mallipeddi

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by mallipeddi 16y ago
You read that recent Economist article didn't you? Anyways it was an interesting article - I was amazed rail freight charges are lower in America than India
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by mallipeddi 16y ago
I don't know about Koreans, Indians/Chinese are NOT eligible for green-card lottery program.
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by mallipeddi 16y ago
INR is not a symbol. It's the ISO currency code for Indian Rupee.
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by mallipeddi 16y ago
In India actually most people buy their phones separately -no 2-year lock-in contracts with the carrier. Even the iPhone was launched this way.
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by mallipeddi 16y ago
Being remote might work but there are lots of Bay Area startups which won't let you work remotely - the only option is to move to USA but then there's the H-1B hell; so they just won't hire any foreigners. Even Google, Y! and other big comp
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by mallipeddi 16y ago
If they offered a 'cancel' button, the kid can also hit the 'cancel' button on his way out and destroy all the other floor choices people already picked. I've seen elevators where if you quickly press a button couple of times, the button wi
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by mallipeddi 16y ago
You make around S$200k/yr within 4 years if you're in banking IT in Singapore. This is not even counting the bonuses they usually get. OTOH if you work work for a startup here, you get around S$80-90k/yr max. And if you're a non-IT person a
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by mallipeddi 16y ago
If that's what the employer expects, shouldn't he put in a longer notice period in the contract and also reciprocate the courtesy while firing someone's ass off?
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by mallipeddi 16y ago
You're an employee or a contractor? Quite unusual for an employment contract I think.
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by mallipeddi 16y ago
Well if everyone starts paying the bribe and if there are limited resources, then sooner or later the bribe amount is going to adjust itself to reflect the supply and demand.
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by mallipeddi 16y ago
Except no one can verify what you do exactly. You always tell the immigration officer at the airport (if he/she asks you) that you're visiting for "meetings". But who does meetings 9-5 every day for 2-3 weeks? Basically you're OK as long as
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by mallipeddi 17y ago
Maybe Indian Customs has gotten better and is not acting petty but try importing USD $500k worth of equipment/machinery from Germany and then see how many ways Customs figures out to hold the goods and cause unnecessary delays and somehow e
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by mallipeddi 17y ago
Btw I can attest to the fact about having to bribe indirectly in order to get a driving license (learner's permit actually). I go to the DMV/RTO office and submit my application and the guy just throws away my application form stating I don
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by mallipeddi 17y ago
You don't pay a toll at inter-state crossings if you're a private vehicle. What I think you might have experienced are just the ridiculous number of toll booths setup on highways to collect fees for newly constructed sections of the highway
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by mallipeddi 17y ago
Bang on. It's about having access to the things with which you'll be able control your destiny. As a hacker, I at least need access to these things: a good laptop, a high-speed internet connection, access to books, a little bit of extra mon
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by mallipeddi 17y ago
I think you'll be thrown out of the country as soon as your startup tanks or you choose to leave the startup.
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by mallipeddi 17y ago
I counter this with another question: how many startup bosses/founders transparently discuss with their employees how much money they've left in the bank and how much longer they can actually meet payroll. Usually they tell you this like ma
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by mallipeddi 17y ago
My university had a simple fix for this problem - all lecture halls actually had doors at the back. People who have back-to-back classes in different departments had to take a shuttle bus to commute since the campus is big. They could slip
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by mallipeddi 17y ago
I have read about his habit of going to meetings and keeping his feet up on the conference room table.
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by mallipeddi 17y ago
Disclaimer: I work for Yahoo. Actually the deal has been approved by the US DoJ too. 88% revenue share is only for the traffic that Y! generates through its properties - if people hit bing.com directly, Y! gets nothing. Needless to say MSFT
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by mallipeddi 17y ago
I would take that over the sweltering heat of Indian summers anyday (I really mean 44C/111F 90% humidity!) - cheer up :)
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by mallipeddi 17y ago
Why would you need so much hardware to do what Intel does? What kind of software would they be running on these clusters?
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by mallipeddi 17y ago
I've done this several times. More than blindly looking at the number of search results returned like this article suggests, I actually look for some authoritative websites in the results (like NYT, WashingtonPost, or credible blogs). If it
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by mallipeddi 17y ago
I don't know about other websites you mentioned, but raaga.com looks legal. They've an advertisers page which looks genuine - I've seen ads for new movies show up on raaga.com (I'm guessing if movie producers don't have a problem buying ads
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by mallipeddi 17y ago
I'm wondering how you know Cloudera is doing well? I noticed you work for Smarkets now (and Last.fm before). I'm just curious to know how much money can you realistically expect to make for a pure consulting business like Cloudera.
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by mallipeddi 17y ago
It's funny though the other day I flew China Airlines from SFO to KUL and I noticed their in-flight maps (in the entertainment console) actually depicted the border the way India claims it should be. I'm Indian btw.
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by mallipeddi 17y ago
What does it mean when the article says "perhaps we can credit it to his Midwestern roots for his drive"? I've never lived in America long enough to understand the differences between Americans from different parts. Anyone willing to give m
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by mallipeddi 17y ago
I grew up in India. I biked to school that was a mile away alone. After I turned 14, I used to take a train since this other school was at least 5 miles away. These were those crazy kinds of trains that were so crowded people hang outside t
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by mallipeddi 17y ago
Based on my research if you're an Indian citizen (which I'm), there's hardly any country where you can just get off the plane, look for a job, get a bunch of job offers, and start working no matter how awesome a hacker you're. USA is the wo
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by mallipeddi 17y ago
19, wrote some Javascript for a travel search engine, $1000/mo (I grew up in India - there were no summer jobs worth doing because you can't compete with the cheap labour in India).

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