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by sunjain 12y ago
I have 6 yr old and a dog. Dog i've had for little more than a yr. There is a running joke in the house that - if there is a fire in the house, and I can only save one - I will save dog first and then kid. I think it has to do with inn
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by sunjain 12y ago
Beauty of a sport is in playing...and not so much in keeping score. When you are really playing(in the zone), you don't look up at the score.
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by sunjain 13y ago
Long time back I had posed a question on "Ask PG" - that how come PG does not go out and do a startup(after his initial one)? My aim was to ask if doing startup is such a "must to do" thing for certain kind of folks, the
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by sunjain 13y ago
What an efficient robot. It is amazing how our entire lives are about being most "productive". Do we do anything just for the for the fun of doing it, in an unstructured unplanned way?
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Ask PG: Why did you stop making products?
10 points by sunjain 13y ago|6 comments
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by sunjain 14y ago
Using UUID(or anything other than sequentially increasing numbers) for primary keys is a good idea because when you have high number of concurrent inserts happening, if you have a sequentially increasing primary key(implemented via a b-tree
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by sunjain 14y ago
Public memory is short(how many remember the Top Gear review of model S now?). In few months people will forget about this episode. This may have negative short term impact(or may be not) on sales of Tesla cars/shareprice. But from Tesla's
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by sunjain 14y ago
Game consoles are irrelevant from point of view of gaining/retaining big chunk of consumer market. There is a reason why Apple avoided this market (instead of focussing on music, then phone and of course tablet), while Microsoft was busy co
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by sunjain 14y ago
Rather than self-driving cars, I see hype-loop kind of system being more effective overall(reliable, cheaper). Obviously a lot more work has been done(Google) on self-driving cars but I would secretly hope/wish that Elon really gets crackin
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by sunjain 14y ago
In the long run what is going to hurt SQL server is the fact that it is on Windows only. And if you look at the technology trends for databases - big/midsize IT shops are gravitating towards integrated solutions(Exadata e.g) where Microsoft
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by sunjain 14y ago
On the contrary, I suggest 20s is the best time to explore who you actually are - so called "hippy" stuff. As later on it just becomes that much more difficult. Whether you end up building a great company or end up doing a regular job in yo
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by sunjain 14y ago
Very impressive!
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by sunjain 14y ago
I would attribute this to the following: 1. As a society, and culturally India historically has not given sufficient importance to physical fitness. So while historically there was great importance given to spiritual and philosophical pursu
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by sunjain 14y ago
Look at from all those IT mangers/decision makers point of view at big corporations. And there is lot of Java there in those corporations. They previously may not have known that Oracle is linked with Java(in a big way). Now they know.
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by sunjain 14y ago
I think most of the folks overlook one key point - which is the fact that this was free publicity for Oracle. Some would say in a bad way, but that is if you think purely from ability to use/improve open source software(which I agree). Howe
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by sunjain 14y ago
Now there is an alternative to Objective-C in iOS development(for Rubyists). This is similar to development of Coffescript. There is nothing wrong with Objective-C, it is just that folks who prefer the elegance and beauty of Ruby have an o
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by sunjain 15y ago
Very informative and sense of humor is not only awesome it conveys the point very well. This is one of the most truthful and at the same time hilarious commentary on doing a startup.
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by sunjain 15y ago
Simply Amazing!
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Why Is The World Run By Bean Counters?(blogs.forbes.com)
6 points by sunjain 15y ago|2 comments
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by sunjain 15y ago
Thanks. This is very helpful.
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Why rechargeable (AA/AAA) batteries not popular?
4 points by sunjain 15y ago|11 comments
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by sunjain 15y ago
These pearls of wisdom are no less than PG's essays. What I find most impressive about his wisdom is that it had withstood the test of time....it's not just about finding the next big idea and executing it when you are 20/30 something and t
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by sunjain 15y ago
What is considered as "good/ethical/moral" is relative...to individuals and time...few hundred years back, to even think that earth goes around sun, was considered not good/unethical/amoral by lot of folks...
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by sunjain 15y ago
Thanks. This was very useful and complimentary to the main video; it gives a better picture of how they setup the mast, take-off and land.
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by sunjain 15y ago
Not sure I would agree complete with this assessment. Reason Microsoft was able to get that kind of stronghold was due to applications(Word, Excel - though they copied these - and others vendor apps/drivers written exclusively for windows).
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by sunjain 16y ago
I would like to agree with this and hope this is true. As Steve Jobs once said he would much rather be considered as builder rather than trader. And so building part of entrepreneurship is more like an art. As unpredictable and challenging
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by sunjain 16y ago
This is probably the best explanation of the effectiveness of the customary greeting extended even to strangers in US. It may sound mechanical but it does serves an important purpose.
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by sunjain 16y ago
On the contrary I think whenever you get into a situation where there is an overlap in functionality, that means it needs to be further broken down into more smaller independent units. I see tremendous value in adhering to this philosophy,
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Why no looting in Japan?(caffertyfile.blogs.cnn.com)
192 points by sunjain 16y ago|185 comments
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by sunjain 16y ago
This article provides a very good insight into what makes someone a genius (and certainly it is not just the talent). I think perspective/vision is a key thing here, combined with passion and hard work.

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