chetanahuja

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by chetanahuja 10y ago
"That gave me the ability to see that 99% of "new" technologies were really just poor re-inventions of (parts of) Lisp" "But no one knows it..." It'll be really hard to work with a 23 year old with tha
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by chetanahuja 10y ago
On a purely scientific level, US is about to run an experiment where they're handing power completely over to one side of the aisle for at least 2 full years after having a split government for the last 6. You're likely to get suf
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by chetanahuja 10y ago
"Honestly I think Scratch has as high learning curve as simple programming languages like python or ruby" No. Simply no. Source: Taught First/Second/Third graders scratch once a week for 2 full years. The no syntax (no
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by chetanahuja 10y ago
"Google requires real profiles for YouTube comments now" And consequently, Youtube comments now solely consist of civil dialogue and scholarly critiques of videos.
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by chetanahuja 10y ago
Calm down dude. You're still not forced to use any such service.
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Computer security is dead(medium.com)
1 points by chetanahuja 10y ago|0 comments
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by chetanahuja 10y ago
I put this pdf on my phone and read through interesting sections over a vacation involving long flights. It's a very nicely written text that you can read over a few days with some basic computer-science/mathematical background.
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by chetanahuja 10y ago
> $15 * 500 hosts = $7500 per month. Oh that's ridiculous pricing. Any team running a server installation at any sort of scale would scoff at the pricing, and that's even before you take into account the implications of sending
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by chetanahuja 10y ago
"They weren't wrong, but how many bare metal software do you see today?" Umm... This discussion is about mobile devices right? Almost all my usage of my phone is on native apps.
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by chetanahuja 10y ago
Reading that post feels like sincere but wishful thinking. Both major mobile platforms provide the developer with sandboxed access to a more or less complete unix machine. This means complete access to things like underlying network interfa
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by chetanahuja 10y ago
This is the correct answer to run github, the SAAS product at scale. Probably not practical for github the on-prem installable software. They may have to bite the bullet and separate out the two systems at some point anyway though. edit: it
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by chetanahuja 10y ago
1TB of data per year is small in today's terms. Seconding a lot of other comments here, the easiest option would be to just use redshift (amazon) or bigquery (google). You'll have to do some initial work to load this data up into
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by chetanahuja 10y ago
I'm non-native English speaker/writer too. The qualifiers and disclaimers that I'm objecting to are not grammatically wrong. The point I'm making is that your statement loses all force due to the style.
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by chetanahuja 10y ago
To all those kvetching about weird C (and by extension, C++) behaviors... what is your alternative for an unmanaged, system level language with broad compiler/library support?
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by chetanahuja 10y ago
"I guess you don't spend too much time looking at the typical C code written on most average enterprise shops" The list of qualifiers and disclaimers in that sentence made me dizzier than taking that quiz on dark corners of
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by chetanahuja 10y ago
"You assert this as if it's true for all people. But it's really really not. I actually do not want to live in an urban area. I am worried my cute neighborhood will turn into hong kong." "As the article says, we
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by chetanahuja 10y ago
Santa Clara, Sunnyvale, Mountain View, Redwood city etc. are employment hotbeds. Lots and lots of companies, especially startups but also more established firms, are based in these areas
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by chetanahuja 10y ago
"Islands leave distinctive cloud formations in their wake" Only islands with high peaks, which means most likely, volcanic islands. Which happens to be true for large islands in the pacific. As opposed to purely coral islands whic
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by chetanahuja 10y ago
PacketZoom | San Mateo, CA | ONSITE | Visa OK | Senior Software Engineer (systems level) We're looking for smart, motivated software engineers to join our team in San Mateo, CA. Ideal candidate is a smart generalist who can dig into
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Why your mobile connection is so slow (Hint: DNS)(infoworld.com)
2 points by chetanahuja 10y ago|0 comments
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by chetanahuja 10y ago
It's the "across platforms" part that matters here. Microsoft lost the battle in their core business (OS and Apps) when platforms switched to, first Web then Mobile. Google started with Web on desktop and successfully contin
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by chetanahuja 10y ago
Welcome to the walled garden of love. At least this walled garden "just works".
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by chetanahuja 10y ago
Oh the irony. The Medium page this blogpost was hosted on is ~3.5MB in size and took ~5 seconds (on my 20Mbps cable internet connection with 11ms ping to cloudfront) to first readable render.
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by chetanahuja 10y ago
Oh good god. I loaded the site with the network console open and found that the page loads 15MB of data before the first picture of food loads up on the page. Horrendous.
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Benchmarking Jio: How does Reliance’s new service fare against competition(yourstory.com)
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Why your mobile connection is so slow (Hint: DNS)(infoworld.com)
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by chetanahuja 10y ago
"I wouldn't call DNS based IP mapping "horrendous" simply because it doesn't work as well for mobile" OK I'll take back the word "horrendous" but it's a hack alright. > The fact is that
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Why your mobile connection is so slow (Hint: DNS)(infoworld.com)
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by chetanahuja 10y ago
It's not illegal to have TTL that short but it certainly feels like violation of some implicit contract between users and provides. Of course the root cause of this is the horrendous hack of using DNS for CDN routing. It doesn't
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by chetanahuja 10y ago
Try Akamai managed CDN content. 20 seconds !!

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