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by sriramk 17y ago
I think defending against internal abuse is always an uphill task. The key thing is to have auditability - store records of who accessed what and when and make sure those records can't be tampered with. The knowledge that that data is being
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by sriramk 17y ago
Sadly, I think the article might be right about South Indian Hindus (I'm one too). Though very rare in modern urban areas (I think), it is definitely common in large parts of Tamil Nadu atleast. I have atleast one such couple in my extended
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by sriramk 17y ago
Data. R/Hadoop/Hive/Pig/Dryad, SQL Server streaming, Excel PowerPivot and the works.
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by sriramk 17y ago
I prefer Paul's post ( http://community.winsupersite.com/blogs/paul/archive/2009/12... ) [disclaimer: I work for the company in question :)]
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by sriramk 17y ago
The Times of India is probably closer to TMZ and the National Enquirer rather than the NYTimes or the WSJ :)
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by sriramk 17y ago
Jekyll is absolutely brilliant. There are a lot of static blog generation tools out there but this seems to work best for me. I dont use the github integration much (automatic publishing by pushing to github) but do store my site on a githu
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by sriramk 17y ago
Larry Osterman has a good post on the AARD code here http://blogs.msdn.com/larryosterman/archive/2004/08/12/21368...
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by sriramk 17y ago
That is totally false. There are no restrictions of any kind on the Microsoft network in general (apart from your standard virus/malware/firewall type stuff). I've synced code for my projects from sourceforge/google code/github often.
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Ask HN: Books/tutorials to understand auctions
4 points by sriramk 17y ago|0 comments
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by sriramk 17y ago
I'm actually impressed that they get away with running a site with so much traffic on such minimal hardware. Almost an argument against the cloud/NoSQL/scale-out trends :)
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by sriramk 17y ago
I'm pretty sure he doesn't read Hacker News :)
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by sriramk 17y ago
I've had many - some good and some not so good (my current one is one of the best I've had). The best ones typically trust me to do my job well and would back me up if I got into trouble. They also assumed that I screwed up and they needed
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by sriramk 17y ago
If it's Microsoft technology, people do try out things (it is hard to avoid it - dogfooding is a big part of MSFT culture. What they don't do as much is talk about it in public or share the code out (it typically lives on some internal site
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Stuff I've learned at Microsoft(sriramkrishnan.com)
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by sriramk 17y ago
I see a few Nick Bobics around. http://conferences.oreillynet.com/cs/et2002/view/e_spkr/1162 and http://www.gamasutra.com/view/authors/148/Nick_Bobic.php seem to refer to the same person. The Ottawa reference makes me suspect that this
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by sriramk 17y ago
Typically, the visas get overbooked (sometimes, twice over - leading to the lottery system) on the first day . The fact that there are still opening months later points to a dramatic slowown
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by sriramk 17y ago
This begs the question - what does the average YC startup do for healthcare? Do the co-founders find insurance on their own? Can a startup do 'employer-provided' insurance? What sort of work does it entail? I see some comments from tptacker
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by sriramk 17y ago
You beat me to it. My first reaction was "Wait - how is preserving Erlang's syntax but losing the VM a good thing?". I'd love projects going the other direction - a more modern syntax built on Erlang's rock-solid VM + OTP libraries.
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by sriramk 17y ago
Can someone who understands IP addresses explain what Google does to get these IP addresses?
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by sriramk 17y ago
I think some of these mistakes are understandable. For example, YouOS's home page says that it has been shut down and someone not familiar with the details would interpret this thread ( http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=260267 ) to mean t
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by sriramk 17y ago
Wow - OpenDNS's privavy policy is much worse than Google's!
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by sriramk 17y ago
I typically don't comment on threads on MSFT since I work there but I'll make an exception (disclaimer - my own opinion, etc, etc). I was there in person for this talk and quite disappointed. At first I thought it was because the talk was s
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by sriramk 17y ago
I've been using it on Cygwin since the beginning. Frankly, its fairly straight forward. The 'configure, make, make install' works out of the box and afterwards you do the same thing you'd do a *nix box. I've had no trouble at all.
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by sriramk 17y ago
+1. I have lots of sympathy for emails being taken out of context, internal jargon looking weird when shown in public. But asking someone to delete email/data is just wrong and can't be explained away. I find it sad that there hasn't been a
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by sriramk 17y ago
I work for Windows Azure. I'm going to try hard to not make this into a marketing thing. I want to clarify a couple of things from the blog post - The web platform installer is really quite distinct from Windows Azure. The WebPI is a nice i
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by sriramk 17y ago
I work for Windows Azure. I think the right equivalent to S3 is Windows Azure blob storage. I'm really not sure what you're refering to by SDS. SDS used to refer to an older version of what is now called SQL Azure but the technology there h
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by sriramk 17y ago
I just spent the morning reading this book through O'Reilly's Safari access. It is absolutely brilliant and is up there with Presentation Zen and Slideology as 'must have' books if you're a speaker. Here's the thing though - despite Scott's
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by sriramk 17y ago
this shows up in one of the IE browser 'explorer' bars.
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by sriramk 17y ago
This is absolutely brilliant writing. Great use of dialogue, 'showing' rather than 'telling', painting good pictures of the various characters involved (Burt, 'jolly' director),etc.
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by sriramk 17y ago
I was about to say something similar. For example, imagine if someone posted a topic saying (hypothetically) "Obama received more campaign funds from gay/lesbian organizations than McCain" (replace gay/lesbian with pro-choice, gun control,

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