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by subbu 9y ago
I can't find the link anymore on illinois.edu. But I was fortunate to download them. The videos are on Coursera with some minor changes. https://www.coursera.org/specializations/cloud-computing
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by subbu 9y ago
Are they offering video recordings of this course? Dr. Gupta's earlier cloud computing course videos were just brilliant. I still listen to them regularly.
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by subbu 9y ago
When I started accepting online payments for simplyguest.com the percentage was less than 50%. Customers preferred to pay cash, but cash is difficult to manage, so I started pushing towards online payments. My cash collection this month was
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by subbu 9y ago
Thank you, Sharmi. I really appreciate you taking out time to look at the source and point out the issue. I have fixed the canonical url. I also noticed the feed url was wrong too. I have fixed that as well :)
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by subbu 9y ago
YC has funded 2 Indian startups in this space: Razorpay, and Cashfree, and now Stripe has also entered the space. Along with the startups some big banks are also in the fray. I started with HDFC payments for my company's payments but m
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by subbu 9y ago
Accepting payments is complex work if you are a marketplace or have some kind of service that pools money and then disburse it. SimplyGuest rents shared houses; multiple people pay house rent which needs to be pooled together and then the a
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by subbu 9y ago
The best use of MS Paint I have seen is by Sal Khan for his initial versions of Khan Academy videos. He used pretty much all features of MS Paint effectively.
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by subbu 10y ago
Location: Bangalore, India Remote: No Willing to relocate: No Technologies: Full-stack developer. Ruby on Rails, Java, DB( Postgresql, MySQL), JavaScript, HTML/CSS, Server ops. I am proficient in D3.js as well. I can do end-to-end desi
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U.S. health care needs a wakeup call from India(usatoday.com)
3 points by subbu 10y ago|0 comments
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by subbu 10y ago
Snapdeal is not going to win the e-commerce market by delivering cash. They are just deviating even farther from their goal: delivering goods. While Amazon continues to make micro optimizations to improve their service both Flipkart/Sn
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by subbu 10y ago
Long running projects in JavaScript may not be that long really. If you leave any codebase for a couple years, things would have changed so drastically, new devs may not even recognize the code. An year old JS project may be using React, a
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by subbu 10y ago
Looks like all those billions Jeff Bezos is investing in India are trickling into AWS infrastructure as well. This is good news for others; Singapore was their closest zone for Indian consumers. I always wanted an availability zone here in
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by subbu 10y ago
They haven't been supplanted; its just that there are lot more people in urban areas now than in 90s and they aren't going to eat idlis all 7 days. In fact there are a lot more Udupi restaurants now than earlier. Some restaurants
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by subbu 11y ago
76 out of 80 beds are rented out currently. I might close 2 more tomorrow. We only provide for mid to long-term stays. We ask for a minimum stay of 6 months and bill them monthly. Airbnb becomes too expensive for anything longer than a few
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by subbu 11y ago
We don't own any of the houses. All of them are rented just the normal way. We are present only in a few localities within Bangalore.
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by subbu 11y ago
0. http://simplyguest.com 1. we have 22 houses, 58 rooms, 80 beds 2. we have 76 tenants and 14 owners 3. Owners don't like revenue sharing. They prefer fixed rent; they don't mind lower rent if we can give them a hassl
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Apply HN: SimplyGuest – Furnished and Managed Houses for Singles in India
11 points by subbu 11y ago|6 comments
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After raising $125M at my last company, I’m bootstrapping this one(medium.com)
108 points by subbu 11y ago|46 comments
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by subbu 12y ago
I use this and it works for me http://brettterpstra.com/2011/03/07/watch-for-file-changes-a...
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Elon Musk lived on $1 day – just to see if he could(9news.com.au)
1 points by subbu 12y ago|0 comments
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by subbu 12y ago
The animations are a bit fast. Would've been great if the reader could control them. Easier to learn.
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by subbu 12y ago
What books/resources do you recommend for advanced topics?
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by subbu 12y ago
mixu's book turned out to be a gem. He does a wonderful job of what he claims in the introduction: I've tried to provide a more accessible introduction to distributed systems. To me, that means two things: introducing the key con
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by subbu 12y ago
Most d3 books out there are entry level. They don't cover advanced concepts which are needed to build serious visualizations. The only way to learn advanced stuff is to go through your bl.ocks, which could be daunting sometimes without
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by subbu 12y ago
How does this compare to Hetzner's servers? Lets say http://www.hetzner.de/en/hosting/produkte_vserver/vq12
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by subbu 12y ago
Its called function hoisting. Ref: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/JavaScript/Refe...
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by subbu 12y ago
Do you guarantee reply from reporters? What's included in the price?
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by subbu 12y ago
In "You are reaching out to Reporter at XXX..Over a story titled.." screen, the screen keeps moving back to the top blocking me from entering any information in fields below. Won't even let me scroll down from second time onw
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by subbu 13y ago
There are a few: draw.io, Google drawing, LibreOffice drawing etc. But nothing comes close to omnigraffle.
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by subbu 13y ago
stencils.io is actually a static webpage with direct links to the stencil's original locations.

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