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by vimalg2 16y ago
Interesting... Dropbox apparently does this. This explains why adding the ubuntu netbook iso image to the Dropbox folder, synced in milliseconds. My friend was going a little nuts wondering if Dropbox choked.
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by vimalg2 16y ago
Sadly, the general population is not familiar with the concept and its inherent sanity. Imagine the first time you read the phrase, coming from a un-informed background. Thats pretty much the way, the everyman is going to back the governmen
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by vimalg2 16y ago
Honest elections DO require a paper trail, even with EV-machines I found : http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Voter_Verified_Paper_Audit_Trai...
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by vimalg2 16y ago
In other words, the system is tailored for good 'students', not great learners. Autodidacts are viewed as social misfits who do not like working with others. I can attest that this generalization is not true as far as I am concerned. http:
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by vimalg2 16y ago
This is what i've come to experience myself. Often a solid grasp of the core fundamentals of your domain is more valuable that having a half-baked knowledge of various in-depth areas. Like the old man said, (or didn't) , You can always goog
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by vimalg2 16y ago
This speech shook me rudely awake , reminded me of my post-college long-term life goal(one that makes a contribution to human wealth). My goal is to build a excellent institution of learning, to train the dreamers and doers of tomorrow(not
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by vimalg2 16y ago
I live in India and am a proud owner of a TVS Gold. I got it for the equivalent of around $30 USD. A mechanical switch keyboard is completely worth it, if you're like me, and want to feel pampered when typing. It also boosted my untrained t
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by vimalg2 16y ago
Like somebody wise once said, you should always surround yourself with people smarter than yourself in order to grow. If you can't do it in the real world because of your geography or the quality of your physical peers, Hacker news is the b
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by vimalg2 16y ago
Yes, its a useful trick I often use. However, does anyone know if Chromium or Opera can do the same DNS request tunnelling? (Firefox+Linux is sluggish for me.)
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by vimalg2 16y ago
I did the same thing around 6 months ago, except I refined it into 2-phases. I got a Core2Duo E7500 and overclocked it well with a CM Hyper212+ heatsink+fan, for my worskstation. Spent the money saved on high quality Power supply, case and
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by vimalg2 16y ago
I pretty much use Monit for everything. (Though I wasn't aware of supervisord.) I'm always looking forward to infrastructure/scaling/systems-engineering posts like these.
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by vimalg2 17y ago
Trivandrum, India. I wonder if non-indians can pronounce the official name. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thiruvananthapuram
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by vimalg2 17y ago
I think its the mindset that security and IT is just a cost-center, in Big Government Bureaucracies. I'm sure that military personnel at GroundZero everywhere understand operational security, since their lives likely depend on it. Its just
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by vimalg2 17y ago
Come to think of it, I read a lot of fiction and sub-consciously engage in filtering out the fictional content from the real-world facts in the text. I'm inclined to believe, that this has helped me become a better filter for the noise/B.S
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by vimalg2 17y ago
Perhaps her real name is kinda hard to use as a handle. Hint: whois query. All the best, woman.
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by vimalg2 17y ago
This is something that Gmail does really well right now, what with the new 'Send via SMTP' feature. When I use a secondary account to send from my 'control center' account, the email appears in the SENT items in both accounts. Double Win fo
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by vimalg2 17y ago
Any improvement over Gmail/Apps search index is worth a look. Thanks.
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by vimalg2 17y ago
I've run this argument through my head several times. Here's what you should like about Gmail: 1) Google infrastructure is probably more secure than any server you could set up quickly. 2) Google handles all those pesky issue with IP blackl
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by vimalg2 17y ago
Basically seems like a new pseudo-VC who's roped in a bunch of rich civilians into this great-YC-idea-you-know-small-stakes-small-investments-but-BIG-returns Fund. This is one of the cases where 'Launch Now, Fix later' doesn't really work o
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by vimalg2 17y ago
Yes, Opera/Windows handles Flash surprisingly well. The secret sauce is a mystery.
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by vimalg2 17y ago
Adobe Flash on Opera/Linux has always been quirky , crashy and all-round unreliable for me in the past. So, I use Opera as my pure-HTML+javascript browser, with ALL plugins, sound, animation, and Java plugins turned off in Global preference
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by vimalg2 17y ago
This is excellent. But I wish I could see an error/warning message a la Chrome. However, i did notice a perceptible bump in memory usage via the System Monitor panel applet. The POC probably exploits a known Memory-allocation bug. [Currentl
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by vimalg2 17y ago
I do the same thing on FF. But in my case , its more of a habit that got carried over from being a seasoned Opera User from ye olde days of Dial-up internet
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by vimalg2 17y ago
me too @vimalg2 (updated my profile too)
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by vimalg2 17y ago
Comment grandparent explains why.
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by vimalg2 17y ago
I appreciate the point. But, If this was a website that made tangible revenue via Sales/webLeads, I suppose the tone of this discussion might change? ;) One wouldn't then, be happy to rely on a 3rd party (Google/browser design committee) to
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by vimalg2 17y ago
I believe http://hackerne.ws already aims to do this. I don't remember who started/maintains it though. Its was a DNS hack IIRC.
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by vimalg2 17y ago
That's exactly what I was quite content to think all these years. ;) But i'm growing up a bit. Who's to say an old-school non-computing-related engineer-ish sign-up couldn't have anything useful to contribute on HN. Isn't that motivation e
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by vimalg2 17y ago
I'm assuming you mean a 'www.news' subdomain. I'm not aware of any other Best practices used by webmasters to handle naive/new visitors. Also, I don't know about the flexibility of news.yc's custom Arc webserver. I suppose it might be much
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by vimalg2 17y ago
That's true. But another generation I know of still thinks 'MUST-prepend-www.' for all things related to URLs. Personally, I never use the www as a default for any property I'm responsible for. But, its still important to alias and re-dire

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