Technology, books, travel, and linguistics
Manage your finances Use Mint for getting a complete view of your finances. CreditSesame, Credit, CreditKarma, and Quizzle for free credit score tracking. Quizzle always tries to sell something; others are better. The score they provide is not the same as the FICO score but is highly correlated. Use Splitwise or Buxfer for […]
Buying a car Due to the deliberate destruction of public transport, driving a car is cheaper on the west coast compared to taking public transport unless your employer subsidises commute via public transport. Decide ah car you want to buy, Honda Civic and Toyota […]
This set of articles are for Internationals who have recently relocated to California for a job. I am listing a few things which I wish I knew when I first arrived here for a full-time job. Short link to this page: http://bit.ly/fotb-ca) Hunting for apartment Use craigslist.org, padmapper.com (this also […]
A year back I decided to try peer to peer(P2P) lending (out of curiosity) will a small sum of money. My net conclusion is that peer to peer lending is not a sensible form of investing. My money is still […]
(Notes from Burton Malkiel’s talk at Google in 2010) Lesson #1: Buy-and-hold is still the best strategy Not only timing the market is tough but people who are trying to time the market loose more often than not. Lesson #2: […]
For the past one month or so, I am looking around for a good personal laptop running GNU/Linux. I was looking for something similar to my current Mac Book Pro My constraints were following Intel processor – 2.4 GHz or better […]
The book contains pragmatic advice for dealing with the clutter and noise of the everyday world, which disguises itself in the form of work. The book has two parts. First one focuses on the principles and the second one provides concrete practical […]
A lot of work is happening in academia and industry on tools to perform dynamic analysis, static analysis, and reverse engineering of android apps. An updated list of the tools can be seen at https://github.com/ashishb/android-security-awesome.
The book tries to reflect on an individual’s professional growth in the contemporary era of fickle employment guarantees. The best part about the book is that it tries to offer pragmatic, as opposed to principled advice, regarding career development and […]
(Opinions expressed here are my understanding of Vivek Wadhwa’s opinion) “The next Trillion Dollar Opportunities” (in this decade) China’s manufacturing and India’s call center business are saturated. The PC industry is dead, Laptop is flat, and mobile is going up. […]