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i have heard this from my father who was at iit-k, circa 1970's: ibm having installed their machine in the cs-lab on campus, wanted to paint an entire wall in the lab with just a single word "THINK" !…

This paper identifies two possibilities for someone’s competence after a promotion: the Peter Principle – i.e. the competence after promotion is uncorrelated to the old competence – and the common sen…

according to node-requirements rfc-4294, dhcpv6 is infact optinal . however, for an enterprise network, the fact that any v6 capable device can get a legit address is probably not such a good idea …

> Apparently OS X now supports supplying DNS servers through SLAAC i thought this was done via router-advertisements only. slaac is used to configure v6 host addresses, and once that is done, othe…

moon-is-a-harsh-mistress quote: Am not going to argue whether a machine can "really" be alive, "really" be self-aware. Is a virus self-aware? Nyet! How about oyster? I doubt it. A cat? Almost certainl…

isn't this the same as AS-7007 incident : http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AS_7007_incident ? or am i missing something fundamental ?…

isn't this the same paper that prompted alan-kay to remark that hubris in computing is measured in nano-dijkstra's ? imho, he forgot to mention the conversion rate to micro-kays to make the compariso…

just a quick question here: why using your standard editor and saving stuff onto the 'Dropbox' folder on the local-machine is not sufficient ?

iirc in fourier transforms, covolution of signals in time-domain is equivalent of signals in frequency-domain. thus 12 * 23 can be thought of as convolution of two signals (1,2) and (2,3) which gives …

imho, one non-trivial issue that i can see with the whole thing has to preserve the formatting of the code while converting it back from an AST. for languages like google's go or python where indenta…

imho, cs degrees are not supposed to be about programming. their focus should be purely theoretical side of computation e.g. heavy emphasis on algorithms, data structures etc. etc. which pushes them…

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> Interfaces tend to be hard to change, anyway... "taste" matters a lot here imho. starting from a bare minimum set, and growing it organically seems to be one way out of the tar pit.

this is my favorite take away from the whole thing: That need to rewrite is important and often neglected when coding. Modern programming languages, especially object-oriented ones, are interface hea…

Buffer bloat is a problem. But, as he quite accurately puts it, there are no really good solutions out there. For those of us in the middle of the network, there is clearly no good answer. We need to…