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	<title>Babu Srinivasan's blog</title>
	
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		<title>Dynamic Programming</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 20 Jan 2010 05:54:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Babu Srinivasan</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Video lectures of MIT course 6-00Fall-2008 "Introduction to Computer Science and Programming" are available as part of open courseware. One of the topics is "Dynamic Programming" where the knapsack problem is discussed. The programming language used in the course is Python. I wish however that scala or haskell was used instead.]]></description>
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		<title>Bangalore theater operators: Do they care about children or the law?</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 15 Jan 2010 15:46:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Babu Srinivasan</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[<div id="_mcePaste">In the US, MPAA assigns ratings like G, PG-13, R ratings to movies. In India, the censor board assigns ratings of U (Universal) and A (Adult).</div>

<div id="_mcePaste">In the US, when you go to a movie with a G</div>&#8230;]]></description>
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		<title>hlint : your friendly code critic and adviser</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 10 Jan 2010 16:05:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Babu Srinivasan</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[When learning a programming language, won&#8217;t it be nice if you can get some instant feedback on your code? Of course, you cannot expect feedback on bugs in your program. But each language has some built in functionality and idioms&#8230;]]></description>
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		<title>Google Maps: We cater to your delusions</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 21 Oct 2009 03:10:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Babu Srinivasan</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[In today&#8217;s news:

<blockquote>
While China continues to claim Arunachal Pradesh as its own, technology giant Google seems to have decided to take a line to please both Beijing and New Delhi.

On the Google Maps site localised for users</blockquote>&#8230;]]></description>
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		<title>If you have to learn just one programming language</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 28 Apr 2009 19:02:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Babu Srinivasan</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Software]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://blog.srinivasan.biz/?p=484</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[It is a very good idea to learn several programming languages. It makes you a better programmer. But if you want to devote all your energies to becoming a proficient and productive programmer and want to learn one powerful, freely available, high level general-purpose language (not domain specific), what would you choose?]]></description>
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		<title>Google Web Toolkit and Google App Engine: Java end to end</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 11 Apr 2009 18:29:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Babu Srinivasan</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Google]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Now Google has come to the rescue by adding another language to the app engine &#8212; Java. Now you can have 'java' on the client and java on the server. The former is made possible by <a href="http://blog.srinivasan.biz/2008/04/05/google-web-toolkit">GWT (Google Web Toolkit)</a> which takes the code you write in Java and translates it into separate targeted javascript code for the 5 of the most common browsers.]]></description>
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		<title>For your eyes only — unless you have a telescopic lens</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 11 Apr 2009 12:21:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Babu Srinivasan</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[You may encounter a plot like this in a bad spy novel. It goes something like this:

&#60;

blockquote>
A top ranking anti-terrorism official enters <strong>10 Downing Street</strong> clutching a folder containing a "For your eyes only" document. He briefs the Prime Minister --- about an ongoing stakeout involving potential terrorists]]></description>
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		<title>Indian Elections: Power to the people — literally</title>
		<link>http://blog.srinivasan.biz/india/indian-elections-power-to-the-people-literally</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 11 Apr 2009 11:29:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Babu Srinivasan</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[India]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Politics]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Typically, at this time of the year, you will have to endure frequent power cuts. However, this summer in Bangalore, power cuts have been rare. It&#8217;s possible that the demand for electricity has gone down because of the slowing economy,&#8230;]]></description>
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		<title>Eclipse of the Sun</title>
		<link>http://blog.srinivasan.biz/misc/eclipse-of-the-sun</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 04 Apr 2009 14:11:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Babu Srinivasan</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Misc]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://blog.srinivasan.biz/2009/04/04/eclipse-of-the-sun/</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[I worked for many years at Sun and am sad to see that it is being gobbled up by IBM for under 7 billion. The writing was on the wall for many years and in a sense was inevitable. IBM&#8230;]]></description>
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		<title>Airport is gone but not the noise</title>
		<link>http://blog.srinivasan.biz/india/noise-pollution-india/airport-is-gone-but-not-the-noise</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 04 Apr 2009 07:05:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Babu Srinivasan</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[India]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Noise Pollution]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[The wind tunnel near the old Airport is being operated quite frequently and the sound --- like that of a jet engine --- is deafening; and we are more than a mile away from it.]]></description>
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