One Year at Yahoo!
Yep. Thats right, I joined Yahoo exactly an year ago. So people have asked me.. do you fell happy/ any regrets. Well, to be honest, I never have any regrets in life. The past 12 months have been extremely fun. Learned more then what I would have learned in 4 years of CS. Met some amazing people, and have got to work on some really amazing stuff. I do miss my college ife, but it was an entire diff life. I will not mind going back 2 – 3 years in my life, and go through the college life all…
Found a bug in apache
Spent the past couple of days trying to get my code to work with some machines which were throwing me out. After days of hacking… realized it was not an issue with my code. Started hacking with perl , and that seems to be fine too. Finally after further investigation and hacking, I realized, its a bug with apache. Basically if the apache is patched with the chunked encoding bug, and if you get a 302 redirect page with a request that is chunked encoded, the headers that come from the server for a form submit are corrupt. Yep, the…
Today’s Linux Users meet has seriously been the best till date. Ofcourse the usual talks went on, followed with good food. But what followed that was the best part. The usual last bench junkies in BLUG sat down, to wait for the rain to stop. Thats when mmk makes a statement like ‘gtk sucks’. Our very own Linus , Hanish Menin from somewhere at the back screams back saying ‘What Crap’. So then starts the gtk vs qt / C vs C++ / bad design vs bad coding war. best part was all of us sitting back and watching mmk…