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prab97

121 karma · joined August 8, 2013

Software Engineer in Washington
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prab97··on Termux: terminal emulator and Debian-style userland as an Android app
Do you do vim with Gboard/SwiftKey or do you have a hardware keyboard?
prab97··on Show HN: Search engine for lectures
It shows ApplicationError. Got a HN hug of death, or are you updating?
prab97··on Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (March 2017)
Location: Perth Amboy, NJ

Remote: No

Willing to relocate: Only to Canada, UK, Singapore or India. Indian citizen moving out of US ASAP. Need visa/work permit sponsorship for countries except India.

Technologies: Java, Spring, JPA, AWS technologies (SWF, SQS, S3, SNS), NoSQL, JAX-RS, RESTful APIs, Ruby, Rails, MongoDB, Statelessness, Idempotency, In-memory caching, Can hack together things with React/Redux, Express too.

Résumé/CV: http://me.techbeat.in/professional_resume

Email: prabhakar97@gmail.com

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Hi, I am PK. I have 4 years of experience working for Amazon.com and am actively looking for jobs only outside the US. I can architect, design and code up large scale software. I have a masters degree in Computer Science and I am hands on with delivering things of business value. Please refer to my resume for more details.

prab97··on Ask HN: Is S3 down?
Quora is down too.
prab97··on PHPMailer Exploit – Remote Code Execution
You would probably want to respond to the user, and it is possible only if they give you their email in the form. Although, this can be solved by treating the From field in the mail form as just a field of information and have that in the body of email. But that would make automated replies difficult.
prab97··on Israel deploys automated military robots
Sounds good but the problem is, once all the robots of one side are killed, the winning side robots will attack and start to kill the losing side humans.
prab97··on The “Cobra Effect” that is disabling paste on password fields
Does that mean, not more than 9999 people can take birth in Sweden in a day?
prab97··on The Bank Job – breaking a mobile banking application
He is in Sweden. So definitely safer than being in India :-) Adding to that, I don't think bad guys from the computer world would go to great lengths to harm someone from physical world.
prab97··on The Bank Job – breaking a mobile banking application
From one of the screenshots and other data points, looks like it is SBI
prab97··on Springer Textbooks More Than 10 Years Old Available for Free Legal Download
You could use Down Them All extension for Firefox too.
prab97··on Help HN, lets make GitHub accessible again from India
This is the message I sent. If someone is lazy to write their own, please use this as a template, make changes and send to the PM. Unfortunately, we can send only upto 500 chars long messages. My message is 477 chars and communicates the intent. If you want add/modify/remove something from/to the message to make the message more effective.

Honorable Sir, Yesterday an order issued by DoT blocked 32 websites including Github and Codepad which are used by scientists/engineers/researchers/students for collaboration in academic/professional/research work. As an ambitious engineer from India who is passionate towards nation building, I request you to instruct concerned authorities to revisit the decision for blocking full github.com website instead of just the specific pages which contained objectionable material.

prab97··on A look inside Facebook's source code
That's wrong. I have been here since June 2012 and we have internal paste.
prab97··on 64 Terabyte RAM computer from SGI
+1
prab97··on Motherfucking Website
You could create images for equations and put them on the site.
prab97··on Google knows nearly every Wi-Fi password in the world
For convenience, most people won't opt out of it. Most people won't bother at all. Google employees(or even NSA if you don't do anything illegal) coming to your home/office to use your WiFi is a joke! Only the paranoid ones are perturbed by these kinds of revelations, and they are ready to face the inconvenience caused.

I didn't use last pass until recently when keeping a difficult password on every site became a major pain given that countless numbers of password enforcing rules are there on the web some requiring at least one caps, some enforcing using at least one symbol but not using a ~ or a # yeda yeda. I gave up on it. Every damn time I had to reset password on services I use less frequently. But now I don't. Although LastPass claims that they keep the passwords encrypted and they themselves can not read them. But I don't believe them. Login to lastpass.com. Click your vault on top right corner. Click the pencil against any site in the list. Click the 'show' link in front of password field. And your password is staring at you in plain text. And it has been accessed at lastpass.com. Once they start storing master passwords, or once someone cracks their hash you are done with. But there is no simple and easy alternative. To get the job done we need to make these sacrifices.

prab97··on Facebook vulnerability 2013
He didn't f* up Zuck's account. Just making a wall post on some account doesn't f* that account in any way.
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