Winter Trip to Mt. Whitney (Feb 2015)
Day 1 – Reach the Outpost Camp (3.8 miles, 10.4K ft) Day 2 – Started at 8 AM Reached consultation lake at noon Reached trail crest at 2:20 PM Reached summit at 6 PM Returned to Outpost Camp by 11:35 PM […]
Thoughts on Tizen
Users won’t buy a phone till they know that their basic set of apps is available on the device. That pretty much rules out players like BlackBerry 10, Jolla, Ubuntu OS, and Firefox OS. Even Microsoft is still struggling. OEMs like Samsung, HTC, LG, and […]
Book summary: The science of happily ever after by T Y Tashiro
The book is an interesting take on what it takes to attain a happy marriage and why only ~30% of us end up in happy marriages. The book is divided into three sections – what is love, why we fail in the game of love and what […]
At a local bus stand in Mexico…
[At a local bus stand in Mexico] After I explained to my mother that to ask for time in Spanish (Espanol), she has to start with ke time se (Haryanvi), replace time with hora and reverse se to es. She […]
Android command-line: gradle and testing
For android projects, some engineers use Android Studio (new), some use Eclipse with ADT (old), few like me still savor command line, this blog post is about handling (building, installing and testing) android projects from command line. To create android project $ android create project –target 4 –name TestAndroidApp –path […]