Ep. 011, Addicted to learning

Underserved

Andrew Gelina

Society & Culture, Technology

5.0 • 1K Ratings

🗓️ 11 November 2019

⏱️ 34 minutes

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Summary

Arvind Singh https://www.linkedin.com/in/aaroh/ is a software developer that specializes in security and identity management. He has been a proponent of open source software for over two decades, particularly BSD derivatives of Unix. We talk about how open source is the unsung hero of the Internet, the proliferation of open source licensing models, coming up from the west coast of India to the East coast of the US, and where the best Indian food in Boston is (hint: JP). We also talk restoring bicycles and bike trails in the Boston area.

A practical guide to open source license compliance https://www.softwarefreedom.org/resources/2008/compliance-guide.html
Binary GPL checker tool https://lwn.net/Articles/386280/
Code together live in VS https://code.visualstudio.com/blogs/2017/11/15/live-share
Indian food: 1st place for Arvind is Bukhara https://www.bukharabistro.com/
Indian food: Close second is Mela https://melainboston.com/
The Minuteman Bikeway http://minutemanbikeway.org/
Mass State biking advocacy https://www.massbike.org/
BONUS: Sarson Ka Saag recipe https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1ZoqWWtagHY

Transcript

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0:00.0	Hello and welcome to this week's edition of Under Serv, the podcast for the rest of the tech industry. I'm your host Andrew
0:13.8	Jelina. Our guest this week is Arvin Singh, a senior software engineer who
0:18.4	specializes in security and identity management. Welcome, Arvin.
0:22.3	Hi, how are you? All right. Thank you. and identity management. Welcome, Marvin.
0:22.8	Hi, how are you?
0:24.0	All right, thank you for coming down today.
0:26.5	So a question I often asked folks is, what got you excited about computers?
0:31.1	How did you kind of get started with programming and
0:33.4	technology? I got introduced to computers when I was 16 I think. It's around 86
0:38.7	85 86 and we were one of the lucky federal schools who got BBC Micros come in to our school.
0:47.0	And I got hung.
0:48.0	I just, we loved it.
0:50.0	It was, nobody has seen computer board and in there it's
0:55.0	love at first site.
0:57.0	Yes.
0:58.0	And we were lucky enough to have full access to it.
1:01.0	So that's how it started writing simple games and
1:04.8	basic and they offered additional classes too and it's funny Indian schools
1:11.8	engineering schools didn't have computer science or computer engineering.
1:15.2	86, 87 was the first year when they started offering the course and I was lucky 88 out of school high school I've been for computer
1:26.2	engineering four years now they got it ready just in time for you oh yeah there's a lot of fun a lot of fun. A lot of fun. So we had mainframe and donated by Cummins to our school and we had a little apples.
1:42.0	Apple twos. Yeah. Apple twos.
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