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 […]
Book summary: Bogleheads guide to investing
While the book is overall a good one, unfortunately, it contains a lot of generic financial advice which I decided not to include in the summary. Choose a sound financial lifestyle Borrowers borrow money from the future in the form of credit loans till […]
Book Summary: “Influence: The Psychology of Persuasion” by Robert B. Cialdini
The book talks about various psychological tactics used by compliance practitioners like salespeople, waiters, car dealers, and fundraisers to influence us into saying yes to something to which ideally we would have said no. The author went and took sales jobs as a car salesman and […]
“Material design” and Google’s strategy
Android Before 2008, smartphones OS market was fragmented. There were a few big names like Palm and Symbian, but most phone manufacturers were doing their custom operating systems. For example, Motorola alone had five operating systems. In 2008, Google came out with an […]
Book Summary: Think like a freak by Steven Levitt and Stephen Dubner
The book is an impressive collection of unusual stories aimed at promoting a non-conventional way of approaching problems and solving them.
How to start locale settings activity on android from command-line
A useful and handy command specially when you during experimentation, you are stuck because of a changing language settings to an undecipherable foreign language. adb shell am start -n \ 'com.android.settings/.Settings\$LocalePickerActivity'
Book summary: The Last Lecture by Randy Pausch
Some salient notes from the book If there’s an elephant in the room, introduce it. Even if you are in the position of strength, be fair. Have something to bring to the table, people would be more welcoming of you to join […]
Android, Gradle and compile-time only dependencies
Android plugin for Gradle does not support Java-style compile time only dependencies. After spending a few hours on trying to build android app targeted for Amazon SDK (without using Amazon’s Android specific plugin but just their jar stubs for maps, ADM […]
A walk in San Francisco
“Give me your wallet, bro” he said in his heavy accent while holding a gun to my forehead. It seems, out of pure curiosity, I have walked into this shady neighborhood of San Francisco. “Pull out your wallet,” he shouted, […]