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SSH uses four TCP segments for each character you type(blog.hyfather.com)
100 points by ultimoo 13y ago|41 comments
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by ultimoo 13y ago
There is a third kind of meaning to an MS-CS degree. For international students, it becomes significantly easier to get work authorization and permanent residency in the US if they obtain a higher education degree (basically an MS or a Ph
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by ultimoo 13y ago
I believe I am a good engineer, I have heard generally positive things about my professional work, have a college degree, etc. I am however terrified of programming challenges (topcoder, spoj, interview-street, etc.) I have tried solving so
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Red Hat versus Windows Server(microsoft.com)
2 points by ultimoo 13y ago|0 comments
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by ultimoo 13y ago
>> "You spend all your time trying to resolve minor problems, one after another in an endless sequence, like ripples on the surface of a lake. You tell yourself that once you've finished this or that project you'll start giving some
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Play laser games with your cat from afar with Petcube(wired.co.uk)
2 points by ultimoo 13y ago|0 comments
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Linkedin update their user agreement(linkedin.com)
3 points by ultimoo 13y ago|0 comments
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by ultimoo 13y ago
Most of the default subreddits could be classified not only as mainstream but also much diluted from what they were a few years ago. The way I use the site nowadays I entirely unsubscribed from most of the default subreddits. In the smaller
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by ultimoo 13y ago
Great idea. However, is such a policy implementable at a large corporation like Google or Microsoft? It is certainly within reach of startups that have a dozen or even a couple of hundred employees.
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by ultimoo 13y ago
We recently covered patents and basic copyright law in a technical writing class. What my professors taught me was that 'patent is a contract between society and inventors to encourage progress'. And it seems fair on certain levels. I am a
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by ultimoo 13y ago
This "used-car salesman" undertone, wordily mulling over the same points, and over the top praise are very typical of most Indian magazines and newspapers even. I'm not trying to be nasty here, even I am Indian and not a native speaker of E
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by ultimoo 13y ago
Wow, the most striking is the sudden jump between Redwood City and Atherton on the Local Caltrain route. It jumps from ~30K straight to ~193K.
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by ultimoo 13y ago
Wow! That is very interesting. In the US there are pretty comprehensive "pest-control" measures taken in urban apartment complexes to ensure that there are absolutely no insects, spiders or geckos indoors. I probably see a really tiny "hous
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by ultimoo 13y ago
I am in grad school and live with roommates in the SV. Amongst the six of us, we have interviewed at a cumulative of 20 big SV names in the last month and of course we discuss the interviews frequently with one another. Companies like Broad
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by ultimoo 13y ago
popehat is great, and in spite this being one of their smaller articles, I fail to follow what it boils down to. Can someone please summarize what Prenda has to now do -- Do they serve time? Do they pay millions? Are they not allowed to pra
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by ultimoo 13y ago
True. However, there are also the more difficult-to-measure networking benefits of attending a conference like this. Dropbox are a great technology-centered python shop. One may bump into a future co-founder, or a college senior may impre
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by ultimoo 13y ago
Very nice. However, do you have any ideas what can be accomplished with a multi-computer rack infrastructure that costs about $500? It is probably too weak to run virtualization (which racks are used for these days). It is also not trivial
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by ultimoo 13y ago
Very nice, I liked the information on how post is sorted. I also feel a little sad for the postal workers who are about to lose their jobs. As an aside -- Not too far from where I hail from, in rural India, the postman not only delivers the
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by ultimoo 13y ago
I like all three suggestions. But why is this the #1 story on the hn frontpage? I love github and use it quite a bit, but why nitpick over every tiny github issue/feature on the hn frontpage?
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by ultimoo 13y ago
"Craiglist has been recognized for a failure to innovate and having among the internet’s worst terms of service’s." Wow, that is quite a way to open an article! Isn't journalism supposed to be slightly more neutral than that. I understand t
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by ultimoo 13y ago
I don't know why the OP is a screenshot of github that is linked to github. Maybe it is some new kind of link bait. Here is the content -- "But I really feel like these extensionless files are a bad idea for usability. They look odd in Wind
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by ultimoo 13y ago
This is when I feel envy toward engineers who can program hardware. I'm so involved with Ruby and HTTP and CSS etc. that I have negligible knowledge about Arduino, Raspberry Pi, and Beaglebone. I don't even know where to start and whether i
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by ultimoo 13y ago
Same can be said about socializing. In fact, here in grad school we have a rule: "Choose any two from -- Grades, Social Life, or Sleep".
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by ultimoo 13y ago
Nice, I didn't know about 37.5 hour weeks in NZ. Does that 2.5 difference from 40 hour weeks account for a paid 30 minutes of lunch time everyday, or just a shorter Friday?
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by ultimoo 13y ago
Nice read! It makes a lot of sense too. We developers could probably do something as small as working on a projecteuler.net problem for 30 minutes at the end of a rough day.
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by ultimoo 13y ago
Yay for Steven's TCP/IP Illustrated book in the background of one of the photos!
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by ultimoo 13y ago
Yes, I am actually guilty of using `tig` for a long time too. :-)
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by ultimoo 13y ago
While such wrappers around git always pique my interest and and are created with noble intentions, I am yet to find a team of developers who use such tooling around git. There are dozens of wrappers and workflows around git that have been
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by ultimoo 13y ago
I'm certain nuclear power submarines have two nuclear generators always running to prevent this from happening. I also think they may have a diesel powered generator for bootstrapping.
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by ultimoo 13y ago
While the idea of rebasing history while pulling in new changes may appeal to some users or uses, I disagree with the absolute "one true way" sounding note of OP's article. Git supports first class merging, and it is git's default behavior.

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