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There needs to be a better Jobstreet
I’ve been hiring developers for a number of years now. Jobstreet is generally the go-to hiring portal. Here’s the resume of the median candidate I find on Jobstreet: Name, race and religion (apparently, race and religion matter enough to employers … Continue reading
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Product Evaluation 101 (from the other side of the fence)
Been evaluating products for the last couple weeks. Here are some observations: Have videos that show the product at work. I can only read/watch so much marketing talk (it’s always the same talk). Show me videos and give me the option … Continue reading
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Tough & Competent
In 1967, a cabin fire in Apollo 1, scheduled to be the first manned lunar landing program, killed all three cabin members. Gene Krantz, most famously known as NASA’s flight director during the Apollo 13 manned mission, responded to the … Continue reading
Posted in Science, Technology, We can do better
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Google Plus Gets a +1
Note: This is a long read, but if you make it to the end, I’d appreciate your comments Google+ is the latest social offering from Google. It was launched end June, and has had a rapid ramp-up with an estimated … Continue reading
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Console.log-ing objects
Console logging object’s is straightforward in Node.js. A basic console.log(object) works well in printing out member variables and functions of an object: var obj = { "name": "ditesh", "age": 13 }; console.log(obj); // Outputs { name: ‘ditesh’, age: 13 } … Continue reading
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Implementing UIDL
I was trying to figure out how to implement the UIDL command as part of a POP3 daemon I am building using Node.js. UIDL is an optional command in RFC 1939, but many POP3 clients use it in the leave-message-on-server … Continue reading
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Killing connections
When working with remote services (eg Twitter stream), it’s important to test out and handle all (if not, as many as possible) edge cases. Examples of edge cases include transient network errors, unexpected disconnections to long lived streams, temporary routing … Continue reading
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PAM authentication for fun and profit
PAM is a pluggable authentication and authorization library for *nix based systems – think Linux, FreeBSD and even Mac OS X. Logging into your machine or a remote POP3 server or even certain web based applications, and your authentication credentials … Continue reading
Posted in C, Code, Node.js, Technology
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Group Buying for the Masses
The online group-buying model is turning out to be big business. In 2010, the most popular group-buying site, GroupOn.com, made USD$713 million in worldwide revenues and in 2011, revenues are estimated to be on the scale of USD$3-4 billion. In … Continue reading
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What’s in a CNAME?
In a bid to make payment for Unifi, I tried accessing the site at unifi.my. Chrome informed me that DNS resolution for unifi.my had failed. I ran a quick test: [ditesh@rhea] dig A unifi.my ;; QUESTION SECTION: ;unifi.my. IN … Continue reading
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