be, until I don’t have any more time for them.

Having finally seen my previous semester scores, which would be way better if instantaneous, I had a long talk-and-work session on LED wiring with Harshid. That bore a quick-fruit of this, my first ever ‘friode‘ which is cool but I never got to see the smoking diode stage if it happened, darn. The whole afternoon was lots of fun, thanks to him.

Then continued some gruelling search-work for my el-crapo Microdia Webcam drivers on Linux – It (ID: 0c45:614a) works with gspca_sonixj drivers right now but there are a few ‘JPEG format’ battles not won yet (unless v4l2 is used), I’ll probably not bother for another week if I can. The whole search thing has made me dizzy and makes me think of weird solutions like grabbing a video input source and feeding it back to another video input source after decompression via a loopback (sounds impossible too?) – a feat I’d need to achieve with a ton of manpages(3) and manpages(5) and an insane text-editor with motivating syntax highlight. No! Or, maybe…

Anyways, am looking forward to reading Marvel Comic’s Siege #1 as early as possible this week. I know I shouldn’t like him so much, but I absolutely enjoy reading Captain America – His shield and field mastery, it is just too… awesome.

Scripts vs. Programs

Couldn’t be put more simpler than this.

A script is what you give the actors. A program is what you give the audience.
– Larry Wall, the creator of Perl

So, do you know what programs written in scripting languages really are?

Recurring Recursions

You’re on Step 2, which asks you to do Step 1?

In order to understand recursion, one must first understand recursion.
– Unknown, multiple sources

Stack overflow.

Smart Debugging

Damn!

Debugging is twice as hard as writing the code in the first place. Therefore, if you write the code as cleverly as possible, you are, by definition, not smart enough to debug it.
– Brian W. Kernighan, the K in K&R C Book and AWK

Where would you draw the line?

Deficit Obviousness

There are two ways of constructing a software design: One way is to make it so simple that there are obviously no deficiencies and the other way is to make it so complicated that there are no obvious deficiencies.
– C.A.R. Hoare, the inventor of Quicksort

Obviously no deficiencies in understanding which way to choose.

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Would scare the hell out of you. Its a real deal – the Anglerfish.

Found here, its hard to actually come across one out of the oceans. They usually dwell near the sea-bed, using their small, bright angler light to attract prey. But just look at how terrifying it is, a shark wouldn’t scare you as much.

Either that title was random, or it was what’s actually filled in my head right now.

I’m too engrossed with Nokia’s Qt all the while that I was thinking of QPainter transforms even while giving my university exams. I guess its my fault I spend too much time learning it for Fresco. And then there’s that innocent looking ghci command that takes away more of my time.

My blog’s being spammed random and massive these days, with a daily count touching up to 300 or above. Though Akismet takes good care of them all, I still feel something’s gone horribly wrong here. Or was it due to those old LP posts I had?

Python 2.6′s with statement (introduced in 2.5, though) is sort of fun but I think I’d have to see a lot more examples before I actually go about using it in my code. I’m used to try-except-finally and decorator syntax more than this, though it *does* look a lot neater where appropriate.

I think I’ve hit a block again. So that’s it for this <p>tag</p>!