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Everyone with more than 15-20 years of experience in the industry I have interacted with, more or less has the same advice when it comes to having a good work life balance and sust…

This is probably what you are looking for : Computer Systems: A Programmer's Perspective By Randal E. Bryant and David R. O'Hallaron http://csapp.cs.cmu.edu/

In India, when you loose a phone, you buy a new one ... often a less costly one. No one ever even thinks of trying to find who stole the phone.

I have always wondered that why we cannot make intangibles like happiness, emotions as a currency. Even though they are more often than not treated as the real wealth a person can …

You have to hear him talk ... http://www.ted.com/talks/arunachalam_muruganantham_how_i_sta... He is so full of energy and his straight talk will win your heart ... What a person ..…

I had once had the opportunity to investigate a heisenbug. We could see that the bug disappeared after turning the optimization off, but our clients were not satisfied and wanted a…

I had read all these, before I got to know about ESR. I was like, Wow!!, and it never ever came to my mind who wrote this or why. It was just some cool stuff and as a linux newbie …

As someone already said, we should not worry about our planet, for it is going to be here, long long after we are finished. We should be worried about ourselves. We rely on our pla…

I find this very interesting. Most of us who have crossed the 25 year mark, would already have read/seen something like this. But this is an awesome way to teach some valuable less…

>> but it depends on the person And what makes the person? A Person is an amalgamation of inherited genes and collated personal experiences. Most of the personal experiences are a …

Just asking, how can a new CEO change Microsoft's directions. Or What suggestions would you give Satya, if you were to meet him today?

Hi, Is there any resource on Web or even any book that documents all the risks. I had once seen a talk given by you .. was good !! Any other such resources out there ??

I had started with using MS Visio at my job. Though I had absolutely no experience in making diagrams, Visio was quite easy to get started and become comfortable in quick time. The…

I highly recommend Computer Systems: A Programmer's Perspective http://www.amazon.com/Computer-Systems-Programmers-Perspecti...

They are currently over Hongkong/South East Asia, where it is night time. Too bad, the background with earth lit up would have been awesome ... Edit: In about 15 minutes, they are …

Here in India, we have also witnessed a series of street agitations against a corrupt political system that runs most of the country. Though, It hasn't crossed the line, yet, and t…

I was going through my bookmarks and found this: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4000394

The Mars Trilogy ... it made me come to closer to hard science fiction than ever before ...

This is typical western philosophical bullsh . As life becomes easier in Western world, people have more time to fret about such inconsequential things. Please carry on!

let them push the envelope dude