The concept of doing whatever you want, whenever you want is the idealistic babble of a child
The more wealthy and powerful you are, the greater is your responsibility towards everyone around you
Exceptional people are exceptional because they operate well within constraints
TCS, Infosys and Wipro save the Indian Rupee from depreciating
IT services export worth $148B, in an incredible 45% of India's exports
Increasing our exports reduce trade deficits which strengthens the rupee
A slowdown in IT services could hurt the rupee
We'll keep today's #WeekendDevPuzzle simple:
Scenario A: You have a set of web servers, sitting behind an LB (Load Balancer), and hit a DB for some of their requests.
LB has never gone down since deployment, while web servers have issues for ~3hrs per month, and DB ~1hr/mo
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Amazing view from Nane Ghat (about 100 km from #Pune).
Strong winds driving the waterfall back up in monsoon.
(2021 video, via @hellobensalt, @gunsnrosesgirl3)
in case you hadn’t heard yet ! person who dropped out of high school to be a poet wins the field medal
(some quotes from @FedericoArdila in here too)
https://t.co/DNnNRfDeaH
Whenever I'm down or doubting myself, I always come back to one stat that reminds me of why I'm working on 100DaysOfNoCode.
*Only 0.3% of the world's population can code*
That's like saying only 1 in 400 people can write.
What this means is that...
Stunning amts of money is now flowing out of India into overseas mkts #anecdotal
- Public Mkts: My investment advisor (big 3 Indian pvt bank) recommends 20% exposure to foreign equity in investment portfolios (v/s 0% 3yr bk)
- Private Mkts: Hundreds of startups moving abroad..
Even someone from the startup ecosystem who actually has the ear of the government, and potentially has leverage with the government, is sounding the alarm now.
Amit was known as the person to first have successfully bridged the startup world and the govt. He has lost hope too
Over the last few years, I’ve grown my bootstrapped business to $50M+ in revenue.
The headline sounds great, but it wasn’t pretty.
There was a lot of failure, misstep and doubt along the way.
Here are 20 hard earned (non-fortune cookie) lessons, I picked up along the way:
Rebel Foods' move to foray into dine-in eateries is a reminder of how tough scaling the pure-play cloud kitchen business fundamentally is, not just in India but globally 🧵
Don't know if people have just given up. When I wake up in the morning I dont get greeted by a warm Sun,I get greeted by grayness as far as one can see.@ArvindKejriwal@narendramodi what example is being set for our next generation, what life are we providing our current citizens
@dhbvncare hello... We have been getting wrong bill for months now. It keeps coming on provisional basis which is 3x-4x our actual usage. Every month we have to complain. It has become harrassing at this point. Please help