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No. If the customer is at fault there is no problem in blaming them especially if they run a smear campaign.

Do they ask for direct bank transfer? US government should educate citizens about the only accepted ways of payment to US gov.

Hahaha the landing page quotes the creator of the app.

Seems more like the XKCD comic on standards.

I really loved the tenets given, ie.. Useable Readable Composable Testable Contributable Shareable

But post that the article really failed to connect how the new language is going to do the above in a way no other language has done.

Also, I agree with the rest on the point against SQL, doesn't matter if SQL was invented in the 70s, so was the many programming languages and paradigms we use today.

PS. I don't make a living writing SQL.

ag was a development over grep.

Couple of things to look for * Language preference * What is present out of the box * How easy it is to extend * Performance

I'd pick one among Django, Rails or one of the popular Js stacks for the backend.

For the front end the same criteria apply, however there is not much scope for language preference. I generally go for jQuery based site unless I have a requirement for a framework. From a framework perspective I liked React + JSX.

I'd say go for JavaScript in the backend too since you'll have to learn the best practices and idioms of a single language.

Java is a great language for larger companies which need to focus on performance, cross platform support and high code quality. I have worked with python and Java for a living and when there is a project that is going to last for couple of years I'd choose Java hands down. However for a single or a few people startup Java is an overkill.

That'd place java at the top. I wouldn't recommend java for a starter website though.

Why would you put rails over Django? I have used Django in the past but don't have much idea about rails or ruby, could you shed some light?

This is Mi Max 2 in India. I can see the option to disable those notifications blocked. There was no need to say the "do not cry wolf" part but I guess some people don't know how to be civil and uncover facts before jumping into conclusions.

Exactly. I am in India and I frequently get SMS and calls about web hosting services, they use the name and number I provide while registering the domain. It is definitely not shady if I want my info hidden from these spammers.

Disagree. Amazon.in teams sits here and all of the India related initiatives are done here, which include lucrative initiatives as well - which I won't delve into. However it is also true that some of the US operational burden is sent to India, but not all drudge work happens in India. In my opinion Amazon is moving to a model where they are going to hire top talent in India giving the premium salaries of India and hire cheaper - less talented engineers in the US for US centric operations primarily as a measure to cut costs, this is why the it has become a common notion that anyone can get into Amazon US.

On the contrary I think the frugality strategy has lead to hiring the top talent in India and not in the US. Therefore the pay here is higher compared to the bigger companies (not MNCs but product as well), I am from an Indian unicorn startup and the pay was very competitive. The US opinion of any Indians IT worker seems to be the same, that is that we are service oriented workers who don't code, therefore I'd take it with a grain of salt on what they say.

But yeah, the talent here is good since hiring talent is cheaper here compared to US. If you have to pay 170k$ to hire the best in US then in India you'll be able to hire the best at 50 LPA which is about 70k$.

I have been part of many interview panels and they haven't been any easy interviews as such.

In my team and all the orgs under my manager's manager is pretty chill. We are a team out of India. In India the comp is really high compared to other Indian companies. The vesting cycle is same as US though. I have heard about the bad culture in US. I have never seen anyone cry or even stressed. We don't have many crunch days.

I have been practicing mindfulness meditation for the past five years and it has shown positive benefits for mental health in terms of being less reactive and calm. My immunity has also increased, I used to have a lot of allergies and used to get throat infection regularly but I don't now.

One observation is that mindfulness meditation in the night reduced sleep quality.

Second is that mindfulness meditation is another exercise. It is aimed at increasing focus, since what you are doing is trying to focus. It isn't a cure for every mental ailment.

Highlevel features I can think of

From a seller perspective

- contact management - emailing and reminders - text message nudges for customers - showing analytics of previous events - managing previous customers - feedback from previous customers

I have worked in a startup which failed, pivoted and now is a billion dollar company.

My main rule of thumb is that if your current problem statement is failing then become bigger, in the sense take up a problem that has even more market demand than the current problem and then add features to your existing solution to solve for the bigger problem. The chances of you landing a customer increases this way.

You have targeted B2B sales-shows think of targeting B2C+B2B shows now. Can your product solve for handling sales shows where consumers go?

Expanding is the key, usually companies contract further and fail, when you expand the chance of getting a customer increases.

> My question is: has anyone here, in a similar situation, done something like this? And if your company failed, have you been able to come back to the market in a good situation?

Not first hand but I know two folks who were in senior positions in a high paying job (one product head and one VP of marketing) who quit their high paying jobs to start their own companies. One of them failed and the person is now the CEO of another well funded company. The other one is doing fine and got an investment from a good investor.

My personal opinion is that if you are able to get a gig that pays 500k at one of the FANG companies you should have no problem getting a job back if your company fails.

Will this lead to SEO issues due to content duplication?

Java is really underrated. It is popular but it isn't thought of as powerful or cool as compared to python, haskell etc.. I disagree.

a. Object oriented code done right is the best way to handle production code.

b. Java has introduced streams, lambdas etc.. has any other language shown this type of adaptation to times ?

c. Python, Ruby etc.. don't have equivalent performance

d. c++ obviously beats it on performance but I know the pain of porting c++ code

e. Most of the boilerplate code is either auto-generated or you can use Lombok type framework to generate them for you

f. Java made a really good comeback with Android

So the new kids in the block might not like Java because it isn't cool but Java has stood the test of time.

Please drop any feedback regarding this.

Few questions:

1. Do you find this useful? 2. Is the usage simple? 3. Would you use this for tracking your income and expenses?

In India, the poor do this. They don't have enough food to eat, forget helping others. They live on less than 50c a day. They don't buy material crap. Your answer applies to the American poor, not the ones who live in third world countries.

Around 100+ million of 1.2 billion don't speak Hindi.

No. People in the northern region would since it is similar to Hindi. Karnataka, Tamil Nadu and Kerala have their own language respectively which is different from Hindi and they wouldn't.

I am not certain about entire Andra and Telengana. People in Hyderabad speak Urdu.