Recently, I had to create a technical document for a project, and I started with org-mode since that was easiest. Basic markup is easy in org, and was enough for me to get started. In order to share with external parties, I exported to HTML. In past I had tried docx but that did not work well, I wanted to export to PDF, but it requires pdflatex which seemed a lot of hassle.

First add the original repo as upstream remote using : 1 git remote add upstream https://github.com/ORIGINAL_OWNER You need to do this only once. Now each time you want to get the changes from the original, do the following : 1 2 3 git fetch upstream git checkout master git merge upstream/master See the github documentation for details.

Background I recently started working on Ethereum Blockchain development. Most of the tools, including the solidity language are biased towards javascript. While I managed to get started using truffle when it came to testing, I found that javascript tests were (IMO) unnecessarily too long. But that is the nature of the language. I have always been more comfortable with python than JS. I liked and have used py.test in my previous projects.

Freakonomics podcast did an episode understanding the gender pay gap, that exists between the male and female driver even if the platform does not treat them differently based on the gender. Uber has a lot of data about the rides, drivers and earnings. Let's see what they found out. How much ? Male drivers earn 7% more than their female counterpart. And seven percent is not very different than the overall average we see across all firms, even in the traditional labor market.

Background When I started my second blog, instead of pelican, I tried awesome Nikola SSG. It is truly awesome. What I (initially) liked about it was it had support for org-mode i.e. I could write my blog in org-mode and Nikola would generate the post out of it. I spent looking for “decent” theme, but couldn't find one. I tried material theme for a while, but realized it could not do syntax highlighting.

I just started learning solidity development, and when I started writing my own Smart Contract - I came across this error. 1 2 Error encountered, bailing. Network state unknown. Review successful transactions manually. Error: The contract code couldn't be stored, please check your gas amount. truffle compile worked OK, but truffle migrate gave this error. Usually, it is said that is there is a loop (infinite loop, due to logic error) one usually “runs out of gas”

Recently I started learning blockchain and related technologies. There is SO MUCH to learn. I started with blockchain basics (and it inevitably uses bitcoin as an example) If you are new to blockchain (not ZERO knowledge) I recommend you checkout the blockchain demo It is one thing to say you can not modify “old” blocks, but visualizing it really makes the difference. (It is important to understand it for the topic under discussion)