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Shakeel Mahate
Software developer based in Raleigh NC
Maps of Subway Platforms, Now on Your Mobile Phone - City Room Blog - NYTimes.com - http://cityroom.blogs.nytimes.com/2009...
Pathetic - http://torvalds-family.blogspot.com/2009...
"There is no actual sound barrier. But as the Navy picture here shows, there is often a beautiful visual phenomenon as a plane gets close to the speed of sound." - http://abcnews.go.com/Technol...
Introducing Android Scripting Environment - http://google-opensource.blogspot.com/2009...
Introducing Apache Commons Math SimplexSolver - http://google-opensource.blogspot.com/2009...
"In the post-Revolutionary United States, married women could not own property, participate in local politics, serve on juries, write wills, sign contracts or exercise custody rights over their children." - During the same era, Islam afforded more rights to women. - http://www.nytimes.com/2009...
"we have 5 million Muslims, which would make us larger than many other countries that consider themselves Muslim countries" - President Obama - http://www.dawn.com/wps...
President Obama: You Name It, I Can Cook It - http://obamafoodorama.blogspot.com/2009...
Blink twice if you like me - Seduction and Deceit in a Firefly’s Flashes - NYTimes.com - http://www.nytimes.com/2009...
Radical Transparency: The New Federal IT Dashboard - O'Reilly Radar - http://radar.oreilly.com/2009...
Large-scale graph computing at Google - http://googleresearch.blogspot.com/2009...
Introducing the Virtual Keyboard API - http://googlecode.blogspot.com/2009...
To Do: Add arabic keyboard to the quran.com website for annotations
- Shakeel Mahate
Obama, the Holocaust and the Palestinians - http://tonykaron.com/2009...
I like the Google Code Playground, all of the APIs should have a tool similar to this. - http://code.google.com/apis...
A quick primer on creating an editor using javascript, jquery, erlang and couchDB. Can we extend it to build a true canvas based graphics editor? - http://whoomph.net/content...
"Colonel Vandeveld is no longer on active duty and has joined the effort by military defense lawyers and the American Civil Liberties Union to secure Jawad’s freedom. Six years of virtual solitary confinement, he said, is enough for someone who was not much older than a child when he was taken into custody." I wish there were more people like him - http://www.nytimes.com/2009...
IronPython in Action and the Decline of Windows - http://neopythonic.blogspot.com/2009...
It is amazing, even while reviewing the IronPython book, Guido lets out some zingers at Microsoft APIs and Windows programming in general.
- Shakeel Mahate
"Explanation is a key attribute of leadership communications. Leaders know to inject their communications with verve and enthusiasm as a means of persuasion, but they also need to include an explanation for the excitement. What does it mean and why are we doing it are critical questions that every leader must answer with straightforward... - http://blogs.harvardbusiness.org/baldoni...
Islamic architectural patterns might be qausicrystals, patterns that are repeating but look random - http://www.npr.org/templat...
47th Mersenne prime number found, it is over 13 million digits long but 141,125 digits smaller than the one discovered last year. - http://www.npr.org/templat...
Sarychev Peak Eruption, Kuril Islands : Image of the Day - http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/IOTD...
The volcano erupted with such force, the plume actually punched through the atmosphere. Note how clouds around the volcano have parted in a circular ring--that is a result of a shock wave produced by the upward blast.
- Shakeel Mahate
A fascinating postcard of Monticello and the life of Thomas Jefferson - Time Wastes Too Fast - http://kalman.blogs.nytimes.com/2009...
ThinkPad T400s: Key to a Better Experience - http://lenovoblogs.com/designm...
Hohm: Microsoft Gets Into the Energy Business - http://www.readwriteweb.com/archive...
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- Hohm is dedicated to giving consumer's information about potential energy savings, while at the same time connecting those consumers whose energy providers already use smart meter technology with real-time information about their own energy consumption at home.
- Shakeel Mahate
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A really brave article by Tony Judt discussing the settlements in West Bank - Fictions on the Ground - http://www.nytimes.com/2009...
"Latency concerns are not limited to Wall Street; it is estimated that a 100-millisecond delay reduces Amazon’s sales by 1 percent" - Data Center Overload - http://www.nytimes.com/2009...
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