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Saturday, June 27, 2009

All honourable men

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Deccan Chronicle: You have, of course, resigned from Infosys. But have you had time to think about conflict of interest issues that might st...
Sunday, June 21, 2009

Excessive 'Head Count' And 'Billing' Days Over For Indian Software Companies ?

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I was chatting with a friend at a mid-sized software company in Bangalore; he said that foreign clients were increasingly insistent that the...
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Monday, June 01, 2009

Statisticians

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A couple of jokes about statisticians from Oxford mathematician Peter Donnelly's TED talk . Someone, one of my senior colleagues told m...
Friday, May 29, 2009

Techie Spin

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It's always a shame when technologists, who have to answer precisely to the computer, use political spin when talking to users. ...
Friday, May 08, 2009

Rams' Law Of Enterprise Software Sales

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Never attribute to stupidity that which can be adequately explained by corruption.
Thursday, May 07, 2009

Jim Coudal Interview (transcript)

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Jim Coudal (JC) in his interview with Ryan Carson (RC) offers valuable insights especially on the importance of being able to write well. S...
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Thursday, February 26, 2009

How Chad Fowler Found Good Programmers in India

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In his essay GreatHackers, Paul Graham annoyed the industry with the assertion that Java programmers aren’t as smart as Python programmers. ...
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Friday, February 13, 2009

Proto.in 2009 - Striking the Right Notes

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I attended Proto.in , the two day event for startups in Bangalore in Jan'2009. Bangaloreinc has a couple of neat posts in their weekly ...
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Sunday, February 01, 2009

The Indian Software Exports Scam

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The 12th Feb issue MoneyLIFE magazine has published a letter from an unnamed head of an Indian IT company. The letter does a great job of ...
Sunday, November 30, 2008

One Reason Why Software Is Expensive

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Joel Spolsky recently spoke at Y Combinator about selling software to corporate customers. He said that in most companies software costing u...
Monday, November 24, 2008

How Fortran Was Developed

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While going through a presentation (pdf) by John Anderson of the University of Edinburgh at LISA'08 , I came across a fascinating quot...
Saturday, November 22, 2008

From The Horse's Mouth: The Free Desktop Has Been In 'Catchup' Mode

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The free desktop has been in “catchup” mode: catching up to first Windows and now nipping at the heels of the Mac. Our path has been obviou...
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Saturday, October 25, 2008

Andy Bechtolsheim On a Common Start-Up Mistake

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Lean staffing also helps Arista keep its costs down. The Menlo Park, Calif., company has fewer than 50 employees and started shipping system...

A Marketing Guy Nails the Problem with Software Companies

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Watching Steve Johnson's short six and half minute presentation titled 'Software:Business or Hobby ' (video) at the Business of ...
Saturday, October 18, 2008

Mercurial vs Git: The Biggest Non-Technical Difference

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The biggest non-technical difference between git and mercurial is the rabid culture surrounding git. mercurial users fairly happily and quie...
Sunday, October 12, 2008

Software Development - Fire Fighters vs Real Heroes

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In a Dilbert cartoon, the pointy-haired boss, apparently frustrated by the company's sub-par products, announces that he'll reward e...
Sunday, August 31, 2008

The Programming Elite, Programmers Who Read

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About half an hour into the StackOverflow podcast , I started wondering whether I should stop listening to all the navel gazing about the so...
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Wednesday, August 20, 2008

Paul Graham On Why Some Popular Web Sites for Nerds Went Downhill

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I don't think it's as hard to keep a site from sliding as one might think from the examples of previous sites where things went down...
Friday, August 15, 2008

Steve Jobs On Recruiting

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"Recruiting is hard. It's just finding the needles in the haystack. We do it ourselves and we spend a lot of time at it. I've p...
Saturday, August 09, 2008

Professional Stereotypes and High Performers

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In response to Paul Graham's essay A Fund Raising Survival Guide , Gordon Mohr has posted a fascinating insight in the comments: The ve...
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