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Children of Reason

Over the past few weeks, I met a diverse set of wonderful people from different backgrounds and upbringing. An interesting pattern seemed to emerged. I had the distinct pleasure of meeting a bunch of irreligious heathens, all software engineers from some of India's premier

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Winning Arguments

A list of subjects that could help you win almost any argument — Farmers Soldiers at the border Women and children Oppressed religion/community/caste People of the land Poor people Format: "Think about the <subject-of-your-choice>" Usage: "Have you finished

Tech

Cross Platform App Dev with Go

Most apps are either thin-clients for server APIs (Whatsapp) or fat, stateful, rich clients (Games) that sync state with the server. You can probably break any app down into the following sections: Network Layer — server API calls over HTTP, TCP, UDP black magic Object

Opinion

Not The News

Depending on the news source you've subscribed to, people are either dying in "queues" due to demonization and the zombie apocalypse, or people are ecstatic that others who are "unfairly" richer than them could now be as poor as them.

Tech

Panic At The Pipe

The easiest way to induce a panic attack or paranoia in someone who has been working with shell scripts for a very long time — Remind them that *nix pipes use buffered I/O (with a buffer size that varies on different systems). I just

Tech

Run Debian On Android

The easiest option is to install DebKit on your phone and go through the steps. However, I had to fix a bunch of things in the script to get it to work on my phone. For starters, it creates a a disk container in

Tech

Run Debian On Android: Backstory

A few years ago when I was working on IoT with Magnet, I was contemplating buying a Raspberry Pi. Instead, I found a dirt cheap $10 Android phone that had all the features I needed. When it arrived, I was pleasantly surprised by everything

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A Progressive Ban

Wait... what's wrong with the ban on Karan Johar's next movie? And it could extend to SRK's next? I haven't seen progressive steps like these in years!

Quotes

Libertarianism

Libertarianism is basically about negative rights - not so much about "do what you want", but more about "nobody is going to force you to do something you don't want". As an ethical system, think of it as utilitarianism which

Opinion

Regression

"Whenever you can't have a debate, I often think that's evidence that there's a problem" — Peter Thiel A petulant child gets to host the most popular news debate show on national TV. Each day, his rhetoric gets pushed through to the audience

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Happy Birthday, Schmendrick

Shucky Darns.

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Wanted: Poor Man's NAS

I have a crap ton of unused memory cards and under-utilized hd-disks. It would be nice to have a Storage Hub on the network to which you could attach a bunch of storage media (USB drives, SD cards, HD-disks). Just a single view of

Tips

Consolidate Your Payback

In case you didn't know, Payback.in is a loyalty program linked to a bunch a services you already use. You earn points from credit card and bank transactions, MobiKwik purchases, Vodafone recharges, ezone purchases, among many others. Turns out I had acquired five

Tech

The Internet Delivers

I needed to recover some deleted files from my phone's MicroSD card today. So I dug out an old MicroSD => SD adapter to mount the disk to my Linux machine and start file recovery using testdisk. Disk mounted fine, but it showed up

Tech

Ch-Ch-Ch-Changes

A good estimate of software quality is your ability to introduce drastic change easily. Such as integrating a new feature or component. Not necessarily quickly, mind you. Ease != Speed. Rushing through design decisions only causes pain and suffering in the long run.

Lifelog

Another Space Song

Scene: At the Parisian Cafe with a whole lot of Shucky Darns. The solar panel's shining face is smiling back on me Twisting off into the sun It's okay to be lonely All my missions float away I never trained too hard I'm so

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Time Remaining

You spend your whole Windows life complaining about deeply flawed time estimates (for file copy, etc.) to arrive on Linux or OSX, which impresses you...at first. Eventually you find out one of two harsh truths — Time estimation is a really hard problem Hardware

Opinion

US Pres. Election

Despite global newsmedia setting it up as a closely contested race, this election was over the day Hillary Clinton decided to run for President. It's amazing how much attention this non-event has grabbed globally. For the first time, we know the names of almost

Opinion

History is Fiction

Do you hold the same opinions on relationships, society, and politics you had a decade ago?

Blurb

Maternal Data Security Instinct

You could be a brilliant computer scientist - one that works on computer security and cryptography. Someone who understands PGP, scrypt, how SSL works. Someone who keeps his startup disk encrypted, uses two-factor authentication and machine-generated passwords for logins. Your Mom is still concerned

Music

That Bowie Song

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Life on Mars

Elon Musk announced it was time for us to extend life to another planet. He's right. It would be wise not to tell everyone we're leaving though. Especially Salman Khan fans.

Music

Dark Intro

Had found this in my rambling teens. Not very fond on Linkin Park now, but they were big back then. Excerpt/variation from the Gacela Of The Dark Death used here: I want to sleep the dream of the apples, To withdraw from the