From-The-News From the news - 2019-04-19 Pinterest began its first day of trading Thursday at $23.75, up 25%. Zoom - Videoconferencing software company Zoom made its debut Thursday on the Nasdaq under the ticker symbol âZM,â surging 80%
From-The-News From the news - 2019-04-18 Jet Airways out of cash. No derivative play unfortunately! Shorting in the spot market has one restriction â it strictly has to be done on an intraday basis. Meaning you can initiate the short
From-The-News From the papers - 16/04/2019 Polycab listing on NSE and BSE today Issue price at 538 Bid-Ask Spread at Market Open First trade @ 633 (17.38% premium)! Election campaign running strong! Fun task for you, Bangalore Voters! Do
Terminal Concatentating or Combining Multiple Videos into a single file I wanted to stream an eCourse to Plex to watch while spinning! Unfortunately, the eCourse was split up (as usually the case) into multiple video files. This is kinda painful to work with
Options Losing money with In-The-Money options on the NSE I burnt my fingers on a winning trade this month. I was holding a position that looked pretty secure at expiration but still lost money! I didn't pay much attention to transaction costs
Movies Impressed with Investigative Journalism Watched two documenatries on my Plex while spinning. The first one was The Inventor: Out for Blood in Silicon Valley starring American and my Sweetheart Elizabeth Holmes. This is perhaps not strictly investigative
Creating a .m4b audiobook from .mp3 files The m4b files that audiobooks are distributed as have their own advantages. They are easy to browse through and have chapters seperate. And thats a cool thing to have! This tool called Audiobook
Meteor Working with REST APIs on Meteor I have an IP address that changes everyday. One of my electron app has the IP hardcoded, and I need to manually update the IP everyday to get this working. Doing this over
data.table Installing data.table on Mac OSX As mentioned here bash xcode-select --install brew update && brew install llvm Update ~/.R/Makevars # if you downloaded llvm manually above, replace with your chosen NEW_PATH/clang LLVM_LOC = /usr/local/
windows git Saving git credentials on Windows It can get quite irritating to keep having to enter your git credentials on a trusted windows machine. A good way to overcome this is to use anurse/git-credential-winstore. Just install and you
Nginx Setting up NGINX on Mac OSX Heavily borrowed from: Nginx configuration for Mac OS X with Homebrew, using sites-enabled directory. Install nginx brew install nginx cd /usr/local/etc/nginx/ git clone git@bitbucket.org:fountainhead/nginx-sites-available sites-available wget
Terminal Switching between windows on a remote nested tmux session Figured this out a while. I tmux first to server 1 and then ssh into server 2. I often need to switch between windows in the remote session. Finally, figure out that the
Terminal Text manipulation on the command line Ok! This is ridiculous but fun! I woke this morning with the goal of clearing up my s3 buckets. Storing waste is expensive! My AWS expenses are eating into my beer budget! It's
Trading Strategy Research - Fixed Amount SIP using Options vs. Underyling The strategy definition is as follows: Portfolio 1: Invest a fixed amount at Beginning of Month in the Underlying NIFTY Portfolio 2: Invest a fixed amount into Calls and Puts at BOM. Reinvest
Troubleshooting SOLVED: Building Blotter on Mac OSX It can be quite frustrating while installing packages on R don't work! I faced an issue while building blotter for Mac. Was getting an error on the following lines: Warning messages: Setting LC_
bash Shortcuts for your bash shell Here is a thread with some read ways to reduce typing on your bash shell. I'll add these right away :-) alias s="git status" alias d="git diff"
Plex Adding a mount folder to Plex in Ubuntu Lets make this quick! I was having trouble accessing a mount folder in Plex. The following worked for me on my Ubuntu Distro. mkdir -p /home/ghost/peloton sudo mount -B /media/ghost/
Spinning Streaming from Macbook to Amazon Fire Stick Good fun this weekend! I've been trying to stream my Pelton classes to my Fire Stick that is attached to the TV. I have a ton of Peloton classes on my hard-drive and
Meteor Customized Deployment of Meteor App This is a pain! ... So, hopefully these notes will help! Mup configuration: Keypoints to take note (follow EXACTLY): Server config host: '127.0.0.1', username: 'ghost', pem: '~/.ssh/id_rsa' Bind
MongoDB Useful stuff on Mongo DB on Ubuntu 16.04 Ran into few very irritating issues related to MongoDB. Here are some notes for future reference: Path for mongodb systemctl service: /lib/systemd/system/mongod.service .. open it up .. its self explanatory Path
Meteor Useful stuff on Meteor on Ubuntu 16.04 Notes to solve terrible issues on meteor: Buffer not defined issue Add below code in <app_path>/client/lib/init.js // this is an expensive polyfill for clientside Buffer usage // but
Random Bike Ride + Rain + iPhone7 + Audiobook + Spotify = Nirvana I've been pretty busy over the past few months with a variety of issues. Coupled with pretty hot weather ... I haven't biked for a while. Yesterday afternoon, the mercury dropped and there was
Hacks Amazon Fire TV Stick with Beats Wireless Headphones Discovered this last night and am pretty kicked about it. I never thought this would be possible. I wanted to watch Tron in the living room without disturbing family in the house. I
