Disclaimer: This post is to document my interview experience at Recurse Center (formerly known as Hacker School) for the benefit of other candidates. Please be aware that a lot might have changed in their process (since I applied at least 5 years back as of this writing). All content produced in this post is purely … More My interview experience at Recurse Center
Slack is one of the most used communication tool across teams in companies around the world. You can use bots in Slack to automate your routine tasks, play games, challenge a friend, get live match scores and weather or even book a table for your next team lunch! Sounds interesting, huh? To create a bot, all you need … More Create a slack bot!
Hey there! Chosen is a jQuery Plugin, which gives some beautifully looking multiple selects in your form. The select can have some options populated, and the user can select one or multiple of them. Recently, while using this plugin, I wanted to allow the user to add his own values to the list dynamically. Currently, in … More Adding new values to chosen plugin
Hey there! I first learnt Rails, and am now learning Sinatra. There has always been a lot of talk on what should be learnt first as a beginner. With certain observations, I quite agree to the fact that the journey must ideally begin with Sinatra. A couple of reasons why I say so. Rails, the … More Rails and Sinatra
Recently, I jumped into an issue in my mysql query. It involved an inner join, group by clause, and I had to use aggregate functions to summarize my result. Little did I notice where I was landing into, until I saw the unexpected huge numbers appearing in my aggregate result. Let me expain! Suppose we … More Using aggregates in Joins – MySQL
Hi, This post will be discussing the Behavior of NULL values in NOT IN clause – MYSQL. Assume following table schema: mysql> select * from Persons; +—-+——+—————-+ | id | name | favorite_color | +—-+——+—————-+ | 1 | ABC | Blue | | 2 | DEF | NULL … More Behavior of NULL values in NOT IN clause – MYSQL
The net will get a lot bigger in 2013. The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers(ICANN) will today release a list of some 2,000 proposals for new Internet address suffixes. They can represent hobbies, ethnic groups, corporate brand names and more. For instance, the New York City wants Internet addresses ending in .nyc, while … More New domain name suffixes
Recently, I was out for lunch with a friend. As I ordered for sabji and naan, my friend interrupted me and said ‘no ghee’ to the waiter. I gave her a stern look – it was totally unexpected of her eating habits. She patted, and said – “well, I’m dieting!” She then went on telling … More Diet glasses?
Ok…you gonna enjoy this post! Wanna multiply a huge no. by 5? As simple as this: If given number is even: 1. Divide the number by 2. 2. Add a zero to the resulting number. E.g. 98422 * 5 = ? 98422 / 2 = 49211 Now add a zero! ans = 492110 If given … More Multiply by 5?
Heya! I was trying to retrieve a .bmp image stored as a MediumBlob in my MySql database using Java. On retrieval, the image is stored in a directory. The concept goes as follows: First, you create a .bmp file in a directory in which you wish to store the image. (Say, image.bmp) Create an object … More Retrieve image from MySql
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