dhruvbird

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by dhruvbird 12y ago
I think you're better off demanding an explanation since I would expect that companies become more serious about this sort of thing as they grow rather than less serious (as seems to be happening).
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by dhruvbird 12y ago
Thinkpad personally, but I am the 2% not using a MBP I feel.
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Minilek's an algorithms professor now(isites.harvard.edu)
1 points by dhruvbird 12y ago|0 comments
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by dhruvbird 12y ago
Couple of questions about the post (since the link above doesn't seem to allow comments): 1. Were the numbers for the chart "Willingness to wait in a city 2013 v/s 2014" generated based on estimates from the Uber app or
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by dhruvbird 12y ago
Can I do the same with Makefiles?
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Divers find both black boxes from AirAsia crash(usatoday.com)
1 points by dhruvbird 12y ago|0 comments
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by dhruvbird 12y ago
Google cache link: http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:3TBNlgP...
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Digital photocopiers loaded with secrets(cbsnews.com)
1 points by dhruvbird 13y ago|0 comments
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by dhruvbird 13y ago
"85,66% guaranteed uptime (we need some sleep, too)" lol!!!
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by dhruvbird 13y ago
Multiplexing is something that many application protocols could make use of and should be added between the application protocol and TCP, and not engineered into every application protocol. Plus, HTTP is supposed to be a simple text-based p
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Node.js has arrived in academia as well (Database systems course using Node.js)(ozark.hendrix.edu)
1 points by dhruvbird 13y ago|0 comments
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by dhruvbird 13y ago
> On small setting for Linux, one dramatic performance improvement for LinkedIn! should be... you know what it should be ;)
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by dhruvbird 13y ago
Yep. I think I forgot to paste in the real offender. Here's something though. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6519628
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by dhruvbird 13y ago
Sorry about that. I think I messed up. Here's something real: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6519628
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HN Bug: Title field can be 80 characters, but error message requests
4 points by dhruvbird 13y ago|5 comments
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Optimizing Linux Memory Management for Low-latency, High-throughput Databases(engineering.linkedin.com)
142 points by dhruvbird 13y ago|27 comments
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The punishment was death by stoning. The crime? Having a mobile phone(independent.co.uk)
1 points by dhruvbird 13y ago|1 comments
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LINQ for C++ (gcc/clang/vc)(github.com)
1 points by dhruvbird 13y ago|0 comments
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by dhruvbird 13y ago
> 3- You get to have real impact at a startup. Try doing that at BigCo. I don't entirely agree. It's possible to do it at BigCo too. You make it sound as if it's impossible. It's probably harder than at a startup, but
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by dhruvbird 13y ago
This is neat! :)
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by dhruvbird 13y ago
Or you could just watch this video to see what's wrong with RC4! https://class.coursera.org/crypto-007/lecture/7
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by dhruvbird 13y ago
Actually, it's useful when 'N' (the number of elements) is much larger than 'k', the number of significant digits in the largest number in the set. If k ∈ Θ(log N), then O(Nk) becomes O(N log N), which is asymptotically no better than any o
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Get your JS error notifications wherever you like(blog.errorception.com)
22 points by dhruvbird 13y ago|0 comments
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by dhruvbird 13y ago
Why don't they just support the thing that is most reasonably expected and not surprise n00bs like me.
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by dhruvbird 14y ago
A graph which plots the time taken for the fastest 5%, 10%, 15%, 20%, 25%, ..., 100% of the requests would definitely be useful since it would give an idea of the median and 3rd quartile requests, etc...
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Dual Pivot Quicksort (better expected constants) [pdf](arxiv.org)
1 points by dhruvbird 14y ago|0 comments
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by dhruvbird 14y ago
nginx has data structures that scale sub-linearly with the number of requests. this is desirable. others usually don't do things this way.
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by dhruvbird 14y ago
Your job (much like your life) is what you make of it. If you seek out problems that are unsolved & require solutions that involve thinking up a clean/simple solution, you'll find yourself spending much more time solving algorithmic pro
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by dhruvbird 14y ago
Yes, it's free and works.
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by dhruvbird 14y ago
A hackathon is essentially a code-sprint. Imagine running a marathon - except you're doing it by writing code. The reasons are many, and depend a lot on what you want from the hackathon and what others (the ones you'll be hacking with want)

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