https://master--suspicious-stonebraker-7d2d21.netlify.app/tags/general/ Recent content in General on Nikhil's blog Hugo -- gohugo.io en-US Tue, 11 May 2010 16:27:00 +0000 https://master--suspicious-stonebraker-7d2d21.netlify.app/post/2010/this-semester-was-legen-wait-for-it/ Tue, 11 May 2010 16:27:00 +0000 https://master--suspicious-stonebraker-7d2d21.netlify.app/post/2010/this-semester-was-legen-wait-for-it/ It's been a week since the summer holidays, and that means another semester is behind me. Reflecting on the past two years of engineering, I would say that this semester has been the best 6 months of my life ever. I have changed (read: improved) in a hell of a lot of ways. I also dumped some of my inclination to always plan out the day and introduced some spontaniety. https://master--suspicious-stonebraker-7d2d21.netlify.app/post/2009/worse-is-better/ Sat, 21 Nov 2009 23:28:00 +0000 https://master--suspicious-stonebraker-7d2d21.netlify.app/post/2009/worse-is-better/ Code Hale shows that sometimes performance needs to be sacrificed for security. Premature optimisation is the root of evil :p https://master--suspicious-stonebraker-7d2d21.netlify.app/post/2009/non-trivium/ Thu, 22 Oct 2009 16:22:00 +0000 https://master--suspicious-stonebraker-7d2d21.netlify.app/post/2009/non-trivium/ When you don't post for a long time, it usually means you have nothing interesting to do. But for me it usually means that I have a lot of things to do. And the last month have been horrible in terms of free time. We had a really great one day trip to Diu, but from then on, it was all underhill :) You might want to check out the Synapse website which was crafted from scratch with a little help from these guys. https://master--suspicious-stonebraker-7d2d21.netlify.app/post/2009/hello-planet/ Wed, 29 Jul 2009 07:32:00 +0000 https://master--suspicious-stonebraker-7d2d21.netlify.app/post/2009/hello-planet/ ( One of my entries already got aggregated, but this is the traditional introduction ) Hello KDE people! My name is Nikhil Marathe. I'm a relatively new KDE developer ( ~3 months ), currently working on implementing tiling in kwin. I started using KDE when I switched to ( what was ) Mandrake in 2001. I think it was KDE 3.2. Well I loved it, and have stuck with KDE ever since, following every release with great excitement. https://master--suspicious-stonebraker-7d2d21.netlify.app/post/2009/internship-and-back-to-college/ Fri, 05 Jun 2009 21:13:00 +0000 https://master--suspicious-stonebraker-7d2d21.netlify.app/post/2009/internship-and-back-to-college/ Well, my holiday has been cut short... I'm leaving next Saturday to spend the last month and a half of my vacations in college. I've received an internship opportunity to work as a Playtester and Beta-tester MILLEE. I really enjoyed the short vacation though, I learnt to drive, did a lot of swimming, and hacked some decent code. The last year (academic) has been really really unique, perhaps the most satisfying and enjoyable one. https://master--suspicious-stonebraker-7d2d21.netlify.app/post/2009/may-updates/ Sun, 17 May 2009 12:12:00 +0000 https://master--suspicious-stonebraker-7d2d21.netlify.app/post/2009/may-updates/ I'm home! Till almost the end of July I'll be @ home. Which means a better internet connection at the very least :p So I've been swimming and learning to drive! Driving is fun, I've finished five days out of the 22 and I've managed not to hit anyone or anything. In programming, I'm working on a game using Canvas for the CodeChef game contest. You can track its progress on github. https://master--suspicious-stonebraker-7d2d21.netlify.app/post/2008/random-ramblings/ Tue, 30 Sep 2008 12:56:00 +0000 https://master--suspicious-stonebraker-7d2d21.netlify.app/post/2008/random-ramblings/ Sorry for not blogging in a long time. This has been a very busy week, and so I'm just going to drop some snippets. First RMS and Larry Ellison both commented against cloud computing. Graffiti is uploaded and ready to use ( but not necessarily stable ). I read Snow Crash and loved it. I'm confused between getting a Dell Studio 15 and HP Pavilion dv6767tx. Meanwhile I'll be leaving for Pune tomorrow for SUMMIT '08 at MIT Pune. https://master--suspicious-stonebraker-7d2d21.netlify.app/post/2008/great-weekend/ Mon, 04 Aug 2008 10:11:00 +0000 https://master--suspicious-stonebraker-7d2d21.netlify.app/post/2008/great-weekend/ So my second weekend in this place went pretty great. Now that I've found the right computer which easily boots from external devices I'm ready to slowly begin coding. On saturday five of us saw Ugly and Pagli — crappy movie — but I got my first pair of studs. Its been raining a lot for the last three days here. It starts at around 7 and goes on till late into the night, which means a lot of fun football (I've discovered that playing barefoot is better than playing with normal shoes), but being cooped up in the rooms afterwards. https://master--suspicious-stonebraker-7d2d21.netlify.app/post/2008/bit-of-improvement/ Tue, 29 Jul 2008 16:33:00 +0000 https://master--suspicious-stonebraker-7d2d21.netlify.app/post/2008/bit-of-improvement/ I'm in the institute lab right now, booting from a pen drive (Slax). But tomorrow I'll get my external HDD and plug it in and try to be productive. These labs are only meant for 'academics' which means there are caps on downloads, so I can't even download firefox without it being interrupted. Also we haven't got our IDs yet, so this connection is thanks to a senior who was kind enough to let me use his account. https://master--suspicious-stonebraker-7d2d21.netlify.app/post/2008/still-no-computer/ Mon, 28 Jul 2008 15:34:00 +0000 https://master--suspicious-stonebraker-7d2d21.netlify.app/post/2008/still-no-computer/ So the second time I'm in a cyber cafe. In certain respects private universities aren't much better than public ones. We still haven't got ID cards, which means no net/linux access. Which means no coding too. Other than that its been pretty good, playing football and table tennis. But a bit tiring too. Its been raining a lot today, which means there isn't much to do. We had the first couple of lectures today, but nothing new was taught. https://master--suspicious-stonebraker-7d2d21.netlify.app/post/2008/in-da-iict/ Fri, 25 Jul 2008 11:14:00 +0000 https://master--suspicious-stonebraker-7d2d21.netlify.app/post/2008/in-da-iict/ Well, I'm here, or I've been here for 5 days now. Since we haven't got ID cards yet, there is no computer access, so I'm writing this from a cyber cafe. The last few days have been a bit boring. With no studies, playing and reading seem to be the only things you can do in 24 HOURS!. I haven't written any code in days, but I have managed to read Hutton's Haskell book, which is really good. https://master--suspicious-stonebraker-7d2d21.netlify.app/post/2008/cooldown/ Sat, 07 Jun 2008 08:36:00 +0000 https://master--suspicious-stonebraker-7d2d21.netlify.app/post/2008/cooldown/ This year's hot hot summer is finally drawing to a close as the rains have finally arrived in Mumbai. This has led to a nice drop in temperatures which means I went the entire day yesterday without getting sweaty even once! I love the rains! The football, the volleyball, and now Euro 2008... https://master--suspicious-stonebraker-7d2d21.netlify.app/post/2008/changes-while-i-was-away/ Thu, 29 May 2008 18:23:00 +0000 https://master--suspicious-stonebraker-7d2d21.netlify.app/post/2008/changes-while-i-was-away/ So I was totally disconnected from the outside world for 6 days. There have been a few changes on the Net. First Reddit has a new design with more colours, though for some reason it appears cramped to me. Orkut has a .co.in TLD for India. KDE caused a bit of a stir https://master--suspicious-stonebraker-7d2d21.netlify.app/post/2008/eating-with-my-hands/ Thu, 08 May 2008 22:05:00 +0000 https://master--suspicious-stonebraker-7d2d21.netlify.app/post/2008/eating-with-my-hands/ As far as I know there are only three styles of eating: hands, chopsticks, knives and forks (spoons are universal). And if you had to categorize what to eat with what, it would be Hands: most indian food, fast food Chopsticks: Oriental, South East, Asian, Japanese knives and forks: most of the western world So I find it pretty funny when people try to eat Indian breads which are flat and non porous with knives and forks. https://master--suspicious-stonebraker-7d2d21.netlify.app/post/2008/fragments/ Wed, 30 Apr 2008 18:24:00 +0000 https://master--suspicious-stonebraker-7d2d21.netlify.app/post/2008/fragments/ I have a bloody cold I read packrat parsers in Haskell [PDF], and understood only about 25%. I read 'Do androids dream of electric sheep?' by Philip K. Dick and 'In search of Schrödinger's cat' by John Gribbin and understood both. I also got a deadtree version of 'Programming Pearls' by Jon Bentley I still have two exams to give. I am still having some trouble with parsing Markdown in factor. https://master--suspicious-stonebraker-7d2d21.netlify.app/post/2008/2-things-pissing-me-off-right-now/ Thu, 27 Mar 2008 18:52:00 +0000 https://master--suspicious-stonebraker-7d2d21.netlify.app/post/2008/2-things-pissing-me-off-right-now/ Microsoft, for their persistence in monopolizing (?) document formats, and hounding countries which reject it [1] And of course its associated allies in the NASSCOM, and the Indian media, who are Microsoft's pet dogs. China, for all the shit going on in Tibet and for all the human rights violations going on behind closed doors. Boycott the Olympics! ( Hey china? will my blog be blocked now? ) https://master--suspicious-stonebraker-7d2d21.netlify.app/post/2008/why-java-sucks-highly-subjective/ Tue, 25 Mar 2008 19:47:00 +0000 https://master--suspicious-stonebraker-7d2d21.netlify.app/post/2008/why-java-sucks-highly-subjective/ Java was the first language I learned properly. I cobbled together stuff in BASIC for a few weeks, but for Java I bought 2 books and programmed a lot of stuff. That was 4 years ago, I was young, not so experienced, and Java was God to me. It was cool, it had GUI libraries, and lots of people used it. And the WORA concept was quite cool to me then. https://master--suspicious-stonebraker-7d2d21.netlify.app/post/2008/im-free-not-im-free/ Tue, 18 Mar 2008 19:42:00 +0000 https://master--suspicious-stonebraker-7d2d21.netlify.app/post/2008/im-free-not-im-free/ The board exams were over yesterday, and I was surprised that it wasn't really as euphoric as I thought it would be. Somehow studying, atleast for some time was pretty cool, writing the exams was fun, it was kind of like being pumped with adrenaline and keeping it in control. And now thats never gonna happen again. Its not like I'm having some huge attack of sentimentality, and of remembering all the cool times in school/college, its just that the relief is not as it should be. https://master--suspicious-stonebraker-7d2d21.netlify.app/post/2008/57142857-way-through/ Fri, 07 Mar 2008 18:58:00 +0000 https://master--suspicious-stonebraker-7d2d21.netlify.app/post/2008/57142857-way-through/ Hey the name's KodeClutz, I had to be precise. 4 papers down, 3 to go, after which I'm one step closer to freedom, and quite a major step because all the exams after that are just one day affairs, 4 of them. In going stupid, I'm thinking of writing a Markdown parser in Factor. The problem isn't Factor, I'm just not that well qualified. But I might just do it. https://master--suspicious-stonebraker-7d2d21.netlify.app/post/2008/d-day/ Thu, 28 Feb 2008 18:41:00 +0000 https://master--suspicious-stonebraker-7d2d21.netlify.app/post/2008/d-day/ Board exams begin from tomorrow. I'll be having fun for 18 days. The situation is really starting to hit.