arun.chaganty - Latest Comments

Re: Captain Vs. Champion

Karthrags — Sat, 12 Feb 2011 14:12:57 -0000

I found that its easy to inspire people - just make things look cool and romantic :)
It worked for me. Making preparing for GATE look romantic was quite a challenge, but got it right eventually. You could also find out what makes a person tick and address that. Try it out - its a fantastic feeling to help someone along towards where he/she wants to get, and later receive a you're-cool sms/mail from them :) (or a blog post mention, as I'm sure Akarsh and co mentioned above would agree :D )

Re: Path of Leaves

Smruthi — Fri, 11 Feb 2011 14:34:06 -0000

Lovely :) , especially that comparisons bite.

Re: Path of Leaves

Kvs Dileep — Fri, 11 Feb 2011 08:22:25 -0000

nice poem. reminds me of robert frost.

Re: Path of Leaves

arunchaganty — Fri, 11 Feb 2011 08:07:59 -0000

Nice continuation; the poem was simply an expression of a melancholic tone - what you see when walking through leaf-strewn paths on campus, and little more.

And somewhat to give substance to the "Beneath me the c(r)ackle with laughter" line.

Re: Path of Leaves

Kirtika — Fri, 11 Feb 2011 04:38:35 -0000

I walk on a path of leaves,
Beneath me they cackle with laughter.
Long-lost spring memories,
Now questionable; their shades darker.

The autumn sun, a gentle smile,
making itself felt on my way
Soothing rays make me reconcile,
"This too shall pass away".

Re: Passion Flame: A Rant

arunchaganty — Fri, 04 Feb 2011 13:14:39 -0000

Thanks Vinay :-). I was actually influenced by Rime of The Ancient Mariner (Coleridge) - there's this weird section in between where the focus of the poem totally changes to discussion between two ghosts; that's what had me thinking about a cutscene to the future.

I never ever got Bohemian Rhapsody - to me it was just one big non-sequitur put to tune...

I've fixed the typos - :-/ At some point in time I had spelling of 'tomorrow' so totally wrong...

Re: Passion Flame: A Rant

Vinay Hegde — Fri, 04 Feb 2011 08:19:30 -0000

@Slink,
Good work! It was a surprisingly smooth read. :P
And some very memorable lines too!

I was reminded of Blake's Tyger, Queen's Bohemian Rhapsody and Wordsworth's Rainbow in places, as I went through it. :) Oh yeah, and very relate-able too!

[Few typos I could spot: 'You peers..' (I am not sure if this is intentional) instead of 'Your peers..', 'amensia' instead of amnesia, 'devle' instead of 'delve' and a couple of 'Tommorow's instead of 'Tomorrow's. :)]

Re: Thoughts on Technology

tuxnani — Wed, 12 Jan 2011 11:03:19 -0000

So whats the point finally?

Re: Thoughts on Technology

Piyush — Sun, 12 Dec 2010 07:53:51 -0000

Umm...
Lets see:
Best patriotic solution:
India is spending hell lot of money on junky airplanes, warships, radar systems.

& guess what ?
>50% of cost in defense systems is software alone !

Though i tried to find, but there are not much options in DRDO which offer a respectable 'starting salary', but many profs at IIT do contribute a lot in defense research (a senior prof in vision got 5 crore funding in 1998 for a defense related project !!, even now 2-3 projects are going on, and two more are being started next semester).
The icing on the cake is: that machine learning (in vision, for automatic detection etc...) is the most important defense need as of today.
The potential of fully automated and ground controlled airplanes is immense !!

Re: Dynamic Shortcut Creation with Bash

arunchaganty — Sun, 12 Dec 2010 06:48:47 -0000

(To follow up, I think that's what 'z' does: https://github.com/rupa/z

Re: Thoughts on Technology

arunchaganty — Sun, 12 Dec 2010 01:54:16 -0000

Hmm... I too highly doubt _all_ technological advances are actually improving people's lives - but I guess some are and other have the potential to. Regarding watching things evolve, methinks this system is far too chaotic; blink and everything's going to have changed ;-).

Re: Thoughts on Technology

Bhargav Narayanan — Sun, 12 Dec 2010 00:43:47 -0000

I have faced (and am still facing) the very same question that you raised.
I really can't think of anything other than teaching or making butt loads of money and giving back. Surely there are better ways?

Re: Thoughts on Technology

Ramya — Sat, 11 Dec 2010 12:11:02 -0000

I don't know if all the technological advances are actually improving people's lives.... but they are surely leading to new and creative ways of doing things. Its like you be the initial condition and watch the system evolve over time :)

Re: Thoughts on Technology

Rajkishan G — Sat, 11 Dec 2010 11:37:03 -0000

A patriotic venture with money as a side effect is bound to garner popular support from the empowered of today's generation...

Re: Not All Those Who Wander Are Lost… But Some Are

arunchaganty — Sat, 20 Nov 2010 14:31:26 -0000

Ah, thanks for the correction.

Re: Not All Those Who Wander Are Lost… But Some Are

Easwar Hariharan — Fri, 12 Nov 2010 20:59:58 -0000

It's Fyodor Dostoevsky. Note the 'o in Fyodor and the interchanged 'o' and 'e' in Dostoevsky. Thanks for the blog post, you motivated me to go and check it out from the nearby library.

Re: Dynamic Shortcut Creation with Bash

arunchaganty — Mon, 05 Apr 2010 10:51:10 -0000

Hmm... interesting. I don't like the way it requires me to have visited those directories a considerable number of times first though - I guess a formula involving recency and frequency (I like the way that sounds), could be worked out.

Re: Dynamic Shortcut Creation with Bash

kashyap — Mon, 05 Apr 2010 08:55:09 -0000

@arun: nice idea :)
May be you can write a script, which periodically checks history and creates links automatically for those which are accessed frequently. Feasible right...

@spranesh,vimal: Nice techniques and tools....

Re: Dynamic Shortcut Creation with Bash

Kumar — Mon, 05 Apr 2010 01:48:20 -0000

I was searching for this: http://wiki.github.com/joelthe.... Saw it a while back on HN.

I still haven't figured out a way to have a set of minimal productive tools so that any new computer wouldn't be a nightmare for me to work with.

Re: Dynamic Shortcut Creation with Bash

spranesh — Sat, 03 Apr 2010 21:32:16 -0000

You could do that easily with zsh too. Though a bit more static, still works wonders:

in your .zshrc you might want to write something like,
songs='/media/sda6/Songs/'
hash -d songs

Now, you can do

$ cd ~songs

And all the associated stuff.

Zsh also gives you awesome completion stuff, that you might want to use:

For example, instead of typing

$ cd ~/Courses/code/cs6680/assn1/

You could just type in zsh:

$ cd ~/C/code/6680/1

and hit <tab>. Watch completion magic foo happen. :)
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Re: Disqus and Ideas

arunchaganty — Sat, 03 Apr 2010 20:42:38 -0000

You definitely deserve them! Disqus is a seriously awesome idea, and excellently executed too. (And with a personal touch; thanks for the dropping in to say thanks).

Re: Disqus and Ideas

Daniel Ha — Sat, 03 Apr 2010 00:38:11 -0000

Hola, thanks for the nice words!

Re: Theme Change!

arunchaganty — Wed, 31 Mar 2010 16:59:50 -0000

Woo, responses :-).
@Vimal: Hmm... agreed. I didn't design this theme, I just mod-ded it to get the header and linkbar; but agreed I didn't check out these things.

Discus looks like a really neat module. I'll check it out, Thanks.

@Aniket: Yep :-).

Re: Theme Change!

Aniket — Wed, 31 Mar 2010 06:27:33 -0000

Undoubtedly one of the best themes around! It's neat, it's minimal, it's good!

Re: Theme Change!

Vimal — Wed, 31 Mar 2010 01:48:59 -0000

Nice theme. I like this way better than the old theme; the old one was just too small for my eyes to read.

Good effort, but the "Post a comment" form feels that I should be knowledgeable enough to read icons, either from the URL (icon-author.png) or by the order of fields to realise that I need to enter my name and email. :P

Or, is this one of your social experiments? :)

If it's not too much fight, how about disqus.com/?