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-- Please accept my apologies being written on a Google service, you know Google's uptime is sexy -- So, Oracle makes most of the databases empowering telecom giants, and telecom giants offer mobile services to end users and end users are usually addicted to their smart phones that usually have What's app, Facebook and many Google products. Now that Facebook has bought What's app, I can rest back and safely announce that the war has officially moved from desk / lap tops to mobile devices. The internet will ruin itself and everything around...

Honestly, I have never reviewed a book before finishing it, but this time there is something inside me pushing me to review the book even when I am just at chapter 13 out of 41. Talent when combined with smart and hard work along with love for what one is doing usually produces a masterpiece, something the majority approves of and likes. On Wattpad, you can find Inamorata ; an amazing story by Irish Rose. A story about humanity, morals, feelings, thoughts, and love. Unlike the trend of writing about a love story, Irish Rose wrote about a human in love with everything. You the reader, I bet, can't help except to fall in love with her. The courage that Irish Rose had to write such that she makes you sometimes despise the heroine and at some other times be happy for her is really overwhelmingly beautiful. I can not imagine how hard it was for Irish Rose to write this down, but I believe the book heavily draws from real-world experiences and carefully crafts contradictions. At...

I subscribed to Constitutional Struggles in Coursera, and the below is an email from our professor showing the true and ugly side of the American Legal System: Dear All, I write this email under protest and with a considerable degree of anger and sadness. Few things illustrate the bone-headedness, short-sightedness, and sheer chauvinism of the political structure of the United States better than the extent to which its ideologues are willing to go to score cheap domestic political points with narrow interests in the pursuit of a sanctions regime that has clearly run its course. You might remember the Apple ad from a few years back, in which the company proudly announced that their machines were now so powerful that they fell under export restrictions: "For the first time in history a personal computer has been classified as a weapon by the US government ..." http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t4dDuocAXTY Well, that was a tongue in cheek quip at their Winte...

For the sake of the record, I love this piece. It resembles life...

The release will no longer be beta, it will be stable. The bugs will be minimal, the crashes will be recoverable. The system will no longer cause its owner and sole user too many hassles. At this point in time, the system will be gone, for good to its own creator :)

After finishing CS101 at Coursera, I decided to give Udacity a shot. At first, I was a bit skeptical, particularly that most of the comparisons between Coursera and Udacity that I have met, most of them have praised Udacity's style but none has delved deep into comparing the content. Let's begin with first things first. What shall I compare here? - Programming Languages, - Instructors, - Content of course, - Platform, - Forums, and - Grading. * Programming Languages:  a- Udacity        --> Python 2.x (2.6 or 2.7, not sure)  b- Coursera     --> Modified version of javascript In this respect, I am completely biased against Coursera. The modified version of javascript is really easy to grasp and use, but, at the end of the day it is a __modified__ version. The real javascript is much more difficult. Moreover, the course just scratches the surface using javascript. For me, I think Coursera should have used an unc...

I am very picky when it comes to adding a piece of software to my favourite apps list. By `my favourite apps list' I mean standalone applications that do not need a browser to run.  Yet, a very sleek application quickly made it to my fav apps list. The application is called *** Kapow ***. Honestly, I just searched the meaning and it seems to be sort of an impolite word (according to Urban Dictionary) so we will try to ignore meaning of the word, and get to the function of the application. Kapow 1.3.4 on Fedora 16 (Verne)     Kapow is so simple that it will soon become indispensable to track your time. No much clutter. Just a left panel to add / remove projects, large (start / stop) and cancel buttons to indicate starting or stopping a task, and a simple view with customized columns to see what you have accomplished. The clue to having life-reflecting data is to start / stop tasks when you really begin or end (pause) working on them. The relatively large buttons...