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by kartickv 8y ago
I was asking if you've found your other skills ignored even when you could explain to the company how they're relevant for them. For example, if you can do accounting, and you're applying to work at a company like Tally that
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by kartickv 8y ago
> would a tool that educates and puts some of the cost back on the "idea person" or stakeholder be a good thing? I think it would. So would I, as I mentioned in my reply to you. It's easy to propose ideas without regard to
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by kartickv 8y ago
Sure but most people don't live in the middle of the Pacific, so is an optimised system possible for them?
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by kartickv 8y ago
It's hard to reach that level of skill in two (let alone three) fields in a reasonable amount of time. It may also take your focus away from becoming good enough in your primary skill to pass the hiring bar. If you can do engineering,
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by kartickv 8y ago
A possibly silly question: did you counter with "Why don't you test my engineering skills if you don't believe me? Give me a fair chance. And then, if I'm not good, by all means reject me." That's assuming you&
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by kartickv 8y ago
Is your experience with companies that could make use of your other skill? If you understand accounting, and you're applying to a company that makes photography apps, that won't be given much value. Are you also good in your prima
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by kartickv 8y ago
Is your experience with companies that could make use of your other skill? If you understand accounting, and you're applying to a company that makes photography apps, that won't be given much value.
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Is it important to get feedback from paying users for a paid app?
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by kartickv 8y ago
I agree with your main point about empower people. It seems that people are coming to you to help estimate how long an idea takes to implement. If that's the case, I agree with everything you've said. But if they're proposing
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by kartickv 8y ago
I take your point about usability as opposed to visual design, and that many slick-looking UIs actually lower productivity. But: In this example, unless not handling international phone numbers leads to failure of the project, that can be h
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Or get a list of documents sorted by access level or the person you've shared it with. Like a CA you hired 3 years ago to file your taxes no longer needs access to your financial information.
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by kartickv 8y ago
Many posts, especially when posted to HN or linked from some other blog, are read by people who're not regulars. Besides, people scan, not always read end to end.
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by kartickv 8y ago
I didn't ask about users in densely populated areas. Imagine two villagers on opposite sides of the world communicating via Starlink. Would it be cheaper per bit for Starlink to offload the data to the nearest metro area, from where it
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by kartickv 8y ago
Starlink wouldn't be in violation of net neutrality, so the comparison with Free Basics isn't the right one. It will take off if it's better bang for the buck at any market segment. That can be Rs. 100 a month or Rs.2000 a mo
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by kartickv 8y ago
Ouch. That's viable for consumers only if it's shared, like by providing an open Wifi access point to everyone around it, or via Ethernet in an apartment or a small village.
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by kartickv 8y ago
Makes sense, thanks for clarifying.
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I'm sure something can be worked out with an Indian partner company letting the government block sites it doesn't want and spying on us, like existing ISPs do.
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by kartickv 8y ago
If Starlink didn't route data in space and instead used space only as a last mile, would it be significantly cheaper, or have higher bandwidth, or be feasible to provide without data caps? What are the economic and technical tradeoffs
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by kartickv 8y ago
I agree with you but on second thoughts, maybe that's okay if it pays for itself over time? I pay my ISP ₹3K a month. I wouldn't mind buying SpaceX's router for say ₹30K if my bill drops to ₹1K a month.
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by kartickv 8y ago
I was also wondering about this — will it be significantly costlier than a commodity fiber / cable/ VDSL router? If it's going to cost say $500, far fewer people around the world will be able to afford one.
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But GPS is cheap enough and widely enough deployed. Devices like laptops that don't usually have GPS are usually used indoors. I don't see the market.
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by kartickv 8y ago
> Cellular and WiFi AP roaming are solved problems. While you may be right regarding the context in which you said this — satellites — as a blanket statement, that's not true: my smartphone loses Internet connectivity when I leave m
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by kartickv 8y ago
Is lower latency the main benefit? Because there are other ways to combat that, like locating servers closer to where users are. Yes, there are some applications like HFT or gaming or whatever that need lower latency, but I think it would b
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by kartickv 8y ago
Has the study taken into account the indirect costs over the long term? If labor is costly, the country isn't as competitive compared to others, so jobs are outsourced. This is a diffuse impact, rather than localised — if waiters are r
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by kartickv 8y ago
Exactly. If data is the currency of the future, and we're too conservative about permitting experiments, we'll lose out on a lot of innovation. What if a smart city encourages more walking? What if it has less pollution? What abou
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Is it hard to tune the gyro because its accuracy is too low, or because it's accurate to begin with but degrades over the course of the long exposure? Is a pure software solution even reliable enough under these conditions? Slowness ca
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by kartickv 8y ago
I agree. We've also had many rejections due to policies that weren't clearly stated up front, such as the price requiring to be in the button rather than below it. Apple should have given 10 examples of Dos and Don'ts with sc
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Why Mojave’s dark mode isn’t dark enough(arstechnica.com)
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How we avoid threading issues by using Main Queue(medium.com)
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by kartickv 8y ago
Interesting perspective; thanks for sharing.

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