Writing by Viksit Gaur

I recently started getting a number of SSL related errors on accessing https links with Google Chrome on Ubuntu. One looks like, 107 (net::ERR_SSL_PROTOCOL_ERROR) The top link on Google’s search results is pretty fuzzy, so here’s the solution that…

I was trying to experiment with Clojure Protocols and Records recently, and came up with a toy example to clarify my understanding of their usage in the context of developing a simple Stack Abstract Data Type. For an excellent tutorial on utilizing…

Update As Hans points out in the comment below, it appears pycassa natively supports authentication with org.apache.cassandra.auth.SimpleAuthenticator. Lazyboy on the other hand doesn’t by default. It’s not too hard to do it though. Intuitively, we…

I was experimenting with some sequences today, and ran into a stumbling block: Using immutable data structures, how do you execute multiple transformations in series on an object, and return the final value? For instance, consider a sequence of…

From the (http://www.reuters.com/article/idUSTRE6341EA20100506), The Dow suffered its biggest ever intraday point drop, which may have been caused by an erroneous trade entered by a person at a big Wall Street bank, multiple market sources said. and…