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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.

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…

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 …

A good thing to have - better than the "assert" keyword in Java.

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 co…

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 Pais…

"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 ar…

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 deeme…

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 …

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 to…

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.

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…

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 tog…

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…

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.

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 …

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. Sa…

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 tha…

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 nimble…

Inspirational stuff.

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.

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-cod…

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 sp…

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.

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.