Kindle is Super awesome ! Because of its e-ink display. I wanted a display to present data which has – Least power consumption, Not painful to eyes & obviously one which doesn’t emit blue light. E-Ink displays fit perfectly to my requirement – acquiring a display which can be driven using Raspberry Pi or Arduino is hard, … [Read more…]
This is known fact that javascript is really slow in terms of sync operations like multiplications, divisions etc. – Since nodejs is based on js – Node inherits the curse. Check http://benchmarksgame.alioth.debian.org/u64/compare.php?lang=v8&lang2=gpp this article to cross check the fact. Nodejs is fast in some aspects. I love it 😛 Doesn’t matter how much you improve … [Read more…]
If you are using nodejs for some backend stuff to schedule some-work, probably you will hate scheduling because of two factors You can’t set long timeout Timers are removed when process restart You would probably favor cronjobs for scheduling – or may be polling database for regular interval. Loading nodejs script every 5min is a … [Read more…]
Folddoc provide free online computer dictionary but they don’t have any standard tool or format to import dictionary in database or so. Dictionary can be downloaded form http://foldoc.org/Dictionary.txt Run the following nodejs code it will dump dictionary to OUTPUT.json and don’t forget to remove initial lines of disclaimer or they will add to your dictionary. … [Read more…]
Someday you will need to import a large file to mongo or some other DBMS , You start writing code for achieving same using NodeJS, but when you run memory usage start increasing and either core of your CPU is at 100%.