Author Archives: Diwaker Gupta

The San Francisco Taiko Dojo

By Diwaker Gupta | Published: August 21st, 2010
My wife and I had been thinking about learning Taiko, so after some quick Googling, one fine Tuesday we dropped in at the San Francisco Taiko Dojo to “observe” the adult beginners class. We only stayed the first hour or so, and it was interesting to say the least. First, there was the intimidating workout: [...]
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Toying with node.js

By Diwaker Gupta | Published: August 4th, 2010
A commenter rightly complained that despite my claims of “playing around” with node.js, all I could come up was with the example in the man page. I replied saying that I did intend to post something that I wrote from scratch, and as promised, here is my first toy node.js program: var sys = require('sys'); [...]
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Some thoughts on dbShards

By Diwaker Gupta | Published: August 3rd, 2010
I heard about dbShards via two recent blog posts — one by Curt Monash and the other by Todd Hoff. It seemed like an interesting product, so I spent some time digging around on their website. As the name suggests, dbShards is all about sharding. Sharding, also known as partitioning, is the process of distributing a [...]
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Udaan and Whitespace

By Diwaker Gupta | Published: August 3rd, 2010
There are movies, and then there are movies. Udaan is one of those rare movies where it seems like the crew had an intense clarity about the movie they wanted to make, and that is exactly what they did. They did not make it for the money, they did not make it to please a [...]
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How to buy a new car

By Diwaker Gupta | Published: July 27th, 2010
A few weeks ago we were in the market for a new car. Now, I like to think of myself as a cautious buyer: I like to do my research, I’m not much of an impulse shopper and I’m generally suspicious of sales people. A new car is a significant investment; naturally I felt extra [...]
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