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        <title>Cookie Mapping in Advertising</title>
        <description><![CDATA[In this article, we will cover the process of cookie mapping (or cookie syncing) and how advertising companies use it to exchange information with websites and advertising platforms to serve relevant advertising to a user.]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Sun, 16 Jun 2013 14:36:20 +0000</pubDate>
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        <title>Building a url shortener in 10 mins</title>
        <description><![CDATA[A 10 minute guide to building your own url shortener i.e. a service that lets you shorten a long url - <a href="http://pravin.insanitybegins.com">http://pravin.insanitybegins.com</a> to a url that takes up less number of characters - <a href="http://goo.gl/q3jEH">http://goo.gl/q3jEH</a>]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Sat, 23 Feb 2013 21:12:08 +0000</pubDate>
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        <title>Going Text-mode</title>
        <description><![CDATA[I spend a great deal of time working on the Terminal. Here, I list my must-have console applications for email, www browsing, and programming in Linux, Windows and Mac OSX.]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Fri, 17 Feb 2012 23:22:31 +0000</pubDate>
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        <title>Setting up Replica sets in MongoDB</title>
        <description><![CDATA[A 5-minute guide to setting up replica sets on MongoDB. Covers downloading, installation on various flavours of linux, editing the config file and initiating replica sets!]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Fri, 10 Feb 2012 17:32:40 +0000</pubDate>
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        <title>Super quick Find &amp; Replace</title>
        <description><![CDATA[This article explores a number of ways of performing a find/replace and compares the various implementations for different sizes of the find/replace list and input text.]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Tue, 27 Dec 2011 05:42:00 +0000</pubDate>
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        <title>Set data structures &amp; Implementation</title>
        <description><![CDATA[Sets are an important concept and extremely useful in various computer science applications. We take a look at some of the ways a set data structure can be implemented.]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Wed, 08 Jun 2011 12:18:20 +0000</pubDate>
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        <title>Manage your wireless with nmcli</title>
        <description><![CDATA[This article shows you how to use the command line tool nmcli to manage your wireless networks. If you prefer cli over gui, go ahead and take a look.]]></description>
        <link>http://pravin.insanitybegins.com/posts/manage-wireless-networks-with-nmcli</link>
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        <pubDate>Tue, 12 Apr 2011 14:47:04 +0000</pubDate>
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        <title>Binary heaps &amp; Priority Queues</title>
        <description><![CDATA[Heaps and Queues can be a powerful data structure. This article goes into the implementation of a binary heap and extends the data structure to act as a priority queue.]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Tue, 22 Mar 2011 15:46:50 +0000</pubDate>
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        <title>Recursive functions, Stack overflows and Python</title>
        <description><![CDATA[Here we look at recursive functions in Python, and explore some ways of avoiding the maximum stack depth limit by using alternate functions like reduce().]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Tue, 07 Dec 2010 15:39:02 +0000</pubDate>
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        <title>Facebook puzzle - Find Sophie</title>
        <description><![CDATA[Today we solve the FB engineering puzzle - <a href="http://www.facebook.com/careers/puzzles.php?puzzle_id=11">Find Sophie</a>. We start with a naive solution and improve the algorithm until we can pass the Facebook Puzzlebot. In closing, I leave you with open-ended questions on improving the algorithm further.]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Tue, 28 Sep 2010 18:14:40 +0000</pubDate>
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