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kobiguru

181 karma · joined December 21, 2017

I sometimes(almost always) make mistakes (typos) while commenting/writing. If you had trouble understanding what I wrote please ask me for correction, I will appreciate it.

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kobiguru··on How India’s massive 2019 election will work
There is nothing to hack to meaningfully affect an election outcome at the national level. Plus Election Commission of India takes no chances around it.
kobiguru··on How India’s massive 2019 election will work
The system is in place. Things change slowly in a democracy that has its flaws as well as benefits.

Faults of a slow democracy are easy to see but benefits are not so much. You see move fast break things is not how you deal with people's life. The system is in place and it has immense constitution powers granted. Once the literacy increases so would the quality of candidates. If you look at ADR databases and compare it with regional GDP as well as educational levels you would see a clear trend towards a net positive.

The slop isn't as high as we would like it but it's positive and that's how democracies work.

kobiguru··on Download Django CRM Open Source Code
Hey Indiainfo,

I have been using it for about 20 mins now so not a lot of time to give effective feedback. I like it so far and also hope that you more Django >2 version soon.

Good luck with on this and I will raise a bug report on GitHub when I find one. So far I like it and would love to contribute to resolving a few of your reported bugs in future.

Thanks for this.

kobiguru··on Ask HN: Best books about doing business in India or Indian market?
In my opinion, There aren't a lot of good books which appeal to the Indian market. That being said the Indian IT business environment is heavily influenced by the Vally Companies operate, therefore, you can use them as a starting point and read them.

IIM bangalores' Edx courses are a good guide as well. It would help understand out IP related stuff as it is different from that of the US and also accounting which is a bit different from what is practised in the US.

Since you asked for books, here are a few I think would be good ones that would get you going:

1. Fortune at the bottom of the pyramid 2. Made in India by Kishor Biyani 3. High-Performance Entrepreneur by Subroto Bagchi

I have no idea what goes on in Pakistan as far as software business is concerned.

kobiguru··on JPL Institutional Coding Standard for the C Programming Language (2009) [pdf]
If you are dealing with networking and embedded systems I think C is a must.
kobiguru··on India's single time zone is hurting its people
India has more than one time zones. A simple google search would have confirmed it.
kobiguru··on [dead]
wow!

such a classic

So much wow!

kobiguru··on Ask HN: How to model cost and revenue structure of HaaS startups
haggling as a service
kobiguru··on Abolish Billionaires
and in a few years, people started to starve to death.
kobiguru··on Ending our Medium integration
> f I want to leave I can re-house my content somewhere else and write a script to have the URLs match medium's article identifiers so I don't lose

Didn't they block it? I read a post here about it some time back. I doubt medium would make you leave it easy.

kobiguru··on BuzzFeed to Cut 15% of Its Workforce
> news division is Pulitzer nominated

that's a load of bull crap. Being "Pulitzer nominated" does not make you good. As someone pointed out in the same thread, Dar Speigel journalist faked everything and got a ton of awards for his reporting. Do you think he works for next, would mention that he is fake news and not the awards - i bet it would be the opposite.

One of Buzzfeed biggest blunders about the Muller Investigation made every news source that cited it look like "fake news" this month. All done for sensationalizing and made the article more clickbaity.

kobiguru··on Is getting a CS degree only way to get Software engineering job?
No.
kobiguru··on Ask HN: What is the best online course you've ever taken?
Learning how to learn from coursera is my all time favourite. I have gone over the course material a few times just to make sure I don't forget all the things the professors talk about.
kobiguru··on Limiting Social Media Decreases Loneliness and Depression
I agree with the conclusions. I got rid of all social media except for Reddit ( for ML related discussions) and Hacker News. I always calmer since. It amazing how fast my mind felt better from the negativity.
kobiguru··on Walmart turns to Flipkart for tech
> Flipkart engineers that their jobs were still safe.

I know a lot them are in limbo and already looking for better things.

kobiguru··on Ask HN: Recommended reading for an enthusiastic CEO wanting to learn about tech?
I think this should help you get started

https://www.startupschool.org/library

kobiguru··on Ask HN: I want to do “deep work” but I don't know what. I'm stuck
When you walk into a gym with information about what's available on the ether, you are too concerned about Nutrition, weights, lower and upper body exercises but If you ask any fitness trainer what his salt, he will tell you that first few weeks three most important things to do are:

1. Show Up every day (i.e. Days you want to come) 2. Learn how to lift weights( lift weights ) right way. 3. Drinking water.

The same, In my opinion, go for deep work. Doing it every day is important.

kobiguru··on In India, high-pressure exams are creating a student suicide crisis
I agree. Many Indian jobs advertisement specially mention student from IIT only. there is job site that targets only IITians.

So the pedigree obviously is valuable.

kobiguru··on Training the Masculinity Out of Children
Masculinity is a need for survival in difficult conditions. When going gets tough masculine characteristics will be the ones that can make you work through them.

I am always told about this toxic masculinity but no one ever clearly defined it. Always got some anecdotal answer to what they are trying to do.

I think boys are to guided to becoming men, men who can be followed. Men like Gandhi, or king Jr, or Mandela. If not for their belief and masculinity they would not be revered so many people. Masculinity is not a vice, toxic or otherwise, it is a necessity for survival.

kobiguru··on Ask HN: What are the best MOOCs you've taken?
The video gives a really good explanation but i loved the book he released freely along with that but maybe I have a preference for that. I am awed at by the knowledge this guy has ... If you haven't already read the book "Principles" by Dalio ( same guy)
kobiguru··on [dead]
This is Clickbait. the website is known to publish such article. Don't give them a click.
kobiguru··on Show HN: An extension to turn your LinkedIn into a resume
Thanks a lot. Really appreciate it. I see that you are also the person behind indeed resume. I have used it too many times to count. Thanks a lot for that.
kobiguru··on Show HN: An extension to turn your LinkedIn into a resume
can you add firefox to this .. for some reason i can not get the chrome to work on my system.
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