Invictus

I am the Master of my Fate,
I am the Captain of my Soul

- W.C. Henley

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At first it’s simple, then it gets complicated and simple again

When you start looking at a problem and it seems really simple, you don’t really understand the complexity of the problem.

Then you get into the problem, and you see that it’s really complicated, and you come up with all these convoluted solutions. That’s sort of the middle, and that’s where most people stop…

But the really great person will keep on going and find the key, the underlying principle of the problem – and come up with an elegant, really beautiful solution that works. That’s what we wanted to do with Mac.

Steve Jobs, 1984, taken from Peter Merholz’ book “Subject to Change”

Since it is great quote, I entirely copied and pasted the text from the following link.

http://mortenjust.com/2009/07/20/at-first-its-simple-then-it-gets-complicated-and-simple-again/

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Idea to develop a smart phone applcation (Useful for India like couctr)

http://www.hindu.com/2005/08/10/stories/2005081002160400.htm

Do to want to make difference in peoples life with technology? I do.

Say 5% of people in urban India have GPS enabled phones (iphone, nokia, android etc).

You wrote an application to report manholes.

Whenever you find your-selfs next to the to a manhole

- Open the application and press to report the location to government which is responsible for this.

- If they don't care, report it to news papers. I'm sure they are happy to spread the news.

Let me show the idea with pictures.

If you willing to see the flow of the application, please download the pdf file. You can even navigate the prototype.

If you like to implement the idea let me know, I will be happy to help you to design the application.

Best regards,

-- Anil

See and download the full gallery on posterous

Download now or preview on posterous

myBalsamiqProject.pdf (219 KB)

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Chrome Browser pinned tab tip.

I don't know about following feature of google chrome.

If you use google chrome you might already know about how to use pinned tabs. 

Which gives extra space for other tabs. The pinned tab automatically goes to the left side on tab bar.

I use them for websites I use most. Examples are Google mail, calender, docs, facebook, twitter etc.

If you drag and drop the regular tab in between or left side of pinned tabs it automatically becomes pinned tab.

I don't know about it, found it accedentally.

-- Anil

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Get Latitude and Longitude values from Google Maps

Search your address in google maps. Once you found your address in maps use the following Java script to get the longitude and latitude.

javascript:void(prompt('',gApplication.getMap().getCenter()));  

You will get popup with geo-coordinates.

During day to day hobby programming stuff I used it many times.

Source: LifeHacker

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Pupil detection in a video [C# and Java]

I just want to post the output of the project I worked with my friend long time ago.

The project is about finding the eye pupil detection. We did it for both image and also for the video[webcam].

Here is the video output of the project.



-- Anil

Recursion

I found it very useful to explain the recursion. I read it at everything2.com.

A child couldn't sleep, so her mother told her a story about a little frog,
who couldn't sleep, so the frog's mother told her a story about a little bear,
who couldn't sleep, so the bear's mother told her a story about a little weasel...
who fell asleep.
...and the little bear fell asleep;
...and the little frog fell asleep;
...and the child fell asleep.

This is the best explanation of recursion I've heard. It could probably
be recast to be less cutesy, but it really gets to what's going on with recursion in a very nice way: Stuff happens on the way in, you hit an endpoint, and other stuff happens in reverse order on the way back out as it all unwinds. For somebody who doesn't "get" recursion yet, this is not a bad map to start with.