Asim Ihsan

"The common thread in Gladwell’s writing is a kind of populism, which seeks to undermine the ideals of talent, intelligence and analytical prowess in favor of luck, opportunity, experience and intuition. For an apolitical writer like Gladwell, this has the advantage of appealing both to the Horatio Alger right and to the egalitarian left. Unfortunately he wildly overstates his empirical case. It is simply not true that a quarter back’s rank in the draft is uncorrelated with his success in the pros, that cognitive skills don’t predict a teacher’s effectiveness, that intelligence scores are poorly related to job performance or (the major claim in “Outliers”) that above a minimum I.Q. of 120, higher intelligence does not bring greater intellectual achievements." - Asim Ihsan

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"Optimizing Your Brain at Workis a pretty fascinating talk at Google by David Rock about managing your brain's internal states and attention, as well as threat responses with the goal of optimizing information processing. It is a Youtube link, and fairly long (~55min). He also mentions The Neuroscience of Mindfulness during the talk, so here is a convenient link to that. " - Asim Ihsan

"Android has a built-in testing framework that includes a subset of JUnit. All of its test-case classes are directly or indirectly derived from JUnit’s TestCase. If you’re already familiar with JUnit, it’s not that difficult to use the Android Testing Framework." - Asim Ihsan

"Sometimes you may want to manually interact with your applications to verify that a particular feature or behavior is working properly; why not automate this verification with a JUnit TestCase that can instrument applications? Instrumentation testing allows you to verify a particular feature or behavior with an automated JUnit TestCase. You can launch activities and providers within an application, send key events, and make assertions about various UI elements." - Asim Ihsan

"Sometimes you may want to manually interact with your applications to verify that a particular feature or behavior is working properly; why not automate this verification with a JUnit TestCase that can instrument applications? Instrumentation testing allows you to verify a particular feature or behavior with an automated JUnit TestCase. You can launch activities and providers within an application, send key events, and make assertions about various UI elements." - Asim Ihsan

"This is the first article about testing Android applications. We will look at some testing background, discuss basic elements available for you in the SDK and show how to prepare testing environment to run tests. In following articles we will concentrate on describing testing methods in detail." - Asim Ihsan

"This is the first article about testing Android applications. We will look at some testing background, discuss basic elements available for you in the SDK and show how to prepare testing environment to run tests. In following articles we will concentrate on describing testing methods in detail." - Asim Ihsan

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"VPS hosting is for those who seek to have full control (root access) over their server environment yet do not want to manage their own hardware or lease a dedicated server." - Asim Ihsan

"The complete set of 50 passenger/pedestrian symbols developed by AIGA is now available on the web, free of charge. Signs are available in EPS and GIF formats." - Asim Ihsan

"By using Dokan library, you can create your own file systems very easily without writing device driver. Dokan Library is similar to FUSE(Linux user mode file system) but works on Windows." - Asim Ihsan

"From 3AM on Wednesday November 25, 2009, until 3AM the following day (US east coast time), WikiLeaks is releasing over half a million US national text pager intercepts. The intercepts cover a 24 hour period surrounding the September 11, 2001 attacks in New York and Washington." - Asim Ihsan

"For collecting data from Web pages, the mechanize library automates scraping and interaction with Web sites. Mechanize lets you fill in forms and set and save cookies, and it offers miscellaneous other tools to make a Python script look like a genuine Web browser to an interactive Web site. A frequently used companion tool called Beautiful Soup helps a Python program makes sense of the messy "almost-HTML" that Web sites tend to contain." - Asim Ihsan

"What has alarmed medical examiners at the mortuary is that most of the dead died of natural causes. It is evidence, they believe, of people who could not afford medical insurance and medicines and whose families can now not afford to bury them." - Asim Ihsan

"What has alarmed medical examiners at the mortuary is that most of the dead died of natural causes. It is evidence, they believe, of people who could not afford medical insurance and medicines and whose families can now not afford to bury them." - Asim Ihsan

"The movie is just the same uninspired crap shat out onto a film reel. If you like the taste of horse manure on your bologna sandwiches, you're probably gonna like it on your birthday cake as well. The same principle applies with Twilight." - Asim Ihsan

"They have different notions about what is, and isn’t, worth fighting for. Which is predictable given that foreign powers, with little cultural and geographical connection to a target country, can rarely manufacture enough enthusiasm for its foreign-imposed faction/concepts to prevail in a civil war – or a multi-faceted civil war/insurgency hybrid." - Asim Ihsan

"One afternoon last month, a woman in her early thirties, with shoulder-length blond hair and large brown eyes, arrived at Jean Georges, on the ground floor of the Trump International Hotel, in midtown Manhattan." - Asim Ihsan

"This is the home page of TagSoup, a SAX-compliant parser written in Java that, instead of parsing well-formed or valid XML, parses HTML as it is found in the wild: poor, nasty and brutish, though quite often far from short." - Asim Ihsan

"If I have to write one more polyglot bash / awk / python script to gather data from log files on a bunch of different machines, demux that into a time-ordered event stream, pipe it through something to munge it into some slightly different format, ship that off via post to some web address and get some JSON back, parse that into some other shit, do some computation over it like aggregation or date math over time stamps with unlike representations, wrap the results up in an HTML table and send that table in a MIME-enabled e-mail to myself I think I am going to *explode.*" - Asim Ihsan

"The former high-level Bush Administration official was just as blunt. “If a Pakistani general is talking to you about nuclear issues, and his lips are moving, he’s lying,” he said. “The Pakistanis wouldn’t share their secrets with anybody, and certainly not with a country that, from their point of view, used them like a Dixie cup and then threw them away.”" - Asim Ihsan

"We’d like to offer a simple framework for effective use of fonts in your dashboard. With a few simple decisions, you can ensure that the text on the dashboard will both look good and communicate effectively. " - Asim Ihsan

"One of the Americans convicted in absentia by an Italian court for her part in the 2003 abduction of a Muslim cleric by CIA operatives has acknowledged they "broke the law" and complained she was given insufficient protection by her superiors in Washington." - Asim Ihsan

"The ones that win are the ones that ship." Debate surrounding the initial introduction of the IMG tag, with interesting discussion about MIME types at the time. - Asim Ihsan

"Condor is a specialized workload management system for compute-intensive jobs. Like other full-featured batch systems, Condor provides a job queueing mechanism, scheduling policy, priority scheme, resource monitoring, and resource management. Users submit their serial or parallel jobs to Condor, Condor places them into a queue, chooses when and where to run the jobs based upon a policy, carefully monitors their progress, and ultimately informs the user upon completion.£ - Asim Ihsan

Goldmine! "The Android NDK provides tools that allow Android application developers to embed components that make use of native code in their Android applications. Android applications run in the Dalvik virtual machine. The NDK allows developers to implement parts of their applications using native-code languages such as C and C++. This can provide benefits to certain classes of applications, in the form of reuse of existing code and in some cases increased speed." - Asim Ihsan

"OilCan lets you customize any website by inserting JavaScript to change the website and help it reach into the Android world using intents." - Asim Ihsan

"I like to be confident with post titles, but the reality in this case is a *possible* solution for very long dropdowns." - Asim Ihsan