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How to debug long running programs

October 11, 2018 satabdidas General

I recently chased down a crash in a software running on a large test case. The fix surprisingly is a one-liner in an area of code which has been touched only four times in last

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Tapia Celebration of Diversity in Computing

September 25, 2018 satabdidas conferences/events/hackathons

I just attended the ACM Richard Tapia Celebration of Diversity in Computing in Orlando, Florida. I volunteered to help at the Outreachy booth and Outreachy sponsored my conference registration and travel cost. Here’s a list

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Weird cscope issue on Mac

March 25, 2018 satabdidas Uncategorized

I use emacs and xcsope and I’ve faced this weird issue of “no source files found” when trying to use xcsope on a new source code directory. Somehow cscope doesn’t find the source files if

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Joining the software industry after a break

September 10, 2017 satabdidas General

In the last few years, I met many women who were either on a break from their career in the software industry or were planning to take one. It’s not unusual to take a break

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Week 9 at RC

October 17, 2016 satabdidas RC F1'16

Monday : Worked on the presentation “Life of a C Program” and presented it in the evening. Tuesday : Paired with May to discuss the steps in “Life of a C Program” and in the

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How breakpoints are set

October 17, 2016 satabdidas RC F1'16

I am fascinated by the debuggers. I love them so much that I wrote a small and very basic debugger as one of my projects recently. In this post I am going to write down

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Week 8 at RC

October 13, 2016 satabdidas RC F1'16

Day 1: Gone for an interview Day 2: Paired with Mike and Dan to write up the IngestorTest unit test. Did the code dojo and an exercism challenge on Go. Day 3: Paired with Mike

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Week 7 at Recurse Center

October 13, 2016 satabdidas RC F1'16

Day 1: First day of the Fall 2 batch. Quite a busy and exhausting day. Started reading the chapter on Linker from “Computer Systems – A Programmer’s Perspective”. Gave a talk from the delightful article

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Week 6 at Recurse Center

October 13, 2016 satabdidas RC F1'16

Day 1: Practiced some graph and tree algorithms problems. Got to know about the Linux stack frames from the Hardware Software Interface course. Wrote the code mentioned in the first part of the debugging tutorial.

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Cool bitwise stuff

October 5, 2016 satabdidas Uncategorized

I just learned this cool bit manipulation staff yesterday and I am dying to write it down. Here it is – Let’s write a program to decide if a number is a power of 2.

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