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After my WD Pasport got corrupted, I had to back all my precious old photos intoanother backup location. Google photos was the excellege option as I'musing Android and uploading the photos to it. And it has multiple features like
Duplicate detection while uploading photos....

As a long time vim user I always have troubles with typos in vim. Vim has inbuiltspell checker tool, but it's little cumbersome to use. I use vim formost of the purposes like,
To write my blog entries.
Coding

Those who are working with python for few years might have encountered thisproblem at least once. What happens is that python processes are getting killed bythe OS's Out Of Memory Killer. OOM Killer does this toreclaim the memory for OS, since there...

Python is a beautiful language but we know the limitations of thepython compared with compiled language. So here I'm explaining a scenariowhere python was not the ideal choice.
We are using python for network programming, specifically a TCP client/serverprogram which read packets from another C based server. We picked python becauseon the requirements the traffic volume wasn't huge enough to consider compiledlanguages like...