ivenkys

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by ivenkys 15y ago
It would be interesting to see if someone from SG or South Korea can chime in - i lived in SG 10 years ago and got 100Mbps downstream consistently.
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by ivenkys 15y ago
Its actually one of the easiest O.S to install and work with when it comes to back-end servers for running network infrastructure type services (vpn, firewall, chat server, torrent server, dns, dhcp etc. etc.) - nothing comes close.
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by ivenkys 16y ago
There is a specific / very specific case missing here - Working on the Trading Floor. I have found that the general noise + energy level of a Floor gives you a natural high and it also drowns out individual Phone calls + conversations (whic
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by ivenkys 16y ago
A good thing to have - better than the "assert" keyword in Java.
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by ivenkys 16y ago
A definite plus move and the canny thing is locating it near the existing "Tech Triangle" - Shoreditch and moving Eastwards towards Stratford. That part of London is cheap, well connected and has a large immigrant population. It will be int
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by ivenkys 16y ago
Very nice site , quite fast. One question - Is it a policy not to have the BSE or NSE not there, i could not find them under Asia. My thinking is i would come to a site called Paisa.com looking for insights into the Indian markets - may be
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by ivenkys 16y ago
"Equally" is a loaded word but depending on the areas you work in, a software engineer can make a lot of money in Hedge Funds and IB's. The key differentiator is how "close" you are to the Front-Office.
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by ivenkys 16y ago
My experience has been mainly with large/very large Financial institutions and this is almost always the case. Manager gets money for Project , hires contractors , if project deemed successful , more money, more contractors , if project dee
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by ivenkys 16y ago
Yes - he did cancel the Billion Dollar contract but not because I.T suddenly became a core competency. Non-front office facing I.T is being pushed to cheaper locations - primarily to Scotland and Southampton in the UK and is not considered
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by ivenkys 16y ago
I am not sure why this is not self-evident. Practical Definitions: An Employee is part of the liability on a company's balance-sheet, its a cost to be pruned when the going gets tough. IN any large company worth its name he is just a number
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by ivenkys 16y ago
From what i know that was the original intention behind Slang and SecDB. Standardization of use across different departments and in some ways a way to subvert the politics.
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by ivenkys 16y ago
Another day - another article on outsourcing. This is not particularly new or newsworthy i think. All kinds of grunt work across different industries will move to cheaper locations , its just inevitable.
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by ivenkys 16y ago
I use both - Arch as a primary desktop and OBSD for my servers. For all practical purposes you are correct. I personally think of Arch as a collection of components loosely put together, you pick and choose what you want and they generally
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by ivenkys 16y ago
Sitting in your day-job having to use (a very flaky) ClearCase instance working on a monster code base that has no tests and has a non-deterministic build process. Think of the pay-cheque at the end of the month. Get paid, save/invest prope
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by ivenkys 16y ago
Mine : Remember a pay cheque goes a long way in alleviating the horrors of a corporate job. Not everyone can afford to be a struggling hacker waiting for the big pay-off.
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by ivenkys 16y ago
I for one would pay good money to get a response like this. He points out the errors,the incorrect assumptions and offers pointers of what to do. The general standard of discourse on most mailing lists tend to be quite a bit lower than this
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by ivenkys 16y ago
There is almost a sense of inevitability to all of this. The best and the brightest leave , the foot-soldiers get cut and the company culture/technology dies a slow,quiet death. Sad but inevitable.
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by ivenkys 16y ago
Not wanting to sound like good old days but "Seems weird" is about right , the voting patterns in the last year has been very different. Relevant comments and topic submissions that you would think were of interest to "Hackers" just don't s
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by ivenkys 16y ago
This seems to be a good heuristic , find out the ratio of the doers versus middle-managers , the higher this number is the better it is. One other company that exhibits this nimbleness ala Apple despite its size is Goldman Sachs. From pers
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by ivenkys 16y ago
Inspirational stuff.
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by ivenkys 16y ago
While agreeing with what you say - i would like to add one caveat - only if you are working in a Business Critical (read Front Office) role.
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by ivenkys 16y ago
I can see a few use-cases where this can be quite useful especially if easy to use. To me the more interesting aspect of it is the - Complete open-source , idea-open and source-code open. For a startup looking for funding (applying to YC) ,
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by ivenkys 16y ago
This is really a good and potentially very disruptive idea. It would be interesting to how far he can take this and monetize this. I am going to take him up on his offer. I have specific requirements and i have a working prototype of the s
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by ivenkys 16y ago
No one is doing something more mind-numbing than me. Waiting for I.T Support to give me Admin rights on my PC to get something/anything working.
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by ivenkys 16y ago
This article doesn't say anything new that hasn't been said before and has been said better many times. YES, outsourcing "almost" always doesn't work.
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by ivenkys 16y ago
"taking on the problem head-on" - my reading of this was just the opposite. They are attempting to put a different spin on the whole issue , its not that the phone has a faulty antenna or you are "holding it incorrectly" - its that we displ
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by ivenkys 16y ago
More likely to be a combination of Python, C and/or Java. ITA uses a lot of C and Java as well.
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Historian deciphers hidden "Plato Code"(news.bbc.co.uk)
3 points by ivenkys 16y ago|1 comments
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by ivenkys 16y ago
This is the right approach. If an interview is like dating/flirting then you don't start by asking the prospective partner about their life philosophy you start by talking about the weather. "Amazingly enough, some candidates have actually
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by ivenkys 16y ago
"Apparently the state-of-the-art is to have buttons for every floor to be outside the car, in the lobby." - Not sure if this is state-of-the-art but i used such a system in Singapore 10-12 years ago and it works very well. The only flaw i

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