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sharth··on C++ Grandmaster Certification
If a domain doesn't have a MX record, it fallsback to the A record.

The IP pointed to by the A record does have a service running on the SMTP port.

sharth··on My Desertion, Court-Martial, and 40-Year Imprisonment in N Korea [pdf]
I can't imagine that this book has been released for free distribution..
sharth··on Show HN: Always on GPS logger
From the Google Play Store: "The data is encrypted using 256 AES keys and can be password protected."

Are you sure that you don't mean that it is encrypted using a 256 bit AES Key?

And I imagine that the private key is stored on the device?

sharth··on Google Maps becomes the App Store’s most popular free app in 7 hours
Apple Maps also doesn't handle small spelling mistakes (transposed letters) well. That's been one of the most annoying things.
sharth··on What the startup visa should really look like
Why does the company even need to be registered in the USA?
sharth··on Why political journalists can’t stand Nate Silver
The Asimov story is called Franchise.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Franchise_(short_story)

sharth··on Ask HN: How do people respond to your .io domain name?
It appears that you must be a resident to have a domain like foo.com.io, but there are no restrictions on foo.io.

That is no extra restrictions. They do have this in their terms (most notably, for any purpose against the laws of any nation):

No .IO domain may be used, directly or indirectly, for any purpose that is sexual or pornographic or that is against the statutory laws of any Nation. In the event of NIC.IO being advised by any party that a specific site breaches this condition then NIC.IO reserves the right to immediately deactivate the offending registration. The applicant may seek the reinstatement of any suspended domain name by seeking a determination by an Arbitrator appointed by the World Intellectual Property organisation.

sharth··on FTC files suit against "Rachel from Cardholder Services"
The 5 companies being sued are:

1. Treasure Your Success

2. Ambrosia Web Design

3. A+ Financial Center, LLC

4. The Green Savers

5. Key One Solutions, LLC.

sharth··on Ask HN: Are your Google Calendar events older than ~2 months gone, too?
I can see 5 year old events in google calendar.
sharth··on TinyToCS — computer science research of 140 characters or less
Some of them cite the real paper.
sharth··on GoDaddy outage caused by corrupted router tables
Routers can get quite complicated.

At a first level, routers will cache information about what machines are on which port of the router. This enables them to not forward a packet to every port on the router (reducing network load). This is normally done using MAC Addresses.

On more expensive routers, the router can understand IGMP, or multicast and route based on multicast joins. This enables an optimization on simple broadcasts because not every machine on the network needs to see these packets, but multiple machines might want to.

sharth··on GoDaddy Outage: How to Migrate to AWS Route 53
They do not offer that service.
sharth··on 'John Doe' Who Fought FBI Spying Freed From Gag Order After 6 Years (2010)
Note that this is from two years ago. This is not "breaking news".

He also did an AMA on Reddit: http://www.reddit.com/r/IAmA/comments/fjfby/iama_director_of...

sharth··on Why should I have written ZeroMQ in C, not C++ (part II)
It's not using heuristics. It's how the code is actually written.

An implementation of std::list<T> is going to contain multiple objects of type __node<T>.

__node<T> would be defined as:

    template <typename T> struct __node {
        __node *prev;
        __node *next;
        T value;
    };
(Note that this doesn't change what anyone else said though, T is a pointer in this particular case, so there's still another indirection)
sharth··on Amazon Glacier
Since this is built on top of S3, I'd love to be able to store EBS Snapshots in this.
sharth··on Ask HN: Are websites generally considered to be free or nonfree software?
In your particular example, gnu.org, the source code is available at:

* http://savannah.gnu.org/projects/www

* http://web.cvs.savannah.gnu.org/viewvc/www/?root=www

sharth··on Square introduces monthly pricing
Unless they can find cheaper than 2.75% elsewhere.
sharth··on Network Solutions support indicating they are under a DDoS attack at the moment.
It appears resolved now.
sharth··on Show HN: Excel 2013
Yes: http://www.microsoft.com/office/preview/en/faq

They somewhat claim that it will be released alongside the Windows release.

sharth··on Anonymous Publishing is Dead
Every time I get a VISA prepaid gift card, I simply buy an amazon gift card with it. I've never had any problems doing this.

Now, it's not like I don't have other identifiable information on my amazon account (a real credit card, a previously used shipping address, etc), so it's not anonymous, but they do accept prepaid cards.

sharth··on Leap second causing Linux server crashes?
Well, except for RHEL 5. That runs 2.6.18.
sharth··on Show HN: c
As far as I can tell, this program is not included in Homebrew.
sharth··on Announcing the Windows 8 Editions
Windows RT is an ARM version of Windows. On that version, a touch optimized version of Microsoft Office will be included with the windows license.
sharth··on Ask HN: How should a startup handle a security breach?
You would actually offer employment to someone who just blackmailed you?
sharth··on Ask HN: How should I present my skills section on my resume?
You should be tailoring your resume to the job that you are applying for. If you are applying for a job doing web development, does it matter that you understand Windows and OS X application development? Likewise, if you are applying for a company that builds C# applications, your knowledge of web development is not very meaningful.

The other problem with the skills section is that it is not clear which skill segment you understand best.

sharth··on The Mac App Store Needs Paid Upgrades
Yes. You can. However, I would much prefer the world Wil describes over a world with in-app purchases.

I would much rather pay the 20$ or whatever to upgrade my software, than be nickel and dimed all over the place.

sharth··on Facebook wants you before you are born
You are not able to set your relationship status with someone as expected child. The image he references is not an accurate representation of facebook today.
sharth··on Add Syntax Highlighting To Your Blog With VIM
You can generally edit the output with the following options:

    let html_use_css = 1
    let use_xhtml = 1
sharth··on $100 to Fly Through the Airport
From the article, you are able to sign up if you are a member of CBP's Global Entry, or if you are invited by Delta or American Airlines. To be invited, you would likely need to fly out of one of their hubs frequently, and have a large number of miles with them each year.
sharth··on Viral Video About Body Scanners
To be honest, I'm still not sure if the post was because the blog was hacked.
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