A Funny Comment on Slashdot

on the types of programmers:

• Clueless — in way to deep over their heads, don’t understand the subject, and it shows.
• Hacker — I’m going to fix this problem any way I can and by any means necessary and am going to be obsessively focused. Can cause a coronary if allowed to work with Windoze for more than a year (unless they figure out that the solution requires a fork-lift).
• Guru — Everybody turns to them for an answer; in reality, they just know how to use the man pages.
• Primadonna — works well in teams of 1 or fewer. Must understand everything in minute detail before any work can be started. Has written the ultimate “hello whirrled” program.

Data Visualization

I have recently been seeing data visualization with text. The tag arena is a good example. If the articles in the website are mapped to some fixed set of tags, then the font size of the tag can be used as a visual hint to show how many articles have been published under the specific tag.

So, we don’t need pictures to visualize somethings, even text would do.

India ranked 3rd

…among the countries that take interest in mathematics and programming. So says project Euler statistics.