yessir!
1,033 karma · joined December 21, 2011
I dont get this. For example how can Google gain anything by maintaining a really good relationship with Bing.(which in fact they dont!)
Conversely,it seems like you can build traction by picking fights with your competition.Ex Tesla vs Edison, Google vs Bing, Apple vs Microsoft.
IMO you need to have a technical background in order to lead a technical team.Otherwise you will fail to distinguish between making software and shoveling snow.
As an atheist, I find your comment severely distasteful. I wish I could downvote this many times more than just once.
Personally I flunked IIT Mains because with my ADHD I could not get myself to study more than a few hours every week.Also at the ripe age of 17-18 I did not have enough drive or ambition to stop doing the things kids love to do (chasing girls, watching movies, loafing around etc etc.) But then I am actually proud that I did not give in to the IIT bullshit and did whatever I wanted to do. You will never get that age back no matter how successful you are!
Okay that might have sounded a little mean.Sorry having a pretty tiresome day :)
Folks can solve all the math problems they want.It has nothing to do with creating a good product and selling it.
"It is very likely that, in the middle of the eighteenth century, the average standard of living in Europe was a little bit lower than that of the rest of the world" - Bairoch.
The viewpoint that European countries surged ahead due to the industrial revolution rather than colonial oppression has been widely debunked.
The relevant question is not so much why the industrial revolution occurred first in England,Scotland and Belgium, but why other advanced regions of the eighteenth century failed to adapt their handicraft manufacturers to the new conditions of production and competition in the 19th century.
The looms of India and China were defeated not so much by market competition as they were forcibly dismantled by war,invasion, opium and a Lancashire-imposed system of one-way tariffs.
It is indisputable that from about 1780 or 1800 onward every serious attempt by a non western society to move into a fast lane of development or to regulate its terms of trade was met by a military as well as an economic response from London or a competing imperial capital.The victorians according to Brian Bond's calculations resorted to gunboat on at least 75 different occasions.
India was the greatest captive market in world history, rising from third to first place among consumers of British exports in the quarter century after 1870."British Rulers" writes Marcello De Cecco , "deliberately prevented Indians from becoming skilled mechanics, refused contracts to Indian firms which produced materials that could be got from England, and generally hindered the formation of an autonomous industrial structure in India"
Thanks to a Government Stores policy that reserved most government purchases to British products and by the monopoly of British agency houses in organizing the import-export trade, India was forced to absorb Britain's surplus of increasingly obsolescent and non-competitive industrial exports.By 1910 this included two-fifths or the UK's finished cotton goods and pharmeceuticals.
As a result observes de Cecco, Britain avoided "having to restructure her industry and was able to invest her capital in the countries where it gave the highest return".Thanks to India, "British financiers were not compelled to 'tie' their loans to British Exports because the Imperial outlet was always available for British products."
But how in the age of famine, could the Indian subcontinent afford to subsidize its conqueror's suddenly precarious commercial supremacy?.In a word it could'nt and India was force marched into the world market by revenue and irrigation policies that compelled farmers to produce for foreign consumption at the price of their own food security.By the turn of the century, India was supplying nearly a fifth of Britain's wheat consumption.
References
1. Late Victorian Holocausts: El nino famines and the making of the third world - Mike Davis
2. An economic history of India - Dietmar Rothermund
3. The international gold standard: Money and Empire - Marcello De Cecco
Personally in my case, Visa issues were the no.1 reason that I moved back to India.
It seemed unfair that while all other developers in the US could happily do indie and freelance work in their free time and even start their own company, while I had to be an H1-B slave and work for pretty much the same company for 6-8 years before I could even get permanent residency.
Also even working for startups and getting equity is mostly out of question as most startups typically dont do H1-Bs until they are large enough. Your only choice is to work for a shitty megacorp and get confined to your cubicle and a mediocre pay for 6-8 years. Also make sure you are nice H1-B slave coz if you get fired you have to leave in 30 days.
Seriously fuck that!
In any case no-one should read that many books about entrepreneurship. Free time IMO in much better spent in reading fiction or history.
Lets say re-incarnation actually existed....what would its evidence possibly be then anyways?
This is Hacker News, not Project Manager Forums. I am sure most of us just want to create awesome things and not "go home"!
"You" and me are not a very good target market.For starters we dont like to pay.
(I am not a doctor or even a very smart person)
I have thought about some other features too around photos and filtering friends.
I left my moderately paying (but extremely boring) job in Virginia and moved back to India few months ago and I am making apps full time. Unlike you I was'nt making anything when I started.
Life in a big city in the US and India are so different that initially I was in a "wtf did I just do" phase but I kept going. Recently I started selling my hacker news app (http://www.hackerno.de ) for $$$ and things are looking better now. Even my parents have stopped asking me to get a job!
The thing that sucked most about this whole experience is undoubtedly Xcode. Your life depends on it and it will crash all the effin time!