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by kingsley_20 15y ago
Definitely from India. The bay area has been a huge influence, as has the US in general, but it didn't change my sense of identity significantly.
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by kingsley_20 15y ago
"We" don't need a startup visa, "the USA" might. I'd prefer that Indian entrepreneurs capitalized on the excellent opportunities available at home. I support the startup visa in the spirit of supporting choice, but I resent the implication
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by kingsley_20 15y ago
Probably outsourced it to a company that doesn't care.
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by kingsley_20 15y ago
Ex-salesforce here, in full agreement. Who you know has a big role to play in most acquisitions, but quite important for a corp culture as unique as salesforce. In all fairness, knowing the team & culture well (and seeing a close fit),
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by kingsley_20 15y ago
Vague as the concept of race is, doesn't the northeast represent one?
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by kingsley_20 15y ago
They will buy shared computers and hack on them. It's what I did growing up in India. Only, there will be a lot more of it, because these guys already have a device they know they can hack on, if they had a "computer".
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by kingsley_20 15y ago
"Shouldn't be too hard to build such app with existing Facebook API." But not with the current T&C. Developers can access friends' photos, but cannot store them. Even relationships between users can only be cached for a modest period of
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by kingsley_20 15y ago
If you're bi-lingual in a non-european language, transliterating obscure phrases from the other language could work well. For example, the poetic title திரிகூடராசப்பகவிராயர் would transliterate to thirikUdarAsappaKavirAyar. Add some subs &#
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by kingsley_20 15y ago
As product manager, one of the best things I've done for my teams is to fight to leave IE6 out of the spec whenever possible. Sometimes they appreciate it, and many times they don't know it, but I believe we've always shipped better product
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by kingsley_20 15y ago
While working for a social-game maker, I've been wrist-slapped for a game that ostensibly pre-filled fields. After multiple internal reviews failed to find the offending form/screen, we finally reached out to our facebook contact (thankfull
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by kingsley_20 15y ago
Actually, Facebook, Twitter and Farmville are great examples of products nobody said they wanted and didn't solve any perceived problems, but are succesful any way. I've compulsively weaned myself off the "solve a problem" mentality because
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by kingsley_20 15y ago
24 months seems to be fairly standard.
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Dreaming of A BottomBerry - A BlackBerry for the Bottom of the Pyramid(kingsley2.com)
2 points by kingsley_20 15y ago|0 comments
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by kingsley_20 16y ago
Surprised and disappointed that they don't recommend RockMelt to their users. I'm not a huge fan of either, but if they wanted to do right by their users, the least they could do is to point them to the only other social-browsing game in to
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WSJ: "India Graduates Millions But Too Few Are Fit to Hire" - Yes, But .....(blogs.zoho.com)
105 points by kingsley_20 16y ago|73 comments
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by kingsley_20 16y ago
Please make these an independent post?!
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by kingsley_20 16y ago
It's not horrible, but we should expect better, especially from Apple, and there's no harm in setting the bar high for Google and MS as well.
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by kingsley_20 16y ago
I use an Android as my primary phone now after a year with iPhone 4, so I'm well aware of the capabilities. I refrained from comparing it with anything else for 2 reasons: 1. The iPhone was the first out the block, so I didn't want to comp
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by kingsley_20 16y ago
I'd welcome some feedback. I haven't seen a real considered critique of the iPhone's user experience, so I decided to pool some long-dormant thoughts into a short essay.
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A Design Critique of the iPhone(kingsley2.com)
10 points by kingsley_20 16y ago|6 comments
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by kingsley_20 16y ago
The FDI cap easy workarounds involving setting up a wholesale business and signing up your customers as members (the CostCo model). Many other brands already do this. But otherwise, all valid points.
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by kingsley_20 16y ago
The bottom of the screen (where it partially blocks the dock with the most-used apps) is the worst place to place a notification bar. I think Apple is more likely to make a notifications app which will get permanently pinned to the home s
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by kingsley_20 16y ago
Having just moved back to India, and having researched SMS rates/recharge behaviour for an app I'm building, you're getting a bad deal. The bad deal is the default in India, but knowledge of how to fix that is so widespread, and fixing it
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by kingsley_20 16y ago
"@teehanlax In an update, you mention that you're building a product. Did that come to completion?" - @bradleyland "@bradleyland It did briefly exist in the Cydia store. But working in the Jailbreak Community proved too difficult" - @teehan
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by kingsley_20 16y ago
"where it can be sunny outside, but still need to know if you need to take a jacket to lunch?" - mbreese I never understood this till I lived in India. I understand your confusion. I do agree with you that weather widgets waste pixels and c
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Why “Smart” Phones Suck, Part I(kingsley2.com)
2 points by kingsley_20 16y ago|0 comments
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by kingsley_20 16y ago
I wish the pictures linked to google maps.
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by kingsley_20 16y ago
Same lessons from India, so I think it's a developing world thing. Or maybe even a high-income-disparity-culture thing?
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by kingsley_20 16y ago
Dude, Sweet! http://www.subzin.com/s/dude,%20sweet !
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by kingsley_20 16y ago
I think that's kind of the point. The unpleasantness is institutionalized in the US, whereas it's random/haphazard in most other places.

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