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Ready Player One: A nostalgic ride back to the 80s

Jatin K Malik · Aug 14, 2017 · Leave a Comment

As some of you might know, I am a regular listener of a few tech podcasts. One day while coming back from work, I was listening to some episode of "Tech Stuff" from HowStuffWorks. The podcaster mentioned about some novel "Ready Player One". It is a story based out in future about how some VR game contest led humanity to be obsessed with 80s pop culture just to win a big prize bounty. I, being a nerd, immediately summoned Google assistant and asked it to take a note "read ready player one" on the Keep. And just like other stuff, it soon got lost in the myriad of other notes. But then one day …

h4rry p0773r – 7h3 ch053n 0n3 | /r/WritingPrompts

Jatin K Malik · Nov 24, 2016 · 2 Comments

So while mindlessly browsing through Reddit (my favourite pastime), I came across this interesting post - [WP] Harry Potter is a computer hacker, and the Horcruxes are seven backup servers that he must shut down to defeat the most wicked internet persona of all times: _v0ld3m0rt. I have read all the Harry Potter books and follow the universe with quite an interest, though I am not a part of fandom for sure. There were a lot of entries by fellow Redditors but one bloke who goes by /u/samwisegamgee42 caught my attention. He wrote it beautifully for the first part and then went on to write an …

The best resource to prepare for a Software Engineering interview | Fresher Edition

Jatin K Malik · Mar 20, 2016 · 2 Comments

I generally don't do this kind of posts as I find most of them to be glorified click baits. But on special request from my readers on the eLitmus secret sauce post, I bring you literally the best (tested) resource to prepare for a Software Engineering interview for freshers. Background.. I passed out in 2014 from an IP university college which is no longer in the list of affiliated institutions of GGSIPU. That's right, I am a passed out of Guru Premsukh Memorial College of Engineering aka GPMCE. There was literally ZERO placements in my college as no company bothered coming for …

Forward the Foundation by Isaac Asimov | Nerd Review

Jatin K Malik · Aug 12, 2015 · Leave a Comment

The Foundation series reading progress bar: [progress size="29" striped="progress-striped" animated="active"] God! I need to speed up my reading habit! That was the only reason why I bought Kindle. Although I did complete this part in last week of July but still I completed the first part of Foundation series in May. Took me 2 months to complete this one (thanks to the busy schedule and mindless gaming on my new rig). Nevertheless, I am back with my Nerd review for Forward the Foundation, the second part in chronological order of Sir Isaac Asimov's greatest sci-fi series. Before I …

Prelude to Foundation by Isaac Asimov | Nerd Review

Jatin K Malik · May 21, 2015 · Leave a Comment

The Foundation series reading progress bar: [progress size="29" striped="progress-striped" animated="active"] As promised that I will post more reviews of the books I read on my kindle, here's the next one. After my last book, I went on to finish Harry Potter series out of boredom which I don't think is worth blogging for as many of you might have read it already read and almost everyone would have seen the movies. I was looking to get hooked up to a nice book series and I got my hands on just that! Yep, The Foundation series by Isaac Asimov. You may have heard about him and his word …