Memoir of a Passionately Curious Guy

"Appeal to Authority" , also called an "Argument from Authority" or the "Argumentum ad Verecundiam" is a type of argument which uses an authority's support as evidence for supporting one's point of view or statement. This is something all of us at the Go-Jek Engineering Bootcamp are guilty of using as an argumentative technique.  When someone used themselves as a figure of authority, it is known as "Ipse Dixit"  which means that "he himself has said it". This is thus an "appeal to self-authority". An "Argument to Veneration"  is when someone appeals to a respected authoritative figure but they have authority only due to the amount of respect they have. Falling prey to such argumentative techniques may lead to disastrous results as even though you may be correct technically but taking help of such techniques to prove so may lead to you not being able to justify your point. There also are some va...

One of the things that scares most new Linux users is being able to get around within Linux on the command line. One very useful tool I found which can be used to learn linux is  Learn Linux The Hard Way  which is indeed as the title states. It makes you go through the process of discovering all the important and frequently used commands, tricks and methods in Linux. The way the entire set of tutorials has been structured is really informative as it primarily has 3 sections in each exercise namely the introduction, the commands along with its explanations and the extra credits. The extra credit section is something which everyone should try out necessarily as it provides you those 'Aha!'  moments which will make you even more interested in Linux. The set of tutorials is filled with interesting information and at the same time really fun to solve and learn from. One can safely say that there is no easy way to learn Linux than just trying out the different func...