Category: English
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Is internet really going towards decentralization?
I came across this article today. It said we are actually going towards centralised world on the internet. This came as a surprise to me given the cryptocurrency boom and decentralized applications scene. I was pretty sure we were moving towards decentralized world. But reading the article made me realise that they weren’t completely wrong.…
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If 2018 = 14 + 12 + 1992, does 2018 exist?
I know it’s pretty late night, but do you ever feel like your whole life is already lived? I mean, does it ever happen that this part of your life is already lived by your uncle x years ago, or the next steps you’re going to take is what your dad or grandfather did. And…
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On Gurupurnima
I know I don’t mention it a lot, But in the ocean, if you observe this boat, You’ll observe every section, each part, is nothing but just pieces of great art. Everyone knows a boat can never build itself, It’d be just a fallen tree had it not gotten any help, Maybe I’d have survived,…
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3 More things I learned about life as a Software Engineer
Note: This is an extension of the Pretentious series: 7 things I learned about life from my one-sided relationship with Software Engineering nobody asked for. Inability to build “a solution that works seamlessly forever” isn’t your fault Don’t get me wrong here, I’m not questioning your designing ability! It’s based on the fact that given enough time, everything…
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Registering hasit.in domain name
As I mentioned, I can’t really recall why and how, but I found myself searching for domain names yesterday. I noticed hasit.in domain name was available for Rs. 400 for a year (<$6) on Crazydomains.in and 10-year cost was approximately Rs. 2200 (~$30). I checked out a few other websites as well just to ensure the domain is indeed available.…
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hasit.in
I had been planning to buy a domain name (other than the free ones I’ve had used) for a while now. It was a tough competition between what it would be around! I have had played many roles in my life even on the internet. I have around 5+ blogs on my names about games,…
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Story of StackOverflow.com
Before 2004: Stackoverflow and many other related domains were owned by German company Mozquito Technologies during the late 90s. The owned domains included overflow.de, stackoverflow.com, mozquito.com, mozquito.org and many more. Mozquito mainly focused on building an engine/wrapper over the newly found XHTML. They aimed to build a suite (if we can call it that) to avoid all…
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Right or wrong?
Do you ever wonder what’s right and what’s wrong? Is providing free books to everyone right? Or is it wrong because you’re copying it from another book, you’re pirating someone’s work and giving it away for free? But what if the work was already pirated or copied from another book? Are the book hawkers selling…
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dumb random
can anyone please explain it to me once, what is it that they mean by the word “distance”? is it what keeps the following words different? incident and murder, a lie, and pure innocence? tell me how distant is the day from the night? tell me how distant is the darkness from the light? isn’t…
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7 things I learnt about life from my one-sided relationship with Software Engineering
Think long term, but solve for the present. I think if you’re from the same background, you’d have heard the word over-engineering or overfitting (Data Science). I read as many articles and blogs on best engineering practices, new technologies, how to write good code before joining the first company. And, I worked on something where…
