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by kchoudhu 10y ago
Anyone who has spent any amount of time dealing with Citi saw this coming from a mile away. Over at /r/churning, Citi's customer facing tech stack is the butt of many jokes, and there is no reason to believe their merchant fa
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by kchoudhu 10y ago
The amount of irritation GS abstracts away from the programmer is amazing -- and I do miss it very much. I'd like to go back, but circumstances appears to be taking me elsewhere. It was a good run, and unlike OP's friend, I'd
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by kchoudhu 10y ago
It depends on what system you're talking about. If you're talking about the core risk management system, yeah, seven hours sounds about right. But the risk management system is a platform that you can use to build other systems
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by kchoudhu 10y ago
At this point, I'd imagine Netflix's main expenses are not engineering/bandwidth/compute -- it's content. My guess is that there's better ROI in paying Amazon a premium to not have to worry about the CDN engine
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by kchoudhu 10y ago
Marvelous. Does the lawyer also take professional responsibility when a mistake is made?
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by kchoudhu 10y ago
There's more to a userland than the shell, and there are plenty of shells out there that are not encumbered by GPLv3.
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by kchoudhu 10y ago
Can you implement COW filesystems without some kind of checksumming? Or have I been in ZFS-land for too long?
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by kchoudhu 10y ago
Why would they touch GPLv3 code when perfectly good BSD tools available from FreeBSD?
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by kchoudhu 10y ago
"04-tpx-fecal was really heinous. Can I get a sample?"
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by kchoudhu 10y ago
There was a user around here (michaelochurch?) who made exactly this point loudly and repeatedly. I wonder what happened to him...
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by kchoudhu 10y ago
Are you saying you didn't lard your ratings with 9's as a techie? I played the game very, very wrong :/
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by kchoudhu 10y ago
Out of genuine curiosity: how often are traders taking physical delivery? Don't they just roll contracts forward? Why do they even care what the (figurative) harbormaster is doing/saying? I absolutely see the reason for the ops si
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by kchoudhu 10y ago
You laugh, but I guarantee you that the NSA has systems reliability issues just like the rest of us.
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by kchoudhu 10y ago
The financial pain will be many times the cost of a Bloomberg terminal if market participants are unable to provide communications transcripts when regulators come calling.
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by kchoudhu 10y ago
Does the same pathology apply in other commodity markets as well?
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by kchoudhu 10y ago
Why the hell aren't these chuckleheads on Bloomberg where they belong?
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by kchoudhu 10y ago
I didn't realize the stable/11 branch hadn't been created yet. Thanks for the clarification!
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by kchoudhu 10y ago
3 Mobile, UK here -- it's accessible. It's shocking to me that your university administrator has put a block in place on a website that isn't obviously malicious. VPNs are cheap. In this case, I think it's worth it to in
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by kchoudhu 10y ago
Will this MFC in time for FreeBSD 11?
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by kchoudhu 10y ago
In Bangladesh's best interests? Oh sahib , why did you not you say so to begin with? Definitely a burden off my shoulders.
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by kchoudhu 10y ago
Heh. I've been wanting to say something about the actual probability of this project getting started for a while, but I seemed to have already attracted enough opprobrium throughout this thread without also implying that it simply ca
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by kchoudhu 10y ago
And as I've said elsewhere in this thread, most Bangladeshis are eternally grateful that India intervened when they did. India's leadership has changed since then, however, and their actions in 1971 do not preclude a subsequent ch
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by kchoudhu 10y ago
On matters of existential import (and riparian sustainability is definitely one of these for Bangladesh), I absolutely would expect to have in place a binding agreement in perpetuity. This is serious business for Bangladesh: without the r
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by kchoudhu 10y ago
It's not a treaty. It is the treaty. And treaties don't "just follow" because there is already a treaty on a similar topic already in place. The time to sign such an agreement on interlinking would have been before
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by kchoudhu 10y ago
As I have stated elsewhere in this thread, the 1996 agreement lasts for only 30 years, doesn't cover interlinking projects by India and makes NO mention of the Brahmaputra River, which supplies half the water flowing through Bangladesh
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by kchoudhu 10y ago
As I said above: it's not in effect after 2026, and makes no mention of interlinking projects, and doesn't say anything about the Brahmaputra. Given current events, it is a woefully inadequate guard against abuse.
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by kchoudhu 10y ago
Re. 1: I haven't seen signs of Indian good faith on matters of substance in a long time. Re. 2: I couldn't care less if Punjabis in Delhi were benefiting from the project, and apart from the particularly rich cultural traditions w
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by kchoudhu 10y ago
We can probably judge their sensitivity to Bangladesh's concerns by looking at what they've done already with the (admittedly smaller) Farakka Barrage on the Ganges. The barrage regularly floods Bangladesh when the monsoon rains a
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by kchoudhu 10y ago
I love the line of reasoning from online apologists that states that since they helped birth Bangladesh, India now has the right to push Bangladesh around in perpetuity. Bangladeshis genuinely appreciate the assist (we really do!), but that
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by kchoudhu 10y ago
A Trump presidency is a hypothetical; India's Interlink project is apparently a reality. Putting that aside, Mexico is probably going to be okay if the wall gets built. Bangladesh will starve when water from the Ganges and/or Brah

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