what's with the double quotes around
"CONTAINS CAFFEINE"
Is it sarcastic compliance with regulations? Or a way to indicate pretend caffeination? Both?
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what does a tigerian breakfast look like? especially cute ones like these
the black box theatre at #Rangmandap getting all set up for today's play "संक्रमण" in #Nagpur
Visit https://rangmandap.org
first trial run for #Rangmandap! 🎭
Something delightful is slowly manifesting in #Nagpur. Visit https://rangmandap.org
Experimenting with Clear Flow swipe. Surprised to find it built right into Gboard!
🎶 mine's on the RPM!!! 🎶
few foods in #Nagpur have the kind of allure Pani Puri has; that hot black pepper after taste, it's an experience that can only be had at the stall, not at home or packaged into a Swiggy/Zomato order
The perfect elevator company name doesn't exist...^w^w^w^w^w^w^w^w^w
Finally found some time to move off twitter to a self managed micro-blogging setup.
I've always believed that running your own server and website is a way to assert the decentralised nature of the internet.
I've been monitoring this impending nightmare for what's going to happen to Android going forward. This needs to be fixed, as Google is taking away freedoms that we have been enjoying for more than a decade.
https://keepandroidopen.org #KeepAndroidOpen
feels good to finally put out 4 years of effort :) https://x.com/joulee/status/1942600311790789092
@themotorinc seeing a bunch of test notification spam on your android app, is this an intern with prod access
ah, yes, the grown ups in lawns and holes
as instructed
take me down easy, let me land softly
can emacs do this https://x.com/zack_overflow/status/1706315165052915935
all python tooling in 2023 is a significant downgrade from what was "basic" table stakes for static-typed languages like Java in 2013
a puppy is killed every time someone asks an LLM to write a poem
HEAVY DUTY
"... before Pink Floyd comes out."
what a pity
Do you still fight the battle against email top-posting? How long since you gave up?
GitHub needs a UI where you can just submit a .patch file and it opens a PR on a repo
Has anyone figured out how to get GitHub to open a PR by emailing it a .patch file?
clearly living under the wrong rock, given that I had no clue #IndiaFOSS was happening today
What's with people fawning over the Casio F-91 design?
- Why is it so important for my wristwatch to tell me that it is "WATER RESIST"?
- Keep reminding me of its model number?
an apology for the prequel series? under pseudonym ofc
paisley en papillote
iff you can get the hang of it, debugging humans is wayyy more fun and satisfying than debugging computer programs
walked this way
settling in
settling in
this random leaf lying in the sun
2 color theorem
twine relay
jilted flame
F1
AVP
Hate: when the mere knowledge of something's existence causes pain
Self-hate: when the knowledge of your own existence causes you pain
Note how hate is pain to yourself, not the subject of hatred.
wtf Google
let doggones be doggones
the cake is a lie
blue on yellow works
ever so slyly the plate beckons
A fundamental characteristic of wetware is the ability to hold two completely incompatible beliefs and still be functional.
This is a feature and not a bug.
People are simply not ready for the internet
"Fake it till you make it."
The intentional process of collecting evidence that refutes your existing irrational beliefs and replacing them with those that are closer to reality.
break even weddings are the best weddings https://x.com/vikramadhiman/status/1460459365597474818
Given that:
1. Knowing something is not the same as believing it.
2. Usually you can tell what someone believes by looking at their actions, instead of what they "say".
How to change your beliefs to match your knowledge, once you realize your actions do not match your knowledge?
☆optimize☆ for fun, everything else will follow? https://x.com/soumya_sharma26/status/1454725654474215425
can relate; this is usually because movie adaptations are a subset of the book's content. https://x.com/captn3m0/status/1451552377266266115
me at 27: they don't know I'm stupid, and I must hide it well https://x.com/alan_mustache/status/1450844372472315907
can't wait to get to 37 https://x.com/alan_mustache/status/1450844372472315907
In what world is a Python list comprehension easy to read?
Using slack/discord to "build" an open-source community is a regression
Python packaging still making me pull my hair out
DNS; It's always DNS https://x.com/briankrebs/status/1445077617426718725
This is the best one:
> It shouldn't be `!important` — that reads to engineers as “not important”. We should have picked another way to write this. https://x.com/PKodmad/status/1437262651294306322
"SHARAIIIIIIEEF DON'T RIGHT CLICK!-
LOCK THE TASKBAR
LOCK THE TASKBAR"
Intended as a finale for the many plots that began and developed in the first two Bobiverse books, "All These Worlds" features an increased number of Bobs and Worlds, each with their own problems and personality quirks.
https://satyanash.net/books/2021/08/31/all-these-worlds-dennis-e-taylor-2017.html
Worse is better https://x.com/sriramsaba/status/1430877917580386307
THIS IS FINE
why are there so many python linters?
I thought there was supposed to be one obvious way to do it
While not a bad book in many respects, I really think that For We Are Many could’ve taken the increase in page count instead of rushing the conflict with ‘The Others’.
https://satyanash.net/books/2021/08/08/for-we-are-many-dennis-e-taylor-2017.html
‘We Are Bob’ unapologetically references and relies on pop culture, while also introducing and setting up some interesting plot elements for future books. This is sci-fi, for, of and by the people.
https://satyanash.net/books/2021/08/02/we-are-legion-we-are-bob-dennis-e-taylor-2016.html
when you cat /dev/random for the first time https://x.com/Indiametdept/status/1416675786115878916
few things hurt as much as having gestures of vulnerability not reciprocated
(waves, handshakes, hi5s, hugs, kisses etc)
If one can get over this, is it a superpower or a devaluation of something sacred?
Can't select Bangalore in the Clock Big Sur sidebar :-/ wtf Apple
Kornbluth effectively capitalizes on the short story format and experiments with a variety of ideas. Personally, I would’ve liked a few more of the comedies, since he seemed to have a knack for those.
https://satyanash.net/books/2021/06/28/eight-worlds-of-c-m-kornbluth.html
A harder fact for me to accept was that simply knowing this is not enough.
It is very, very hard (impossible?) to do this consistently, every day and every moment.
But doing it sometimes is better that doing it never. https://x.com/ponnappa/status/1405413434200518661
🙁
Jumping into a large vat of topical diclofenac sounds like an amazing idea or (is it just me?)
in which I talk about the various ways to chart a Range Vector in #Prometheus
(even though I said you couldn't)
https://satyanash.net/software/2021/06/09/charting-range-vectors-prometheus.html
"Just world fallacy" https://x.com/appadappajappa/status/1400101560282017793
A Better Way to Inline Sass in Jekyll
or
How I reduced my build time by more than 50%
https://satyanash.net/software/2021/05/29/better-way-to-inline-sass-jekyll.html
Completely bombed three interviews in the past few months.
#YouDontKnowWhatYouDontKnow #UnknownUnknowns
#EpistemicArrogance
These channels are great for discovery and finding new perspectives, but its a mistake to think that simply watching these videos will "make you smarter" https://x.com/athrvakhrbde/status/1396342670134439947
> `package.el` only allows you to install the latest version, and there is no way to downgrade.
what a footgun!
My recent experience with switching from PulseAudio to PipeWire has me reconsidering my opinion of big rewrites.
It was a surprisingly seamless transition; it Just Works.
Am I the only one here, who puts (de) motivational quotes inside their /etc/hosts file?
> 1.3% chance of colliding with a rival satellite.
Production Support in SPACE! https://x.com/verge/status/1380584346541772801
Has anybody yet figured out how to version control your phone configuration?
Basically, I want dotfiles for my phone.
Have you noticed how The Culture gets by without any 'laws' -- by essentially minimizing/nullifying the cost of making mistakes.
I’d recommend "The Cuckoo's Egg" if you have the slightest interest in computer security, Unix, Emacs or the San Francisco of the Eighties.
Read my review here: https://satyanash.net/books/2021/04/02/the-cuckoos-egg-clifford-stoll-1989.html
I felt the idea of “Extreme Ownership” to be a rebranded subset of the “High-Agency” mental model.
Read my review of "Extreme Ownership" (4/5) here: https://satyanash.net/books/2021/03/28/extreme-ownership-jocko-willink-leif-babin-2015.html
On first viewing, this Kubrick satire can seem as confusing as its title. Maybe my review can help you with some of the ideas.
https://satyanash.net/movies/2021/03/07/dr-strangelove-1964.html
5/5 - Very Good
[Book Review] Kitchen Confidential - Anthony Bourdain (2000)
https://satyanash.net/books/2021/02/28/kitchen-confidential-anthony-bourdain-2000.html
I Used To Be a Vimmer Like You,
Then I Took An EMACS In The Knee.
#EmacsBankruptcy
Published in 1896, you can think of Dr. Moreau as the O.G. mad scientist with an entire Island to carry out his experiments.
Read my review of "The Island of Doctor Moreau" by H.G. Wells here https://satyanash.net/books/2021/01/29/the-island-of-doctor-moreau-h-g-wells-1896.html
Here's my movie review for "Scott Pilgrim vs. The World" 2010
https://satyanash.net/movies/2021/01/26/scott-pilgrim-vs-the-world-2010.html
Here's my Thematic Analysis of Netflix's BoJack Horseman
https://satyanash.net/tv/2021/01/15/bojack-horseman-a-thematic-analysis.html
Took me a while to wrap my head around #prometheus Range Vectors.
Here's a blog post with my understanding distilled: https://satyanash.net/software/2021/01/04/understanding-prometheus-range-vectors.html
Found a satisfying reasoning for the non-intuitive idea of self-hate being an undesirable quality.
Turns out self-hate and perfectionism are related. https://x.com/SatKanetkar/status/1249338965653475330
I had an issue where multiple versions of #bundler were installed in my #Ruby load path. Needed to load a specific one, but gem insisted on loading another. A quaint finding with a wonky syntax - https://satyanash.net/software/2020/12/10/invoking-an-older-gem-version.html
Just published a post on Consul - Configuring "leave" Behaviour
https://satyanash.net/software/2020/11/27/configuring-consul-leave-behaviour.html
loop do
beliefs << reality if reality
end
Yes, your beliefs are an append only log :P
1. De-monetization in 2016 was a Black Swan event.
2. Black Money is antifragile.
3. ??????
4. PROFIT!!!1!!!1!!
Opinion?
Both google books and amazon kindle do not allow highlighting a piece of text that spans two pages.
Have to muck around with font sizes until it reflows to appear on a single page so that I can highlight it correctly.
programming is a superpower
just discovered autorandr
was I living under a rock?
w00t w00t
everyone should learn programming;
everyone doesn't need to be a programmer
Recently saw "Avengers: Endgame", wrote a review here:
~ 4 min read ∙ rated 3/5 ∙ contains spoilers
https://satyanash.net/movies/2020/07/19/avengers-endgame-2019.html
Have wasted ~40% of my vacation till now. Let's see if I can do better over the weekend.
(wasted == unplanned unproductive activities)
My review of the movie: "Avengers: Infinity War" (2018)
https://satyanash.net/movies/2020/07/16/avengers-infinity-war-2018.html
fool-proof method to backup your GPG keys?
1. split key into `n` parts.
2. generate a QR code (locally) for each part.
3. print these QR codes from `n` different printers.
oh.. and of course make sure to use separate scanners when recovering these parts.
Did I miss something?
My book review on "Mossad: The Greatest Missions of the Israeli Secret Service"
https://satyanash.net/books/2020/05/31/mossad-2012.html
quick blag on an interesting locale issue I faced recently when trying to SSH into a VM
https://satyanash.net/software/2020/05/29/locale-issues-ssh-into-a-vm.html
Here are the links for the Nagpur Techies streams:
YouTube - https://youtu.be/WBP9IWZGDu8
Facebook - https://www.facebook.com/groups/nagpurtechies/permalink/2634295973520328/
Twitch - https://www.twitch.tv/rhetonik/
Twitter - https://x.com/rhetonik
Periscope - https://pscp.tv/rhetonik https://x.com/rhetonik/status/1264157995434303491
Why is self-hate bad?
someone enlighten me pls
Millennials under lockdown right now:
Instead of shaking your hands or doing an awkward Namaster, do this:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Iu1qa8N2ID0
@ACTFibernet why do your service representatives ask for a selfie when applying for a new connection? This is also not covered under documents required on your website. Completely unnecessary personal information is being requested and services are being refused because of this.
If you are you doing this:
def fetch_foo!
foo = fetch_foo
if foo.nil?
raise "could not fetch foo"
else
foo
end
end
Try this instead:
def fetch_foo!
fetch_foo.tap do |f|
raise "could not fetch foo" if f.nil?
end
end
#Ruby
programmers farmers
🤝
shakes fist at the cloud https://x.com/ctrlshifti/status/1223421942125826049
Classic SBI
I got 99 Memes but they ain't a problem
TIL: The State Bank of India sponsored it's own gTLD: .sbi
https://www.iana.org/domains/root/db/sbi.html
My top books in 2019, in no specific order:
• Player of Games - Iain M. Banks
• Atomic Habits - James Clear
• Friendship is Optimal - Iceman
• The Fall - Albert Camus
• The Martian - Andy Weir
• Nationalism - Rabindranath Tagore
Saturdays suck because I usually end up going on a videogame bender.
You instantly have all this unstructured/unplanned time compared to your weekdays ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
One must habitualize their weekends as consciously as their weekdays if one is to flourish.
@spotifyindia I paid for a subscription, why am I still seeing ads in your app?
reading Atomic Habits; let's see how this goes 🤞🏾:
1. pick a habit you want to incorporate
2. pick a person you hate, but see everyday
3. tell them that you'll give them 100 bucks for everyday you miss to follow said habit
being a software developer is like playing an RPG game:
• your co-workers are NPCs
• your project at hand is the quest
• programming is combat
• documentation is lore https://x.com/pawan_rawal/status/1169834159927259137
although, Ruby is the only language I've seen that _strives_ (in the literal sense) to be beautiful.
Python is what I'd describe "cool" https://x.com/cszhu/status/1169859162047574016
who shoots portrait mode in space :-/ https://x.com/SteveStuWill/status/1168320409063677953
Clearly, I need to get me some git aliases https://t.co/0QdgosZNSU
Questions about epistemic rigor were abstract and hard to concentrate on when he was lying next to somepony who loved him with all of her heart.
--
Friendship is Optimal - Iceman
I wish the ending "Flag Tune" would play on every successful production deploy. https://x.com/cassidoo/status/1151265157709889536
> Fill out the registration form and await our response.
Gmail != Email anymore
Stinginess with privileges is kindness in disguise.
-- Guide to VAX/VMS Security, Sep. 1984
Honestly, I always read the third one as a sharp hissing sound https://x.com/iam_preethi/status/1147246729869180928
China's Low Orbit Ion Cannon (LOIC) in action https://x.com/Tsigorf/status/1146060794120925187
This cosmic dance of bursting decadence and withheld permissions, twists all our arms collectively, but if sweetness can win, and it can, then I'll still be here tomorrow to high-five you yesterday, my friend.
― Pendleton Ward, Adventure Time Vol. 1
@TwitterIndia why do I not see IST (Asia/Kolkata) in the list of time zones when signing up for "Twitter Advertisin"g?
wish we had similar undeniable proof for the round-ish earth https://x.com/plibin/status/1143727956616892416
say, one of your app's upstream dependency fails and you can't do anything reasonable without it. What #HTTP status do you respond with?
Simulating a file explorer in your head:
1. Double click a folder
2. See all files
3. GOTO 1 https://x.com/SecurityGuill/status/1141729017281810432
when you're paid for every line of code https://t.co/WpR8CFbG0H
Where can one find *thousand* hours of unique Black Mirror? https://x.com/KeatonPatti/status/1130844570605031424
this hurts my eyes
Reminds me of Cowboy Bebop https://x.com/doctorow/status/1132685354249674753
You're missing out if you haven't seen #YesMinister, especially in this political season https://x.com/SatKanetkar/status/1127136603002920962
> "...it is folly to increase your knowledge at the expense of your authority."
- Sir. Humphrey Appleby in #YesMinister
> Jeff Bezos’ original spec for S3 was very succinct – he wanted `malloc` for the Internet.
https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/amazon-s3-path-deprecation-plan-the-rest-of-the-story/
I mean it is Game of **Thrones**, so it does make sense. But why even have all this distraction in the first place?
I'd anyday prefer a death due to our over-intelligence than due to our stupidity.
someone build a swiggy terraform provider, quick! https://t.co/KxFmFCzK0B
"research" #NotTheOnion https://x.com/TheEconomist/status/1109892936970522629
#softwaregore @swiggy_in
Us humans have a looong way to go before we can call ourselves sentient
companies are made of people, so the first one is a prerequisite https://t.co/MEVxtcAXo9
... for everyone else, there's XviD https://x.com/anildash/status/1106345983749902336
.txt yes. ASCII no. UTF-8 ftw https://x.com/jimmy_wales/status/1106340560376393728
Of course we teach U.S. ACCENT
Need a one way Twitter client. You can only tweet, no timeline or notifications.
NAT is an excellent example of industry wide tech debt https://x.com/anurag_bhatia/status/1104695841342844930
It's called warming up your fingers. Getting your bearing. Locking your orientation. https://x.com/emilyemorehouse/status/1103376369898053632
As a kid I was awed by this number. Now I know it is useless and a lie.
that staccato https://x.com/Tesla/status/1098242085205864448
How does one send a friend request in real life.
Minor adjustments like these can dramatically change the tone of your conversation and can make or break people's opinion of you. Experiencing this first hand over the past year. https://x.com/simonw/status/1091076714627616768
...the greater the distance between the state and the synchronization that guards it, the more likely that someone will forget to use proper synchronization when accessing that state.
--
5.1.3, Java Concurrency in Practice
All software is shite, some software is useful
60s Star Trek being firmly grounded in the 60s
Management is feeding proper food
There are lies, damned lies and then there's IEEE 754 Floating Point
Put this in your `~/.gitconfig`:
```
[alias]
poop = stash pop
```
You can then run `git poop` instead of the boring `git stash pop`
Red Wins #TicketToRide
ate a real undried fig today
@moviediversity aquaman
@moviediversity Dilwale Dulhaniya le Jayenge
Just rewatched Troy (2004) yesterday. Was pleasantly surprised to learn that the screenplay was written by David Benioff of GoT fame.
[Movie Review] Andhadhun (2018)
https://satyanash.github.io/2018/12/01/movie-review-andhadhun-2018.html
woke my laptop up to this error message
who called it CRUD and not CURD
Now try explaining this to my parents (I'd really like them to start using voice enabled stuff; they're not as technologically challenged as one might presume) papercut bugs like these are why it'll be a while (or never) that they'll get used to it. https://x.com/vinaykesari/status/1043001583171072000
IF YOU EAT "ZOMBIE", YOU ARE FUN. PERIOD.
wish the sandwich was as good as the copy
The bust-flattering functions
the use of trolley ends here
Pet Is Not Allowed To Sit On The Chair
Rspec is beautiful
Ah so that's what himesh was singing about in 'Tandoori Nights' https://x.com/Jamuntini/status/856001330640560129
'It's always one bloody war after another, and one knows the news is all lies anyway.' - Part 2, Chapter 5, 1984, George Orwell ( Published in 1949)
@healthchecks_io please replace 'an unique' with 'a unique'. 'an' is not applicable here because unique is pronounced 'yooneek'. Since Y is not a vowel, the 'a' article should be used
Or people who love their moms are 3 times more likely to choose a bad password.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16434864
you have a finite number of keystrokes in your life;
...email is where your keystrokes go to die
https://youtu.be/FS1mnISoG7U
@barcampbng the 'When and Where' button on the desktop site is almost impossible to spot. Almost as if you don't want users to know that information.
It personally took me three separate visits to find out the actual date of the event.
The Wikipedia lookup on the Kindle is a killer feature when a book mentions a *lot* of real people, often just once or twice.
I don't think there's a dead tree equivalent of this feature.
[Movie Review] Lights Out (2016)
https://satyanash.github.io/2018/02/04/movie-review-lights-out-2016.html
[Book Review] The Invisible Man - H.G. Wells (1897)
https://satyanash.github.io/2018/01/31/book-review-the-invisible-man-h-g-wells-1897.html
Why does it seem like a lot of games mistake shiny for realistic
Why doesn't the Twitter app for Android register app links for these domains?
✓ https://pic.twitter.com
✓ https://t.co
It's a pain to always switch back from the browser if you click one of these
[Movie Review] Aparichit (Anniyan) (2005)
https://satyanash.github.io/2018/01/21/movie-review-aparichit-anniyan-2005.html
[Movie Review] Hardcore Henry (2015)
https://satyanash.github.io/2018/01/20/movie-review-hardcore-henry-2015.html
Am I the only who finds the jQuery API documentation UI hard to navigate?
[Movie Review] Wonder Woman (2017)
https://satyanash.github.io/2018/01/16/movie-review-wonder-woman-2017.html
[Movie Review] Logan (2017)
https://satyanash.github.io/2018/01/16/movie-review-logan-2017.html
great way to start a tutorial 😀
> #Leiningen is for automating #Clojure projects without setting your hair on fire. If you experience your hair catching on fire or any other frustrations while following this tutorial, please let us know.
https://github.com/technomancy/leiningen/blob/master/doc/TUTORIAL.md
Papercut Bug implementation complexity (case study): preserving and correctly restoring scroll state
Can we run a git blame on the constitution?
what if I prefer
(-> a-map :key1 :key2 :key3)
to
(get-in a-map [:key1 :key2 :key3])
Anything wrong with it?
#Clojure #clojurescript
[Book Review] Meet Mr. Mulliner - P.G. Wodehouse (1927)
https://satyanash.github.io/2017/12/04/book-review-meet-mr-mulliner-1927-p-g-wodehouse.html
Be like Firefox https://x.com/SatKanetkar/status/937756993485336576
"Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:57.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/57.0"
Firefox has the least misleading User Agent string.
who else has pulled out their hair after habitually pressing ctrl-w in the browser console expecting it to delete the previous word
[Book Review] The Lean Startup - Eric Ries (2011)
http://satyanash.github.io/2017/11/28/book-review-the-lean-startup-eric-ries-2011.html
PS. opinions/suggestions/corrections are welcome
How big is your temp folder? ( don't lie)
Things I wish email clients had:
•autogroup mails by sender
•auto mark said groups as read
•auto archive a group
•auto create folders/labels for every group
•merge sender groups
•autopurge old emails in a group
Does this exist?I often find myself making trivial filters :-/
Event Report - PyCon India 2017 - New Delhi #PyConIndia
https://satyanash.github.io/2017/11/21/event-pycon-india-2017-new-delhi.html
wholly agree. don't do it as often as I'd like to https://x.com/andrestaltz/status/932526271141203968
"The number of UNIX installations is now above 20, and many more are expected." -- Unix Programmer's Manual (1973)
https://www.spinellis.gr/blog/20171119/ https://dspinellis.github.io/unix-v4man/v4man.pdf
alias pingoo='ping 8.8.8.8'
database level constraints are awesome
hey #AWS, how hard is it to add a _separate_ login button instead of pretending I am both logged in and logged out
@pyconindia Say I don't want to attend the workshops, how do I register _just_ for the dev sprints on 2nd,3rd Nov?
Kids love the cornflour water water solution
#SHDIndia2017
a magic trick is brewing #SHDIndia2017
Things were learnt; fun #mistakes while building the dome at #SHDIndia2017
Building a geodesic dome #SHDIndia2017
some assembly required
#SHDIndia2017
The #shdindia2017 venue is quite interesting
soldering workshop in progress at #ScienceHackDayIndia2017
Helpful Dummy Text From Arrested Development
http://bluthipsum.com/
Life would be so much easier if we could just look at the source code.
-- Dave Olson
Steps to DDLJing your life:
1: creep out fellow traveler
2: steal their undergarment
3: ???
4: Profit!!!!
looks like YouTube decided not to port easter eggs to the new UI
Wrote a piece on this a while ago. Does NOT cover JS Middlewares (wasn't aware then)
http://satyanash.github.io/2016/03/01/note-on-web-middlewares.html https://x.com/littlecalculist/status/902928288208740352
[Movie Review] Kahaani (2012)
https://satyanash.github.io/2017/08/20/movie-review-kahaani-2012.html
it was a slipperier slope than usual https://x.com/SatKanetkar/status/899889251180986369
didn't expect slipperier to be a word
[Movie Review] Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2 (2017)
https://satyanash.github.io/2017/08/21/movie-review-guardians-of-the-galaxy-vol-2-2017.html
you are Tom,
your life is Jerry
they shouldn't reboot Chacha Chaudhary
with that uptime
power cycling is a sin
UC Browser is shit:
• no web feature compatibility info
• no debug console to see what's wrong
• cluttered home page with clickbait
.
.
.
Here is the event page for those interested:
https://www.facebook.com/events/1471503269577896/ https://x.com/SatKanetkar/status/894982835013959681
going to the #MarchForScience tomorrow in #Bengaluru
if anybody on my timeline is also going, let's catch up there
I have a feeling his name began with 'M' https://x.com/bilalfarooqui/status/887025375754166272
had a nightmare last night where I accidentally discovered a hidden optical drive on my laptop
it would only eject via software
#NagpurTechies
July Tech Meetup - #ReactJS workshop
23rd July 2017 12PM
Check it out and RSVP: http://meetu.ps/3bMhtc
Attempting Agricola finally
Ubuntu now available from the Windows Store!
https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/commandline/2017/07/10/ubuntu-now-available-from-the-windows-store/
#NotTheOnion
Keep Calm
and
Trust TCP/IP
NSA already has root access to the Aadhar database.
https://www.reddit.com/r/bangalore/comments/6hxqgl/grmd_2017_circlejerk/dj20ghy/
Carmack on Plan 9
https://marc.info/?l=9fans&m=111558698816997&w=4
No. 15 will have you wondering: Why? https://x.com/nixcraft/status/870925728430276608
Sarabhai v. Sarabhai Take 2
ends up worse than it's original
http://www.arre.co.in/pop-culture/sarabhai-vs-sarabhai-take-two-review-hotstar/
so Daft Punk compresses the best
https://pudding.cool/2017/05/song-repetition/
Just turned up at "Guided Storytelling with Data" at the Dialogues Cafe, Kormangala.
Let's see how it turns out.
red lanyards mean that the person doesn't want to be photographed.
if you see a tweet with a red lanyard in it, tell the author!
#rootconf
en route to @rootconf
doesn't look like he's up to any good
when you just gotta have that pizza
#NagpurTechies #Xamarin workshop in full swing right now!
#Nagpur #Xhackers unite!
has anybody figured out a relatively painless way of importing splitwise expenses into gnucash?
or should I look into the gnucash API now
Contest Alert for #Nagpur people attending #NagpurTechies #Xamarin Workshop #XHackers details here - http://meetu.ps/38MW88
Execution in the Kingdom of Nouns
https://steve-yegge.blogspot.in/2006/03/execution-in-kingdom-of-nouns.html#note3
Myths - You will harm your system as root
https://web-beta.archive.org/web/20120605063159/http://www.imperial-command.net/myths-about-root.html
Chatter Mouse Rule:
participants are free to swear at the content, but the identity of the speaker may not be revealed.
found the Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy in the Educational Books section 😁
Rear Window, can't forget this https://x.com/archillect/status/853462975621017600
[Movie Review] Sully (2016)
https://satyanash.github.io/2017/04/09/movie-review-sully-2016.html
[Movie Review] Boss Baby (2017)
https://satyanash.github.io/2017/04/08/movie-review-boss-baby-2017.html
[Movie Review] Life (2017)
https://satyanash.github.io/2017/04/06/movie-review-life-2017.html
PC Miniature 38: Accounting for Dragons
http://podcastle.org/2009/10/09/pc-miniature-38-accounting-for-dragons/
[Book Review] Zero to One - Peter Thiel (2014)
https://satyanash.github.io/2017/03/30/book-review-zero-to-one-peter-thiel-2014.html
Check out & RSVP for this Meetup with #Nagpur #Techies!
Talks: ReactJS by @tusharvjoshi & AngularJs by Nazim Khan
http://meetu.ps/37YMqB
no. It's called Core Dahi https://x.com/abcdefu/status/844133254655623168
death by Tetris
ah, electrolysis
#Firefox
are online cats real?
having this intense urge to look at cat pictures online
i POWERPOINT in your general direction;
It's super effective!
[Movie Review] Bajirao Mastani (2015)
https://satyanash.github.io/2017/03/10/movie-review-bajirao-mastani-2015.html
nobody respects your email inbox these days
it seems that Logan has managed to get away with fewer cuts and censors than expected
[Movie Review] Guardians of the Galaxy (2014)
https://satyanash.github.io/2017/03/04/movie-review-guardians-of-the-galaxy-2014.html
is there an easy way to detect if a given website is hijacking your scroll
a couple websites I need have some really janky scrolling 😑
given the thousands of substances that could kill you, it's a surprise that so much of what we eat isn't prepared directly in front of us
door se dekha to Lisp laga,
door se dekha to Lisp laga,
pas jakar dekha to JSON nikla
when you've had the worst day, but you still standing strong.
[Book Review] Ranga Half-Pants - Suman Kumar (2016)
https://satyanash.github.io/2017/02/23/book-review-ranga-half-pants-suman-kumar-2016.html
tight jeans are a classic case of users getting habituated to a bad UX just for the 'looks' a la hamburger menus, carousels, scroll hijacks
that SEO
so the new LinkedIn UI seems to be using EmberJS
@YourStoryCo this looks like a typo
[Movie Review] Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them (2016)
https://satyanash.github.io/2017/01/26/movie-review-fantastic-beasts-and-where-to-find-them-2016.html
dial an infant
as a programmer, I have some strong feelings about this: https://english.stackexchange.com/questions/5490/is-it-correct-to-use-punctuation-outside-of-the-quotations-or-inside
moving models between apps in #Django is unnaturally *hard* . Did they expect everybody to get their models right the first time?
love the cover art on this chocolate bar
If you're not smart enough to figure out which one contains salt, you don't deserve to have salt. #UIFail
[Movie Review] The Secret Life of Pets (2016)
https://satyanash.github.io/2017/01/03/movie-review-the-secret-life-of-pets-2016.html
So it's faster/easier to open Uber to check my PayTM balance than opening the PayTM app itself
$ docker rm condescending_chandrasekhar
... #Git records history according to the victors, whereas #Fossil records history as it actually happened.
https://www.fossil-scm.org/xfer/doc/trunk/www/fossil-v-git.wiki #scm
I remember seeing that form and chuckling at the joke. IMO it was well placed. https://x.com/reactjs/status/806646405909483520
You'd be surprised at the number of people who _don't_ go to parks on a regular basis.
lé चष्मा
Q: What are the adverse effects of eating too much chocolate?
[Movie Review] Hitman: Agent 47 (2015)
https://satyanash.github.io/2016/12/03/movie-review-hitman-agent-47-2015.html
No thank you, I don't want to see maggots dancing.
[Movie Review] Inferno (2016)
https://satyanash.github.io/2016/11/28/movie-review-inferno-2016.html
[Movie Review] Doctor Strange (2016)
https://satyanash.github.io/2016/11/12/movie-review-doctor-strange-2016.html
Google knows.
hearing all this commotion is a yearly reconfirmation that the only remotely good thing about Diwali is the food.
there are so many distractions that even they can overwhelm you, and then there's nothing
only on the internet
my preferred window manager over the years:
Metacity
Compiz
Openbox
Fvwm2
xmonad
dwm
i3 (since 2013)
been with i3 the longest
I would like to thank Arnab Goswami for popularizing tiling window managers in the general public
[Book Review] Why I Am Not a Hindu - Kancha Ilaiah (1996)
https://satyanash.github.io/2016/10/07/book-review-why-i-am-not-a-hindu-kancha-ilaiah-1996.html
technologist: n. someone who discriminates on the basis of technology
this review text aggregation feature on @glassdoor is awesome. Would love to have a similar feature on Amazon, Flipkart et al
I think most people would benefit greatly if we could achieve just these two:
✔ automated time tracking
✔ automated money tracking
this was a really cool lightning talk at this #PyConIndia https://x.com/jaidevd/status/781755754193620992
first comes the procrastination,
then the loathing,
followed by a resolve
26 is the only number that comes between a perfect square and perfect cube #PyConIndia
[Movie Review] You've Got Mail (1998)
https://satyanash.github.io/2016/09/29/movie-review-youve-got-mail-1998.html
This #vespa shaped handbag display is sweet
Seen inside a #Pizza hut in #Nagpur
when your ads are served faster than your content 😒
I tried to calculate the average wait time, but hunger took over
#PyConIndia https://x.com/anandology/status/779957202656169984
hate to do this
The free Google #WiFi for railways is called #RailWire
I thought it was just talk.
so bollywood is all about overacting
or no acting
Showerthought: dieting is basically a firewall for your stomach
there's nothing magical about these
Pani Puri packs are now copying Wikipedia for their trivia.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Panipuri
[Movie Review] Groundhog Day (1993)
https://satyanash.github.io/2016/09/01/movie-review-groundhog-day-1993.html
[Movie Review] Back to the Future - Part II (1989)
https://satyanash.github.io/2016/08/29/movie-review-back-to-the-future-2-1989.html
So how does WhatsApp figure out your Facebook account? Do you link it manually or it does it automatically using the configured ph. nos?
http://bookganga.com stores passwords in cleartext.. it's 2016 guys. Update your security! @MyVishwa
[Movie Review] Suicide Squad (2016)
https://satyanash.github.io/2016/08/14/movie-review-suicide-squad-2016.html
Regression for program attributes and attention for Sesame Street
- "Children's Understanding of Television"
so this game was a lot more fun with 5 players #TicketToRide
I hope they improve it conceptually instead of another functional clone. Maybe have a look at #plan9 for ideas https://x.com/codepo8/status/764421745914806272
[Movie Review] Zootopia (2016)
https://satyanash.github.io/2016/07/05/movie-review-zootopia-2016.html
[Movie Review] Udta Punjab (2016)
https://satyanash.github.io/2016/07/03/movie-review-udta-punjab-2016.html
smug dinosaur doodle
lost by 2pts at 94pts #TicketToRide 😑
( i am green btw)
I've tried drinking the ORM kool-aid and its a less than pleasant experience.
And it looks like I'm not the only one at #DeccanRubyConf
One of these is not like the others #DeccanRubyConf
I wonder what this icon in the bottom right of a @Trello card means
djembes at #fifthel are fun
The new Google Fonts website is simply gorgeous.
I could get lost in there!
Just migrated 300 tabs from a running Firefox to a new FF on another machine. Everything works: themes, tabs, addons preferences. #yay
why the hell does polkit use JavaScript for its rule definitions? 😒
[Movie Review] John Wick (2014)
https://satyanash.github.io/2016/06/28/movie-review-john-wick-2014.html
my quest to boot directly from the UEFI requires me to install a UEFI firmware update :-/
so I had a dream where I had a pet otter. it was cool af
"...you’re probably not going to get too far trying to boot from your video adapter"
https://www.happyassassin.net/2014/01/25/uefi-boot-how-does-that-actually-work-then/
I hope I don't have to agree to a 100 page ToS and Privacy Policy before using one of these in the wild. https://x.com/HackadayPrize/status/749263926571982848
I wonder why the Windows defender UI looks so dated, especially compared to the rest of Windows 10 it came as a part of
[Movie Review] Spotlight (2015)
https://satyanash.github.io/2016/06/25/movie-review-spotlight-2015.html
some really useless default search engine choices in Thunderbird :-/
so I just found out that http://shit.tech redirects to the #Apple website
nice one
[Movie Review] Ant-Man (2015)
https://satyanash.github.io/2016/06/20/movie-review-ant-man-2015.html
[TV review] Sherlock: The Abominable Bride (2016)
http://satyanash.github.io/2016/06/18/tv-sherlock-the-abominable-bride-2016.html
everytime I decide to finally look into MongoDB for a new project, I tend to find some requirement that sends me back to postgres
looks like sugar cubes floating on sugarcane juice https://x.com/SatKanetkar/status/743046186186117120
Interesting pattern at the Bor dam near #Nagpur
[Movie Review] Masaan (2015)
https://satyanash.github.io/2016/06/13/movie-review-masaan-2015.html
How does one exorcise an atheist ghost?
So first time facing a power outage at night, while waiting at a railway station. Interesting experience.
sweltering afternoon,
cool watermelon juice,
exams over
TIL that Reynolds pens India is now Rorito pens and not a Chinese knockoff
an excellent way to get distracted while working are the 'Hot Network Questions' on the @StackExchange sites
This #TanmayRoasted thing is just pure commotion, how do people actually focus on individual voices?
you should be able to 'get' the movie without the crutch of the comic book.
i.e it should stand on its own https://x.com/WIRED/status/736235588228153344
Seeing a lot more of these sneakily captioned click bait ads on Twitter these days.
Happy 13th Birthday #Wordpress from the #Nagpur meetup #wpmeta #ngpmeetup
[Movie Review] X-Men: Apocalypse (2016)
http://satyanash.github.io/2016/05/27/movie-review-x-men-apocalypse-2016.html
Really like the graphics on this tea cup.
Qui-Gon Jinn and #HeWhoMustNotBeNamed hanging out at the Naboo Swamp
#StarWars
I would feel really bad if my thermosensitive mug slowly poisoned me over the years
Khadi banners instead of flex at the #MarchAgainstMonsanto in #Nagpur today
> At times, looking at the crew list in the credits, you might wonder how a halfway coherent movie was even made.
http://jaiarjun.blogspot.com/2016/05/in-defence-of-dialogue-baazi-notes-from.html
[Movie Review] Captain America: Civil War (2016)
http://satyanash.github.io/2016/05/15/movie-review-captain-america-civil-war-2016.html
so the old freeware desktop destroyer AKA cutter.exe works quite well with Wine on Linux
AWK - The Duct Tape of Computer Science Research
https://www.cs.ucsb.edu/~sherwood/awk/gawk-tutorial.pdf
[Book Review] The Fountainhead - Ayn Rand (1943)
http://satyanash.github.io/2016/05/06/book-review-the-fountainhead-ayn-rand-1943.html
so apparently cold pizza at 0400 in the morning doesn't taste thaaat bad
just made the mistake of choosing O.S.A on my first ever playthrough of #SystemShock2
Maybe I'll just carry on and hope I don't die
...you can walk around laughing while everything around you just whimpers and dies.
https://steamcommunity.com/app/238210/discussions/0/864973124026770541/#c864973577792236159
look ma, more cables!
Water tanker or leaker? #Nagpur #NagpurHeat
Need to get these for my home.. Seen at a restaurant in #Nagpur
Abhijit explaining the @HackadayPrize at MakerWorks #Nagpur
Intense discussion has already begun! MakerWorks at #Nagpur #makerspace
...she's either being photobombed by an eagle or has supremely weird taste in helmets.
http://www.core77.com/posts/52196/A-Brief-History-of-Women-on-US-20-Bill-Designs #design
On a scale of one to ten, ten being 'wading through unicorn poop':
How much did you enjoy implementing MS Excel in JavaScript?
... tied to Lotus because 45 years ago the CEO had to sacrifice a goat to appease IBM to spare his 1st born
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10182933
Found another #PoliteLinuxCommand
$ wget -mk --adjust-extensions
saves the day, yet again
It's as if, instead of shooting the TV series, we're only shooting the bloopers
Got these made today
Every morning I decide something
But life always gets in the way
And ends up doing elsething
So there goes my day
apparently, all mass surveys hinge on the assumption that the surveyed population actually understands the question asked
just set up a three way backup to:
* Google Drive
* Amazon S3
* Backblaze B2.
All thanks to rclone: http://rclone.org/
still getting used to #ES6 syntax
finally fixed a gtk-3.0 theme issue caused by some old config files from my old ArchBang installation
I can see clearly now
[Movie Review] Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice (2016)
http://satyanash.github.io/2016/03/29/movie-review-batman-v-superman-dawn-of-justice-2016.html
[Movie Review] Penguins of Madagascar (2014)
http://satyanash.github.io/2016/03/26/movie-review-penguins-of-madagascar-2014.html
bendy straws are awesome
[Movie Review] Big Hero 6 (2014)
https://satyanash.github.io/2016/03/20/movie-review-big-hero-6-2014.html
Jigsaw new record: 1hr35min 300pc
I think i am having what some people call a Fountainheadache...
#AynRand #TheFountainhead
Pahade bagels and invitation jewellery
Billions and Billions of blue bilious blistering barnacles - Captain Sagan
#CarlSagan #Tintin
Listening to 100.6 FM trying to explain how to take a cloud backup of your android phone
#SundayMorning
back in the old days, we used to actually 'drive' cars,
not just sit around and chat
The whole world is your RNG
I simply don't get @tatadocomo Pricing logic here. What exactly are they trying to achieve? #PricingFail
found this today, #PoliteLinuxCommands
I hope Jon Snow's startup really takes off this time. brb shorting dragonglass futures
https://youtu.be/CuH3tJPiP-U
#GameOfThrones
skydiving can be a life-changing experience
, if you forget to pack your parachute
https://www.reddit.com/r/todayilearned/comments/49do22/til_taking_magic_mushrooms_just_once_can/d0rg1ta
Translation failure @motorolainindia
Designing a paper shredder has to be the most satisfying job ever.
Dafaq. Why is this even a feature?
Valuing unit standardization over being helpful possibly makes me a bad friend
https://xkcd.com/1643/
[Movie Review] The Revenant (2015)
http://satyanash.github.io/2016/03/01/movie-review-the-revenant-2015.html
#TheRevenant
The Revenant: a movie where Bear Grylls gets mauled by a bear, gets pissed, does a lot of bear grylls stuff and then some
#TheRevenant
Blog Post: A Note on Web Middlewares
http://satyanash.github.io/2016/03/01/note-on-web-middlewares.html
#blog #middleware
CPU is fast
CPU is sharp
CPU is effective
Be like CPU
What should I do with these? #EWaste
Another clichéd name for your new food cart #Nagpur
So Leo finally wins best actor. Let the memes begin!
At the Art Exhibition at Chitrakala Mahavidyalaya #Nagpur
just finished the first coat of redox on the compost bin
[Movie Review] Deadpool (2016)
http://satyanash.github.io/2016/02/26/movie-review-deadpool-2016.html
#Deadpool
Safest place to deliver your baby is at the spice kitchen #Pune
top speed is directly proportional to the number of lanes available
beaches are awesome
real life #Quake at GoLaser laser tag arena in #bangalore
and here I was thinking broccoli was a vegetable
the lions in the games of local string band course
are we taking about @minio or bashing GNU coreutils #gopherconIndia
100,000 lines of #xml sends shivers up my spine #gopherconindia
cc: #GopherconIndia we had two talks about #golang interfaces yesterday https://x.com/GolangGo/status/700880501154906112
day 2 of #gopherconindia about to begin. gather up guys!
undercover Flying Spaghetti Monster in #bangalore
doodling gophers at #gopherconindia
middleware means different things in the Java and Go world. Go middlewares == filters in Java EE #gopherconindia
energetic fellow #vimmer @hackintoshrao on how to write benchmarks in #go at #gopherconindia
sympathize with the hardware, have some mechanical sympathy; stop throwing money and hardware at the problem #gopherconindia
show us the code man, we know how scrabble works #GopherConIndia
आपला दात्र्या मित्र at #GopherConIndia. make sure you say hi
loads of @digitalocean stickers at #GopherConIndia woo!
i wonder where did @mraaroncruz get the awesome illustrations for his talk at #GopherConIndia
asymptotically approaching boring with #go16 at #gopherconindia by @bradfitz
the tummy's full and we're ready to #Go at #GopherConIndia2016
commoditization of IT and software training at Ameerpeth, #Hyderabad
happens #OnlyInIndia NH7 en route to #Hyderabad
just got this compost enclosure made
what's wrong with "Sponsored by" weddings? they're as pointless and extravagant as reality shows anyway
Is one of the benefits of your friend with benefit watching movies together?
wooo Gravitational waves detected! watch the live stream now!
[Aunt] parts of my modular kitchen are falling apart
[Me] maybe it was loosely coupled..
#design #SoftwareArchitecture
yo @netflix fix ur crappy account mgmt UI.. the 'Cancel Membership' button is very badly placed #suspicious #UIFail
but I also bet @google won't stop till the Web is at feature parity with native
so I just found out about Web Push. I think it is time we give the web standards some rest
wrote my first HTML email today because I really needed image embedding
XML is like violence - if it doesn’t solve your problems, you are not using enough of it.
http://www.rubydoc.info/github/sparklemotion/nokogiri
[Movie Review] The Hateful Eight
#spoilers #MovieReview
http://satyanash.github.io/2016/01/22/movie-review-the-hateful-eight-2015.html
is #TheHatefulEight the first #Tarantino film to briefly employ an explicit narrator? I don't recall any of his previous films having one
You could interface an arduino to pour water on you. #AlarmClockIdeas
just jailbroke my iPad 1. any apps I should know about?
Finally we can integrate with WhatsApp.
Even laypeople have been asking for this for quite some time now. https://x.com/jonrussell/status/689033076869967872
#MovieReview Star Wars: The Force Awakens (2015)
#spoilers #TheForceAwakens #StarWars
http://satyanash.github.io/2016/01/18/movie-review-star-wars-the-force-awakens-2015.html
If moms and dads were responsible enough to cover database design as well as oral hygiene,
http://stackoverflow.com/a/85298
your everyday #RedditIndiaDiscussion
https://www.reddit.com/r/india/comments/40rrnb/mildly_interesting_good_guy_colors_infinity_gives/
Children of Men (2006) #MovieReview #spoilers
http://satyanash.github.io/2016/01/13/movie-review-children-of-men-2006.html
hot cinnamon coffee and walnut brownie at Cafe Aeolus #Nagpur
add some spice to your life, start using Google Voice typing for a change
This is exactly how you should NOT use twitter. Just click the RT button if you don't have anything to add.
only the motivated housewife will go and see what the unintelligible wailer is trying to peddle
Lots of fun and discussion on #RaspberryPi at #Nagpur Techies meetup! See you next time guys.
shoddy tar road patching at Ambazari Bypass Rd #Nagpur
#Meetup #Nagpur Techies
- #MachineLearning - @AsadDhamani
- #RaspberryPi - @tembhurnerakesh
Check it out and RSVP! http://meetu.ps/2QZktf
[Book Review] Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows (2007)
http://satyanash.github.io/2015/12/15/book-review-harry-potter-and-the-deathly-hallows-2007.html
[Movie Review] Spectre (2015)
http://satyanash.github.io/2015/12/14/movie-review-spectre-2015.html
six street kids watching the TV inside an ice cream store near VCA #Nagpur
Buckingham Palace... it's like Disneyland, but with armed guards and mickey mouse is an elderly woman.
https://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/3vpk3x/what_is_pretty_fucked_up_if_you_think_about_it/cxpsbb5
...the skeleton is used to solve a complex problem that the brain and nervous system can’t.. https://x.com/RethabileESL/status/672697808315617280
so #Swift just got its code on Github. complete with a Package Manager, proper Apache license, git commit history looking forward to new fun
down the rabbit hole
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10669149
> Instead of minutes, hours, or days for ecommerce, an education transaction can take months and even years..
https://www.techinasia.com/edtech-gets-little-love-from-vcs-in-india/
#ChennaiRains
@TheHindu not published for the first time since 1878
http://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-india-34981328
It is also the ideal form of transportation https://x.com/Makshikaa/status/670701943199780864
The OnHub, though, has received spousal approval to be put out in the open where everyone can see it.
http://www.snarky.ca/why-i-bought-a-google-onhub-router
How to be precise and ambiguous in a single sentence:
> I'll see you at IST 1830ish
I'm not here for the wordplay. I'm here to tell you something.
Just saw Spectre (2015)
[Movie Review] Thor: The Dark World (2013) http://ift.tt/1T8jbBt
Meetup with #Nagpur Techies! http://meetu.ps/2Qz9ns
1. Web Scraping #NodeJS - @tembhurnerakesh
2. #WordPress plugin development - @pulser
Just read Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows
Finally! I can tweet about my favorite band using only emojis. /s
#wtf #bullshit #sarcasm
Check out and RSVP this #Nagpur Techies Meetup: http://meetu.ps/2Q6z48
Talks:
1. Big Data Practices - @aschig
2. RethinkDb - @AsadDhamani
Check out and RSVP this #Nagpur Techies meetup
http://meetu.ps/2Q6zZb
1. Best Programming Practices
2. RethinkDB - Introduction, Code demo
Yes. And it's very unlikely that it'll result in the type of innovation/invention/discovery as portrayed by the ads. https://x.com/acorn/status/659274999816056832
Found CDs, floppies and cigarettes while digging in my cupboard. Its like Narnia in there.
Just realised that I have a _lot_ of boxes
Just saw The Martian ( 2015)
Superb talks by @AsadDhamani and @Fitehal today at the #Nagpur Techies meetup!
Looking forward to the next one.
[talks] MeteorJS | Web App Accessibility - I’m attending a Meetup today with #Nagpur Techies
Check it out and RSVP http://meetu.ps/2PLHxv
matplotlib is a bit closer to a lifestyle choice than a casual graphing engine
https://www.reddit.com/r/dataisbeautiful/comments/3q0w2x/my_internets_median_ping_over_time_oc/cwbompv
Hi $contacts.name.first,
Thank you for contacting $incidents.c$property_friendly_name.
get Sal more colors, STAT! @khanacademy
friends don't let friends buy Micromax
Join me at this #Nagpur Techies Meetup:
[talks] MeteorJS | Web App Accessibility
Check it out and RSVP! http://meetu.ps/2PLxTR
Amount of people it takes to organise a good conference! #phew #pyconindia
EDUCATION EDUCATION EDUCATION !!!
Gather up everybody, @ntoll's keynote about to kick off Day 2 of #pyconindia
Nice summary of Day 0 of #pyconindia by @kushaldas
http://kushaldas.in/posts/day-0-of-pycon-india-2015.html
Day 1 of #pyconindia ends
Crowd overflowing near the door at REST API talk #pyconindia
प से पायथन! 🐍
#pyconindia #pyconindia2015
MOAR stickers at #pyconindia
Its nice seeing no semicolons for a whole day.
#pyconindia #pyconindia2015
Finally here, almost on time. #pyconindia
The @_DigitalIndia website has all the signs of a #GoI website:
✓<marquee> tag
✓non-responsive
✓politician's photo
✓fontsize controls
I wish students could use laptops in engineering colleges, that way we could get real work done while still accumulating attendance.
Is that tux from #linux on @google's 17th birthday doodle? #HappyBirthdayGoogle
[In2hrs] Deploy a web application to the cloud with #Heroku - I’m attending a #Meetup with #Nagpur Techies http://meetu.ps/2Nz73r
Can relate.
http://rdsm.ca/vim
Fox Mulder's principle: Trust No One
http://programmers.stackexchange.com/questions/147480/should-one-check-for-null-if-he-does-not-expect-null#comment278955_147480
#CryptoBill adding more bureaucracy to the encryption process is just backwards thinking
- Becoming Productive in Javascript, by Buckminster Fuller
- Rails Authentication With Bitcoin
See more at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9453454
This new #CryptoBill is trying to apply 20th c. law to 21st c. tech. We need laws that are as responsive and user friendly as modern tech.
If India is to become an informational superpower, it's by allowing information TO it's citizens; NOT the government. #CryptoBill
This is just hopeless – "Encryption algorithms and key sizes will be prescribed by the Government ..."
http://deity.gov.in/sites/upload_files/dit/files/draft%20Encryption%20Policyv1.pdf
Very well investigated and written article. https://x.com/redditindia/status/644053205437935616
Is this a Sandwich?
https://medium.com/@kmikeym/is-this-a-sandwich-50b1317eb3f5
of all the things that could've, #ThatHappened https://x.com/dna/status/641175983521837056
Very sad indeed.
"I did it to save the lives of my family. But I also committed intellectual suicide on that day."
http://indiatoday.intoday.in/story/religious-zealots-in-lingayat-community-object-to-references-to-founder-of-their-religion/1/323462.html
Idli Kebab at Idli Express. Tasted nothing like either. #Nagpur
Hilarious!
http://krishashok.me/2013/09/06/a-fresh-and-unique-set-of-approaches-to-yahoo-logo-design/
Indian Government School of Logo Design: “Let’s cram the entire Mahabharatha of symbolism into every logo”
[Book Review] The Demon-Haunted World - Science as a Candle in the Darkness - Carl Sagan
#Review #CarlSagan
http://satyanash.github.io/2015/08/30/book-review-the-demon-haunted-world-carl-sagan.html
Just realised that a steep learning curve doesn't really mean what most people think it means!
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10127801
How does this new @firefox #WebExtensions thing affect @mozthunderbird ?
Hot Idli #Breakfast at Ganesh Sagar #Nagpur
#Street artist #Flash operating now at Hill Top, Ram Nagar, #Nagpur
I wonder why they give out these sponsor t-shirts at conferences. I'm so not going to wear a t-shirt with OLAcabs splattered across the back
... I can see why Twitter can be hard to use - you really have to invest in the platform and it does take a while.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10095445
lol
"Java ruined exceptions -- they're not Pokémon; you're not supposed to catch them all everywhere."
https://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/3hhf9v/retrospect_on_c_top_10_worst_c_features_by_eric/cu7tant
@hackbeach
'$ dig hackbeach.in @8.8.8.8'
Does not resolve to anything; are you sure your website is up?
Volunteering to build #solar lanterns on #IndependenceDay #Nagpur
Very interesting reads for someone looking to understand #design:
https://deardesignstudent.com/latest & http://deep.design/
Looks like a scene from The Fast and Furious :P https://x.com/s_kukade/status/631740196753575937
Udhar #PerseidMeteor wala shower idhar #baarish wala shower. #Nagpur #Rain
#Floods on the #Streets in #Nagpur
Cars stranded near ladies club Square due to #Rain #Nagpur
#Enjoying #Nagpur #Rain at #Futala from inside the car. #JustNeedHotCoffeeNow
Hanging out at #Futala #Telangkhedi Lake in #Nagpur.. In the #Rain !
पोरींग लाइक हेल इन #Nagpur
@kushaldas Your About Me page still says 'Powered by Nikola', instead of Shonku, and it's href is outdated.
http://kushaldas.in/aboutme.html
[Movie Review] Mission: Impossible - Rogue Nation ( 2015)
Spoiler Alert!
http://satyanash.github.io/2015/08/10/movie-review-mission-impossible-rogue-nation.html
+1 having a browser extension to support #accessibility in web applications makes a lot of sense @meson10 @deccanrubyconf #DeccanRubyConf
#fun with #Ruby at #DeccanRubyConf!!
Maybe we could do a poll on who at #DeccanRubyConf has worked on accessible web apps.. Just to get some numbers? @deccanrubyconf
@satishperala guess what encoding is this: (ノಠ益ಠ)ノ彡┻━┻ |
#DeccanRubyConf
Excellent Fish at #deccanrubyconf
So apparently #Rails middlewares and #Rack are very very similar to Filters in the Java EE spec. #DeccanRubyConf @mechanicles
@joshsoftware you now have 2 problems! #regex #DeccanRubyConf
@meson10 can you share your #Vim configuration? Or is it #NeoVim ? #DeccanRubyConf
These @ZoomCarIndia pens are really crappy.. #DeccanRubyConf
Flying scooters on the 5KRun at #DeccanRubyConf
I guess I'll just tweet 5k times.. #DeccanRubyConf
To run or not to run. That is the question. #DeccanRubyConf
[Movie Review] The Grand Budapest Hotel (2014)
https://satyanash.github.io/2015/08/04/movie-review-the-grand-budapest-hotel-2014.html
Had a long walk in the drizzle in the morning ☔. #Nagpur #rains are awesome! 💧⚡
I wish #Windows10 ads ... were ... not just unrealistic clips of perky families being irrationally enthusiastic about an operating system.
New advert for @ShopClues tells you to look at your phone instead of outside. As if we don't do that enough already. https://x.com/sankarshan/status/627524811762221057
Pinky and the Brain #ThemeSong in Hebrew http://www.armory.com/~keeper/PHebrew.html
Don't worry, it loops. https://x.com/codinghorror/status/627341664424603649
Had no idea that the #CoffeeHouse in Dharampeth, #Nagpur had shut down! Much #sadness seeing the familiar board removed and blinds pulled 😢
#RahulYadav claims to solve the #TravelingSalesman problem and nobody bats an eye. Interviews for @FeminaIndia and everyone loses their shit
@rohit01 Very interesting texture on the @Chai_Point cup. https://x.com/rohit01/status/622461513392001024
Non-Linear Algebra is like saying Non-Elephant Biology. You shouldn't define something by what it isn't. - Tim Poston #fifthel
/* Reduce CPU usage */ Sleep(1);
http://goo.gl/GDxTwq
suffering from ... NIH syndrome under the pretence of designing a system adapted to the users' needs. http://programmers.stackexchange.com/a/155505/187451 #SoundsFamiliar
#DouglasAdams' style is essentially science-fiction dipped into #MontyPython. http://c2.com/cgi/wiki?DouglasAdams
The #Feynman Algorithm:
1. Write down the #problem.
2. Think real hard.
3. Write down the solution.
http://c2.com/cgi/wiki?FeynmanAlgorithm
Hmm. Now. What should I click? #uifail
@tusharlall02 What are your next planned songs? Is an #XFiles cover possible? The original by Mark Snow is pretty swell.
Wow! Check out #TheIndianJamProject by @tusharlall02 and team. Excellent videos and sound! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ztu4qWbQPjY
It's snowing! I can perpetrate any crime undetected! https://x.com/joshmillard/status/618095193858920449
@pyconindia When will the workshop tickets be available? Did I miss them?
subreddits closing down here and there on #reddit see live updates https://np.reddit.com/live/v6d0vi6c8veb
@DevOpsDaysIN @GopherConIndia Looks I have two more confs to attend! Woo! :D
Where does one obtain a list of conferences in India like @pyconindia and @fudconin? Would love to attend more of these in the coming year!
I guess #SpiderMan uses #Windows. No wonder he has so many reboots.
Rain! Rain! Lots of Rain!
So.. It looks like I've left @getcrestify. Enjoyed working on it while I did! Thanks a lot @AsadDhamani! Best of luck!
#Exams done! Finally! 😁
Wow. #lol #WhatWereTheyThinking #ElCapitan
Introducing #OSX El Capitan. #WWDC15 http://apple.co/1B1f45Y
Endeavour to be the dumbest guy/gal in the room. @codinghorror's AMA on reddit! - https://reddit.com/r/programmerchat/comments/38pggs/i_am_jeff_atwood_long_time_blogger_at/crwuqsb
Two Clicks more for privacy! Toggle-able Social buttons on the @Bruce_Schneier blog. https://www.schneier.com/
Hot #Coffee on a #hot #Nagpur afternoon.
public final class Putin implements President {...
http://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/37ge6q/top_5_features_of_java_9/crngpqq
#Internship at #Geomitra in progress! Lots of learning to be done!
#internship at #geomitra begins today!
#NagpurTechies #python #Meetup at Vista Softwares, #Nagpur. Check it out and RSVP! http://meetu.ps/2J9L2D
The Internet remembers everything, but also has ADHD. - random reddit comment
I thought the Tree Style Tabs plugin would help me organize my tabs; I now just have more tabs open. :-/ #TooManyTabs
@pyconindia Just got my #EarlyPython ticket from the remaining 20! Woo! Can't wait!
Awesome #meetup with @Fitehal and @AsadDhamani today! Coffee House was also a great idea!
#NagpurTechies #meetup about to begin! Nagpur Pycoders Assemble!
Let's jump into python/flask with a meetup this Sunday! Check it out and RSVP! http://meetu.ps/2J5wdM
Classic case where Harlon's Razor can be applied. https://x.com/IndianExpress/status/592599404843958272
Superb Hyderabadi Biryani at #gids.
@venkat_s Are you sure you don't have Stockholm Syndrome? #gids
@venkat_s what did you use for the presentation? Vim?
They should put #horoscopes in the humour section of the newspaper.
A crew cut makes my head feel more aerodynamic. #Whooosh
Why is premature optimization the root of all evil? http://programmers.stackexchange.com/questions/80084/is-premature-optimization-really-the-root-of-all-evil#comment142655_80084
Just registered for @hack_summit, a virtual conference of top developers. Check it out! http://bitly.com/11a0F7o
So how does one draw a pair of #buttocks in #Mathematica? Like this https://mathematica.stackexchange.com/questions/66538/how-do-i-draw-a-pair-of-buttocks
Startup Fiction #ZoholicsIndia
Arrived at #ZoholicsIndia, excellent ambience and the networking has already begun!
#PrakashAmte balcony full at 1530 in the afternoon! Why am I not surprised...
Wouldn't reddit also be an excellent source for Immersion? @dj247 #kdy14