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by vmurthy 7y ago
Sapiens (re-read) :) It's one of those books that gives you a different perspective every time you read it
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by vmurthy 7y ago
One of the things about the mantras is that if you chant them , your breathing is improved. In fact someone I know who has been doing this for a long time says that a lot of breathing problems go away if you do this regularly. If you don
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by vmurthy 7y ago
> Sunday (sic) is a random associate product manager who somehow managed to ride the wave of Chrome to somehow becoming CEO I'd be more careful about dismissing him as a random APM who "somehow managed to ride the wave of Chrom
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> No skin in the game from me (I only use Gmail for non-essential shopping), just an observation. This is really commendable. Do you host your own E-mail/Calendar/Contacts server? if so, what's your setup like in terms of
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> It's a good time to actually be a founder right now. Too many people just want to sit around and write checks. I’m uncertain about this. Clearly , not having money is bad but is too much money in the hands of founders really good?
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Like many have told , hiring a good sales person is going to work wonders. If you must sell stuff yourself , do yourself a favour and ingrain this [0] before you go wasting time on folks inside a megacorp. We wasted 9 months focusing on the
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by vmurthy 7y ago
Agree that not all countries would do this. But Allies? Also don’t other countries use AWS Gov ( or whatever it is called ) even though it AWS is “deeply embedded” in the US gov scheme of things?
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by vmurthy 7y ago
The monetary benefit is one big thing but in the B2B scheme of things , a big success story like this would be very easy to convince other government organisations and government in other countries to adopt Azure if they haven’t moved to
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by vmurthy 7y ago
Infosys had a reputation as one of India's most transparent companies. Reputation is somewhat a nebulous concept so I am going to use a proxy: P/E ratio [1]. According to theory, investors pay up a premium PE for well managed com
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by vmurthy 7y ago
> used time to study for CAT and left to enroll in IIMA. For those of you who don't know about CAT: think GMAT but with 200000 people appearing for it at the same time-frame (maybe a 15 day window) IIMA - Harvard equivalent in India
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by vmurthy 7y ago
For those of you who need to try it out real quick : Jitsi Docker : https://github.com/jitsi/docker-jitsi-meet
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To give you some more info: We had signed up in 2016 timeframe when they had a more generous free tier. The one that I see now has 5 users [0]. Also, the startup is in India. Perhaps they're offering different tiers depending on the co
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> Most of which could be done on a $5-10/month digital ocean, linode or similar environment @OP, Second this. Write to sponsorships@digitalocean.com and see if you can get a few more dollars off [0]. Worst case, you might end up ha
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by vmurthy 7y ago
We have used Zoho at our for-profit (free-tier - up to 25 people) with 5 GB Mailbox. We've had some issues when the HR tried to reach out to potential candidates and sent out some marketing emails. We were blocked and informed that it
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by vmurthy 7y ago
I got something really more valuable beyond these things. Observing how political organizations get. I was a programmer for 9 years before joining an "Elite" MBA program in India and the level of politicking among a batch of 75
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by vmurthy 7y ago
I usually take notes if I am adding a new contact that I don't know much about (E.g. Met at a meeting at CloudHQ). This was totally broken prior to iOS 13. I recently updated the OS and it works.
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by vmurthy 7y ago
Heh! It is a Jogo Bonita my friend!
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by vmurthy 7y ago
Hey Craig. I am an Indian citizen and would like to attend. I get it that there are no travel grants. Would there be some kind of visa assistance? Should I apply for B1?
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by vmurthy 7y ago
From the article: "The median price increase overall was 25.8%. Generic drugs, specifically, had higher increases, with a median rise of 37.6%" Given that the US inflation levels are single digits, this obviously looks egregious
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by vmurthy 7y ago
Not to mention: avoiding waste. Ever had a ton of stuff you bought for a dollar less than the price and ended up throwing out half the stuff ? Me, too.
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by vmurthy 7y ago
The article mentions “Not open conditions”. Other words, this course was chosen for the record. Also, per the linked Wiki reference “and meet other criteria that rule out artificially fast times produced on courses aided by downhill slope o
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by vmurthy 7y ago
There might be a better way: Only simulate the mixing and identify high probability cocktails and then let a robot mix stuff together. Applicable to Pharma industry, too.
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> Low-margin yes, but is the motor vehicle industry really so well run? My understanding of different businesses is this: If you are in a high-margin industry, you can screw up and still be around and maybe even thrive (think Coca-Cola&#
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I think the Prof covers it here "...Yes, he is a genius, Tesla has changed the world for the better (I believe this). And … Tesla doesn’t have the scale to compete in a well-run, low-margin business — auto." I'd love to hear
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by vmurthy 7y ago
One of the very few certifications that count has to be from Offensive Security [1]. Back in the day when I was considering a career in InfoSec, this was a huge motivation to learn new things. [1] https://www.offensive-security.
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by vmurthy 7y ago
> IT process frameworks. Make a new one up! We have Scrum, ITIL, TOGAF etc. for some inspiration. Totally agree. As unregulated as these are, they do have a chicken-and-egg problem. I can come up with a totally new framework/certifi
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The way analysts are probably looking at it: Governance in the letter of laws/regulations : We'll give it a B- , invest and make $$ They are probably smart/cynical enough to know that governance in the spirit of laws/re
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Masayoshi Son's Reckoning(forbesindia.com)
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It's a great metaphor but reality seems to be that there are a lot of good practices followed by so many people that it is impossible to keep track of. A via negativa approach to this might be easier. Does someone know of a compendiu
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I speak as a parent of a 5 year old boy. Going through this on an everyday basis and negotiating with him has taught me so many soft-skills that no 3-day courses by <insert-famous-guru-here> will ever teach. When I look back at this

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