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[Sathya @sathyavijayan]

What a fantastic jemi-final ! #ICCWomensWorldCup2025

[Sridhar Vembu @svembu]

We understand the push for Zoho to go public. But let me state the reality: Arattai would very likely not have been built by a public company that faces quarter to quarter financial pressure. It was a "hopelessly foolish" project, and even our employees had expressed scepticism that Arattai would ever gain any traction.

We built it because we felt we need that kind of engineering capability in Bharat. We need a lot lot more of such capabilities in Bharat and we are on it.

We have some very ambitious, long range R&D projects going on in Zoho, including compilers, databases, OS, security, hardware, chip design, robotics (not to mention AI) and on and on. In addition, we have invested in many R&D intensive companies that we know won't make money soon.

Zoho is a kind of an industrial research lab that also makes money to fund itself. We essentially ignore short term profits, as long as we don't lose money. And we have a culture of founders and senior executives living frugally, like how good scientists and engineers in ISRO would live. To us that is the essence of Bharat. Japan operated that way when it was developing.

Imagine saying all that to Wall Street or Dalal Street!

[Mark Villacampa @MarkVillacampa]

macOS 26 is getting native support for Linux containers!

[Sathya @sathyavijayan]

Fired up an old Node.js project & got hit with a missing Python 2 error. After the customary 'W..TF?!' , I traced it to chokidar → fsevents → node-gyp, which relies on Python scripts to compile native code. JS project depending on Python to compile C++.Feels like a total relic.

[Sathya @sathyavijayan]

India’s approach to this game warrants a new buzz word like #Bazball … #Gamball ? Or #Bhirball ? 😜 @prasannalara @cricbuzz @ashwinravi99 #cricketlover @BCCI

[Sathya @sathyavijayan]

Just came up with a new standup routine.

I was auditing a project's CI pipeline..
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-DskipTests

(audience ROTFL)

#softwareengineering #laughoutloud

[Sathya @sathyavijayan]

An 'ancient' Lollu Sabha gem:

: ஏன் டா கரகாட்டம் ஆட மாட்டேன்க்கிற
: ஏன்னா எனக்கு பிடிக்கல
: பிடிக்காம ஆட்றது தான் கரகாட்டம், பிடிச்சு ஆடினா அது போங்காட்டம் ... 🤣😂🤪

#tamil #VijayTelevision #PopCulture

[Sathya @sathyavijayan]

"Compose" is tucked into an overlay popup - I spent 5 minutes looking for a way to compose a new email. #EpicFail #ux

[Sathya @sathyavijayan]

You don't need to be "anti-" something or "pro-" something. Just "be..". Let's stop undermining the human ability to balance things. Use your passion to progress !!

[Sathya @sathyavijayan]

As much as I would like to say .. I don’t give a shit.. I actually do.. I know you are going to take advantage of that .. and I don’t give a shit ..

[Sathya @sathyavijayan]

Beat this - https://t.co/qRBKfoHzNS #illayaraja #MusicIsLife #Loop

[Sathya @sathyavijayan]

Biggest scam ever ! Got to pay, whether I use it or not ..

[Sathya @sathyavijayan]

You got to love org-mode + org-agenda. I'm discovering its joys every day, one feature at a time. Today, I learnt that you can add a note to any item which automatically captures the timestamp. (C-c C-z / org-add-note) #emacs

[Sathya @sathyavijayan]

@rays2pix @yuvavaniv Congrats !!!

[Sathya @sathyavijayan]

4) Still, as a launchpad for the world? India is absolutely there now. The Indian engineer doesn’t 10X their standard of living by leaving, as they did 40-50 years ago.

This is so true - I can vouch for this.

[Balaji @balajis]

THE BASICS WORK IN INDIA

Rohit is right about India.

1) First, the basic daily loop of a tech worker is now easy in India. Wake up, hit the gym, open laptop, get coffee, call an Uber, hang out with some friends, etc — that’s all there. Reliable power, internet, air conditioning, roads, airport…all the basics are present. Sounds trivial, but it’s not — a lot of infrastructure has to come together for that to be true. And it wasn’t as present a decade ago.

2) Second, the public goods are also there. Unlike SF or LA, the streets aren’t filled with people that NGOs have addicted to drugs. In fact, they’re cleaner every day, and the transit infrastructure is improving too. The crime rates are lower, the community spirit is stronger, people are more positive and optimistic. You don’t see all this in the numbers, but it matters.

3) India is fundamentally an ascending world country. It’s not perfect of course. I don’t think pollution in South India is actually that big a deal, but the paperwork in particular is still something that needs improvement.

4) Still, as a launchpad for the world? India is absolutely there now. The Indian engineer doesn’t 10X their standard of living by leaving, as they did 40-50 years ago.

5) Sure, the most ambitious may still go diasporic until GIFT City[1] becomes as business-friendly as Singapore or Cayman. But the baseline has *vastly* improved and that changes everything.

[1]: https://t.co/O4XCpN3DcO

[Programmer Humor @PR0GRAMMERHUM0R]

First thing to check: CTRL+S https://t.co/cImTCPfJCl

[Sathya @sathyavijayan]

@KKRiders are looking dangerous. At the outset they look like a team without a backbone, but their batting is venomous as hell and their bowlers can choke the hell out of teams. #KKRvRCB

[Sathya @sathyavijayan]

To counter the effect of dew and pitches behaving differently over the course of a match, can we play T20 games in 2 innings ? 14+6 perhaps ? Was this ever considered ? @prasannalara @ashwinravi99 #HallaBolKonjamNallaBol

[Sathya @sathyavijayan]

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[Igor Brigadir 🇺🇦 @IgorBrigadir]

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[Sathya @sathyavijayan]

Happy Ugadi and Gudi Padwa folks !