Book Review: Lolita

Lolita: Book review Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov My rating: 3 of 5 stars Pretty average. There are some impressive passages, with well flowing language. Overall didn't enjoy the story, and characterization. The ending was utterly bizarre. Disappointed. I guess the hype is because of the transgressive nature of the story, and not for its actual content.

May 19, 2021 · 1 min · Harsh Kumar

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The State of Indian Economy https://www.hindustantimes.com/india-news/the-economy-story-is-unravelling-just-46-days-into-fy22-101621203348452.html The recent surge in COVID-19 cases has also manged to crush the economic recovery hopes. Although there hasn’t been a three-month national lockdown, there are local lockdowns almost everywhere in the country. Google Mobility Data Google LLC “Google COVID-19 Community Mobility Reports”. https://www.google.com/covid19/mobility/ Accessed: May 17, 2021. https://www.gstatic.com/covid19/mobility/2021-05-13_IN_Mobility_Report_en-GB.pdf The workplace mobility has fallen sharply (by about 54%) since its peak in March 2021.1 Retail and recreation related mobility is down by a whopping 63%....

May 17, 2021 · 2 min · Harsh Kumar

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India’s Covid-19 Emergency The situation is scary. Very scary. It has spread to the rural areas. There is severe lack of information and resources. There are a lot of quacks who can wreak havoc in the current climate of misinformation. The biggest fake Guru Ramdev has shown his true colors by blaming the victims of Covid-19 for all their breathing issues. We have RSS workers followed by our honorable PM dying without treatment....

May 12, 2021 · 4 min · Harsh Kumar

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Learning Kotlin Creating variables Notes from: https://www.programiz.com/kotlin-programming/variable-types and You can define variables dynamically: var firstname = "Harsh" var lastname = "Kumar" var age = 26 var happiness = 0.1 You can specify the type: var firstname:String = "Harsh" var age:Int = 43 Kotlin variables can be declared in two ways: val: Immutable. var: Mutable. Basic variable types (https://kotlinlang.org/docs/basic-types.html) Numerical types: 6 built-in types Byte: values between -128 and 127 Short: values between -32768 and 32767 (16-bit signed two’s complement integer)....

May 11, 2021 · 4 min · Harsh Kumar

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Python List Operations If we start with a list seq = [1,2,3,4] then we have the following operations: Python Expression Results Descriptions seq + [5,6,7,8] [1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8] Concatenation seq * 4 [1,2,3,4,1,2,3,4,1,2,3,4,1,2,3,4] Repetition Go 101 This is a continuation of my notes on learning Go. Keywords From Go 101 Go has precisely 25 keywords: break default func interface select case defer go map struct chan else goto package switch const fallthrough if range type continue for import return var Identifiers Composed of Unicode letters, Unicode digits and _ (underscore)...

April 18, 2021 · 2 min · Harsh Kumar