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For personal use means mangoes that can be carried by one person in a box, usually it is max 2 dozens. Bulk means importing multiple boxes for distribution to others.

I use to work for an Indian company in the Indian state of Maharashtra. The language there is Marathi. So the employees used Marathi words for some programming terms e.g. "palala" for "ran" or "palav" for "run it" i.e. "program palala/palav" or "program adakla" for "program is stuck", or if the application release is given go ahead by the QA teams, then "yogya" for OK :) And if there was a bug, then the engineers/QA teams used the sentence "barobar naahiye" i.e. it is not correct. The verbatim word for "bug" was not used. The verbatim word for "bug" in Marathi language would be "kidaa" or "paakhroo" :)

Few years ago I tried to import Haapoos(English name, Alphonso) mangoes in the UK from India. I was informed by the authorities that bulk import is not allowed. A person can carry mangoes in luggage while entering the UK. But bulk importing was disallowed. That was a bummer, as these mangoes are very delicious and has some fantastic aroma.

See to it that the trucks do not become wobbly after drinking the whisky waste! :)

I will get my tartan :D

> in India where companies generally don't even shortlist candidates of interviews if they don't have a degree...

That happens because there are so many applicants! The companies then decide to set initial filtering criteria to reduce their workload by setting arbitrary constraints for e.g. whether you have a degree, whether you have distinction etc. The same happens with larger US companies who get so many applicants that they try to set automated filter in the form of online coding tests to reduce their workload. You will get this everywhere. It is not specific to one country or company.

Even if you are in India, you are not limited to India, are you? There are lot of companies hiring for remote python developers. If your manager thinks you are good then why not talk to him/her about the state of the startup you are working in? If s/he says that the situation at the startup is bad, then ask for reference and recommendation to support your future career path.

On code synthesis :)

Sometime ago I read an article that described how the northern "dialect" of the English language becomes hurdle for upwards mobility in the UK. So, to some level there is still friction. And here I am talking about native northern English speakers.

> And sure, snowflake >> 22 would be shorter, clearer, and far more efficient, but it wouldn't let you show off all the cool language features you have at your disposal, and isn't that what's really important?

And there goes the life of a software maintainer down the drain!

> Society doesn't get better because we elect the right politicians, it gets better because the people in it decide to be better (in themselves, towards each other, etc). Politicians are just a (grotesque, exaggerated, warped) reflection of the rest of us

This thinking is nothing new. It was identified long back that the rulers/politicians are reflection of the society. There is a very well-known old proverb in the language Marathi: "Jashii prajaa, tasaa rajaa". It means, "A king is a reflection of his subjects". So that tells us, this understanding that the king/ruler/politician is reflection of the society was understood long back.

Some how, the way democracy is defined and taught has created this misunderstanding that the elected few will serve the electorate and do good for them.

So finally, someone did catch it ;)

I use this: https://switchoff.neocities.org

> One thing to note is that Indian historical records from that period are extremely rare making it all the more difficult. It's a pity that Indians of that didn't write as much as Romans did.

Indians did write at that time. There is literature on all sorts of things from that era. Unfortunately we lost the languages that they were written in. And some of it was destroyed or stolen by invading armies.

> Why do you believe that north indian language are nonsense?

Hindi language should first correct the pronunciation of words like "Baink" for Bank, "Baal" for Ball, "Daaktar" for Doctor etc. And then thinking of enforcing that language on rest of the country.

I am curious, why Samskrut is not used as a common language for India, like how Hebrew resurrected as a language of Israel? With English as second language, and mother-tongue as the the third language. Samskrut has a treasure trove of important literature that not many in India understand!

Some of what you said is not true. There were attempts made to unify "India" even before the British came to India. Infact the term "Hindu", "Hindi", "India", "Hindustan" is not Indian in the first place. The words "Hindu", "Hindi" and "Hindustan" were given to the people risiding east of the Indu/Sindhu river by the Persian/Arabic visitors and invaders. And the word "India" was derived from the word "Hindustan" by the European invaders and visitors as such: "Hindustan" became "Indostan", and then "Indostan" was further shortened to "India". So people visiting/invading the eastern parts of the Indu/Sindhu river were considering the people there as one civilisation if not one country. But there were attempts made before, as far back as Chanakya, to unify the people under one rule.

Looks like the movie theaters are not yet open in Tamil Nadu!

Try searching for jobs at the Open Document Foundation. They were looking for developers few months ago.

Or search for other FOSS jobs here: https://www.fossjobs.net

HTH

Looked at the first name, not look at the last name too!

There are serious disadvantages to this setup for the following reasons(some of which you have already identified):

1. Lack of mentors will be an issue.

2. "Jack of all trade, master of none" problem. This is not a problem at personal level. But this is a problem in an industry where recruitment happens for specific domain or language and not for versatility of engineers.

3. In this age, employees are treated as use-and-throw commodity. So not having a skillset that is transferable becomes a major issue if you had to all of a sudden look for a job.

The problem you have mentioned mostly appears in small contracting/consultancy companies that take projects of other companies.

Other issue to lookout for is not getting sucked into a project that uses some obscure technology that no one else uses e.g. having to work on some proprietary in-house developed language for all the projects.

I have seen all this happen at lot of software consultancy and contracting companies. The founders of these companies start pulling all sorts of project right left and center to make lot of money. But it is the emloyees whose careers are destroyed.

Yes, that type of investment had existed but for hardtech startups not some app startup(and even lot of hardtech startups were funded by government grants/funding). Nowadays every bit-and-byte is funded in the hope of making it into a unicorn. That punctures the fun.

Ask! Seriously, just ask.

Keep an eye for people on social media who you think would be of help to you, and just politely ask them if they would be your advisor or know someone who would be. It works! Not immediately, but people do respond with either Yes, or they redirect you to someone they know, or they politely say they currently don't have the bandwidth. Keep trying. It does not take long before someone responds with a Yes.

Thank you for the detailed explanation!

A noob question: what does "Do they want pro rata for follow on rounds?" mean?

Please could you give some examples?

I recently discovered this discord server: https://discord.gg/MzhGqQC

Looks very low-key and less noise.

Where is the CPP community on Github to just get together, chat, discussing ideas/projects, answer questions etc?

I am not talking about just programming related discussion. I am talking about get together and chat, discuss projects/ideas, ask questions etc.

BTW, the r/cpp is moderated as "for biggies". Try asking CPP question there :)

I had a similar personal experience. I was hired by the technical team at a very big company(after 6 interviews; 3 face-to-face and 3 remote), but the HR was not sure. All my experience before that was working for smaller companies. The argument the HR made was that I will not survive in the big company as most of my experience was with smaller companies. The HR was right. In a year I just could not stand the inefficiency and waste of talent at the company. I moved to another division within the same company. The same story repeated. I left the company after 2 years. Interestingly I was not the only one. This was a major problem at the company. But the company is so big that it does not even care if people leave as there are a lot of engineers knocking at the door every single day to get in!

It is an acquisition funnel strategy for YC. Their main source of income comes from YC startups. This platform is just to attract those startups/founders.

The jobs section you mentioned, that is only for YC startups.

Just curious to know, isn't religion also an ideology? Every ideology at some point turns into religion!

Add to that list:

4. Divorces are being initiated to show expenses and "reduce" wealth ;)