Posted by: generalmaximus on: March 31, 2008
I’ve been taught C++ at school (although I learnt all of it in class 11th) and I’ve learnt C on my own. I’ve also learnt most of Python, and with some help from the online documentation, I can hack together whatever scripts I want to.
Now I love Python and C (don’t talk about C++, it’s [...]
Posted by: generalmaximus on: March 28, 2008
I just joined a crash course for “IIT/AIEE/DCE/VIT etc.” at a tution center nearby. They call themselves an “institute”, but the place is relatively new with very few students, so it’s more like a tution center. Even the walls still smell of wet paint (when I say walls, I mean the large wooden plyboards these [...]
Posted by: generalmaximus on: March 22, 2008
Only when you get to meet them do you realize this. People = shit. Now I know why I’m not social, or why I manage to get along with only a very few people.
People don’t value life, people don’t value your work, people don’t value you. All that they want to do with you is [...]
Posted by: generalmaximus on: March 21, 2008
I just read the first chapter and I swear it’s the best programming book I’ve read since The C Programming Language. I had been looking all over the web for a decent enough Ruby tutorial that would teach me the complete language and at the same time not be full of shit. I regret to [...]
Posted by: generalmaximus on: March 16, 2008
I was hunting around the web for information regarding software patents in India. Guess what? Our government rejects all software patents. What can be better than that? Here are some links :
1. Ars Technica article.2. Article on the CPIM website.(this decision was made back in 2005 ; as usual, I’m late for the party)
From the [...]
Posted by: generalmaximus on: March 16, 2008
I give my math exam on 20th March, 2008. After that I have the Computer Science exam on 31st, but I’ll be damned if I spend more than 4 days studying computers. You know what this means?
I know.
I’m free.
No school, no homework, no MM … nothing. Best of all, no crappy NCERT textbooks to destroy [...]
Posted by: generalmaximus on: March 10, 2008
Sure, I know Python. But do I really know Python? Skimming through the official documentation shows that I know most of the usual stuff I’m supposed to know so I can write small, one off scripts for everyday use. But I was recently skimming through O’Reilly’s Learning Python and it seems that there is a [...]
Posted by: generalmaximus on: March 7, 2008
Finally, the two most evil examinations have ended, and on a pretty good note too. Physics and Chemistry can kiss my fat dog infested butt goodbye. I’ll be damned if I ever – mark my words archive.org – ever so much as look at the NCERT Physics and Chemistry books. Life has suddenly become all [...]
Posted by: generalmaximus on: March 5, 2008
I got a dog, a spaniel to be precise. He’s a month and 7 days old as of today, and already bouncing around the place like it belongs to him. The little guy has waged a war on all forms of clothing, bedding and feet-wiping equipment (it’s his teething phase). Here’s a picture of him [...]
Posted by: generalmaximus on: March 3, 2008
ScribeFire kicks red rainforest monkey butt. Finally, I can post here without having to -
1. Log into WordPress.2. Wait for the fifty quintillion petabyte interface to load.3. Wait for Firefox to render the page.4. Hope that Firefox doesn’t freeze while I’m writing a post.
And I run heavily customized and slimmed down installations of either Ubuntu [...]
