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mohanmca··on Zoho became a $1B company without external investment
There is no golden rule, but assume tier-2 cities mayn't have airport, no famous schools, less than 2 or 3 million people living in there.

Most of the tier-1 cities has direct international or national airways connectivity.

Tier-3 cities may not even have a single factory, it is hub for 100s villages, has decent bus-connectivity to nearest tier-2 city.

mohanmca··on Working in the software industry, circa 1989
Exactly I was bit confused, initially thought that I read one of his old writing. The legend is still missing.
mohanmca··on Ask HN: How do you search large codebases before adding a feature or fixing bug?
Looks pretty awesome! Will definitely give a try!

Wish to hear why did you choose to use Ada?

mohanmca··on Ask HN: How do you search large codebases before adding a feature or fixing bug?
If someone worked on JIRA/Task we can find, otherwise, how do we even know about who has seen the codebase?
mohanmca··on Ask HN: How do you search large codebases before adding a feature or fixing bug?
Thanks! It is also a concern that I was looking for an answer!
mohanmca··on Ask HN: How do you search large codebases before adding a feature or fixing bug?
It is common that the developer who built might already left the team.
mohanmca··on Masterclass on mathematical thinking
Thanks! I like the book "5 Effective Thinking Book", will give a try!
mohanmca··on Why Is C Faster Than Java (2009)
Well, It is not Lucene alone, there are many tools in java written around Lucene such as ElasticSearch/Solr/Elassandra and so on, so no language or runtime can replace everything. Eventually something might catch-up. That is why it is not language alone! It is developer, runtime, ecosystem and problem domain, brainshare.
mohanmca··on Why disaster happens at the edges: An introduction to queue theory
Thanks! I observed two points.

In order to look at flow - "should learn about queue theory"!

"queue theory" itself would be useful to design queuing related systems.

mohanmca··on Legacy Train Control System Stabilisation (2012) [pdf]
Thanks!
mohanmca··on SQLBolt – Interactive lessons and exercises to learn SQL
Thanks! Immediately sent to my friends who are learning SQL!
mohanmca··on Show HN: SQLite query inside a Bash function
Thanks.
mohanmca··on How to Work Hard
Since many comments mentions that hard-work alone doesn't matter.

According to Daniel Kahneman, mere hard-work doesn't click unless we have access to expert feedback in the domain we work. He used to compare hard working f1-formula-driver without any input from past drivers vs driver with input from expert.

Hard work without mentor won't click. Environment and people around us also matter as much as the hard-work we do.

mohanmca··on Linus Torvalds on mRNA Vaccines
In a interview (few years back), Linus mentioned that he read many books related to Genes and medical science related to that! He supposed to be expert in that domain too!
mohanmca··on Tabula – Extract tables from PDF files
Thanks! I learnt about Tabula from ex-colleague that he was able to successfully used to extract from reports.
mohanmca··on Stanford CS Curriculum 2021
Thanks! I believe in it! We don't know what we don't know, if we learn only useful stuff!
mohanmca··on Hosting SQLite databases on GitHub Pages or any static file hoster
Amazing use of SQLite! Thanks!
mohanmca··on HTML Tips (2020)
Thanks for the pointers!
mohanmca··on Ask HN: What are the best MOOCs you've taken?
If someone likes to rip all the links from this wonderful discussion, please use this script and paste it in browser console. https://gist.github.com/mohanmca/481056956ca618a3b21a2b3a0d1...
mohanmca··on JSON-LD and Why I Hate the Semantic Web
Yes! In web application, where underlying restful service returns JSON-LD; Because underlying db was using RDF database.
mohanmca··on NoSQL Databases: A Survey and Decision Guidance
Great work!