This week in review: Life lessons, Geography lessons, and Hypervisors

Sun, 10 Nov 2019

Randy Pausch Last Lecture: Achieving Your Childhood Dreams1
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Falsehoods CS students believe in2
Things They Don’t Teach You In School3
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One of the best explanations of S.O.L.I.D principles I have found4
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Tue, 12 Nov 2019

Capital city of Sri Lanka is Sri Jayawardenepura Kotte. It was formerly Colombo (1815 - 1982). Indian geography text book writers never got this memo.
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madoko5 is one of the best online markdown and latex editors that I’ve come across. It was created by Daan Leijen from Microsoft Research. It works with Dropbox and Github.
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Wed, 13 Nov 2019

There are two types of Hypervisors, commonly referred to as Type-1 and Type-2 hypervisor. Type-1 hypervisor or base metal hypervisor or native hypervisor is when the hypervisor is installed as a firmware at the BIOS level and virtual machines run on the top. Type-2 hypervisor or hosted hypervisor is when the hypervisor is installed on top of a host OS and this hypervisor virtualizes hardware for its guest OS. An example of Type-2 hypervisor is VirtualBox.
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  1. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ji5_MqicxSo ↩

  2. https://www.netmeister.org/blog/cs-falsehoods.html ↩

  3. https://www.netmeister.org/blog/semper-ubi-sub-ubi.html ↩

  4. https://scotch.io/bar-talk/s-o-l-i-d-the-first-five-principles-of-object-oriented-design ↩

  5. https://www.madoko.net/editor.html ↩