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I am guessing that this is less of a concern for Google. Per Google's C++ style guide : "We do not use C++ exceptions." So they are already not using that feature in their C++ code…

If i remember correctly, the cards used in Jacquard looms were then used for voting tabulation in the 1920s, by a small company called IBM. When computers came around in the early …

I thought this was going to be like the Kailash Temple in India, carved out of a single stone : https://www.livehistoryindia.com/story/monuments/ellora-kail...

Besides the Smiley novels, The Perfect Spy is one of the most beautifully crafted of John le Carre's novels. Beautifully written with layers upon layers of meaning - each time you …

UPI is growing at an incredible rate. One important reason for the growth is the explosive increase in 4G connectivity in the last 4 years, which has data usage on mobile see a com…

The resolution is not done at the client end, but in NPCI, while processing the transaction. So this is nothing like DNS.

There are redundancies build into the NPCI system. There is more than one data center, etc.

During congress rule, CBI was referred to as a "caged parrot". The CBI did not act unless forced by the Supreme Court. The CAG is a very different body - it is much more independen…

The talk by Philip Wadler is one of the most insightful I have heard : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dq0WFigax_c In brief, they are following a process of stripping Go to the mos…

I think Android is the most important version - about 95% of mobiles are covered. So it is good they are doing that first. iOS is about 3-4% and KaiOS is just 1%, so I think if it …

The "Rule of 2" link in the article actually says this : "A recent study by Matt Miller from Microsoft Security states that “~70% of the vulnerabilities addressed through a securit…

ICMR doctor R Ganga Ketkar had made the statement on Apr 11 ( https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PP_ta25JcbU ) that this is under study and at this point is not a recommended treatmen…

My own personal experience : A close relative passed away in a large city early April (of pneumonia caused by COVID-19) complications. His entire family was interviewed for 2 hours…

Just return 401. Or 301. Virus will disappear!

More accurate to say gitflow is fine for webapps. TBD is broader than gitflow, and i agree that when you have to maintain multiple versions in the wild, i would not use gitflow.

In some ways the real story is that the MoH cannot take a decision to let some staff keep working if they are found to bee infected - presumably because they are not easily replaca…

Jio did not have to pay any - probably because they started 5 years ago? This issue is from 2005 - Jio started in 2015 December.

Yes - my heart bleeds for Vodafone and Airtel who kept data prices 10 times higher than they are now and sat on fat profits for years without building their 4G network. And kept mi…

Actually these numbers are misleading - actual rates are much lower. For example, Jio has a Rs. 149 (2.1 USD) plan for 24 days for 1 GB per day. That works out to about 10 cents fo…

Well, it's not a monopoly by any stretch. Market share - Jio - 32%, Vodafone Idea - 29%, Airtel - 28%, BSNL - 10% as of Nov 2019. Yes - the incumbents (Vodafone, Airtel) have suffe…

In go, composition has a special feature where if you include another type anonymously in a struct, the methods of that type are automatically available for the struct as well. It …

I feel to be realistic you have to show a program with failure scenarios. That is at least where i struggle with FP. Like what happens if a user enters a non-numeric value and i wa…

I believe with AR even the picking is done by Boeing. unlike DER. One huge downside of this is that the informal interactions between FAA and Boeing engineers are almost non-existe…