Sep
30th
Wed
30th
Sep
16th
Wed
16th
There are only THREE countries in the entire world that have a population of more than 300 million (Facebook users). Those are China (1.33 billion), India (1.17 billion) and USA (307 million).
Jul
16th
Thu
16th
Regex to determine prime numbers
Convert the number to a series of 1s - so 4 becomes 1111 - and use this regex to check if it’s prime.
/^1?$|^(11+?)\1+$/
Very clever. Read this for an explanation.
Jun
23rd
Tue
23rd
Most common names on Facebook
According to this analysis of 100 million publicly-available profiles on Facebook, the most popular first names are John, David and Michael while the most popular last names are Smith, Jones and Johnson.
Jun
19th
Fri
19th
I just spotted this Google search print advertisement in the Ahmedabad edition (or Jaipur edition) of the Times of India.
Jun
10th
Wed
10th
IT superpower ?
In a recently conducted international programming contest, China topped with 20 finalists (out of 894 participants), followed by Russia with 10 finalists (out of 380 participants), and the US with 2 finalists (out of 234 participants).
India could not manage a single finalist from its 705 participants.
Jun
4th
Thu
4th
Google App Engine postpones quota changes
Google App Engine seems to have quietly moved the date of quota changes from the originally announced May 25th to June 22nd.
The quota values appear to be the same though.
Jun
3rd
Wed
3rd
[The Indian bureaucracy] are a power centre in their own right at both the national and state levels, and are extremely resistant to reform that affects them or the way they go about their duties.
May
29th
Fri
29th
Intel turns USB man into rock star
May
28th
Thu
28th
Congo word 'most untranslatable'
The world’s most difficult word to translate has been identified as “ilunga” - “a person who is ready to forgive any abuse for the first time, to tolerate it a second time, but never a third time” - from the Tshiluba language spoken in south-eastern DR Congo.
May
18th
Mon
18th
Google Transliteration in 4 more languages
Google’s transliteration service is available in four additional languages: Bengali, Gujarati, Marathi and Nepali.
