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A blog article I wrote on this topic a while back.

A blog article I wrote on custom memory allocators, with references to help explore better

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…

I would love to know more about the experience of Software Developers who are working in Sydney/Melbourne. Languages/Platforms used, type of product being developed etc would be ve…

There should be atleast few more people interested in this!

Please add here if you know of companies/startups who are ready to sponsor/hire h1-b outside USA

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 r…

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. :-)

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?

A relevant stackoverflow thread for the same,which addresses some common misconceptions http://superuser.com/questions/367490/can-a-32-bit-os-machin...

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!

:-/ 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 d…

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…

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!! :-/

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 t…

Nice article, with good related references-an excellent read-Didn't know about Tcp incast before- good way to start a Saturday morning!

One of them got arrested for the unpardonable offense of "liking" the post of the other.

Buddha had summarized that very succinctly "What we think, we become " :-)

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 codeba…

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.

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 th…

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 prop…