sriramk

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by sriramk 17y ago
You can get the Windows Research Kernel through the MSDNAA (which most major universities should be hooked up to). The WRK has all the good stuff
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by sriramk 17y ago
I'm going to get downvoted for picking a non-open source option but... The NT kernel is the most beautiful piece of code I've seen. Dave Cutler and team wrote some very, very elegant code that anyone (even if you're not a kernel hacker) can
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by sriramk 17y ago
I used to think exactly like you but I've changed my mind now. I think there's a world of difference between being a jerk and being rude and telling people the truth. Or rather, one doesn't have to be a jerk to call people out on their BS.
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by sriramk 17y ago
I think this is a bogus question. In fact, any of these expected questions can be well prepared for. If someone asked me this in an interview which I wanted to 'game' for some reason, I would spin a yarn about how I failed, learnt from my m
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by sriramk 17y ago
Actually, the closest Microsoft equivalent is Live Mesh.
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by sriramk 17y ago
I'm surprised there has been no discussion around NT's IO Completion Ports on this topic. IOCPs have this magic where the scheduler makes sure the number of threads running from a worker pool are the optimum for the number of cores on the s
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by sriramk 17y ago
The part I love is that they made the feature work and actually faxed the photo over. Lots of effort for a prank. Thats what makes the best pranks stand out :)
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by sriramk 17y ago
First, I haven't met Nathan personally but from everything I see about him internal to Microsoft (from his time at the company) and his time outside, he is a very, very smart man. And quite rich. I think assigning simple labels like 'good'
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by sriramk 17y ago
Not to derail the conversation but when did 40 become 'old'? I'm just a decade and a half from that age and that isn't long. I'd probably consider 60 or 70 to be old. Not 40.
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by sriramk 17y ago
I try to mention that whenever a major company which competes with Microsoft in some way is involved. Even the most innocent of statements have a way of getting badly misinterpreted, taken out of context, etc.
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by sriramk 17y ago
[Disclaimer: I work for Microsoft] I'm super impressed that they responded so quickly. When a first notification comes in, it is rarely with a fully fleshed out diagnosis. It is usually some runner/monitoring tool sending you an alert sayin
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Twitter XSS vulnerability - had fake tweet posted from my account
2 points by sriramk 17y ago|0 comments
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by sriramk 17y ago
The Firebug analogy isn't valid since Gmail hardcodes a check. I would be surprised if Gmail detects it even if you renamed the extension to something else and still produced the same behavior. The meta point here is that you can only warn
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by sriramk 17y ago
I think Bruce's point is that getting people to remember long, frequently changing pieces of weird text is hard. The risk of everyone picking 'password123' is much higher than everyone writing their passwords on a wallet. It is highly impro
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by sriramk 17y ago
Not a crypto person. I'm pretty sure this is going to be ripped apart by tptacker, NateLawson or cperciva. But I'll speak up anyway :-) I see a lot of sites use HTTP basic auth to do usernames/passwords (especially startups). Or worse, they
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by sriramk 17y ago
Here's a flaw which I've seen in several otherwise good programmers - forgetting that sometimes the core purpose of code is to be read and maintained by other human beings. Some of those other human beings may not have had the time to cat
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by sriramk 17y ago
I've seen three big impediments to doing this in teams in a medium to large environment - First, there's too much ego associated with features. If a feature is someone's 'baby', it is just very hard to get them to accept that that feature n
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by sriramk 17y ago
I know of atleast one person whose account has been compromised. He swears he didn't give out his creds to any service. My guess is this is a 0-day being exploited
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by sriramk 17y ago
In previous teams I worked on, I've often had to send out long emails or documents because someone got on my back over an artificial deadline. I would send it and make sure that an important link in the document was broken. If they didn't n
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Nskein - a Skein implementation in .NET(sriramkrishnan.com)
2 points by sriramk 17y ago|0 comments
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by sriramk 17y ago
[Disclaimer: I work at Microsoft but on cloud stuff not on anything Mac vs Windows related. This is not officially endorsed by Microsoft, just my personal opinion, etc, etc] One small clarification.The 'rounding error' he was talking about
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Microsoft releases STM for .NET(blogs.msdn.com)
29 points by sriramk 17y ago|2 comments
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by sriramk 17y ago
You can hack around it (but like I said, it isn't very clean). I can't speak for AppEngine or the others but on Windows Azure, you're really committing to Windows but not Windows Azure. So in theory, anything that works on Windows should wo
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by sriramk 17y ago
[Disclaimer - I work for Windows Azure] I think this is a great library and I would love to see it work with Windows Azure. Windows Azure doesn't have a service management API today (we only have storage APIs) but we are working on one and
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by sriramk 17y ago
One interesting bit is that BillG reads Gizmodo and was compelled enough to mail a story in. When he wrote comments for his Thinkweek papers (atleast until the last one), I was always amazed by how much he kept track of stuff happening on t
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by sriramk 17y ago
The only feature I would really like to see is 'hg serve'. I would like to be able to host Git easily on my website and gitweb just isn't there today. GitHub is nice and everything but it isn't appropriate in all cases
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by sriramk 17y ago
I'm sad to say that this comment depressed me more (call me self-centered) than the original article (since I'm 25 right now).
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by sriramk 17y ago
Password complexity requirements don't really help. Most people just wind up picking password001 or password #001. In fact, we almost ensure that people will write passwords down when we make them remember weird, long strings and make them
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by sriramk 17y ago
but the original attack wouldn't have changed one bit with SSL. Peter Guttman wrote a great paper on how we defend where the attackers aren't attacking. SSL in this case would have been one such example. Of course, SSL has value in other ca
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by sriramk 17y ago
I'm guessing it is because all email providers recyle email ids/usernames after a period of inactivity. I don't know what Hotmail does but if I remember, they have a lockdown period (which is quite long) after which the username becomes ava

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