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   by 0xmohit 10y ago

   Moral: Avoid native apps if you can't avoid using them at all.
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   by 0xmohit 10y ago

   Deepstream relies on garbage collection to free up dereferenced memory. If a machine's CPU is overutilized above 100% for a consecutive time, garbage collection will be delayed and memory can add up. If this continuous for a
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   by 0xmohit 10y ago

   > Ironically, all dot files have stuck as obvious :) Those wouldn't have if you had set the following: shopt -s dotglob
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   by 0xmohit 10y ago

   Or maybe sudo rm -rf /some/path --no-preserve-root
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   by 0xmohit 10y ago

   Nobody likes to read manuals or books, due to which one can see FAQs being posted on Q&A sites. http://gitready.com/ contains a number of small articles categorized by beginner, intermediate and advanced that might be h
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   by 0xmohit 10y ago

   I suppose that this has been around for a while: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9039537 http://montreal.pm.org/tech/neil_kandalgaonkar.shtml
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   by 0xmohit 10y ago

   https://panopticlick.eff.org/
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   by 0xmohit 10y ago

   Unfortunate journalism. Suddenly makes everything appear like an act of philanthropy.
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   by 0xmohit 10y ago

   It was also reported earlier [0]: Privacy: An unnamed Jio executive mentioned “deep packet inspection” to Reuters, saying: “It’s called deep packet inspection, and what you can do with the analytics of that is mind-boggling,” he s
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    by 0xmohit 10y ago

    > for privacy-conscious people in India Privacy conscious in India? It wouldn't even go up to as high as 0.000001%
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    by 0xmohit 10y ago

    I meant what I read somewhere long time back: Never underestimate the power of human stupidity.
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    by 0xmohit 10y ago

    > Surprisingly, some people couldn't get the answer right even using Google. Never underestimate anybody. I've seen numerous examples wherein folks would copy/paste an obviously inferior answer (or even incorrect) from a S
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    by 0xmohit 10y ago

    sudo chmod -R a-x / would work as is.
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    by 0xmohit 10y ago

    Open book exams are known to be tougher! I don't mind giving candidates access to language reference manuals, man pages and such.
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    by 0xmohit 10y ago

    http://imgur.com/gallery/SZPjHwz https://twitter.com/thepracticaldev/status/71639058321702912...
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    by 0xmohit 10y ago

    Quoting from The Peter Principle: in most hierarchies, super-competence is more objectionable than incompetence. disrupts and therefore violates the first commandment of hierarchical life: the hierarchy must be preserved.
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    by 0xmohit 10y ago

    http://www.nytimes.com/2015/08/16/technology/inside-amazon-w...
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    by 0xmohit 10y ago

    This is interesting: Craig: Had you and Jeff stayed close? Shel: Not really. When he replaced me in my original job and I was moved into the CTO slot, I was nominally in charge of architecture, but in fact that just meant rubber
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    by 0xmohit 10y ago

    Excerpts from the article: Just two days ago, I did this very thing, trust this anonymous friend with not only my business and entire life savings .. So, with a heavy heart, I ask the Krypton Community, to please, open your walle
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    by 0xmohit 10y ago

    Not sure how well it works: - Suggested `ls` for `sl` despite the fact that the latter [0] is a wonderful utility. - `chomd` didn't yield any suggestion. Neither did `fskc`. A similar utility that actually helps is thefuck [1]. [0] h
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    by 0xmohit 10y ago

    It seems that the auditor wanted a fancier designation and decided upon "security auditor". It is also possible that the auditor in question worked in a (physical) security agency in past life and failed to understand that compute
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    by 0xmohit 10y ago

    BTW, I wonder which category of users need to supply passwords. Until now it seemed that captchas were inevitable.
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    by 0xmohit 10y ago

    Enlightenment always takes a while :) I later found a nice article documenting the entire system. It also includes references to JohnTheRipper having a module for this. Well, this was more fun. -- Wonder how many times are the sa
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    by 0xmohit 10y ago

    The hostname in the URL, i.e. mikerowe.com, led me to wonder if it is the same guy as mikerowesoft.com [0]. Apparently, not. [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microsoft_vs._MikeRoweSoft
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    by 0xmohit 10y ago

    Also interesting is Data Structures and Functional Programming [0] using OCaml. [0] http://www.cs.cornell.edu/Courses/cs3110/2016fa/
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    by 0xmohit 10y ago

    > I remember seeing an earlier incarnation of this around five years ago https://github.com/skypeopensource/skypeopensource
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    by 0xmohit 10y ago

    Forward written by Erik Meijer -- https://twitter.com/headinthebox/status/737402063106113536 Lecture slides for chapters 1 to 10: http://www.cs.nott.ac.uk/~pszgmh/Slides.zip Haskell code for
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    by 0xmohit 10y ago

    You didn't mention the inconsistent (and somewhat weird) formatting of the source code. https://github.com/skypeopensource/skypeopensource2/blob/mas... https://github.com/skypeopensource&
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    by 0xmohit 10y ago

    Being tech stack agnostic is fair, but it'd be good to mention your current (or preferred) tech stack.
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    by 0xmohit 10y ago

    > a == 1 || a != 2 needs a warning Yes, it needs a warning because it's kind of obvious that there is something amiss about this expression. Only the author could tell what was specifically wrong.