ChanderG

167 karma · joined July 12, 2014

Research Engineer, Systems, IBM Research, Bangalore.

Big fan of Systems, Unix Philosophy, Vim, Emacs, Lisp, and Functional Programming.

Follower of the Bhagavad Gita and Vishishta Advaita Vedanta.

www.chandergovind.org mail@chandergovind.org

ChanderG··on Reading in the Age of Constant Distraction

If you are looking for sheer scale, can recommend Steven Erikson's Malazan family (around 36 novels set in the same world; starting with the Malazan Book of the Fallen) though the atmosphere is much bleaker.

Another recommendation would be Brandon Sanderson's Cosmere multi-series (Mistborn, Stormlight Archive), currently in progress, closer to WoT thematically.

ChanderG··on Ask HN: How do I get better at CTFs

Found this on HN nearly 4 years ago: microcorruption.com

Was able to solve some; went through solutions for the others, in any case walked away with a much better understanding of assembly.

ChanderG··on My Fiancé Jamal Khashoggi Was a Lonely Patriot

https://www.recode.net/2017/9/18/16317902/uber-softbank-visi...

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-softbank-shares/softbank-...

ChanderG··on The Amazing Shortcut Keypad

I use xcape (https://github.com/alols/xcape), to overload modifiers. You get around 7-8 extra keys at an easy to reach distance.

ChanderG··on Ask HN: what tool do you use to manage your todo list?

Orgmode

ChanderG··on Ask HN: Best Command Line Web Browser

links2. Found it easiest to customize.

ChanderG··on Worg, the Org-Mode Community

Am a vim user, who forced myself to learn/use Emacs just for Org-mode recently. It really is life changing.

ChanderG··on Ask HN: What do you really think about docker?

I use Docker to keep my development machine clean. For example: https://github.com/ChanderG/H99. For playing with different technologies, I love the ease and organization that Docker offers.

ChanderG··on Ask HN: What are your note-taking techniques?

vim-orgmode

ChanderG··on Ask HN: Quotes that made a difference in your life?

If you break your neck, if you have nothing to eat, if your house is on fire – then you’ve got a problem. Everything else is an inconvenience.

ChanderG··on Why My MOOC Is Not Built on Video

Reminds me of the quote: "Education is not the filling of a bucket, but the lighting of a fire." — William Butler Yeats. Sadly, very few institutions seem to understand this.

ChanderG··on On Secretly Terrible Engineers

This perfectly puts an handle on what is happening: http://sijinjoseph.com/programmer-competency-matrix/

ChanderG··on Ask HN: Developers which editor you use for development?

vim with Ctrl-P and a small .vimrc This convinced me to make the move from Sublime Text full time. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S_l_DL8ysQQ [Video of Robin Ward creating an Ember component using vim]

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