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by mataug 10y ago
Theres ambiguous separation between the words on the picture. It reads phonetically as "MugayatheenPak Udaya Kappal Mani". The translation is spot on. Source: I'm a native speaker from Tamil Nadu.
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The only companies abusing H1-B visas are Indian outsourcing firms. The abuse though, is based on the eye of the beholder. From the outsourcing firm's perspective they are merely providing a service that is legally allowed in the marke
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by mataug 10y ago
When passwords are case insensitive I'm always skeptical that they are storing passwords in plain text. Ofcourse they could be using a function to change the case before putting it through a oneway function but it just adds to the susp
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Murphy's Law: My Nexus 5x and Project Fi Story(reddit.com)
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[video] How easy will it be to hack the President's phone?(youtube.com)
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by mataug 10y ago
I prefer the points system that many countries, including Canada, implement. Its a lot more deterministic and clear whether a person will be admitted or not instead of a lottery or salary based system.
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New H1-B Visa bill doubles the salary requirements to $130K/yr(timesofindia.indiatimes.com)
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Leaked drafts of executive order point to reversal of STEM OPT extension(vox.com)
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by mataug 10y ago
I used love soda as well. I realized that the best way to avoid cravings is to reduce my refined sugar intake as much as possible. After about a month my cravings completely disappeared and now when I taste soda its way too sweet and I just
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by mataug 10y ago
and be sure to run a browser inside the JVM to check webmail.
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Browserception
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Another one of those technologies which hasn't kept up with the evolving tech landscape.
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My guess is that this was some internal tool that got cleaned up and opened to the public as a beta.
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Leaving a high paying job isn't very hard if you don't have many commitments. I left a decent paying job to attend grad school and so far its been rewarding.
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I've considered it a couple of times. Being a chef or someone researching climate change are the two things that I've considered. I have no background in either (I can cook up a decent meal but nothing impressive) and the thought
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by mataug 10y ago
This ^ Syntax and data structures are usually the easiest part of learning a new language. Leveraging implicit conventions and trying to build anything useful is much harder. This is still a useful reference for anyone looking to jump into
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Should Zapier be worried ? Probably not, unless Microsoft suddenly forms a large division out of this and manages to get a 100 - 200 integrations going.
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by `this` did you mean using the tool or trying to solve the problem from within ?
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by mataug 10y ago
I've come to realize that no tool is going to help me solve my procrastination problem. It has to come from within and if I bring myself to stop procrastinating then the tool doesn't matter.
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Native binary for testing Android phones for the Rowhammer bug(github.com)
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You're not the only one who finds JS and its ecosystem disgusting.
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Its nearly impossible to predict when someone would find vulnerabilities (or if they have already in secret, Bletchley Park anyone) in crypto primitives and the problem gets compounded we try to use untested crypto primitives such as those
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by mataug 10y ago
This is completely untrue. If you're a software dev worth your salt you're not gonna get fired. Even if you did you'll probably easily find another job. Obviously like any tech giant work life balance and general experience v
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Everytime we consider something to be a silver bullet we end up in a mess such as this. We are truly victims of our own success.
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Or have some kid discover a memory allocation bug and fake a couple of thousand pounds into an account.
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> Ellison showed off a new Oracle Dense Cloud IO bare metal cloud server offering that will provide developers with 36 CPU cores, 512GB of D-RAM, and 28.8TB of SSD storage. AWS isn't merely about the compute. EC2 is just part of a l
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Study details how Zika damages fetal brain(hsnewsbeat.uw.edu)
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The dirty secret of personalized email marketing(kissflow.com)
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> Surprisingly, sci-news.com has a better writeup on this than NPR Are sci-news's usual writeups bad ? Why is it surprising ? Other from sci-news seemed fine to me .
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I feel this is a great win in terms of security for the average consumer. Sure VPN connections within organizations may get affected but the've got a workaround for that and I'm sure IT at orgs where they have an internal CA can f

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