Abhiram R
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👋 Follow https://t.co/bgHxgkCiJW to learn Python | Running one of Bangalore's largest BookClubs📚- @BibliophilesBlr
Joined November 2009
If there are any #Substack users on here, I've made a website that can help you look at your writing progress for any chosen year - .It shows you a visualization of when you've written "a la" Github and also the number of posts for that year :).Check it 👇.
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Damn, of all the SaaS to be trashed this year, @astronomerio getting caught in the crossfire was not on my bingo card 😂.
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Touch Indian grass da.
Perplexity is giving away Pro to 360M Indians for a year. If it doesn't work, at 1 query/day, it can cost them $700M-$3.6B/yr. If even 1% convert to Pro, it could mean $720M in ARR.
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Anyone who uses the words hustle/grind should read this book by @SimoneStolzoff
A girl in my firm reaches office by 8AM & leaves by 6PM sharp. Later, I found out she also runs a custom tailoring studio with her sister which does good sales & also a homemade food cloud kitchen with her mom. All this, while preparing for CA finals. Some ppl are built to grind.
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PSA to all conference video editors -.Do not use a background music track in the video when people are at a fireplace chat / a regular talk. It's extremely distracting & annoying. Couldn't listen to 2 talks beyond a min because of the garbage lo-fi music track in the bg.
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The Mayan promises of December 2011 are still fresh😕 .Looking forward to this .
Finally some good news!.
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This truth apart, Bangalore is the most impossible place to tell someone to be in their lane at this point.
A lot of people have been commenting on this saying techbros should stay in their lane, this is not how you fix traffic. Except it is. Traffic and congestion aren't linear things. A 5% reduction in traffic or a 5% increase in speed through a chokepoint can lead to a 30%.
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If Ejipura flyover was a software project, its status would have shown "Added to backlog" years ago. Society might need people who files petitions against government. But we need a government that actually works for the people. That doesn't seem likely. Ever.
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That's it. Resuming posting on my YouTube channel about Python and Engineering. Check out and subscribe 😁.
I used to talk every day to a very depressed English girl.I told her about this crazy YouTube idea I had and she loved it.One day she didn’t come back online.She had already had attempts before.I would still message her when I had good news.I messaged her when my YouTube hit 1k,.
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All promotions are hoops to make you feel good about your job.
Staff Engineer is a made-up term to justify promotions and make people feel better. There’s no real difference between Senior and Staff.
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A PSA to everyone waiting for Amazon Saver deals this weekend :. You save 100% of the money you don't spend. - Abhiram. - Wayne Gretsky. - Michael Scott.
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The moment you label yourself, you've lost the plot. It's one thing to say you've got X years of exp in frontend/backend/DB etc & that's why you'd be Better at it than other stacks but any engineer worth their salt should be able to Attempt to wade through all parts of tech.
@dave_reis @GergelyOrosz Not hiring a backend engineer is entirely ok. Hiring pure backend engineer and expecting them to do non backend stuff IMO is wrong even in startups. Startups doesn't mean a pure backend engineer should be made to work on things he has no clue about/not interested in.
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It was the above average of times, it was the below average of times.
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My most used usecase for @voicenotesai is to record hazy narrations of my dreams at night. Are they ever ambitious, successful, mindblowing visions? No. But every now and then I reflect on how often the running theme is exams and how unprepared I always am in these dreams.
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What a case like this does is, take a bulldozer and smash the wall that has been painstakingly built by hardworking Indian engineers in companies both in and outside the country. This is not a technical issue. It's a moral one.
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"why didn't the interviewers catch them immediately?" etc. to name a few-.The biggest problem of all is the reputational impact it has on the engineers from India as a whole. We are already touted as a "low trust society" . And cases like these only solidify that image even more.
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This is just it - .While the story of Soham Parekh might have split the room into different opinion pools - "Good for him", "How dare he cheat like that?", "As an employer, this is my biggest nightmare", "He must be really smart to get through all those interviews at least",.
Beautiful. One more thing that makes remote work less trustworthy: "bait and switch" (the person interviewing is not the one who will be doing the actual work) at scale. Such schemes brings profits to a small group while destroying broader trust of full-remote work.
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Back home after a month. Damn, it feels good to be back😁.It takes a trip outside India to appreciate what we take for granted back home. It also takes a trip outside to show us everything we're lacking back home. But what we Aren't lacking are good idlies 😌 See you soon, SNR.
This trip to US has been no different since my last time here in my primary longing - for that of good public libraries in India. First stop - Milpitas Public Library. Great collection of non fiction and fiction books and a vibrant children's section as well 📚
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