Comments on: Two gems from Queue

By: avinash

avinash — Sun, 14 Dec 2008 04:29:38 +0000

The important thing to understand is that, every year, young Torvalds, Jobs or Gates are born in Mauritius.

Unfortunately, we have a 16 year (6 + 7 + 3) education system which does it best to transform these young Torvalds, Jobs or Gates into “average” Mauritians by not cultivating their unique talents.

Fortunately, our education system sometimes fails.

By: Ashesh

Ashesh — Sat, 13 Dec 2008 10:43:22 +0000

I dream of a University of Mauritius capable of producing young Torvalds, Jobs or Gates every year.

Now that you are no longer active in Academic Institutions, What is your comment on this statement? Do you think that UoM will do so one day?

anything to inspire us, UoM students?

By: Anascrash

Anascrash — Wed, 04 Jul 2007 13:40:17 +0000

well the rest of the time (peak hours) , i still get nice speed 25-32kpbs for download but the browsing speed is *&^*&^ (lol) ! even if am not dwnlding anything !

By: Anascrash

Anascrash — Wed, 04 Jul 2007 13:39:01 +0000

well i get 98% of what i’m paying for with myt ^^ well betweenn 00:00 am till 6pm

^^ am happy with it
32-34kbps for what am paying for

By: Eddy Young

Eddy Young — Tue, 03 Jul 2007 15:15:28 +0000

IMO…

1. A poorly-documented API is not worth using.

2. That’s where the importance of R&D lies in software development. Programmers don’t just code; they also need to know how to find answers.

3. Goto 1.

By: selven

selven — Mon, 02 Jul 2007 18:14:57 +0000

In fact, these days if I catch a programmer writing a linked list, that person had better have a very good reason for doing so instead of using an implementation provided by a system library.
why people would always tend to use linked list (or any low level implementation of something that may have already been there for him to use (from my point of view):

1.Poor documentation of what actually x, y or z does. (specially explaining what each parameter is supposed to do)

2. Certain implementation doesn’t really have a logical name (e.g setsockopt(,,), how will someone have guessed if they were looking to enable debug tracing that they should have googled setsockopt??, its only after long searches (or asking) that they will know they have to look for get/setsockopt)

3. Certain api look really weird… you don’t have any idea what they do, (if only they did only what they are meant to do, but instead, certain interface do multiple things that get someone (half brained as me) to get soo caught up and confused that i prefer to .. take some patience and do it right from the smallest unit of programming.)

That said, :p when interfaces are available and are easy enough to understand, its just a BIG relieve (ahh more free time)

(if someone did a graphical documentation of most api around :p god bless em , will ease up my life a lot:p)

I dream of a University of Mauritius capable of producing young Torvalds, Jobs or Gates every year.
That would be cool, but then.. geeks are practically killed on sight in Mauritius :p (bribes & corruption), and no fun.

no gates/jobs/torv probably coz.. there’s no incentive in doing anything about computing here in mtius.

+$3|