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I have been using DuckDuckGo for more than 4 years now. I would use google only if DDG does not provide a good result. In the last one year, queries that went unanswered on DDG did…

There are quite a few big endian MIPS devices. Many Chinese processor vendors (Mediatek, Rockchip, etc.) still use MIPS and have big endian configuration. Most common are TV SoCs a…

Minor correction: H.265 is HEVC - High Efficiency Video Coding. H.265 and VP9 will (most likely) have a lot of difference when we consider hardware encoders/decoders. I guess H.265…

Data plans are not too expensive in India. One can get 1GB plan for 3G data in Rs.139-Rs.160 ($2.35-$2.7) depending on the service provider. A lot of people are not using data plan…

Please note that this is something Remya created around 2003; more than 10 years ago. I am not sure how it was posted in 2013.

gdb. I work in system software, so cross platform debugger is what helps to catch issues easily. edit: gdb to debug asm and C code

Backing up config.txt does not make sense. "sync" alone might be sufficient.

It is not a gzipped file; open with any postscript viewer.

"Micro-SD card performance is highly variable, and generally rubbish" Agree with that. I use a pandaboard as a build server and I felt it is a lot efficient to use NFS than running…

I guess Samsung phones are more popular outside US. Among my colleagues, of 10 smartphones, 8 are Samsung ones (includes 3 Samsung Notes) and only one iPhone4S.

Court _has not_ ordered to block any website. The order asks ISPs to make sure that illegal copies of movies does not get distributed. https://docs.google.com/file/d/0Bxi2TzVXul5ZU…

Linux Device Drivers, 3e, was available for free legitimate download - the authors themselves released GPL version of the book online - all the while. I bet it has not affected the…

I am using Fedora on my laptop. XFCE desktop is a good environment. rpmfusion provides major "nonfree" packages. For me everything has worked out of the box.

Linux user since 2002. Now I have multiple machines running linux. I use linux at work too. I am an embedded developer and use Linux in most of the projects. Using linux machine ma…

In my experience, if you introduce kids to Linux, they learn pretty fast. In my college days, I used to help students of a government school. It is a very undeveloped area and kids…

Slightly off-topic - a laptop and not an ultra book. I use Toshiba satellite C640-X4012. Fedora runs smooth. It has Intel core i5-2430M @ 2.4GHz and 4GB ram. It has only 2 USB port…

Is social security number in US being misused? Developed countries would already have a unique ID in place. Also, middlemen will not be able to take advantage of this. They will be…

Probably a bit off topic: why all contest organizers want the project to be tweeted. There is one more contest ( http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3501355 ) posted today. I under…

Agreed that you may not be able to judge while hiring. But if the developer turns out to be great, will you give a great bonus and hike? That is also a good option if one turns out…

cscope (kscope if you want GUI) will be easier if you have a copy of kernel. lxr is useful when you do not have a local copy of kernel.

"I say: So what? As long as it does not promote hurting people, or people are forced to watch it, it shouldn't matter." It matters a lot in India. To understand the real problem, y…

Sorry, but you are completely mistaken. India does not have any legislation about posts in social network. The news is about a court order to remove derogatory posts about religion…

Well.. nice thoughts. But didn't gmail start off in one of those "wasted" 20% of time?