Category Archives: tech

Reversing a list in Haskell

Posted on October 23, 2011 by gautshen

Totally bored and jobless over this surprisingly silent weekend, I decided to revisit some of the Haskell programs that I had written when I took the Functional programming course during the previous year. While I was at it, I remembered … Continue reading →

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Freedom from browser

Posted on October 14, 2011 by gautshen

So, this wild idea struck me yesterday when I was trying to set up Thunderbird for my college email account. As of today, my primary personal email is Gmail, my feed reader is Google reader, my calender is Google calender, … Continue reading →

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Why a netbook doesn’t work for me

Posted on December 6, 2010 by gautshen

A few months ago, before joining CMI, I wrote a post soliciting advice on purchasing a new laptop for my graduate school. Having considered many options, I decided to purchase an Acer Aspire One netbook. The reason behind this purchase … Continue reading →

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Open Source Vs Open mindset

Posted on March 26, 2009 by gautshen

From the past few days, Atanu has been posting blog-posts on what a Rational IT policy should look like, and what should be the role of the Government in it.  One of his posts received the following reaction from the … Continue reading →

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Working for Fun

Posted on October 25, 2008 by gautshen

Quick Takes (Style shamelessly borrowed from KCG’s blog) Cricket: India comprehensively defeated Australia in the 2nd Test! IEEE tutorial session on GNU/Linux Kernel Programming held during the last weekend went well. Though I had to wrap up the session on … Continue reading →

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To Read: Books and Papers

Posted on October 13, 2008 by gautshen

I have a huge backlog of books to be read before this calender year ends. And I don’t think I can meet my expectations. Mahabharata – C Rajagopalachari. Great Indian Novel – Shashi Tharoor. The White Tiger – Arvind Adiga … Continue reading →

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Migration to a New Site and New Blog and How

Posted on October 6, 2008 by gautshen

So, I finally have all things at one place. My website, my Blog and all my blog posts. I must thank Sathya for the inspiration to undertake this fun task. So, how does just about anybody go about buying some … Continue reading →

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Resume, Webpage and More

Posted on October 4, 2008 by gautshen

I am in the process of applying to universities, like I mentioned in one of my earlier posts. Thus, earlier this week, it suddenly struck me that I didn’t have a Resume. So far I have had to prepare a … Continue reading →

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