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by vinay_ys 6y ago
The same kind of deal making happens in the VC/PE world? Isn't it true that you not only get money investments from VC/PE firms but also get connections and deal-making with their portfolio companies. In that way it is quite
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by vinay_ys 6y ago
Isn't it because the wealthy and influential can donate/raise huge sums of money for politician's superpac and help them win elections term after term and stay in power for decades?
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by vinay_ys 6y ago
UPI usage/traffic has grown orders of magnitude each year. That kind of growth isn't handled reliably by the best of the startups even today (remember twitter in its early years?). Banks do invest a lot of money/resources int
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by vinay_ys 6y ago
Thank you for sharing this. Very impressed with this transparency by the switch operator. I couldn't tell how reliable this switch operator itself is. Is there statistics reported from the perspective of the payment initiator? (consum
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by vinay_ys 6y ago
You are right. They are renting dumb fiber interconnects between their PoPs, their datacenters and to various IXs and then they are asking their customers to rent dumb fiber interconnects from their offices and datacenters to connect with
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by vinay_ys 6y ago
I can see how this can be quite successful. On the one hand, private interconnect from your DC to a nearby Cloudflare PoP can be cheaper per Mbps or Gbps of bandwidth provisioned and hence can help reduce your overall network bandwidth cost
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by vinay_ys 6y ago
Really well written article with a nice diagram that concisely explains all the memory safe/unsafe areas of a rust program.
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by vinay_ys 6y ago
Rest of your program blindly believes that the interface of your "trusted set" is safe because you owned that responsibility when you marked it unsafe. If you have a memory safety bug in that interface, then you can taint the rest
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by vinay_ys 6y ago
For majority of the people, cash is still the main mode of payment. A new mobile payment called UPI that supports P2P payments based on simple virtual payment handle (<yourhandle>@<pspbank>) and QR based P2M (merchant) payments
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by vinay_ys 6y ago
India moved to chip and pin a long time ago and stopped magnetic stripe swiping soon after. And for all CNP, there's additional factor of authentication (majorly, SMS OTP from the issuing bank). These are mandated by the regulator (RBI
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by vinay_ys 6y ago
These open source projects you talk about were developed by profit seeking enterprises for solving complex distributed systems problems at scale. Because they chose to make them open-source (not out of altruistic motives but out of the same
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by vinay_ys 6y ago
Subservient isn't the right word I think. A lot of rich and famous attended the Ambani wedding events – Clinton, Huffington etc and a lot of celebrities from world over. Beyonce did a show too. So did a lot of Bollywood celebrities. Th
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by vinay_ys 6y ago
Along with signing, we need explicit content cache busting and explicit allowed mirrors list (which can be revoked instantly). Then it would be at par with TLS + current cache busting mechanisms on top of TLS.
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by vinay_ys 6y ago
Most video conference uses ~4Mbps for your video feed going out. It is more likely you need 100Mbps upload for doing backups or uploading photos or home videos etc. For a household with 2 people working from home and also watching a ton of
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by vinay_ys 6y ago
Proper data hygiene at large enterprise levels is, in fact, exceedingly difficult. Creating a hermetically sealed IT environment where only way to exfiltrate data that remains is the employees eyeballs is definitely possible and is
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by vinay_ys 6y ago
There is no reason to believe clouds don't have security issues or software bugs that cause inadvertent data loss. Just because the cloud provider is a big company doesn't mean the security is better. At the end of the day, they
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by vinay_ys 6y ago
Because photoshop is primarily a complex software for professional raster image editing/designing. Those who use it for that purpose will not think of Figma as its replacement. Figma is a SVG based UX design tool and those who do UX de
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by vinay_ys 6y ago
Photoshop->Figma :D that's hilarious!
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by vinay_ys 6y ago
I got through their virtual agent and reached a human agent who decided to transfer me once she got to know I'm asking for cancellation. I got this response "Please wait one moment while I transfer you to an account specialist.&qu
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by vinay_ys 6y ago
What in Mozilla's track record makes you trust that they can run a trustworthy service? I'm a big fan of Mozilla for Firefox and rust. But they we have to be objective. They have yet to earn my trust for running a safe and secure
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by vinay_ys 6y ago
L1B is a very bad visa. If you come on that to US and you get sucked into the green card trap, you are basically screwed. You will see a lot of people on L1 visas taking on more crap at work because they can't quit or change jobs easi
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by vinay_ys 6y ago
I think 'best chance' at safe programming is the advances in chip design. I expect PMMU to become more sophisticated and solve more of the memory safety problems in hardware than in software. Then, the programming model will evolv
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by vinay_ys 6y ago
Unless your startup is building some new tech product (like a new database technology, or a crypto/blockchain system) that is going to be sold to customers, software code quality doesn't matter much, at least initially for sure, a
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by vinay_ys 6y ago
This seems like a very large release with lots of security fixes. Wonder if Apple is releasing the security fixes quickly enough after it is found and reported or are they batching these fixes into a larger and fewer release and in doing so
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by vinay_ys 6y ago
http://cr.yp.to/talks/2007.11.02/slides.pdf I don't see ego in these slides. I see a brilliant programmer acknowledging his mistakes and learning from them. I really enjoyed running qmail in early 2000s and
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by vinay_ys 6y ago
Single biggest TCP issue I have had to debug and fix numerous times is about not doing connection reuse properly leading to tcp port exhaustion and causing seemly random delays causing timeout failures at higher level protocols, usually htt
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by vinay_ys 6y ago
For the 20-30 something with no kids who are showing higher productivity working from home, once the outdoor/social life returns to normal, their productivity will drop. They will want a dedicated office space and discipline of going t
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by vinay_ys 6y ago
What exactly are the legacy market infra dependencies and what would you replace them with? 8 million trades a day with 1000 messages / second doesn't sound too challenging. But it is besides the point w.r.t the user experience co
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by vinay_ys 7y ago
Thanks for pointing out that wiki link. It lead me to another link https://www.merriam-webster.com/words-at-play/beg-the-questi... which seems to indicate my usage is quite acceptable in modern English.
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by vinay_ys 7y ago
"This begs the question" is same as "This raises the question" – What is the logical fallacy in how it is phrased?

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