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by sridharvembu 18y ago
(I am the CEO of Zoho) Let me provide some context on this. What we are doing is to separate the two layers in a database that have traditionally been so welded together that you don't even think of them as two layers: the SQL processing "l
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by sridharvembu 18y ago
Disclaimer: I don't know anything about France This is a response to PG's comment about social, behavioral change. It is worth understanding the fundamental economic underpinning of this. Two observations or assertions: a) People have mor
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by sridharvembu 18y ago
Here is fully normalized relational model. I will adopt a simple notation Table: <PrimaryKeyID>, Column1, Column2 where the <> denotes the column to be primary key and Column1, Column2 etc. denote regular non-key attribut
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by sridharvembu 18y ago
I would agree if you said "most economists" instead of "all". On the minimum wage, a couple of Princeton economists wrote a scholarly paper pointing out how that didn't suppress hiring (sorry, don't have a handy reference) or increase unemp
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by sridharvembu 18y ago
I had the same thought as Mark Cuban. A PhD in Economics, even winning the Nobel Prize (see my critique of Krugman) doesn't give you the real world feel that starting and running a business does. Economics is full of unintended consequences
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by sridharvembu 18y ago
I believe we need a "converse of Lisp" - in Lisp code is data, I believe what we need is the notion "data replaces (most) code". That leads to the question, what really is data, and I believe Codd supplies the best answer to that question.
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by sridharvembu 18y ago
Thanks folks, as a Hacker News regular, I am truly honored to have this featured here. To address lhorn, this post was written and made it to HN when our India folks were asleep (13.5 hour time difference). And it may be hard for you to acc
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by sridharvembu 18y ago
Alas, everything I wrote is true, it exactly happened the way I describe in my post. To be honest, I haven't seen a platform with as myopic a strategy as Salesforce, not from Microsoft, not from Google, not from Facebook, not by a long shot
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by sridharvembu 18y ago
Recently, Bernanke seems to have come around to accepting that asset prices are important to monetary policy, breaking a long-held Fed orthodoxy, dating back to Greenspan. Contrast his speech in 2002, where he outlines the"don't burst a bub
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by sridharvembu 18y ago
The Austrians are right to condemn the fractional reserve policies that caused MZM to get so big. But the only thing the Fed can do now is to printing money to make the two match, and then make sure it never happens again. To even have th
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by sridharvembu 18y ago
While [printing too much money] might make the current recession relatively short and mild ... That is by no means assured. Right now, we are in truly uncharted territory economically. My prediction is that theories are going to be rewrit
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A Critique of Krugman's Economic (not political) Commentary(blogs.zoho.com)
11 points by sridharvembu 18y ago|10 comments
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We are all Japanese now(blogs.zoho.com)
27 points by sridharvembu 18y ago|6 comments
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by sridharvembu 18y ago
Point taken. Design is hard, great design is harder. To contrast with 37Signals, we don't believe, and haven't believed in less is more. As Joel Spolsky has said, nothing sells software better than new features. We are working on new interf
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by sridharvembu 18y ago
Jason, thanks for the complement and the criticism. To clarify a couple of points: Zoho CRM has nothing do with SugarCRM code. It is entirely written in Java - just as all the rest of the Zoho suite, in fact, it shares the same underlying
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by sridharvembu 18y ago
My point is that they aren't likely to do a stand-alone DVD player ...
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by sridharvembu 18y ago
Outsourcing is a perfect illustration of the revenue/profit per employee analysis. If a particular function your company is doing is low-value-added (i.e it can be done by companies with lower revenue per employee than yours), you should co
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by sridharvembu 18y ago
Actually, it would explain very well why Nintendo would never get into, say, DVD players, HDTVs and such. And Nintendo's per-capita profitability also explains why Microsoft is so desperate to break into video games, except that they just h
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by sridharvembu 18y ago
Google & Microsoft will both do very well, indeed. Even then we will have a decent business if we execute well. First, we are much smaller, so it takes a lot less to be successful. Second, even in the face of the most successful busines
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Zoho Share: Sharepoint Meets YouTube(blogs.zoho.com)
9 points by sridharvembu 18y ago|1 comments
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by sridharvembu 18y ago
I will respond to Matt Maroon's argument directly: revenue per employee is one of the most important metrics in a software company, which is about as pure human labor as you can get. The eventual business goal of every such effort, includ
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by sridharvembu 18y ago
Thanks for all the feedback. As a regular Hacker News reader, I am thrilled to see my post here! Hexstream made a great comment about the wasted potential of teen years. It echoes what PG has said - boredom being the biggest problem in high
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by sridharvembu 18y ago
I upvoted for this. I take Peter Schiff very seriously. He has been right on housing, right on gold/commodities, and he is coming from a very fundamental point of view. I have been a fan of the "Austrian School" of Economics (Mises/Hayek/Ro
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Zoho supports sign-on With Google/Yahoo ID(blogs.zoho.com)
3 points by sridharvembu 18y ago|0 comments
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by sridharvembu 18y ago
I use number of employees - I do agree productivity has increased, in fact, that is part of my point on why the dominant company could achieve its dominance with fewer people. In the limit, may be there will be a 1 person start-up that will
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IBM, Microsoft & Google Eras of Computing(blogs.zoho.com)
7 points by sridharvembu 18y ago|3 comments
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by sridharvembu 19y ago
Couldn't resist this one (sorry!): http://www.toondoo.com/View.toon?param=182598
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by sridharvembu 19y ago
Granted. To be fair to Paul, I got about 60% of it based on a (rusty) idea of lisp. The _ got me (should've thought of Perl)... but now it is clear. My broader point still holds though - there is a maximal density ... And the reason I comme
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by sridharvembu 19y ago
Agreed on the obsession with brevity. Reminds me of mathematical proofs, where you work out everything offline, and then make the proof elegantly brief. There is a similar process going on here - writing macros really does boil down to that
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by sridharvembu 19y ago
Actually, the equivalent Ruby/Python would use a simple SQL query. I have long noticed how SQL is the poor-man's functional "DSL" for such uses ...

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