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by r_singh 7y ago
Not sure what your definition of fraud is (for me it's more like what the British India company did). Wining a tender process that probably needs fixing (because it's obsolete) is not fraud.
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by r_singh 7y ago
If you consider overcharging (perceivably) to be akin to defrauding, then a lot more doctors, pharmacy cos. and lawyers are defrauding clients than outsourcing cos. Even though the repercussions of them defrauding their clients is a lot hig
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by r_singh 7y ago
In that case, TCS will pay a price for it in the long run.
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by r_singh 7y ago
> The idea that a bank should outsource development is ridiculous, most of their interaction with customers is going to be through these systems. If they want to differentiate themselves from their competitors then they need strong IT. I
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by r_singh 7y ago
There's probably barely any big consulting firm or bank that does not have offshore mega offices (in India) where a lot of important work happens in equities, commodities, etc. Citibank, BOA, PWC, you name it. All employ tens of thousa
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by r_singh 7y ago
Uber and Lyft are loss making experiments. Whereas Infosys and TCS are profitable corporations, responsibly hiring hundreds of thousands of people (which they do not plan to fire impulsively like Uber), bringing in huge volumes of trade rev
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by r_singh 7y ago
I can't help but notice the bias people from the west tend to have against Indian outsourcing companies. They have issues and downsides, sure. Major long term downsides, as an Indian programmer (not working for any of these companies),
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by r_singh 7y ago
I'm currently using Netlify CMS on my Gatsby site for the blog bit. Any reason I should switch to this?
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by r_singh 7y ago
Hmm, while not for path breaking tech like the above, I go to product hunt or indie hackers to go checkout new products and become an early adopter.
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Post your landing page and let others describe what your company does(indiehackers.com)
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by r_singh 7y ago
The $150k is the least compelling reason to join YC. Most people apply to YC for the ecosystem, community and access to (relatively) good VCs.
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by r_singh 7y ago
Yes exactly. A good example of this in a centralised system however, is Indian Railways. They have a billion customers and still have a simple phone number, a mobile app and physical counters for customer service.
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by r_singh 7y ago
Thanks for correcting. True that 5 mins per ticket is too less. But I don't think any paid tech service has 1B customers. (users yes, customers, I don't think so).
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by r_singh 7y ago
Update: 10% of 1B is 100M. 100M tickets in how much time? Let's say a year. And it takes on average 5 minutes to respond to 1. That is 500M minutes. So you need a team of ~1500 people to respond to 100M tickets in a year. Not that bad
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by r_singh 7y ago
I get this argument about having millions of users reporting stuff. But just have a look at Facebook and Google's balance sheet, and the figures that other non profitable monopolies raise. However big the support team needs to be shoul
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by r_singh 7y ago
This resonates with me so much. On a slightly unrelated note: When these to-be monopolies are just starting and raising dollars, their service and everything is on point. Once their too big to have competitors, there is absolutely no way of
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by r_singh 7y ago
It's common sense that these SaaS products are targeted towards people who use them enough to pay for it, monthly. The reason why it's better for the creator to offer it paid only, is that they can focus on shipping features only
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by r_singh 7y ago
Not too hard to surpass those with things like residential proxies, randomised user agents, headless browsers, etc. Bring on the anti scraping measures...
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by r_singh 7y ago
You're right, that was/is a phase. The FHRAI (federation of hotels and restaurant association of India) complained against some of OYO's business practices in July this year and it made a lot of news (mostly changing policies
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by r_singh 7y ago
Finally, somebody talks about the problems with OYO's business model. I personally think it's a WeWork in the making for sure. If I had Softbank shares, this article would be enough to make me sell. Meanwhile, here in India, journ
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by r_singh 7y ago
Do you hate them objectively speaking or in comparison with other food?
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by r_singh 7y ago
No, I'm suggesting that they make it slightly more difficult to create ads on FB. Why do we see much less fake ads on conventional media? Because it's difficult to be anonymous, the process is a lot slower and the publishing mediu
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Ask HN: Why has Google started adding icons above every search result?
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by r_singh 7y ago
Fair enough, it is quite difficult to do that (well not really if your net profits are ~20B and if you let convenience and speed of ad deployment suffer for quality and trust). But the least they could do is increase transparency like how S
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Victory! Ruling in HiQ vs. Linkedin Protects Scraping of Public Data (09/2019)(eff.org)
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by r_singh 7y ago
dragged him* I guess
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AWS Elastic Beanstalk – when it’s better than Heroku?(medium.com)
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by r_singh 7y ago
Same here! What's your choice of stack for the api? PS - I need to build an api for an app with a React front-end. My choice of language is Python (because I'm super familiar and because of the great ORMs Python has).
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by r_singh 7y ago
I’ve heard similar stories about WeWork over paying for property here in India (because the parent company offered a buy out at time of partnership). WeWork BKC’s (in Mumbai) annual rent amounts to ~$11M (for an 18 story building, but the p
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by r_singh 7y ago
Probably had ad blockers

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