0xdky

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by 0xdky 4y ago
I worked on a POC porting it to Windows and had to port GNU tar to support large file names. TLA was truly revolutionary!
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by 0xdky 5y ago
You will need a full repository in other directory to checkout and this will waste storage unless you share objects via alternate.
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by 0xdky 5y ago
Another lesson I learned from almost 2+ decades of using Emacs: Track your customizations in a version control. Using customize package and reading the diff in dot Emacs file has taught me quite a bit about certain aspects of the package. S
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by 0xdky 5y ago
I hope there will be student towns with mostly students taking online courses for the camaraderie and learning by helping out each other. Apart from the labs, I do not see a reason to go to college to learn.
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by 0xdky 5y ago
I froze for a moment seeing this article after having worked at a major anti-virus company long time back and used some low level Win32 APIs. Fortunately, I followed some of the techniques from “Programming Applications for Microsoft Window
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by 0xdky 5y ago
I had a colleague that wrote a tight loop creating objects in Java and in C++ on heap to show Java outperformed C++. Once I implemented a simple pool allocator in C++, it ran circles around Java.
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by 0xdky 5y ago
Google search on iOS Safari prompts me to install Google app for every search. This alone drove me nuts and I switched to DDG.
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by 0xdky 5y ago
I did something similar (~2015) but using the kernel NFS client and having multiple mounts to the same volume using different IP addresses. Using vectored IO and spreading across multiple connections greatly improved throughout. However, me
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by 0xdky 5y ago
Wonder if the current hiring and rewarding contributes to over engineering? How would you look if you just invoked APIs to get your work done versus designed and implemented an end to end solution. Many times, I have seen over engineered so
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by 0xdky 5y ago
I used BDB as a Win32 profiler backend. The profiler was lightweight and would write a flat file with profiling data and function addresses to keep the captured data small. A post processing tool would read the profiler data and create a BD
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by 0xdky 5y ago
I first encountered Trie in code storing Unix network group mappings. Since IP addresses in a domain mostly vary at the end, a lot of IP addresses share the same first part. This greatly saved space and lookup time.
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by 0xdky 5y ago
Very well written article, thank you. Especially when my daughter is taking a course on Unix and the instructor is superficially touching in these fundamental topics (due to their own limited understanding), I am going to use this to teach
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by 0xdky 5y ago
On iOS, I have a repeating reminder. However, reminder notification in iOS is very non-intrusive and very easy to miss or dismiss. I have a shortcut that runs everyday at bedtime and looks for any due reminders in a specific list. If it fin
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by 0xdky 5y ago
Same here. I worked at a NAS storage (NFS) vendor and this was a common practice. Could not look at server implementation in Linux kernel and open source NFS client team could not look at proprietary server code.
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by 0xdky 5y ago
I lead a team to implement CIFS server in VMS on Itanium after deciding not to port ASV (Advanced Server - CIFS server for Alpha since it had a lot of hand tuned assembly for a specific architecture). We ported Samba and implemented a lot o
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by 0xdky 5y ago
Especially with a stateless service like a photo hosting service, this is very true. Wish you all the best!
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by 0xdky 6y ago
Do we next change naming of RB Tree in all existing documents and software? IMHO, there is no end to this. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Red%E2%80%93black_tree
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by 0xdky 6y ago
FWIK, compression works by de-duplication. Finding duplicate patterns is limited to a window. If similar patterns are close to each other, there is a higher probability of finding such duplicates in the window leading to better compression.
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by 0xdky 6y ago
Back in the days, RogueWave had a pretty solid customer base selling portable C++ standard libraries. I worked at 2 different companies and they both quite heavily depended on RogueWave STL.
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by 0xdky 6y ago
This looks very similar to the Android eco system suffering from fragmentation. It has become impossible to ensure updates across OEMs and this could be affecting some of the feature work - in the name of compatibility. With Apple owning th
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by 0xdky 6y ago
I am very interested to know what is the engineering overheads and increase in code complexity incurred in maintaining 2 different views. At NetApp, backward compatibility and ability to rollback across multiple releases was a hard requirem
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by 0xdky 6y ago
Wish folks down voting would provide the reason. As a parent, I would love to learn if I am not solving the real problem.
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by 0xdky 6y ago
Apologies for a response riddled with typos.
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by 0xdky 6y ago
It is my store too as a parent of a single child losing creativity to instant pleasures and doom scrolling on an iPhone. To add salt to injury, the dance team at school she is part of encourages them to post on Facebook and Instagram. They
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by 0xdky 6y ago
Does fixing a bug introduced by a different author and pointing out the mistake as part of commit message considered a CoC violation? I find this absurd and just a way to get at someone. Anything you say can be bent and twisted by a group o
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by 0xdky 6y ago
> We have the technical know-how to administer data center versions of their products, but we can’t do shit... This is a very typical argument CIOs faced when transitioning storage to cloud. The job threat to storage admins created a lot
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by 0xdky 6y ago
Well, Google could made it via licensing. When OEMs install Google service and other apps required to install Play store, they need a license from Google. Look at custom ROMs not bundling Gapps (Google apps) because they do not have the lic
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by 0xdky 6y ago
I wouldn’t mind buying a bundle subscription for VPN, curated news, email and chat from Mozilla. Those are are most important for me and I do not want any tracking and false biased news. Keep it clean and play fair, I will be happy to pay.