darwinGod

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by darwinGod 12y ago
A blog article I wrote on this topic a while back.
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On Lock-Free Programming and Concurrency(appolo85.wordpress.com)
1 points by darwinGod 12y ago|1 comments
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by darwinGod 12y ago
A blog article I wrote on custom memory allocators, with references to help explore better
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On Custom memory pools/alocators(appolo85.wordpress.com)
3 points by darwinGod 12y ago|1 comments
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by darwinGod 12y ago
To those very new to India's politics, there are few things to consider before forming an opinion of Modi's involvement in the 2002 riots. (a) The Government in power at the center was the opposition party ( Congress) throughout t
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Ask HN:What are some good tech companies in Sydney/Melbourne for developers?
11 points by darwinGod 12y ago|3 comments
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by darwinGod 13y ago
There should be atleast few more people interested in this!
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Ask HN: Startups willing to hire H1-B outside USA?
8 points by darwinGod 13y ago|4 comments
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by darwinGod 13y ago
One of ex-colleagues has now been happily trekking in the Himalayas for 6+months,and will most likely might set up some non-tech venture over there sometime soon. (He has had the rare opportunity to reject offers with Google/Amazon&#x2
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by darwinGod 13y ago
Book Recommendation: "Design of Everyday things". A great book,and particularly covers quite a bit about telephones. Surprised no one has brought this up yet. :-)
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by darwinGod 13y ago
Alright,so how long does it take for disgruntled soon-to-be-ex-system-administrator of the 90% of sysadmins to do the next leak?
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by darwinGod 13y ago
A relevant stackoverflow thread for the same,which addresses some common misconceptions http://superuser.com/questions/367490/can-a-32-bit-os-machin...
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by darwinGod 13y ago
Nice list- I am not sure if an equivalent law exists in any other country- but in India, if you have attempted suicide (and survive),you will be arrested!
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by darwinGod 13y ago
:-/ Exactly. TOI (Times of India), is missing an adjective in the beginning. It really is: (Garbage) Times of India. It really is the last place on Earth I would hope to read any decent article on Science/Tech. However it truly is cutti
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by darwinGod 13y ago
For some more context, this was the OP's previous question in Stackoverflow. http://serverfault.com/questions/420877/ive-inherited-a-rats... Doesn't that change the entire question!
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Novartis loses cancer drug patent case in India,Generic drug costs 92% less(in.reuters.com)
1 points by darwinGod 13y ago|0 comments
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by darwinGod 14y ago
The number of times I have spent 10 minutes staring at the output of 'pgrep processname' , when I had attached gdb to the process in another terminal session... Urgh!! :-/
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by darwinGod 14y ago
To folks who think C code is in general a mess of Pointers, macros, and goto's - Go download Postgres codebase,build cscope,open vim.. and try browsing the code. Arguably, one of the most beautiful C-code bases you can get hold off.
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by darwinGod 14y ago
Nice article, with good related references-an excellent read-Didn't know about Tcp incast before- good way to start a Saturday morning!
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by darwinGod 14y ago
One of them got arrested for the unpardonable offense of "liking" the post of the other.
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by darwinGod 14y ago
Buddha had summarized that very succinctly "What we think, we become " :-)
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by darwinGod 14y ago
As someone who writes C code for a distributed system that uses event-driven callbacks ( Zscaler) (yes,the binding is at compile time), I was aghast when I saw goto's in the codebase. I mean,I believed programmers were indoctrinated with "
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by darwinGod 14y ago
This just demonstrated a proof of concept that 26/11 mumbai style attack is possible on U.S soil. That is a very,very dangerous thing.
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by darwinGod 14y ago
I was thinking this should have been the topmost comment on this story- Surprised that not many people here seem to have read this,for if they had- this 'story' should have been the first thing they commented on.
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by darwinGod 14y ago
Probably, the key part of what you said, is "couple of comments". Makes a huge difference if the same convention is on,say, 100,000 LOC, and the people who wrote it didnt give proper comments and left the company! :P Speaking on naming co
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by darwinGod 15y ago
'Cashmore' -I honestly for a second thought it was a pun on the founder's name,till I googled him. Extremely impressive exit for a 26 year old guy!
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by darwinGod 15y ago
Agree.I wouldn't care if MS Office,Photoshop takes some extra time to start.The wait would be worth it.For all the bashing Microsoft gets,MS Office and Active Directory are products which really,really way better when compared to their
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by darwinGod 15y ago
If this was for Postgres refer this : http://wiki.postgresql.org/wiki/Binary_Replication_Tutorial See the section "Starting Replication with only a Quick Master Restart", I tested this with a DB <10 GB. The setup time for replicati
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by darwinGod 15y ago
From the comments below, it seems that only the "non-nerds", "non-tech savy" guys would be naive enough to be suspicious when they get an anonymous SMS notification to divulge personal details.Maybe in a perfect world, that is true, but we
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by darwinGod 15y ago
Nice! Little strange that there is no mention of the release of the code on Fabrice Bellard's site.

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