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I worked on a POC porting it to Windows and had to port GNU tar to support large file names. TLA was truly revolutionary!

You will need a full repository in other directory to checkout and this will waste storage unless you share objects via alternate.

Another lesson I learned from almost 2+ decades of using Emacs: Track your customizations in a version control. Using customize package and reading the diff in dot Emacs file has t…

I hope there will be student towns with mostly students taking online courses for the camaraderie and learning by helping out each other. Apart from the labs, I do not see a reason…

I froze for a moment seeing this article after having worked at a major anti-virus company long time back and used some low level Win32 APIs. Fortunately, I followed some of the te…

I had a colleague that wrote a tight loop creating objects in Java and in C++ on heap to show Java outperformed C++. Once I implemented a simple pool allocator in C++, it ran circl…

Google search on iOS Safari prompts me to install Google app for every search. This alone drove me nuts and I switched to DDG.

I did something similar (~2015) but using the kernel NFS client and having multiple mounts to the same volume using different IP addresses. Using vectored IO and spreading across m…

Wonder if the current hiring and rewarding contributes to over engineering? How would you look if you just invoked APIs to get your work done versus designed and implemented an end…

I used BDB as a Win32 profiler backend. The profiler was lightweight and would write a flat file with profiling data and function addresses to keep the captured data small. A post …

I first encountered Trie in code storing Unix network group mappings. Since IP addresses in a domain mostly vary at the end, a lot of IP addresses share the same first part. This g…

Very well written article, thank you. Especially when my daughter is taking a course on Unix and the instructor is superficially touching in these fundamental topics (due to their …

On iOS, I have a repeating reminder. However, reminder notification in iOS is very non-intrusive and very easy to miss or dismiss. I have a shortcut that runs everyday at bedtime a…

Same here. I worked at a NAS storage (NFS) vendor and this was a common practice. Could not look at server implementation in Linux kernel and open source NFS client team could not …

I lead a team to implement CIFS server in VMS on Itanium after deciding not to port ASV (Advanced Server - CIFS server for Alpha since it had a lot of hand tuned assembly for a spe…

Especially with a stateless service like a photo hosting service, this is very true. Wish you all the best!

Do we next change naming of RB Tree in all existing documents and software? IMHO, there is no end to this. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Red%E2%80%93black_tree

FWIK, compression works by de-duplication. Finding duplicate patterns is limited to a window. If similar patterns are close to each other, there is a higher probability of finding …

Back in the days, RogueWave had a pretty solid customer base selling portable C++ standard libraries. I worked at 2 different companies and they both quite heavily depended on Rogu…

This looks very similar to the Android eco system suffering from fragmentation. It has become impossible to ensure updates across OEMs and this could be affecting some of the featu…

I am very interested to know what is the engineering overheads and increase in code complexity incurred in maintaining 2 different views. At NetApp, backward compatibility and abil…

Wish folks down voting would provide the reason. As a parent, I would love to learn if I am not solving the real problem.

Apologies for a response riddled with typos.

It is my store too as a parent of a single child losing creativity to instant pleasures and doom scrolling on an iPhone. To add salt to injury, the dance team at school she is part…

Does fixing a bug introduced by a different author and pointing out the mistake as part of commit message considered a CoC violation? I find this absurd and just a way to get at so…