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by vmurthy 7y ago
Anecdata: I work in a healthcare startup where we need to interface our software with medical devices. We’ve found that nothing other than .NET works well with the device drivers. I’d wager that at least in some fields which require a lot o
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by vmurthy 7y ago
Depends on how you use it. 1. OCD level organisation required? One note has got you covered. Books and tabs and what not. With tagging. 2. Want to toss everything in and forget about it? OneNote does the job. Windows and iOS supported. Play
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by vmurthy 7y ago
I read the article and it’s a great read. Nature never ceases to amaze us I guess. Cancer hijacking the body’s safety mechanisms is a scary scary thought. The title is misleading,though.
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Value on a few parameters ( these are relative of course) : - Stability - Security - Ease of use - Looks I’m sure the millions of users have found a combination of these factors valuable
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One factor that helps operators in India is the massive subscriber base. Nearly a billion people ought to spread the high fixed costs of telco infra to a decent point.
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by vmurthy 7y ago
I recently read a book on the life of Faraday and Maxwell[1]. Very interestingly, Maxwell modelled the famous equations of Electromagnetism by imagining them to be similar to how heat flows . To me that is a great take-away: Trying to mode
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by vmurthy 7y ago
Link doesn't seem to be working.. Do you think they've patched this?
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by vmurthy 7y ago
I'm from a neighbouring state and this is indeed no longer an abstraction. A canary in the coal-mine if ever there was one.
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Why a South Indian city's water crisis should worry you(economictimes.indiatimes.com)
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One way I look to answer these questions is to invert them. I'm asking myself: "What are the signs that I have a bad manager?". A few off the top of my head: - Lack of trust which leads to micromanagement and double-gue
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by vmurthy 7y ago
This might come in handy a bit later for you but we were having headaches with the ramp-up pricing of JIRA+Confluence. We explored open source alternatives and found OpenProject to be a great product. Free of charge of-course. Once you get
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by vmurthy 7y ago
> Dropbox is also one the chopping block to be replaced by OneDrive. A few weeks ago the startup I work for started using NextCloud as a stop-gap till we get O365 and OneDrive. It is ridiculously simple for us at-least to just copy ove
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by vmurthy 7y ago
I really wish I had teachers who used some visual tools to teach these concepts. More than the concept itself, it is the feeling of awe that one gets when one watches these things. It is easy to forget that a lot of math comes to describe p
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by vmurthy 7y ago
Great resource! Thanks for compiling this. From the other side of the table, Scott Kupor (a16z) has written a new book[1] "Secrets of Sand Hill Road". I look around and find mostly positive reviews for this. Yet to pick it up.
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by vmurthy 7y ago
Link to the original article - from the experimenter himself: https://scottscompostpile.com/2019/02/11/my-year-of-eating-e... Reminds me of a Nobel winning physician Barry Marshall[1] who drank a broth cont
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by vmurthy 7y ago
> I suppose a decent syntax highlighter library like pygments or chroma would be nice too. Could you clarify this? I last worked on Java in 2016 but even at the time, we had eclipse settings that had Syntax highlighters. Am I missing som
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by vmurthy 7y ago
Stack Overflow yearly survey[1] mentions that ~40+% developers who took the survey use Java. Not very surprising if you look at how long ago Java came into being (24 years ago!). I, for one am happy that it continues to evolve. At the very
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by vmurthy 7y ago
Hi , Interesting to hear this. Out of curiosity, what field do you work on which gives you the opportunity to do this?
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For me the nostalgia is for something a little deeper: developing under resource constraints. Anyone else feels that with resource limitations came good software design and code? Or am I off my rocker ?
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The article talks about a few great features of e-mail that I totally agree with: open standards, portability, asynchronicity. While asynchronicity is achievable with Slack ,I get the feeling that if all of your colleagues are on synchronou
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by vmurthy 7y ago
Ah brings back memories! Damn interesting.com was the site that hooked me onto evolutionary biology. The following article in particular: “Parasites of the brain” https://www.damninteresting.com/nugget/parasites-on-the-
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by vmurthy 7y ago
Can't resist a little gem from "Shoe Dog". Nike wanted to introduce a shoe during the 1968 Olympics being held at Mexico City. In honour of the location, they initially called it the "Aztec". But Adidas already had
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by vmurthy 7y ago
Morgan is a fantastic author. The article had me at the very first line: "It is easy to assume that wealth and poverty are caused by the choices we make, but it’s even easier to underestimate the role of chance in life"
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Financial advice for my new daughter(collaborativefund.com)
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Fascinating way of gaining the upper hand on your opponents (the "hackers" in this case). Best of all, the proceeds go to charity. Thank you, blackmailers. Reminds me of what Bezos did when some dickheads at National Enquirer de
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by vmurthy 7y ago
In my personal experience, many people (including yours truly) give up because we have vague ideas of what exactly great is. What exactly does it mean by being a great programmer? Peer adulation? LOCs per day ? I believe that until anyone f
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by vmurthy 7y ago
Heh! This article is just below an article on spying (“The thing”). Sure made my evening :-)
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If you follow a16z podcasts or their blogs, you’ll see they too doing quite a bit of this :-) https://a16z.com/posts/
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Per update from the author " Thanks for letting me know Have taken the site down until this is fixed" . Basically, the author is fixing an issue wherein resumes were serially numbered and anyone could potentially see anyone else&#
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by vmurthy 7y ago
Given that you are 2 friends, have you tried looking at options like Google One [1] or Office 365 [2] ? That way you don't have to modify your workflows too much. O365 especially offers a lot more capabilities like online meetings , on

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