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Sat, 06 Mar 2010 00:00:00 PST

Jubilator - Git it on your hands
A nice tool to quickly browse code on github. Provides a desktop editor like multi-tab interface.

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Fri, 05 Mar 2010 00:00:00 PST

ETF Finder « apsquared.net
Use this tool to find a list of ETF’s that have a specific holding (in it’s top 10% of holdings). This tool will search through over 750 ETFs to find which ETFs have a specific stock symbol. Please let us know what you think, we can enhance this tool if people think it is valuable.

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Thu, 18 Feb 2010 00:00:00 PST

Adding linux apps to Lenovo 'Quick Start' (splashtop) - Success story
Dude managed to push custom applications to splashtop which runs off of BIOS internal flash memory. This could be cool :)

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Thu, 04 Feb 2010 00:00:00 PST

Hindi encodings/fonts and conversions

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Tue, 26 Jan 2010 00:00:00 PST

HINT.FM / Fernanda Viegas & Martin Wattenberg
This is the collaboration site of Fernanda Viégas and Martin Wattenberg. We invent new ways for people to think and talk about data. As technologists we ask, Can visualization help people think collectively? Can visualization move beyond numbers into the realm of words and images? As artists we seek the joy of revelation. Can visualization tell never-before-told stories? Can it uncover truths about color, memory, and sensuality?

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Thu, 21 Jan 2010 00:00:00 PST

nvie.com » Blog Archive » A successful Git branching model
In this post I present the development model that I’ve introduced for all of my projects (both at work and private) about a year ago, and which has turned out to be very successful

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Sun, 17 Jan 2010 00:00:00 PST

Mockingbird
mockingbird is an online tool that makes it easy for you to create, link together, preview, and share mockups of your website or application.

Kolhapurchi Maja

amit — Wed, 14 Oct 2009 14:41:54 PDT

Kolhapur Radio prank. Mee Baburao boltoy: Some fun conversation between radio host and an unsuspecting person. Prerequisite – at least some understanding of Marathi.

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Hot, Flat and Crowded – Friedman’s new book

amit — Thu, 01 Oct 2009 17:29:30 PDT

After the success of “The World is Flat”, Friedman turns to the negative effects of the globalization; the global warming and its the chilling consequences in his new book “Hot, Flat and Crowded – Why We Need a Green Revolution–And How It Can Renew America”. He makes an argument that America needs a big [...]

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Book Notes – The Adventures of Johnny Bunko

amit — Mon, 21 Sep 2009 10:21:11 PDT

Finished reading a new book The Adventures of Johnny Bunko by Dan Pink (whose previous book – A Whole New Mind I liked a lot). This book is unique because it is made entirely of manga style cartoons and it has clear and simple career advice. Instead of listing down the key ideas, I will [...]

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First impressions on Google Wave

amit — Tue, 18 Aug 2009 11:52:39 PDT

I was really looking forward to get a chance to play with Google Wave. If you have not heard about this, Google is experimenting with a new means of communication and collaboration (to destroy any remains of your unused time!). Watch the video of the demo from Google IO conference to get a feel for [...]

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डिपाडी डिपांग

amit — Wed, 12 Aug 2009 09:06:52 PDT

डिपाडी डिपांग डिचिबाडी डिपांग इडिबाडी डिचिबाडी डिपांग ।२। ||ध्रु|| काळी माती निळं पानी हिरवं शिवार ताज्या ताज्या माळव्याचा भुईला या भार ज्वानीच्या या मळ्यामन्दी पिरतीचं पानी बघायाला कवतिक आलं नाही कुनी मळ्याला या मळेवाली भेटलीच नाय अन् राणी माझ्या मळ्यामन्दी घुसशील काय ||१|| काकडीचा बांधा तुझा मिरचीचा तोरा मुळ्यावानी कडू तरी रंग गोरा गोरा लिंबावानी कांती तुझी विटावानी ओठ टम्बाट्याचं गाल तुझे भेंडीवानी बोटं काळजात मंडई तु [...]

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Book Notes – The New Coffeehouse Investor

amit — Tue, 11 Aug 2009 07:28:59 PDT

This is the second edition of The Coffeehouse Investor. I had really liked the first edition and I dug this up to see what has changed. This book is all about three lifelong principles: 1. Don’t put all your eggs in one basket – Diversify your assets to maximize the chances of reaching your financial goals [...]

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Fun with microsoft “bing”

amit — Mon, 01 Jun 2009 09:47:56 PDT

Bing (the microsoft way of googling information) has gone live today! Seems nice and googly! Had some fun with the search suggestions: type linux in the search box (but don’t press enter). Watch all the suggestions Seems like they are making AJAX request to http://api.search.live.com/qson.aspx?query=linux every second or so for anything that is typed [...]

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RSS Feeds for Indian Columnists

amit — Wed, 27 May 2009 13:42:34 PDT

Frustrated by Indian Express’s inability to provide individual syndication feeds for its columnists, I have written scripts to parse the HTML pages and generate the feeds myself. Here are the feeds for Shekhar Gupta Tavleen Singh. R. Jagannathan (DNA India) Arun Shourie Sudheendra Kulkarni Ila Patnaik If you want this for another columnist, let me know and I will add that [...]

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Simple way to share files on intranet.

amit — Sat, 09 May 2009 15:52:57 PDT

If you want to download files from machine A to machine B and have python installed on machine A, here is a very simple way to do it: On machine A, open a command window and change directory to where the files are and run this command: python -m SimpleHTTPServer This command starts a web server serving [...]

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Seminar: Lars Ekman – EVP & President Global R&D – elan

amit — Fri, 27 Mar 2009 20:59:23 PDT

From Rags to Riches and back again – 7 Year Learning Experience with eLan History – Deal driven Cash Flow – Drug Delivery Acquisitions – 22 companies in 2.5 years Model – JV between Biotech and elan which will buy IP from elan using money from elan! MS Tysabri Tlymphosites reverse memory loss on cover of nature [...]

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opml to csv converter

amit — Mon, 16 Mar 2009 22:37:23 PDT

This is a first step in being able to make all my planets configurable from anywhere. The following ruby script parses the opml file specified on the command line and generates a comma separated file with XML feed URL and feed title. In case of nested outline elements, it just picks [...]

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Hridaynath Mangeshkar in Los Angeles

amit — Sun, 08 Mar 2009 18:12:50 PDT

Had the pleasure of attending the live concert of Pandit Hridaynath Mangeshkar (Feb 21, 2009). It was a blast – with Panditjee’s rendition of the memorable songs that he has composed and sung (in some cases). There were around 400 people attending and still it had a feel of a private mehfil with Panditjee responding [...]

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Password protect GNU screen sessions

amit — Wed, 04 Feb 2009 16:35:54 PST

Or, How do i get a crypted password for .screenrc ? Here is a quick tip, hopefully it helps someone, I struggled with this for some time… I have been using GNU screen program since a long time. This program is like a window manager for terminals and is especially useful for ISP and home shell accounts. [...]

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Sony Bravia Internet Link Unofficial API

amit — Wed, 17 Dec 2008 00:07:45 PST

Some notes from experimenting with my new toy! The device (DMX) plugs into HDMI port of the TV and has its own HDMI input allowing pass-through. The control of DMX is done from a USB cable which is attached from the TV to DMX (Wonder why they do not use the HDMI for that!). DMX has [...]

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बाल विहार प्रार्थना

amit — Mon, 10 Nov 2008 13:01:38 PST

To play the file, click on the small triangle before the name. (needs javascript and flash plugin) To download the file, right click on file name and select “Save Link As” or “Save Target As” १ एकदन्तम्‌ महाकायं लम्बोदर गजाननम्‌ । विघ्ननाशकरम्‌ देवं हेरम्बं प्रणमाम्यहम्‌ ॥ (Ekadantam mahakayam lambodaragajananam [...]

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Did wordpress upgrade destroy all your unicode posts ?

amit — Mon, 28 Apr 2008 00:44:29 PDT

I upgraded wordpress software for this blog to version 2.5.2. After that none of the posts that had devanagari (unicode) text looked okay. After comparing the configuration files, I discovered that the troubling variable is DB_CHARSET. The default config setting is ‘utf8′. But if you have been updating the software versions, your database table is [...]

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Google jumps into custom hosted application bandwagon!

amit — Tue, 08 Apr 2008 22:56:30 PDT

Google has launched appengine which provides developers with a platform SDK (python based!) and hosting with access to own Google BigTable database! This competes with Amazon.com’s SQS , S3 (storage) and EC2 (hosting) services which are used by many startups… The applications will get google’s massively scalable infrastructure, failover. Apps would also be able [...]

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Book updates

amit — Sun, 20 Jan 2008 23:20:59 PST

Finished the following books: Great book on investing! Very easy to read and short too! Joel Greenblatt describes a “magic formula” to rank stocks (based on two criteria: Return on Assets and Earnings yield (reverse of P/E!), rank stocks with higher numbers for both. Add the two ranks and rerank based on sum of the [...]

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Books: Two Travelogues

amit — Thu, 15 Nov 2007 14:49:25 PST

One fictional: The other factual:

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Seminar: Morgan Dene Oliver – CEO OliverMcMillan

amit — Fri, 02 Nov 2007 21:45:47 PDT

Today’s speaker was Morgan Dene Oliver who is a CEO of OliverMcMillan, a real estate development and management firm. While his projector was getting fixed, he started by doing some show-of-hands about who in the audience: 1. believes “Art and Design” are essential for their future success ? (Many hands went up) 2. believes they are left [...]

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Seminar: Leo Spiegel – Mission Ventures

amit — Thu, 01 Nov 2007 17:48:07 PDT

This was the first professional seminar. Leo Spiegel is a managing partner with Mission Ventures, a hi-tech venture capital firm. Leo has been a president of Digital Island, CEO of Sandpiper Networks. He is also a member of Dean’s advisory Council of Rady School of Management, UCSD. This was an interesting and engaging presentation about [...]

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Seminar: John Mutch – MV Advisors

amit — Thu, 01 Nov 2007 17:19:19 PDT

John Mutch has been a CEO of HNC software and was appointed the CEO of Peregrine Systems by Federal Bankruptcy court. He took Peregrine Systems from bankruptcy condition to the price tag of $425 millions (HP was the buyer). Since then he started a MV Advisors, an “Activist hedge fund”. What is an Activist Hedge Fund [...]

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Quick tip – how to extract audio from youtube videos

amit — Sat, 27 Oct 2007 15:13:32 PDT

Here is a quick tip for extracting audio from youtube videos. I assume you have a reasonably recent linux distribution. (Things might work on other operating systems as well as all the applications that I mention below are ported to other operating systems) Step 1: Download the flash video file from youtube. Either use greasemonkey script [...]

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Some excel functions

amit — Wed, 03 Oct 2007 10:29:57 PDT

I keep forgetting some of the functions in excel and it is embarrassing to search for the same things every time. PERMUT(n, r) = nPr = n! / (n – r)! COMBIN(n, r) = nCr = n!/((n-r)!r!) FACT(n) = n! = 1*2*3*…*n BINOMDIST(s, n, p, cumul) Probability that there will be exactly s successes in n trials, each [...]

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श्री गणपती आरती

amit — Sat, 15 Sep 2007 10:30:04 PDT

श्री गणपती आरती ध्वनी मुद्रित सुखकर्ता दुखहर्ता वार्ता विघ्नांची नुरवी पुरवी प्रेम कृपा जयाची | सर्वांगी सुंदर उटी शेंदुराची, कंठी झळके माळ मुक्ताफळांची॥१॥ जय देव जय देव जय मंगलमूर्ती| दर्शनमात्रे मनकामना पुरती ॥धृ॥ रत्नखचित फरा तुज गौरीकुमरा| चंदनाची उटी कुमकुम केशरा| हिरेजडित मुकुट शोभतो बरा | रुणझुणती नूपुरे चरणी घागरिया| जय देव जय देव जय मंगलमूर्ती ॥२॥ लंबोदर पीतांबर फणिवरबंधना | सरळ सोंड वक्रतुंड त्रिनयना| दास रामाचा [...]

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