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
Data Mining Data analysis from PDFs using Camelot Camelot was making a lots of news on Hacker News and the github repo was on of most starred too! Pretty exicting particular given that the guys behind it are from India (home
Hacks Keep your mouse moving on Windows Ever wanted to solve the million dollar problem to keep the mouse moving in a Windows system. (more on this later) Here is a solution that simply works! I just modified this gist
Hacks Reset PRAM and SMC on Macbook Pro Life can get weird and somethings seem to work by the "Shut-it OFF" and "Shut-it ON" way :-) Here is the way to do it for PRAM and SMC.
Hacks Solved : Displayport of Macbook 2011 (Early) not working OK! I hate ridiculous solutions, but this actually seems to work! My displayport of Macbook Pro 2011 edition stopped working ... suddenly! I tried a lot of restarts, plug-ins and plug-outs .... and the usual
Hacks Sublime Text and Package Control with Proxy This post describes how to use Sublime Text with a Proxy First, download package control manually as explained here Click the Preferences > Browse Packages… menu Browse up a folder and then into
iPhone Accessing Iphone 7s photos on Ubuntu 16.04 I have tons of photos on my iPhone 7s and was looking to download them onto my MacBook Pro. I swapped the harddisk in my Macbook Pro (2011 edition!) with an SSD and
git Problems & Solutions using Git for Windows I've been using Git for Windows for a while. It works very well but I occassionally keep running into recurring problems (typically when I move systems, upgrade computers, etc.). In this post, I
Interactive Brokers Amicable Interactive Brokers Data Analysis using Python and R using reticulate In this post, I will demonstrate through an example the immense joy of working with both R and Python using reticulate!First a little on the background, the discussion and arguments on R
Ghost Running a upstart service as different user I just upgraded Ghost that powers this blog to v2.1. I have an upstart script that starts off this instance.With the latest upgrade, it is a requirement that the service start
Terminal Run Bash commands in Fish I love the fish shell and its been my default terminal for ages! Running bash scripts in fish seems feasible to certain extent using edc/bass: Make Bash utilities usable in Fish shell!
