Source: eWeek.com
Microsoft’s Bing gained a single point of market share in July, bringing its total to 9.41 percent, according to a new report by StatCounter. The recent partnership deal between Microsoft and Yahoo has given both companies hope that they can challenge Google, which currently holds a double-digit lead in the search market. Under the [...]
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who has written 49 posts for Tayyab Bin Tariq.
Aug
6
2009
6
2009
Marriage of convenience
Aug
5
2009
5
2009
Good and Bad Procrastination
Paul Graham, December 2005 The most impressive people I know are all terrible procrastinators. So could it be that procrastination isn’t always bad? Most people who write about procrastination write about how to cure it. But this is, strictly speaking, impossible. There are an infinite number of things [...]
Aug
5
2009
5
2009
Richard Hamming: You and your research
Talk at Bellcore, 7 March 1986 The title of my talk is, “You and Your Research.” It is not about managing research, it is about how you individually do your research. I could give a talk on the other subject– but it’s not, it’s about you. I’m not talking about ordinary run-of-the-mill [...]
Aug
4
2009
4
2009
Maker’s Schedule, Manager’s Schedule
I just read this wonderful article and I could not resist sharing this with others. This is the best article I have read on the topic since the ‘First things First’ approach. I love this article primarily because I find it extremely relevant to my situation and this perhaps pointed to a problem I was [...]
Jul
26
2009
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2009
Google Image Search: New Options
Recently I noticed some new features on Google Image Search. The image search that was awesome already has added some two great new options. Whenever you search for an image, you can select a type and color.
You can select from a number of types; News, Face, Clip art, Line drawings and Photo. The filtered [...]
Jul
15
2009
15
2009
Two values one address—A challenge for programmers
Have a look at this code, it shows some astonishing results.
1: #include <iostream.h>
2: using namespace std;
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4: int main()
5: {
6: const int x = 10;
7: int [...]
Jun
27
2009
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2009
اب آپ کے پاس اردو میں نہ لکھنے کا کوئی بہانہ نہیں
اب آپ کے پاس اردو میں نہ لکھنے کا کوئی بہانہ نہیں http://www.google.com/transliterate/indic/Urdu Tyep: aaj ki taza khabar and see the transliteration آج کی تازہ خبر I’ll encourage everyone to start using this and similar services [...]
Jun
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2009
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Reversing words in a string
Problem statement: Given a string you have transform the string such that the order of words in the string is reversed.
Input: This is a string
Output: string a is This
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May
24
2009
24
2009
From Rajesh Koothrappali to Tayyab Tariq in 30 lines of code
First thing, I am sorry if someone finds it offensive or racist, I just meant it to be funny and for the record, Rajesh Koothrappali is my favorite Big Band Theory character.
A friend of mine posted this picture of me on Facebook. In the same days I had studied a few topics in my [...]
Generating Documentation from XML Comments in C#
C# allows developers to embed XML comments into their source files—a useful facility, especially when more than one programmer is working on the same code. The C# parser can expand these XML tags to provide additional information and export them to an external document for further processing. This article shows how to use XML comments [...]