VIM trivia

Have been bugged by this in behavior for quite sometime. My work revolves around reading code in vim and reading/writing docs on Ms Word. I, sometimes, involuntarily press ctrl+s when on Vim and damn its dead. I just realized, this is used to freeze the o/p and you can use ctrl+q to restart the o/p.

Phew, a bug mystery solved.

Dont Blink

Blink by Malcolm Gladwell


My rating: 3 of 5 stars
Unconscious abilities work in mysterious ways. I get it. Some of the anecdotes made it interesting in bits and pieces. Author's writing frequently looses pace on account of excruciating details that he takes support of in proving a point.

He makes a good point that rapid cognition is a power that can be honed by right practice. Book lacked flow and organization but made an impact.

His description of human behavior in the time of crisis takes the crown. How human abilities shrink under stress. How the amount of data that one can process in the scene of impending peril reduces to some core categories. Cops account of how they clearly have a vision of just their target and rest all fades away. This part of the book was truly riveting.

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Robin 'DUMB' varghese

Dork: The Incredible Adventures Of Robin 'einstein' Varghese by Sidin Vadukut


My rating: 2 of 5 stars
A really really boring book where you wish you could slap the protagonist. All attempts to make it interesting fell flat. Einstein sees the world completely oblivious of the way world sees him. I am surprised how someone as insane as him made it to IIM in the first place. If that was not enough, he manages to get a hot chick on his side too.

The stuff he mentions about management consulting firms, is that for real ?

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Johny gone down

Johnny Gone Down by Karan Bajaj


My rating: 3 of 5 stars
A true bollywood style story. Book had all masala that one needs to remain glued to it. It fell weak when author tried to give a message out of it. Bolly stories are far from real to draw and any meaning or message out of it.

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