msound

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by msound 6y ago
I grew up in Pondicherry, went to Pondicherry Engineering College (class of 99). I used to bike up from college to Matrimandir a lot of weekends for meditation. There are several communities within Auroville and they each operate kind of in
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by msound 9y ago
Narendra Modi is the Prime Minister of India. He has a very interesting (and controversial) history. He grew up selling tea at a railway station and now he's Prime Minister of the largest democracy. https://en.wikipedia.org&
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by msound 9y ago
In India, our income tax department accepts returns as an XML document, and tax prep software developers have built tools that basically help you generate the XML and upload it to the e-filing website. PDF Link: https://incometax
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by msound 9y ago
On a related note, a Stanford tax law professor Joseph Bankman had run trials of pre-filled forms for a few California state taxpayers. Listen to his journey on Episode 760 of PlanetMoney podcast: http://www.npr.org/sections
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by msound 10y ago
In 2003, I was working for a startup in India doing GPS/GSM based vehicle tracking system for fleets of trucks. The trucks would have our unit installed in them, and they would use GPS to get the location and send it to our server via
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by msound 10y ago
If you observe the 2 scripts in the pic in wikipedia, you would notice that in the original one, the "i's are not dotted" as it were. This seems to be a practice that has carried over from palm leaf writing to metal inscripti
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by msound 10y ago
The Tamils originally wrote on dried palm leaves with a sharp scribe. So, if you didn't want to tear the leaf, you had to avoid straight lines and dots. That's why there are so many curves in the script. Also, one of the meanings
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by msound 10y ago
He has clarified that it is 1GB for 20 Rupees.
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by msound 10y ago
Congratulations Karam and Shubhendu! Two questions: 1. Does this mean you are an ISP? If so, how did you go about registering as an ISP. 2. Most other WiFi (ex: at Cafe Coffee Day) requires one to register via SMS and pay by credit card. So
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by msound 10y ago
We have a distributed team, and switched to howdy.ai bot to ask the standup questions on Slack and post them to a channel. During our actual standup call, we only discuss blockers. (Not related to howdy.ai in any way, just a happy user)
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by msound 10y ago
> But unlike apps, I'm not sure how to showcase a particular "devops project" to future employers. One of the key elements of DevOps is automation. If you can make sure everything you do is in a public git repo, then you j