Joe Auricchio » Rushi

Rushi on link quality

Joe Auricchio — Thu, 03 Apr 2008 08:31:22 +0000

Professor Varghese: So where in the networking stack do you think most data gets dropped?

Rushi: Level 3

Rushi on SoCal

Joe Auricchio — Sun, 10 Jun 2007 08:23:58 +0000

Rushi: I’d say everything south of Santa Barbara is L.A.

Ben: Is Bakersfield south of L.A?

Rushi: Nah, that’s Nevada.

Rushi on unauthentic Mexican cuisine

Joe Auricchio — Sun, 04 Feb 2007 11:25:58 +0000

Ben: What’s wrong with quesadillas in the microwave? I survived on that for like seventeen years.

Rushi: Yeah, and you’re still white!

Rushi on lack of skill

Joe Auricchio — Tue, 05 Dec 2006 18:35:35 +0000

Concerning an acquaintance whom we’ll call Steve, because that’s not his name.

Come on, don’t be a Steve-hater. It’s not his fault he’s terrible.

Rushi on cache optimization and lab reports

Joe Auricchio — Fri, 01 Dec 2006 19:25:12 +0000

Just put ’spatial locality’ for all of it, and you’ll get half of them right.

Rushi on Prolog and dairy products

Joe Auricchio — Mon, 30 Oct 2006 05:10:00 +0000

Like, you tell it, ‘I like cheese,’ and you ask it, ‘What kind of cheese should I get?’ And it tells you ‘Gouda sounds good today.’

Rushi on Prolog and dairy products

Rushi on language clarity

Joe Auricchio — Fri, 27 Oct 2006 07:42:41 +0000

 Write it out in pseudo-C, then test it.
 Pseudo-Ruby.
 What the hell is pseudo-Ruby? English?!
 Ruby.

Rushi on health risk management

Joe Auricchio — Thu, 12 Oct 2006 05:01:45 +0000

 the long-term health risks of alcohol: cirrhosis of the liver.
 the long-term health risks of smoking: you name it.
 in fact, i bet you can get cirrhosis from smoking.

As it turns out, you can.

In which Rushi creates Channel 2.0

Joe Auricchio — Fri, 29 Sep 2006 05:02:01 +0000

So Rushi inadvertently invited like ten of our mutual friends (Lizzie, Mignon, Dan, Elvia, Paul, Kyle, Rego, Mark, Nik, and Sheenika) into an AIM chat. Most of them only knew a few of the others.

Notice I said “inadvertently”, not “accidentally”.

One of these days, Rushi…

Rushi on Chinese history

Joe Auricchio — Thu, 28 Sep 2006 04:10:01 +0000

 So I think I'm going to name my computers after Chinese & Japanese dynasties.
 Dang. That's pretty esoteric.
 Is that one of them?