Krishna Bharadwaj

Why 'Atomic Habits' may not be working for you 17-Feb-2023

Couple of weeks ago, we were discussing random things at work, and we landed on the topic of discipline. One of my colleagues was praising me for having a very disciplined life. It felt as if he was talking about someone else.

Goodbye Los Angeles, Namaskara Bengaluru 28-Dec-2014

I just graduated from USC with a masters in Computer Science and I will be heading back to Bangalore to continue working on SMERGERS. An excerpt from the chat I had with Vishal on 25th May 2013...

Employment status - It's complicated 05-Jul-2013

A very small subset of my friends knew what I was actually doing for the past 2 years. In June 2011, I quit National Instruments(NI) to join a startup, but I left that within a month to pursue some of my ideas. The journey since then has been pretty good. I thought of sharing the same with others.

Facebook Hacker Cup Qualifiers 2013 30-Jan-2013

Hacker cup has got a lot better than what it used to be a few years back. I did like the problem set. It was good for a qualifying round. There is one significant rule which bothers me to some extent We are not allowed to make multiple submissions after the 6 minute timeline even if the contest is still on.

Dynamic Programming 16-Nov-2012

Dynamic Programming tutorial on TopCoder is very good. I got started with solving some problems listed as exercises in the article. I think dynamic programming can be learnt only by practicing a lot. Here are my solutions for some of the problems listed.

MVC in client side javascript using Backbone.js 28-Jan-2012

As internet applications are getting more rich, designing user interfaces for the same gets complicated. Designing an application like GMail can be very complex since it is feature rich and one action is directly or indirectly related to several sections of the user interface.

Deploying Django with Fabric 29-Sep-2011

I have been using Django for quite sometime now. Deploying the application on a production server is a lot of effort, right from installing all the required packages, configuring mysql, apache, syncing the application from the repository etc.

How swype works? 02-Jul-2011

Swype is an awesome software which makes typing in mobile phones using the qwerty keyboard very easy. Here is a basic swype implementation in python.

Startup(ing) Problems 27-Jun-2011

Today evening, I was having a chat with one of my friend. We landed on this topic of how side projects help us learn better etc.. and within no time we were talking about how commercialization of the same takes a back seat when we are working for some xyz corporation.

Facebook can hurt you! 21-Jun-2011

Everytime we see a new feature popping up on Facebook, some xyz company is getting hurt. It is very uncommon these days to see some really unique feature from the main players. They are upto copying a lot of features from other proven products, I am pretty sure you are with me on that.

Python and Projecteuler 07-Jun-2011

Tried writing some one liners for few problems in Projecteuler. had a good time writing them.. sharing the same. I have used some functional programming techniques which make programming a lot of fun

Scaffolding for Django.. We call it groundwork! 23-Apr-2011

Ruby on Rails has a feature called scaffolding. which basically creates controllers and views for CRUD operations on a model. This saves a lot of time. More importantly creating them ourself is quite a painful task.

BMSCE again! 07-Mar-2011

Anitha Ma'am asked me if I could talk about Linux and motivate the students of 4th semester to use it more at labs etc.. I personally feel that asking someone to use Linux just because it is good does not motivate them to use it.

Boost Library for C++ 17-May-2009

I became a fan of STL(Standard Template Library) the moment I saw it. vectors, sets, maps, lists, stacks etc.. I could not have asked for more. I heard of Boost library from Madhu for the first time when he applied for GSoC last year.

Contributing to FOSS 11-May-2009

How you can start contributing to open source? Free and open source software is software which is liberally licensed to grant the right of users to study, change, and improve its design through the availability of its source code. Did you know that Firefox is a Free and Open source software?

Kb!! - Designer Vs Developer ;) 14-Mar-2009

Every year it so happens that a number of events come at once and I end up designing for most of them. It all started with Utsav 2006, I was very much impressed with all the design work and I wanted to learn it too. The first poster I made looked horrible and I had used inkskape for it.

Huffman Encoding 18-Jan-2009

Huffman coding is a variable length encoding technique. More about it here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Huffman_encoding - This program accepts the characters and their probability as the input. and generates the Huffman codes for each of the characters.

Multiplication of Large Numbers. 26-Oct-2008

I follow discussions on the Algorithms community on orkut. Came across one question which asked us to implement very big integers in C/C++. We can calculate 12! using integer data type, 20! using long long. Java provides a data type BigInteger which can handle it, Python can handle REALLY LARGE VALUES.

GNU/Linux Kernel Tutorial! 26-Oct-2008

A workshop on GNU/Linux Kernel Development was organized by the IEEE Bangalore section in association with IBM ISL- LTC (Linux Techonlogy Center). The venue was Atria Hotel. Me, Madhu, Vattam, Sattvik registered for the event.

Microsoft Boot Camp, GOA! 26-Oct-2008

The All India Microsoft student partners meet was held in Goa this year. All MSPs were excited about it. Anil and Lakshman got the tickets reserved. We left to Goa on the eve of 10th October. The journey was awesome, Lakshman was the target as usual , kept teasing him through out the trip.

IIT Madras Tech Fest - Shaastra Cont'd 04-Oct-2008

Events started on day 2 of Shaastra.. A copy of schedule was given to all of us. We had a look at it to see what all events we could participate in. The Rubik's cube workshop was scheduled at 12, Code Breaker prelims clashed with that.

IIT Madras Tech Fest - Shaastra-2008 01-Oct-2008

Its almost 3 to 4 months since the Shaastra publicity team came to our college.. (Shaastra is the annual Technical fest of IIT Madras). Few of us had decided to come for it at any cost this year.. Since it will be the last chance to come as a student.

Generating Permutations Programatically! 27-Aug-2008

Apart from Johnson trotter, Permutations can be generated in many ways. The two methods i'll be discussing here are: 1. Recursive Method 2. Minimal Change Method or Bottom up approach.

Spell Check and Word Suggestions! 24-Aug-2008

The following question was asked in the programming round of Yahoo! recruitments last year in our college.. Here's the problem statement. Write a program to check whether the spelling of a given word is correct or not. If not, word suggestions must be provided. A dictionary will be provided which contains one word per line.

How to improve programming skills? 10-Aug-2008

Many keep asking me this question, "How do i improve my programming skills?". I used to ask the same question to my friends who were good at it ( Not that i'm too good at programming now :P ) But i have definitely found certain places where one can enhance their programming skills.

National Instruments - Interview Experience! 05-Aug-2008

Today was a great day in my life. I got placed in National Instruments. One of the companies I had in my mind for quite sometime.. I'm very happy about it. :-)The recruitment process of NI was simply the best. I had heard this from many of my seniors, I just saw that myself today.

Placement season - 2008 begins! 31-Jul-2008

I wanted to share a couple of things regarding placements and how it is from a placement coordinators' point of view. This is my first post about placements so before anything else, one quick round of introduction of placement coordinators who have made the hectic work, a little enjoyable!

Building GNOME Desktop Environment! 02-Jun-2008

One of the main advantages of using FOSS(Free and Open Source Softwares) is that we get the source code along with the program. All this time i was just using them, but never tried to get the source code and see the code that was making the program work.

Johnson Trotter Algorithm to generate Permutations! 29-May-2008

Johnson Trotter is a non recursive algorithm which is used to generate permutations of a given set. Implemented using C++.

Writing a Sudoku Solver! 28-May-2008

I wanted to write a sudoku solver from a very long time. I had over estimated the problem; rather the solution, to a very great extent. It was sattvik who helped me to come out of that feeling. His words, 'simple validation and backtracking will do the job' made me think for sometime and i got the solution.