While thanking isn't the most appreciated response to comments on HN-- I can't thank you enough for taking the time out for such an elaborate and detailed reply.
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About a 100M people in India know English out of a population of 1.3 Billion. It is only the MNC service sector wherein know-english-have-money holds true. The larger chunk of India's income is generated by people who do not know English or Hindi(~800 Million people fall into this bucket).
Absolutely disagree. Some data-points in this regard: - Rural FMCG share is already greater than Urban. - While rural markets grew by 16%, urban did 12%. - For many like Dabur India, 50 per cent of their domestic sales comes from rural markets.
> No India is not going to beat China economically, nor will Africa.
I wonder why you'd think that monetisation via Internet is the only thing that adds value to a society. In developing nations, Internet trickles democracy down like nothing else. The kind of equality and voice that the Internet gives, is especially required for people who don't have a high SEC category.
Another important pillar of long term economic growth to a nation is- productivity growth. Internet inclusion drives that.
http://www.ibef.org/industry/indian-rural-market.aspx http://www.business-standard.com/article/companies/with-urba... http://www.business-standard.com/article/companies/fmcg-firm...
The article IMHO talks more of the mainstream digital Internet businesses which largely ignore the 200M non-english speaking people on the "Indian Internet".
They would most probably be able to raise a round if they qualify the demo round ahead.
Had added his profile so that people on the fence about hosting him would have a face to see.
It's like a startup. Can't see the end but you know you can't stop. =)
Would you be able to help here?
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Just 12% of Indians speak English and are already on the Internet. We aim to make the Internet meaningful to the 20 million people who come online every quarter, without a clue about what's happening here. People browse eCommerce sites via pictures. No, Google translate doesn't just work. Take this example- the hindi word 'khel' is 'play' in English. But is it the 'play part in a game', 'a theatrical play', or even 'playing music'? This context is the crux, and our secret sauce.
We're post series A and power Snapdeal, Ola, Practo and HDFC's localization.
Would you build the Eiffel tower or Suez Canal?
The Eiffel tower was built to demonstrate engineering awe when France hosted Exposition Universelle of 1889 and has remained the most visited monument. But it is The Suez canal that is the most used as it solves a critical bottleneck. If your engineering urge is to build usefulness for scale and you are willing to shoulder a lot of responsibility, we need you.
Calling JavaScript developers to redefine the UI and UX of the Internet.
Technical knowhow:
Proficiency in HTML, CSS and JS.
Hands-on experience on frameworks like Backbone/ Angular/ React.
Exposure to constructs of HTTP, RESTful APIs and websockets.
Working knowledge of Git/SVN/Mercurial.
-- Fidel Castro, 1973
Edit: flanbiscuit pointed out that there is no official record of this statement. Letting it stay, as a mythbuster.
The Graphite URL API was visionary, and still makes the cut in most common use-cases.
― Arundhati Roy, The Cost of Living
1. Too many requests for an NIC to handle,
2. Certificates expiring,
3. Firewall changes closing an active port down,
4. A router failing,
5. Congestion, interference in wireless networks resulting in excessive packet loss.
Hardware failing- HDDs, RAM, routers crashing, cables at datacenter being accidentally unplugged, racks being misconfigured during upgrades, maintenance etc.
See slide #4 here- http://static.googleusercontent.com/media/research.google.co...
2. On top of that, the specs are good enough to stream multiple IP cams.
3. Shot in the dark, but with all the "six 2.4GHz antennas, six 5GHz antennas, and a congestion-sensing antenna" they're probably trying to fix the classical WiFi congestion and star-topology range issues that comes with WiFi IoT. Especially because it supports 128 devices in WiFi. 4. Rumors are, it already runs Brillo, their IoT OS they showcased at IO. 5. Its bridge mode support be something they can use to have "multiple BRs" as promised by Thread?
[4] http://nextmarket.co/blogs/smarthomeweekly/29309313-google-i... [5] https://support.google.com/onhub/answer/6275097?vid=1-635755...
terminator/iTerm
vagrant
travis
tmux
Twisted
ELK1. Your 100 users/min may also be put across as 300 req/min.
2. Try startups that are going from 10 req/s to 100 req/s rather than directly approaching large, massively distributed backends.
3. To seriously qualify for these you also need the skill sets. Experience with centralized logging, multi area-zone data-centers, deploying at scale, configuration management, advanced version control workflows, deeper understanding of protocols, caching, awareness of security pitfalls, knowledge of GNU/Linux internals etc will certainly help.
4. Even in the absence of much production experience, you can significantly lower their concerns by demonstrating working knowlege in multiple of these above mentioned skill sets.
Also, take a look at https://github.com/cjbarber/ToolsOfTheTrade.