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Finally I can say I’m back from hiatus 
…short story –> this happens when you get married!
Environment: Java 6
Recently I was looking into capabilities of theThreadLocal. And I decided to test everything against a SimpleDateFormat instance. Unfortunately the SDF is not a thread safe. So in a multi-threaded environment you can avoid concurrent modifications using “Synchronized”. I ran 100000 iterations over small set of 3 dates. Now it was time to implement same thing using ThreadLocal.
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Recently I needed to implement LCS (Longest Common Subsequence) algorithm from dynamic programming for solving one of the problems. So I ended up writing quick implementation of LCS. For more details on LCS:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Longest_common_subsequence_problem
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Recently read this article which describes about few pointers required for your entrepreneurship journey:
My Setup: Mac OS X 10.6, Comcast Modem, Linksys router
Recently I noticed that suddenly my internet use to slow down. I started digging out for the exact problem. While pinging to Google I received following response:
64 bytes from 74.125.115.147: icmp_seq=3024 ttl=50 time=34.063 ms
64 bytes from 74.125.115.147: icmp_seq=3025 ttl=50 time=30.229 ms
64 bytes from 74.125.115.147: icmp_seq=3026 ttl=50 time=35.426 ms
Request timeout for icmp_seq 1
64 bytes from 74.125.115.147: icmp_seq=3027 ttl=50 time=32.416 ms
64 bytes from 74.125.115.147: icmp_seq=3028 ttl=50 time=31.934 ms
Request timeout for icmp_seq 2
I just love this movie, and wanted to watch it again. Finally, here is a link where you can watch “The Social Network” DVD print online for free.
Megavideo Link: The Social Network (2010)
(*Disclaimer: I’m not related to the movie upload or distribution by any means & just providing a resource which is freely available in the public domain.)
Another inspirational speech by Shiv Khera
“Winners don’t do different things, they do things differently.”
Beautiful stanza from “The road not taken” by Robert Frost
I shall be telling this with a sigh
Somewhere ages and ages hence:
Two roads diverged in a wood, and I—
I took the one less traveled by,
And that has made all the difference.
Another nice talk by H Irving Grousbeck focuses on why you should take a entrepreneurship path during early stage of your career.
Mike Arrington of TechCrunch gives talk at startup school(2008):