Well F**k you Monster.com ! Now everyone knows my frigging password !

Looking at the config file here made me realize that my Cellar could also contain a homebrew package. I never really like the part where I download from a stupid site w/o versioning. Thanks _github@jgreet .  

When you sell a company, there’s four levels of money that you can make from it. When you sell a company, you can get new shoes, a new car, a new house or a new life.” – Tom Preston-Werner

Inflation in India (Graphed)

Found the census from a random read on the Indian Income Tax website. Thought I’d graph it. Foreign companies setup shop, make good load of money (I agree that its just business).

Dont freak out if your domain does not show “whois” information while you are transferring between registrars. It happens and it did !

The Registry database contains ONLY .COM, .NET, .EDU domains and Registrars.

Domain not found.

NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO !

Using search engines to identify fake vs real

I was browsing through a forum late last night and I came across a thread that allgedly states ‘Jagan’ built a big house (bigger than that of Ambani’s house in Mumbai) . There is some investing that is ongoing on the ownership and the money behind it. That topic is out of the scope of this blog.

So, the pictures that were posted only have pictures of bedrooms (as identified by one user) and a glance at them made me feel like they belonged to various hotels since there is no single theme(just a thought). I took the url of a picture and put it on tineye ( a reverse image search engine ) . Looking at the results made me realize that the images displayed were fake. 

A reverse image search engine gets the images based on the image as input like Google does it for text. The image is read and it will try to match the image. This is a sample use case.

Creating temporary files

During operational work, you need the output of a command. You always would use it now or later. You need to store it in a temporary file . People try all sorts of things like saving it in /tmp/1 (which I always do), /tmp/11 , /tmp/12 if there are two files . I always ignore deleting them since the OS will take care of the files present /tmp/ (after reboots). 

Well, there is a better way – mktemp (on unix) or more specifically on a Mac mktemp -t b where b is any string.  

Keeping your code clean is one thing, maintaing your directories clean is the most important thing just like the shelves in your cupboard.

Yes, its an Array. So, whose birthday is it today ?