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This post is based on my experience with amazon.in and guess it to be true on all other platforms as well. At least you can check out and verify for these pointers before you make that decision to buy renewed/refurbished laptop on Amazon with your hard earned money. I see this question propping up in several forums and on many different occasions. In the recent past, I had my 5 year old dell laptop that gave up because its motherboard failed. One of the options that I had in my mind was to re-use the HDD and the 16GB DDR4 RAM of that old laptop in the one that I purchase next as secondary. I had come to a conclusion that it is not worth buying a refurbished/renewed laptop at all. Why? For the following reasons, most of which I see as BIG #RedFlags: You got to remember that Amazon provides a platform for 3rd party sellers to sell their products as well. So in your search for refurbished laptops you wouldn’t want to choose some random 3rd party seller who Amazon doesn’t endorse. You cou

Pairing with Human, or GenAI or both?

There are folks who would go gaga for Pairing with human, and then there are folks that don't like it. With the onset of GenAI hype, folks started to use GenAI tools like Chat GPT or Copilot as pairing tools. Forward the time to today since GenAI's public launch, we witness school going kids using it as an everyday tool for learning. There are pros and cons to both robotic and human pairing, and this post is my my attempt to give a balanced picture of reality for you by way of sharing my experience. To begin with I shall share two different stories of my pairing experiences with fellow beings: Unsatisfactory Experience with Human Pairing Me: Hey, excuse me. What is that - FactoryGirl? That sounds so wierd. What does it do and why use it? Dev: Well, it just generates data that mimics real works. Nothing much to it. Me: In what context it is used and what problems does it really solve? Dev: Well nothing much. It is just another fancy library that is hot in the community. M

Tech Conferences

An endeavor to list all the technology conferences so that people can take a quick look at the list and plan at the beginning of the year to decide on what conference to attend. 1. GOTO (formerly JAOO) Web: http://gotocon.com/ When: August, October - every year JAOO is a world class conference that covers the latest developments across the software landscape. The format includes 3 conference days and 3 training days with 80+presentations and 20+ training sessions. With 21 tracks, JAOO highlights a broad range of topics that are top of mind for today's professional development community. JAOO speakers are software experts, authors and practitioners who have made significant strides in the world of software and are setting the stage for the future developments in the industry. 2. QCon Web: http://qconferences.com/ When: QCon runs 5 times a year in London, San Francisco, Tokyo, Beijing, and Sao Paulo. QCon is a practitioner-driven confe

How to disable gnome-ssh-askpass?

Today we had setup Git repo with access to it through corporate's LDAP authentication. From the client machines we can access it using the .netrc (where the machine, login and password are configured). However, for some wierd reason, upon trying to pull/push commits from/to the Git repository, the bash shell tries to open the gnome-ssh-askpass dialogue and it fails. I wanted to prevent the bash shell from attempting to launch the dialogue box. To do this, all I had to do is run the following command in the terminal: $ unset SSH_ASKPASS To prevent it in future, you can add the above line in your .bashrc or .bash_profile. Wish you trouble-free working!

Android Activity's onDestroy() Ain't Your Reliable Friend

Look at the Android Activity life-cycle events in the picture beside. The lifecycle isn't something new. You're familiar with it right? You're also that good Android developer that writes clean code, wherein you consciously override onDestroy() method to include resources clean-up code and save some state, right? Per Android doc , it is okay and usually the practice to write cleanup code in this method but not anything beyond that. So if you are to write code to persist state in this method, or anything else beyond resource clean-up (like threads associated with an activity), you're better off to push it up the life-cycle, either in onStop() or onPause() method. That is how I settled in the first iteration of new learning but wasn't happy. Why? To quote Android Doc:

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