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by sriramk 15y ago
I used to visit that office frequently - it is one beautiful place in the heart of Seattle (the entire elevator door is painted with a big KISS mural, which I believe is one of J's favorite bands). I don't think the closing of that office s
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by sriramk 15y ago
He worked on Octopart in Antarctica? That is pretty awesome.
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by sriramk 15y ago
The common OAuth flow inside a mobile app is to show a web browser dialog which loads Webkit/IE/etc and show you the Twitter log-in UI. Frankly, I have no idea how to verify this page is actually Twitter's UI - there is no browser chrome, n
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by sriramk 15y ago
People change jobs all the time. The folks in government commissions are probably from that industry and when they do want to change jobs, will probably find work in that industry. It is a bit unfair to cast aspersions on people. It is also
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Leaving Microsoft and moving to SF Bay Area(sriramkrishnan.com)
2 points by sriramk 15y ago|0 comments
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by sriramk 15y ago
I just need to say - it's pretty cool to see Sanjay Ghemawat hanging out on HN.
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by sriramk 15y ago
I love Scott and this is great. The title is incorrect though - Scott is only running one part of Windows Azure ( the linked article makes it clearer)
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by sriramk 16y ago
Updated the title - thanks
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SurveyMonkey to buy Wufoo (YC W06) for $35m(kara.allthingsd.com)
249 points by sriramk 16y ago|60 comments
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by sriramk 16y ago
This is pretty awesome. There are not too many pieces of high-performance networking code which do the right thing on *nix (epoll/kqueue/etc) and IOCPs on Windows.
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by sriramk 16y ago
Slightly tangential note. I read Steven Levy's book last week - it is a very good read. If you are even remotely interested in technology and entrepreneurship (which is probable give the site you are seeing this on :) ) - you should defin
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by sriramk 16y ago
Very hesitant to get involved in this but to quote Frank Shaw's tweet at https://twitter.com/fxshaw/status/58672412950138880 - "just pointing out we never said we had the certification. Google did. DOJ said they didn't." There's also this
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by sriramk 16y ago
I've written some very high scale .NET socket/server code and this article left me scratching my head. In particular, the section on Blocking IO is confusing at best. I'm especially surprised to not see any mention of IOCPs and how they wor
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by sriramk 16y ago
True for the first part. The second could be true too but it would be remarkable if he decided to take a break for almost exactly 365 days.
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by sriramk 16y ago
One year almost to the day since he quit Sun/Oracle (see http://nighthacks.com/roller/jag/entry/time_to_move_on ). That probably means he had a 1-year non-compete built into his employment agreement which he had to wait out (which makes me
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by sriramk 16y ago
The upstream glibc bug is worth reading too. My favorite bit 'Everyone is interested in using the code idiots write'.
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by sriramk 16y ago
What was fascinating for me was how much of this is applicable to Microsoft too (in some cases, scarily so). I guess every large tech company has similar dynamics, even when Google has tried really, really hard to be different.
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by sriramk 16y ago
Wow - weird that highscalability put up and edited version of my comment on Scoble's blog. I have a bunch of friends from MySpace and one common theme I do hear is that they feel that a better architecture (not connected to the stack) would
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by sriramk 16y ago
Unrelated note - is it just me or does PG less write less and less these days on non-startup related topics?
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by sriramk 16y ago
Just played with it. I was intrigued by the sign-up process - it only asked for my first name and photo. Is it doing something magical to tie my'account' to my name and photo? Or is the user name a much 'looser' association and not somethin
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by sriramk 16y ago
Reading through those forum posts, I have less and less sympathy for these guys.
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by sriramk 16y ago
Only if they demonstrated great skill - which I don't think happened in this case (but I'm no security expert either)
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by sriramk 16y ago
I feel really bad for the phpfog guys. But given the situation, I think they handled it admirably well - kudos to them. No software is secure and this could have happened to anyone. Especially startups who have to take shortcuts at the very
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by sriramk 16y ago
Could you expand on the last sentence? Why is relying on chroot+file permissions inherently bad?
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by sriramk 16y ago
Absolutely. Especially taking over phpfog.com and their twitter account. All of the folks on that list ( http://elliotspeck.com/ , http://johnduhart.me/ ) seem to be just teenagers though.
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by sriramk 16y ago
Heroku has done it reasonably well too and they seem to do it only with POSIX permissions for the most part.
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by sriramk 16y ago
Heroku, NodeFu and now PHPFog. All the Heroku-style clones have had security issues in the last few months. Security in this space is very, very hard work (I think NodeFu made an checkin mistake and it wasn't a 'jail/isolation breakout' sc
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by sriramk 16y ago
I'm a happy Slicehost user for many years now (my site runs on it) - I love the product Matt has created
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by sriramk 16y ago
Anything with a human connection is great. For example , my wife and I got our app covered in the NYTimes because the reporter liked this narrative we gave her of a husband-wife team writing code on their honeymoon. Every news outlet includ
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by sriramk 16y ago
Titles matter in a lot of companies because if you want to find a new job, the title is used to 'level' you. Do you want to be a VP at <well-known-tech-company>? You probably need to have a strong title at your previous role too. On

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