vinay_ys

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by vinay_ys 6y ago
Is there any research on the cost economics of a small-town ISP? I wonder if the ecosystem is conducive for a small-town ISP to come up and operate the last-mile? Is there competitive pricing on the metro core and transit ISP bandwidths? Is
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by vinay_ys 6y ago
Having dedicated silicon for most frequently used primitives (specialized accelerators) helps in getting those out of the way for the main core's pipeline execution to run predictably fast.
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by vinay_ys 6y ago
Just because an app is not free (it charges users) does not mean they are not harvesting their users personal data and selling it to data brokers etc.
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by vinay_ys 6y ago
I have been in similar situation of handling huge spike in traffic due to festive sale season. After building huge amount of cheap datacenter capacity and optimizing our hardware/software stack, only reasonable thing we could do was to
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by vinay_ys 6y ago
The founders I have worked with (who became billionaires) are quite boring. In pretty much every social gathering with them, they were silent (brooding) and didn't have interesting things to say about things and didn't seem intere
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by vinay_ys 6y ago
A modern lecture on memory allocators should have covered aspects to developer ergonomics w.r.t memory safety features like leak detection, use after free etc and allocation statistics in general. These are must-have features of any memory
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by vinay_ys 6y ago
I was an Apple Music subscriber listening music on AirPods until I bought a pair of studio reference monitors for 700 USD equivalent (Yamaha HS8). The joy of listening for hours without pain or fatigue from these while WFH is great. These a
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by vinay_ys 6y ago
Enterprises can also disable direct outbound connections to anywhere. They can insist only way to access anything is via http proxies. You can do the same at home with a pi-hole. On iOS/MacOS you can install content/network filter
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by vinay_ys 6y ago
I think the goal of any such pursuit is to reduce/manage the cognitive load that any one person has to deal with while they are trying accomplish something. Things like "Separating control structure from problem domain" enabl
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by vinay_ys 6y ago
One of the requirements is that requirements will change.
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by vinay_ys 6y ago
Reminds me of an episode in 'Billions'.
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by vinay_ys 6y ago
IMO, it is the population and resource density that makes the difference in human behavior. I have seen densely populated, resource stretched cities in the west that will put an Indian city to shame in bad road traffic behavior.
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by vinay_ys 6y ago
In fact it is easier to get bigger discounts if you are a mid-size customer than if you are a big customer. If you are a very big customer, then any discount given to you will directly affect the cloud business bottomline. A public cloud in
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by vinay_ys 6y ago
In most situations, micro-services are for organizing domain-specific functional concerns into decoupled teams/services so that functional domain changes can be done rapidly without risking rippling or inter-locking changes across the
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by vinay_ys 6y ago
I think we don't learn and codify standards from our mistakes in software engineering in the same way we have learnt in civil, mechanical or electrical engineering. I guess it could be because we think the consequences in software mist
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by vinay_ys 6y ago
As an architectural building block we have been stuck with Firewalls, IDS etc. We need a new kind of isolation device – an air-gapped one-way data transmission gate – that can sit between critical safety control systems and their monitorin
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by vinay_ys 6y ago
tl;dr: In 2020, I would expect most programs to be ultimately CPU bound (meaning the cost of the cpu is the dominant cost – you can upgrade other 3 resources more cheaply until cpu becomes the bottleneck). Hence cpu optimizations matter tod
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by vinay_ys 6y ago
Nope
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by vinay_ys 6y ago
Don't they do brand product placement in their shows and do cross-promotion campaigns with those brands?
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by vinay_ys 6y ago
I recently installed Ubuntu 20.04 and configured a home gateway. I had not done something like that in a while (3+ years). My experience was not much different this time than any other time before as far as I remember. It took me an hour of
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by vinay_ys 6y ago
Much ado about nothing. Is djb or anyone else really pushing for this today? Email infra is unnecessarily complex and painful to operate yes, but that isn't the big problem today. If anyone wants to tackle a big problem in email space
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by vinay_ys 6y ago
Cert auth is the way to go. Here's a good blog post I found by searching: https://smallstep.com/blog/use-ssh-certificates/
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by vinay_ys 6y ago
This. For any amateur server setup that is connected to Internet, wireguard is one-stop solution to cut down all exposure to Internet by running all services only on localhost or wireguard interface and keep only the wireguard port open to
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by vinay_ys 6y ago
Here's my understanding. YMMV. Moonlighting: working side job/s for other entities while you are employed full time by one entity. The full-time employment entity is your own company (if you are the founder) or your full-time empl
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by vinay_ys 6y ago
Cost of doing business and price you would want to charge and what customers are willing to pay - all these would be different for different sales channels, different geographies, different feature bundles etc. And it is perfectly logical a
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by vinay_ys 6y ago
I had a very bad experience trying to cancel nytimes subscription. That's when I realized the usefulness of App Store being the intermediary/guardian.
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by vinay_ys 6y ago
Engineers consume capital that was raised to produce highly valuable products that create enterprise value that justify the capital that was raised. Those who call engineers as cost centers in today's world are doomed because they don&
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by vinay_ys 6y ago
If government is responsible for running common infrastructure, just by their choice of which infra to grow or let decay, they are affecting economy. If government is responsible for social welfare (for the poor), they are affecting economy
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by vinay_ys 6y ago
To curtail and equalize the political power of the rich with the rest of world, their wealth have to be reduced to such an extent that they also don't have the leisure to engage in deep politics. Let's say, if 75% of the voting po
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by vinay_ys 6y ago
If Economy is separated from the State, what remains?

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