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by vmurthy 5y ago
The book mentioned in the article "Safe Haven" is a good listen. I have the audible version [0] and it covers a lot of counter-intuitive things. "Insurance" as a portfolio return enhancer is a core lesson I learnt. Altho
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by vmurthy 5y ago
I have read Bad Blood [0] about 3 years ago and the title describes only one part of the fraud going on in Theranos. Some more red flags (probably par for the course in Silicon Valley) - Abusive bosses and people fired for questioning even
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What’s Vivaldi’s business model?(vivaldi.com)
105 points by vmurthy 5y ago|73 comments
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by vmurthy 5y ago
From the article : "Insiders say that marketing missteps and duplicated development processes meant IBM Cloud was doomed from the start, and eight years after it attempted to launch its own public cloud the future of its effort is in
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by vmurthy 5y ago
I've used https://pragprog.com/ for programming related books and they send links for mobi , epub and PDFs IIRC
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by vmurthy 5y ago
Since I don't quite like LinkedIn , here's the direct video link [0] . Works with no authentication on browsers. Tried to do a wget but got a 403 forbidden. [0] https://dms.licdn.com/playlist/C5605AQHVTN_fA4rRc
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by vmurthy 5y ago
>I’m still not into the prospect of purchasing books on the e-reader – it’s something I’ll probably avoid Agree with most of what the author (including a preference for physical books) says but this. I must have spent close to USD 2k on
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by vmurthy 5y ago
>able to follow their friends and see their pics/videos/reels. That plus kid-approved verified partner content (like @pbskids or @nick) AnecData alert : We tried Youtube kids in 2019 for about a day (for my then 4 year old son)
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by vmurthy 5y ago
[0] Under-13s, the target group for Instagram for Kids, is not at high risk Genuinely curious : I'd like to know the benefits (not to FB but to society) of Instagram for kids in order to even contemplate the risk benefit analysis. D
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by vmurthy 5y ago
I'm 35 with an interest in mathematics but found my learning hampered by the school system I grew up in (encouraging rote learning etc). Now that I have the luxury of not prepping for exams, here's what I am doing. I am reading ma
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by vmurthy 5y ago
> This is just once again a case of philanthropic green-washing of what should be actually simply heavily taxed. Not being snarky but heavily taxed and then what? Expect the government to make the best decision on how to spend money?
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by vmurthy 5y ago
From the article : "In 2015, Mr Cook said he would give away his entire fortune before he dies, and is known to have donated tens of millions of dollars to charity". Success during one's life , paying it back to make the soc
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by vmurthy 5y ago
Is there an accepted definition of a homelab? Will my Raspberry Pi 4 running TiddlyWiki and a few custom scripts count ? :) What about an Intel NUC that is running a Plex Server and a blog ?
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by vmurthy 5y ago
Lest we forget , social networks are/were designed to exploit loopholes in our psychology [0]. Everything wrong with social networks can be derived from this :-( [0] https://www.cbsnews.com/news/sean-parker-facebook
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by vmurthy 5y ago
As a techie-turned-PM , I found this pattern really useful when discussing specs with different stakeholders. Business stakeholders understand their business as a series of events (Customer walked in, customer bought X , customer checked ou
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by vmurthy 5y ago
Do note that this is pre-print so not peer reviewed. Take it with a pinch of salt until it gets peer reviewed
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by vmurthy 5y ago
Congratulations on the launch! Slick product :) I am not from a dataviz background but I do have a question around the decision to use Gitea (other than self-hosted) . Would it be a better use of your time to use something like GitHub or wa
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Show HN: CLI Mood Tracker
4 points by vmurthy 5y ago|0 comments
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by vmurthy 5y ago
You are right. You can't trade options with SH :)
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by vmurthy 5y ago
You didn't ask the country so my answers might slightly differ 1. India - Kite by Zerodha[0]. Zero brokerage fees (!) for equity delivery. INR 20 for options. Easy to understand UI and great community 2. Australia - Superhero [1]. Zero
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by vmurthy 5y ago
>I really loved computers and programming growing up Can you look at projects you did before getting the CS degree and improve upon them with what you have learnt in CS ? e.g. if you had designed a game , can you look at making it more s
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by vmurthy 5y ago
From the article "Five9 is a pioneer of cloud-based contact center software. Its highly-scalable and secure cloud contact center delivers a comprehensive suite of easy-to-use applications that allows management and optimization of cus
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by vmurthy 5y ago
As a heads up, this is a review of "Software Engineering at Google"[0]. Not first hand account of someone who worked there in case you are into that sort of a thing:) [0] https://www.oreilly.com/library/view&#x
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by vmurthy 5y ago
The blog post doesn't quite do justice as much as the book "Conspiracy" by Ryan Holiday does. Do read it to understand how it died. [0] https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/36681909-conspiracy
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by vmurthy 5y ago
>These executives argued that Facebook should selectively disclose its own data in the form of carefully curated reports, rather than handing outsiders the tools to discover it themselves Eery how this reminds me of Big Tobacco sponsored
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by vmurthy 5y ago
Distributed monolith[0], much? :) https://newrelic.com/blog/best-practices/distributed-monolit...
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by vmurthy 5y ago
Slightly tangential but relevant to people who are interested in how some nations are now sponsoring cyber attacks ( Not saying this "colossal" one was state sponsored :-) ) "The Lazarus heist: How North Korea almost pulled o
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by vmurthy 5y ago
A few things about the timing in addition to lockdown induced growth :) 1. They raised their Series A in 2011 and raised a few rounds between 2012-2015 [0]. VCs usually have a time horizon of 5-7 years so this might be another reason. 2. In
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by vmurthy 5y ago
A few points that caught my eye: 1. They have ~5% conversion from free to paid which seems like the top end of freemium apps (Range seems to be 2-5%) [0] 2. The business model section is interesting if you want to learn about SaaS / fr
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> There's not a lot of information about exactly what this vaccine is or how it works. I'd be cautious about drawing conclusions based on press statements +1. Waiting for the results in a peer reviewed paper. Science by media i

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