vinay_ys

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by vinay_ys 7y ago
It's not that hard. In India because of so much construction related digging cuts OFCs, we do the path planning quite well and our redundancies get tested quite regularly whether you want to or not.
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by vinay_ys 7y ago
Really nice blog post to read for anyone responsible for administering technical/billing/organizational stuff in a 500+ developer organization. A lot of problems around permissions, billing etc and how they have gone about solving
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by vinay_ys 7y ago
hmm, you mean "\n" vs "\r\n"? ;-)
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by vinay_ys 7y ago
It is quite alarming if we need to move away from digital connected tech for electrical grid monitoring and management. What about banks? What about hospitals? storage facilities? record keeping? These are the core underpinnings of a functi
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by vinay_ys 7y ago
My point is Libra isn't needed for person-to-person or person-to-merchant transfers within India. The international small amount transfer use-case is extremely rare and unlikely to take-off because of Libra. In any case, you seem to be
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by vinay_ys 7y ago
Any app should be clear and upfront about what data it collects and how it collects it, and what it does with it. The platforms - web-browser or operating system - that run these apps - web app or native app - for the benefit of that user -
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by vinay_ys 7y ago
Unified Payment Interface (UPI) in India is a highly scalable (800million transactions per month) mobile payment method with 160+ banks participating with numerous mobile apps (example: Bhim, PhonePe) that is free of charge for merchant pay
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by vinay_ys 7y ago
I hope they commission a project to build this completely indigenously to be built from scratch and set the scale requirements high enough to scale to 100million+ people in a single private organization along with stringent sufficiently fut
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by vinay_ys 7y ago
> What do they have to hide? This is the kind of dangerous statement that has done more damage to privacy and security conversation than anything else. Please stop.
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by vinay_ys 7y ago
As long as more than a trivial number of people need to access your application from a network that is bigger than one room, your application is at risk. But definitely running in public shared cloud exposes you to certain kinds of attack v
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by vinay_ys 7y ago
This is a seriously BS argument to be made for Mozilla which developed its own programming language to build the browser. Even for anyone else who is developing a serious enough business, owning your own traffic metric data is important to
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by vinay_ys 7y ago
A brand new highly technical protocol with a brand new language has been announced along with open-source codebase and I am yet to come across a meaningful critique or review of the tech side of Libra. Politics aside, just the tech is quite
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by vinay_ys 7y ago
Most corp IT teams I have encountered used some sort of proprietary system for tracking inventory or other management activities. I wish there were robust open-source software stacks available to manage corp IT stuff. Also, I find it weird
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by vinay_ys 7y ago
I've been trying nightly as well. But it seems to sporadically reset all my settings whenever it upgrades. For example the DoH was turned off again. And there are some weird settings like this: $$$apz.fling_curve_function_x1$$$ and it
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by vinay_ys 7y ago
Firefox is investing into Lockwise (lockbox?) https://lockwise.firefox.com I feel they are spreading themselves too thin. Instead they could do everything they can to push WebAuthn with support for on-device Secure Enclave (with
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by vinay_ys 7y ago
It is quite bad if changing the allocator made your program run at half speed. It doesn't matter if the library itself consumed more CPU or caused more wait (guessing that's the case here) due to concurrency or excessive syscalls.
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by vinay_ys 7y ago
I feel the same way. I have always sought to work for such start-ups that are about to take off and do high-scale; where leverage is important. Leverage provided by code-bases where certain changes to the code makes others working on the sa
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by vinay_ys 7y ago
There's a lot to be said about org design. Org design has to be right for the size of the company and the velocity you need to succeed. For example, when a start-up that is about to take off like a rocket ship, it needs to make a consc
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by vinay_ys 7y ago
It is the job of journalists to ask these controversial questions about NSA's role as a saboteur vs contributing in good faith to really improve the security of systems. So, nothing wrong with that. Healthy skepticism and all that. In
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by vinay_ys 7y ago
What's the modern peer review process for science? Is there an open forum filled with reputed researchers who are willing to write their reviews, ask questions or give suggestions to young researchers who are submitting their work for
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by vinay_ys 7y ago
Aren't they obligated to investigate? If the methodology applied is sound and conclusions are different, isn't that scientific progress in and of itself? The ask here is to send it for peer-review so that they get some different p
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by vinay_ys 7y ago
Why would it definitely not get published? I found their request totally reasonable. They have followed the scientific process well. Even the journal's editorial team acknowledged that. Then they have an obligation to at least facili
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by vinay_ys 7y ago
If everyone follows this advice, who will write the crypto code? If anything we need lot more people who are formally trained to write proper crypto code and find bugs in such code etc.
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by vinay_ys 7y ago
Do we know how the exploit would be used? If you are accessing your mail account in the same browser, are you at risk?
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by vinay_ys 7y ago
Except for Netflix which is $8/month, rest of the streaming services are very cheap. Hotstar has content from HBO, Showtime etc. Amazon Prime is ok. There are lots of Indian streaming services with Indian content. A lot of data consump
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by vinay_ys 7y ago
There's a simple way to ban bitcoin. Govts already regulate the banking and payment companies. Govt can compel them to not allow/facilitate exchange of bitcoin for fiat currency or vice-versa. Without banking/payments infra s
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by vinay_ys 7y ago
One thing that has bugged me is why don't they use concrete construction in US, like we have in India and most of Europe? Concrete construction would definitely eliminate the noisy neighbor problem to a very high degree (unless they ar
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by vinay_ys 7y ago
Really? You would rather have privacy invading ads everywhere than have well-researched paid content?
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by vinay_ys 7y ago
After reading first couple of paragraph of this paper, Wireguard ( https://www.wireguard.com ) comes to mind. Then, they mentioned a research OS called Ethos (which seems to be defunct now). Did they figure out a more mainstream
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by vinay_ys 7y ago
Are they still blocked from DigitalOcean IP addresses?

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