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Book Summaries Book Summary: One up on Wall Street by Peter Lynch Book summary: Sick Societies by Robert B. Edgerton Book Summary: Safe Haven by Mark Spitznagel Notable quotes from "How to Live" by Derek Sivers Book Summary: What I learned losing a million dollars by Jim Paul Book Summary: Thinking In Bets by Annie Duke Book Summary: The half-life of Facts by Samuel Arbesman Book summary: The New Confessions of an Economic Hit Man Book Summary: The Mom Test by Rob Fitzpatrick Book Summary: Staff Engineer by Will Larson Book Summary: Woke, Inc. by Vivek Ramaswamy Selected quotes from "How I Invest My Money" by Joshua Brown Book Summary: One Man's View of the World by Lee Kuan Yew Book summary of Sum: Forty Tales From The Afterlives Book summary - Magicians of the God by Graham Hancock The Bed of Procrustes by Nassim Nicholas Taleb Book Summary: A philosophy of software design by John K Ousterhout Book Summary: Red Notice by Bill Browder Book summary: The Psychology of Money by Morgan Housel Book summary: Antifragile by Nassim Nicolas Taleb Digital Minimalism by Cal Newport Book Summary - Everybody Lies Book Summary: The Black Swan by Nassim Nicolas Taleb Book Summary: How not to die by Dr. Michael Greger Book summary: Why Nations Fail Book summary: Made to Stick by Chip Heath and Dan Heath Book summary: Skin in the game by Nassim Nicolas Taleb Book summary: How not to be wrong by Jordan Ellenberg Book summary: The subtle art of not giving a f*ck by Mark Manson Book summary: Fooled by Randomness by Nassim Nicholas Taleb Book Summary: Sapiens: A brief history of Humankind Book summary: Brandwashed by Martin Lindstorm Book summary: "Business Adventures" by John Brooks Book summary: "Where good ideas come from" by Steven Johnson What got you here won't get you there by Marshall Goldsmith Book Summary: Hard Things about Hard Things by Ben Horowitz Book summary: The Lean Startup by Eric Ries Book summary: Remote - office not required Book summary: Great By Choice by Jim Collins Book Summary: The Intelligent Investor by Benjamin Graham Book summary: The science of happily ever after by T Y Tashiro Book summary: Bogleheads guide to investing Influence: The Psychology of Persuasion by Robert B. Cialdini Book Summary: Think like a freak by Steven Levitt and Stephen Dubner Book summary: The Last Lecture by Randy Pausch Book summary: Only The Paranoid Survives by Andrew Grove Book Summary: So good they can't ignore you by Cal Newport Book Summary: The Innovator's Dilemma by Clayton Christensen Book Summary: The Education of Millionaires by Michael Ellsberg Book summary: How to create a mind by Ray Kurzweil How to Fail at Almost Everything by Dilbert Comics Creator Scott Adams Book Summary: Art of War by Sun Tzu Book Summary: The score takes care of itself Book Summary: Man's search for meaning Winners Take All - The 9 fundamental rules of high tech strategy Book Summary: The Power of Less by Leo Babuta Book Summary: The Start-Up of You Book Summary: Breakout Nations by Ruchir Sharma Book Review: The Tangled web Book Review: Steve Jobs by Walter Isaacson Book Summary: In the Plex by Steven Levy Book Summary: Imagining India by Nandan Nilekani Summary: The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People Summary: Built to Last (Successful habit of visionary companies) Book summary: India Unbound by Gurcharan Das Summary: "Difficulty of being good: Subtle art of Dharma"

Tech Thoughts Google Search is losing to Perplexity Continuous integration ≠ Continuous delivery World's simplest project success heuristic Temu and the Chinese approach Minimize Javascript in your codebase In defense of ad-supported products The Indian startup bubble is insane Migrating from WordPress to Hugo LLMs: great for business but bad business When to commit Generated code to version control Some data on podcasting Timing Real vs Theoretical Engineering Productivity Play-to-earn games Too much documentation is harmful Engineering stack Engineering Guardrails VCs are anti-personas for a B2C startup The different layers of a web applications The biggest impact of ChatGPT Social media and burglar bars 5 reasons package.json doesn't scale Why I prefer Obsidian for taking notes Low code Don't buy Google FI SIM with a phone Fundraising rounds then and now MusicSync: best alternative to Google Play Music and Google Podcasts React Native Indeterminate Progress bar is an inferior UX design The two-step approach to big code modifications Dealing with phone numbers in contact book Programmable Money and value capture Angel investing for Software Engineers A short guide for MBAs looking for a job in the tech world Cryptocurrency trading This website was compromised Closeum - closed-source in disguise Startup founders: How not to write an email The "key" problem in cryptocurrency Server vs mobile development: Where the code runs matter Google I/O 2018: Android Notes Google I/O 2017: Android Notes Apple vs Google: Naming of flagship Android vs iPhone Consumer Internet: why audio can't be as big as photos or videos 90% vs 99% When aggregation works and when it doesn't The Android-Chrome merger saga Startup valuations Voice Interfaces: The Missing User Interaction Element Google I/O 2016: Android notes Standardization When marketplaces work and when they don't Thoughts on Tizen "Material design" and Google's strategy Thoughts on Bitcoin (part 2) Advent of snap judgement and Internet's permanence Thoughts on fixing tech recruiting Why Nokia's (rumored) Android phone is doomed Intel will lose server market even faster than consumer Random Thoughts: Android launchers (home screens) Thoughts on Bitcoin The Missing Linux Laptop Vivek Wadhwa: "The next Trillion Dollar Opportunities" Towards a broken future of Internet Questioning Aakash - Indian Government tablet initiative Random thoughts: goals and company types in tech world EA Sports vs Zynga : the battle for games in smartphone era FOSS (Free and Open Source Code) Licensing FAQ Cablegate and the aftermath: a few observations Nokia and the smartphone era How Indian Government deals with Technology Decline of Microsoft and Intel in smartphone+Internet era

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UTXO model UTXO model is les... #programming Stanford CS251: Lecture 13 Apr 01, 2019 Lecture 13 - Ethereum Code: ROM (Read-only memory) calldata: arguments There are two types of instructions: Arithmetic including SHA3 and sys operations like create [contract], call [contract], and de... #programming Stanford CS251: Lecture 14 Apr 01, 2019 Lecture 14: Ethereum Governance When contracts call other contracts, there are four major parameters, g - gas, v - value, in - in size of inputs, out - out size of outputs. The gas must come from the ... #programming Stanford CS251: Lecture 12 Apr 01, 2019 Recap: alt-coins Bitcoin is a replicated state machine, the system moves within S States with I inputs producing O outputs. For Bitcoin, S is the set of UTXOs. 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A typical puzzle utilization function can be modeled as P(challenge, randomness - nonce, difficulty, …) ->... #programming Stanford CS251: Lecture 7 Apr 01, 2019 Lecture 7: Community, Economics, and Politics David Chaum - digital cash in 1981 Satoshi Nakamoto - Oct 2008, bitcoin.org was registered in Aug 2008 Genesis block was mined in Jan 2009 First BTC payme... #programming Stanford CS251: Lecture 6 Apr 01, 2019 Lecture 6: Bitcoin Miner interactions and Game Theory Game Theory: P x S -> R x P P: Players S: Strategies R: Rewards Examples For the prisoner’s dilemma, tit-for-tat with some positive rando... #programming Stanford CS251: Lecture 5 Apr 01, 2019 Lecture 5: Bitcoin mining How to mine Bitcoin Download and run Bitcoin-core to run full Bitcoin node Listen for a new transaction, assemble a pre-block Solve the puzzle (~270 attempts) Broadcast the b... #programming Stanford CS251: Lecture 4 Apr 01, 2019 Lecture 4: Blockchains 80 bytes block consists of 32 bytes previous block hash, 32 bytes transactions Merkle tree hash, timestamp, bits, nonce, etc. Each block is <= 1MB to minimize the propagation... #programming Stanford CS251: Lecture 3 Apr 01, 2019 Lecture 3: Bitcoin overview There are three Bitcoin protocols Consensus Protocol - decides what the ledger is Transaction Protocol - assigns meaning to the ledger Network Protocol - the P2P protocol w... #programming Stanford CS251: Lecture 2 Apr 01, 2019 Lecture 2: Creating a digital currency Desirable properties of a good digital ledger No deletion Temporal ordering Global consensus Semantic correctness Live - writable, no DOS, no censorship Attempts... #programming Stanford CS251: Lecture 1 Apr 01, 2019 Lecture 1: Introduction Bitcoin is a cryptocurrency with distributed trust. 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And hence, it separates the logic (indentation) from its app... #programming File size should always be of "long" type May 21, 2016 Java 1 2 3 int getTextFileSize(String fileName) { return (int) (new File(BASE_DIR, fileName).length(); // WRONG } A 32-bit signed int can deal with ~2GB worth of data. And if your code is not going t... #programming My rm -rf moment May 06, 2016 Yes, it did happen, and no, I am not stupid enough to execute rm -rf *. It was a bit more convoluted than that. I was trying to prepare a customized SD card image for the Android emulator. The fastest... #programming Mac OS X Primer (Part 3) - Window Management Aug 23, 2015 Default window management scheme in Mac OS X is not well-polished. 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So, once I found the solution, I thought I m... #programming Github 101 for hackathons Dec 31, 2013 This blog post is a HOWTO guide for using github while collaborating during hackathons. It does not cover git in detail.... #programming Mac OS X Primer: GNU/Linux -> Mac for software engineers Dec 18, 2013 This blog post contains a collection of small tips for engineers migrating from GNU/Linux to Mac OS X for software development. Note: In another post, I wrote about why there is a dearth of a good GNU... #programming How to upgrade Nexus 4 to Android 4.4 Kitkat Nov 15, 2013 Some experience with adb and fastboot preferred (they are part of android SDK)... #programming Understanding Directory Permissions on Linux Jul 11, 2010 This blog post is for those who understand how file permissions work but are looking for an explanation on how file permissions behave when they are applied to directories.... #programming Animation in diagrams (presentations in Latex) Jun 18, 2010 While most people draw diagrams in Xfig (or GIMP) and include them in LaTeX, they can be drawn directly in LaTeX (using tikz package). A major advantage of doing that is animation (\pause) is possible... #programming Basic GDB Tutorial May 31, 2010 So, you believe there are bugs in your C/C++ code or you have encountered SEGFAULT while executing your code. What will you do? write a lot of printf statements at various places in your code under su... #programming Programming in Linux for newbies May 31, 2010 This is meant to be a small guide (though not exhaustive) for students beginning to program on Linux system. Particularly for those, who have done extensive C/C++ programming in Windows, using the Bor... #programming GCC Hacks May 31, 2010 A small list of GCC Hacks g++ -o helloworld helloworld.cc produces helloworld binary from helloworld.cc C++ file. use -Wall switch turns on all warnings(potential errors) in the code (like unused vari... ‹ › Following is a list of selected posts, all posts can be seen here. About me can be seen here. ...

I am a software engineer based out of the San Francisco Bay Area. This page is mostly a collection of curated articles that I have written and tools that I have built. You can email me at ashishb AT ashishb.net. Blog posts & Tools Most popular blog posts Following have ended up on Hacker News, Reddit, or other popular sites. It is hard to recommend Google Cloud How to run Python in production Maintaining an Android app is a lot of work Migrating from WordPress to Hugo Infrastructure If you are an infrastructure engineer consider my Docker 101 blog post and then read how you can deploy web services essentially with zero fixed costs. Afterward, you might like reading about the pitfalls of Docker’s scratch image. You might love or hate me for questioning the server-less functions lock-in. ...