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written by Abhisek
An Era of Colossal Waste
In 1965, Gordon Moore, cofounder of Intel, famously stated that the number of transistors in a dense integrated circuit doubles in about two years. That is to say, computing power doubles every two years. While this a very exciting achievement for engineers and computer scientists alike, it has produced nothing but idiocy on the part of developers and device manufacturers.
November 12, 2018
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written by Abhisek
It’s a trap
My recent reading ventures took me to Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind by Yuval Noah Harari. This is a book that I started a few years ago but left it unfinished. Picking up again, I feel ashamed to have left it unread. A non-fiction, this book is pretty amazing in how it deals with complex ideas of anthropology in straight-forward and lucid way.
July 14, 2018
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written by Abhisek
Beware, it’s .dev!
I have been living under a rock for sometime, so far as web-dev is concerned. My day job keeps me busy and the rest of the time is for family. Learned a couple of new tech stuff in the meantime but didn’t follow the news. And I paid the price.
July 10, 2018
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written by Abhisek
Delusional and Demotivated
Time and again life presents itself in forms that is not only hard to fathom but also difficult to endure. It is one such episode that I am sailing through currently. There are days when life seems so beautiful, so enchanting; then there are those when it feels more gloomy than a dark room with no doors.
July 3, 2018
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written by Abhisek
Spotify with VPN on Android
Spotify is my go-to app when it comes to music streaming. It’s free, it has a good collection of music. But unfortunately, Spotify is not yet available in India. So, if you are in India and want to listen to your favorite music on Spotify, your only way out is a VPN from Spotify-supported countries. (Spotify needs a supported country IP when a user signs up, but after that you don’t need to use the same country based IP to listen to music, but it logs you out every 14 days if you don’t use an IP from supported country.)
December 20, 2017
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written by Abhisek
Downloading MP3 Files with Python
My wife has a beautiful pink iPod shuffle which she loves to listen music from, on her daily commute. She got bored with the songs and wanted a new playlist. I was entrusted with downloading new songs. Yep, all pirated. Now, downloading songs these days is a really boring stuff given the amount of bandwidth and apps like Spotify. So, I decided to automate the whole affair.
October 22, 2017
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