Software Engineer Visionary Entrepreneur
Hyderabad
Joined December 2007
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Been there; seen(done) that.
I've been naive enough to attempt rewrites in the past.
Most recently I've seen it attempted by my successor at my last startup and repeat the same mistakes I did.
The disc turns, the turtle moves.
A complete rewrite is the only option when you don’t understand how code works. And good software engineer will soon realise that its first steps towards walking into a field full of land mines.
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@StanChartHelpIN How bad is your web app?
Forgot username/password says I have to use forgot username/password.
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Your customer care goes into infinite loop with an error:
"Context specific help is unavailable; the system is experiencing technical difficulties. Please try again later".
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The difference between philosophy and software engineering is that the philosophers can argue endlessly about the nature of identity where the engineers have to pick a damn definition to implement and live with the consequences of the inevitable flaws of their design decisions.
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Unpopular opinion: The real productivity tool for a non-tech founder to learn is git + gitlab/github.
Programmers have more decades collaborating on massive volumes of text than almost any other group... and the ability to build tools to make it tractable. And they have.
Kudos to our govt. We get the valuable name boards while Google gets only the data. I mean boards are real and you can touch and smell but data is abstract and not real anyway. Right? :'D
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One of the most understated features of pair programming, and a big part of why it is "worth it", is that you never really get stuck on something for several days, as can happen often when soloing.
Here's why 🧵
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The orange dot is a billionaire and the backtrace is their autobiography explaining how you can be successful just like them.
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A lesson I learned the hard way:
The first goal to set for a product team is never to *move* a metric. That comes later.
First is to report the metric reliably on a cadence.
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Statement : In this terrible time in which Indians are searching for emergency care, coordinating help and demanding government accountability we have come across disturbing reports of social media censorship. We condemn it and ask for clarity from government departments. 1/n
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Hospitals are struggling to keep the Covid vs. vaccination queues secluded. Meanwhile corporate offices in all major cities are empty. Can we re-purpose our offices for vaccination drives (for employees++) from May 1st? #ACT #StepOne @nachiketmor
All the bhakths out there. If you are hindu, you should understand the importance of providing asylum to those who ask for it. Remember how Sri Hari jumped to protect Gajendra? Deporting Rohingyas goes against everything Hindu. This govt isn't hindu.
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India is a low trust high faith society. Small consistent bits of trust over a long period of time compound into faith.
Indian consumer startups need to think about faith-first behavior. A thread 🧵 -
If I were to smuggle gold in paste form in shoes of two passengers, I would put it in 4 packets, you know, in 4 shoes. Hey that's just me. So RGIA officers nabbed three packets. Huh!!
Wait, programmers also write a lot of words that are incomprehensible to most people. There should be another check "Is it understandable by computers?"
