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64bittechie | 2 years ago | on: The early days of Linux

Started with Redhat 6.2! It was amazing and I did not turn back to Windows. My family was pissed at the fact that I dual booted the family PC!

64bittechie | 2 years ago | on: Reasons the banking crisis isn’t a repeat of 2008

Well, what do you expect? The US over the past several decades has effectively crippled economies for its own interests by cutting off USD access. When you do this to a non-trivial number of countries they get around it by trading among themselves and dumping the USD for their own currencies. There are many countries including India, Japan, Korea, China, Russia, etc who are opening up bilateral or trilateral agreements to trade in their own currencies bypassing the USD. The US has pissed off a significant portion of the world that its days as reserve currency are certainly numbered. However, unbelievable it might sound today but the world is inching closer to non-USD centric future.

64bittechie | 3 years ago | on: Enabling the Future of GitHub's REST API with API Versioning

Could you elaborate why did you pick using a header instead of making the version number part of the URL?

If the version is part of the URL, you have benefits such as -

1. It's easy to inspect the URL. For headers it's more involved.

2. Middleware (Proxies) can drop headers that they don't recognize.

3. Logging frameworks typically log URLs but don't log headers OOTB.

As someone who has built a lot of APIs for a long time, I think the decision to use headers to communicate versioning information is not optimal.

64bittechie | 5 years ago | on: India downgraded from ‘free’ to ‘partly free’ in democracy report

1. Spreading voter misinformation

2. Delegitimizing mail-in ballots

3. Delegitimizing election officials

4. Calling up state election officials to change votes in favor of Trump

5. Filing 200+ BS lawsuits questioning the authenticity of ballots

6. Disenfranchising minorities by gerrymandering

7. 250+ bills have been introduced in various states restricting voter rights

Do you seriously want me to go on?

64bittechie | 5 years ago | on: India downgraded from ‘free’ to ‘partly free’ in democracy report

The Indian middle class has never been more prosperous under any other government. The current ruling government has undertaken fundamental reforms that _all_ political parties have had in their manifestos but nobody has had the political will to execute on it. In fact in the past 7 years there hasn't been an single legitimate instance of corruption or scandal. If this is the dangerous path, please sign me up for more.

64bittechie | 9 years ago | on: Using Immutable Caching to Speed Up the Web

You typically do a 302 redirect AFTER the POST authentication. This feels more of a publicity stunt more than anything. It might affect very few use-cases. Bulk of the requests on the web are GETs anyway.

64bittechie | 13 years ago | on: Buying a Cheap Car Using Data

I am sorry if I come off a little rough. It is interesting how you made a data driven decision. However, it is common knowledge that Toyota, Honda are the most reliable cars. That common knowledge is derived from "crowd sourced" data. So while it was nice of you to confirm it with your analysis, it wasn't a necessary step and you would've saved some time and used it instead to look for deals focusing only on those Makes.

Also, next time you have graphs please use colors that are easy to distinguish - purple, pink, violet makes it hard to read the lines. Of course I should probably blame my low quality TN panel for it.

64bittechie | 13 years ago | on: Should I learn javascript?

I would recommend learning a language and becoming an expert at it. Right now JS is positioned to be a great language for the web - for two reasons. It's the only, defacto language that can be used in the browser (dart is on it's way but right now it's not here.) Also with Node.js gaining popularity, you can use JS to build server side applications. It's a win-win situation if you know Javascript.

64bittechie | 13 years ago | on: Effective Django

I dont see any issue with the formatting. I'm on Chrome 26.0.1410.43 on a Mac OSX 10.8.
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