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The word 'architecture' formally means "the art or practice of designing structures". So a 'Software Architect' is one who identifies (or defines) the structure of a software system based on various rules and constraints. In this context, the design of the structure could be the identification (or definition) of various components that make the system and how they interact with one another to achieve the intended result.

ananthrkon Welcome new YC team members

Would be great if you could share them here as well.

ananthrkon Snapshot: Viaweb, June 1998

Discussions from an year ago https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3462071

ananthrkon Leaving Twitter

I agree. I am the original poster and I expanded the title to make it more clear. But looks like the mods don't see it that way.

ananthrkon How To Make a Quick Buck

After reading the article, even I found the title tongue in cheek. That said, GP has explicitly called out (quiet well) what he thought was the underlying lesson and I am thankful for that.

ananthrkon Calcutta girl who fled home & marriage at 17 returns as millionaire US innovator

A true Slumdog millionaire. Not quiet the same, as she comes from a wealthy family. She was running away from the social pressure of getting married and ended up with what followed. [NB: Nothing to take away from what she achieved, I am just responding to the term Slumdog Millionaire used in this context]

ananthrkon What It's Like To Be Ridiculed For Open Sourcing A Project

In his(her?) own words: http://harthur.wordpress.com/2011/06/06/replace/

ananthrkon The Gift

Would we interpret death differently if it happened "naturally" (as in old age)? [NB: This is a genuine thought that came to me after I read this (poignant) essay and I hope I am not being insensitive]

ananthrkon Knowing your onions in New York

I am posting this article, which is from one of the leading Indian dailies, in order to better understand some of the issues raised in this article - especially from HNers in the US with farming experience. BTW, the Indian parliament is currently holding discussions on allowing direct foreign investment in multi-brand retail stores (such as WalMart)

ananthrkon Man faces 3 years in prison for tweeting about finance minister in India

The tweet was not even about the finance minister (Mr. Chidambaram) but about the finance minister's son (Karthi Chidambaram)

ananthrkon Stypi (YC S11) has been acquired by Salesforce

FWIW, here is the HN link http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=495336

ananthrkon Crawl a website with scrapy and store extracted results with MongoDB

Cool. BTW, is there a reason for naming the file "isullshit_spiders.py" and not as "isbullshit_spiders.py"? :)

ananthrkon Quote Stream - Push real-time stock quotes in JSON over web-sockets with node.js

Came here to say the same thing (including trying MSFT) :)

Also, the URL "http://xhv51cz0.nodesocket.com/quote-stream/MSFT/ works but "http://xhv51cz0.nodesocket.com/quote-stream/MSFT does not (without "/" in the end)

ananthrkon US bars friends over Twitter joke

Did you also notice Tweeter in that report?

ananthrkon Facebook machine learning technology improves; Redditors alaramed.

Yup. I had a similar experience couple of days back when FB listed three of my albums and correctly predicted the place names for confirmation. I was shocked when it _correctly_ predicted the location of one of my private albums which is an obscure town in southern India.

Given that most of my pictures were taken with cameras with no geo identification mechanism, I can only conclude that they identify the location based on any comments and similar photos available in _my_ network.

ananthrkon Scala At Yammer (Official position on Scala)

Nobody said Yammer said publicly announces that scala doesn't suit them.

Actually, someone did. The original post that `leaked` this email says something to that effect http://blog.joda.org/2011/11/real-life-scala-feedback-from-y...

ananthrkon Play 2.0, A web framework for a new era

It is not based on the 2.0-beta version, but this link might help: http://engineering.linkedin.com/34/play-framework-and-async-...

ananthrkon H. Gobind Khorana, 1968 Nobel Winner for RNA Research, Dies

"The Hindu", which is the only daily I find professional, without bias to any ideology/organisation

'The Hindu' is generally considered pro-CPM (Communist Party) hereabouts (South India).

ananthrkon Everything I Ever Learned About JVM Performance Tuning At Twitter

Does anyone have a PDF copy of this? The slideshare download is broken for this presentation.

ananthrkon Don't Call Yourself a Programmer

Whenever a question on salary negotiation appears on HN, I am reminded of this old comment from mahmud : http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1475678

ananthrkon Steve Yegge: Follow Up to His Accidentally Public Rant

Steve, if you are reading this, any chance you can throw some light on the core skills a generalist engineer ought to know?

ananthrkon Lessons Steve Jobs Taught Guy Kawasaki

Thanks for the summary and sorry to nitpick. But, in point 9, did you mean "A players hire A players"?