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It is even better hearing the story from him straight http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V4_MeS6SOwk

Anyways it is not wise to pour frustration on rejection publicly. Especially in this case, as there seems to have been no conversation or further appeal.

Absolutely not... I can vouch for it. Did you seriously think that would happen?

In the context of last week's creationism vs evolution, this is an interesting collection. I was particularly intrigued by 'Oxcytocin' being the primary trigger for 'Tribal' or 'Factional' behavior in us.

A nice focused product, targeting a problem that every browser user has. The question is how big a problem is this? It would be great if it can analyze the links and mine some value out of it

A very good work! Thank you for making it open source, in general there is a need for several modularized, open source editors (images, vectors, databases, data map, UML & more.) The problem would be a standard look and feel, perhaps it would be great to define a common, standard open source editor UI style guide

If a blog owner wants to place a small ad (say via guest post) in their blog why should they be penalized when the same blog is not penalized when they place an ad via Google ad network? (Referring to near spam text ad placements in between content that you see in many sites).

The article is a good read of state of affairs of funding in India. It covers the short coming on both sides of the table.

It would depend on which job market you are trying to target, this is my guess (it also differs based on geography)

Enterprises (mostly in this order) - Java (standard J2ee framework) - Javascript, HTML, CSS - .net (mostly asp.net, many corporate sites are built with this) - specific applications like Oracle, SAP etc.

Startups - Javascript, HTML, CSS (and any popular framework) - beyond this there is no one thing, it is mostly the founders comfort zone

Software Biggies - their software stack - Javascript, HTML, CSS (ans any popular framework)

But given your profile and the nature of posts that you have made, I am curious why you raised this question?

Excited, dive right in, run the tutorial, get to the first block, (optional - google try 1, google try 2) and yawnnnnn, next please...

This one has a reverse interest for most entrepreneurs, how do you get your product past the initial excitement and impending boredom of the customer?

Thanks for bringing this to limelight

Just started experiencing this early on this week via Node Webkit, it is just awesome what NW with Chromium brings to the table.

The first thing that came to my mind is that this should have been there 15 years earlier through Java/Embedded browser. However the powers of the time (read IE) were not interested/even actively blocked embedded browser usage.

Good one, looks neat, and congratulations on your first open source project!

Can there be addition where there is one more mode where there is a small icon lets say 'i' at the a specific location (left top, right top, left bottom, right bottom) which when clicked/hovered on brings up the caption or a detailed write up panel?

One thing that perhaps Americans always miss out or under rate in their own startup culture is the support ecosystem, especially the media

I see that in US, there is a media circle that continually builds itself around entrepreneurs and celebrates local innovation (like how TC began as such an idea), as the old ones grow bigger, younger ones come in and keep even the fringe entrepreneur in the lime light

In addition to the Tech industry you can also see this in the US sports industry. No other country perhaps has made sports such a successful business endeavor as in US. A great part of credit goes to its media.

Another big plus for US startups is 'local adoption', I consider this a huge advantage for all of them. Perhaps you have never felt it as you have never seen the other side of it. For e.g. you can never take it for granted in India, in fact being local startup has a good chance to work against you with customers. The positive news is that there is a sea of change in enterprises here, I have had recently a large corporation go for our product vs that of IBM/SAP. This alone can be a start of good times for Indian startups.

So you do agree that people keep changing and at any point cannot be generalized

If Japanese hated asymmetry then why was Yumi - an asymmetrical bow the choice weapon for he world famous Samurais

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yumi

Generalism may help paint ourselves into nice little circles for easy digestion by our brains but let's at least give it a fight :-)

However earnest, such efforts always end up being a narrow perspective which when successful becomes even more dangerous as then the one persons stereotype becomes an 'accepted fact' (case in point the Indian head nod references, What!)

The only way to do this would be to avoid being your culture centric and wherever you go start with respect for that culture and then open your eyes, ears and mind as the first step

During business visits to Europe, I have had Indian colleagues who cringed up their faces short of vomiting at the sight of a rare beef steak and have had European colleagues come and track down that 'cow on the road photo shoot' as their first biz agenda.

Now that is not the right start and it does not need a book to tell you that you have to respect others way of life.

A great new way to find interesting places, awesome indeed!

This is what a social network should be, a place where human collective consciousness is used to better our choices in life.

The blog places its argument on the basis that data plan cost is going to be high. Would this be the case in the future? What if data plan costs are that negligible that it does not matter?

Secondly, compare this to TV networks, consumers watch TV and pay for them too, a part of the cost is subsidized by advertisers who are willing to pay the network to reach the audience. The consumers are in that network only because of the content, remove the content providers or reduce the quality of the content then the consumer vanishes. An empty network is worth nothing.

Would telcos, not harm themselves and their whole data plan business by attempting to charge the content providers (Google et al) and would the content providers 'advertising model' margins justify paying out to the telcos just to get through their infrastructure?

In my language we have an ancient term/story called 'Yaanai Kanda Vaadham' meaning the 'debate on the elephant' (the origin of the story is controversial so lets leave that out). Perhaps you have heard the story, four blind friends come across an elephant, each one holds a part of the elephant and equates it to what he knows and understands. Hey! there is a wikipedia page on it

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blind_men_and_an_elephant

When merits of processes are discussed devoid of its purpose (delivering quality software in business relevant time), the argument is similar to the story. The process is just the means of reaching the purpose isn't it? It is not like successful software was delivered only in the last decade, we have been to the Moon and back before that.

Unfortunately, processes are always made in good intention to achieve a purpose, this when transmitted from one person to another becomes a system, as there is no guarantee or way of enforcing 100% knowledge for all people in the chain. This deviates it pretty quickly from the purpose with focus only on the practice and soon the system becomes a religion.

Then surprise! people shed blood over it after that demanding that their book is the only truth :-)

Geeksphone is doing pretty impressive for a startup that they were launch partners for Firefox OS and now have roped in PGP founders for this project.

Were they successful in delivering on the Firefox phones?, Their website always says 'out of stock'. Blackphone seems to be ambitious too. Is it possible for a startup to sail these two boats?

Also I find it odd that the PR is always just before the Mobile World Congress (MWC) which happens in Spain, last year with Firefox OS and this year with Blackphone

Once a female security officer in Amsterdam airport made loud, snide remarks about how I arranged cables and stuff in my laptop bag. That by itself was very annoying, imagine being called off in front of all people like a criminal for no fault of theirs!

This thread is a good example why name matters. If the same product was given any other name, perhaps it would not have been noticed that much. A set of motion sensors with a central comm hub.

The makers perhaps thought that the name 'Mother' would evoke care and love in the minds of their users. To their agony, it is revealing in the thread that though most people love their mom, they really do not want to be a 'watched over' kid.

I guess it gives all of us that creepy feeling of guilt as kids when we stole from the cookie jar and kept turning our heads with fear of being caught by mom :-)

Note to self: keep relationship names away from product names, too much friction ;-)

The fact is inspite of all parenting measures each one of us has had encounters as a child, which when looking back might have done us great harm if we were not just plain lucky enough to have supportive parents

As parents ourselves this gets us into the cycle of being protective around our own children and it is definitely needed to minimize the encounters and be there to safely catch them when they fall

A bird pushes its fledgling off a ledge to make it fly but also hurries to take it under its wings when it senses a predator about. Guess this is basically the dilemma of every parent (every child that becomes the parent)

I too have been trying to capture this in excel, thank you for making it available in this format.

Echoes with all parents for sure

Yes indeed, if one thing US is best at it would be marketing, but what I have explained is only true for the past decade (2000 upwards). Upto the 90s and before the tech boom, it was very difficult to make a good living in India where the only stable choice then was to take up a government job.

The generation before (those born till 70s in India) had to struggle a lot under newly independent India and its socialistic ideals. That generation also created the craze about going away from India to build their careers. Couple this with the civic issues of India (which are still prevalent) and you end up in the popular view about India in the west.

I am not for political correctness but let me try to counter your perspective

Since the Indian employee has a good track record and the company is willing to transfer him to US, lets assume that he has around 8-10 years of experience.

This would qualify the person for about INR 2 to 2.5 M annual pay excluding commissions. This is about USD 35 - 40K

For such a pay, the quality of living of the Indian person would be

(might vary slightly based on the city in India)

1. Owns at least one 3BHK house / apartment right in the middle of the city (~ 10-15 minute commute to office) with groceries/malls within walking distance or max 10 mins drive

2. Drives own car (atleast Honda City, Ford Fiesta, Hyundai Verna), with a good chance of a second car

3. Owns some of the following: iPhone, iPad, Samsung G S4/Note, smart tv, home theatre system, a modern kitchen, full internet connectivity, power backup

4. Good chance of at least one child and that child studying in a leading private school

5. Has a paid help for daily chores (washing, cleaning etc.)

6. All labour for any domestic purpose electric, plumbing, car mechanic etc. are all down right affordable without even a pinch

50K definitely is higher than the 35-40K USD he is receiving and it is upto the person to accept it. However, the person would definitely be compromising as I doubt if the 50K USD will assure the above list when the person chooses to live in the US

I can relate to it. I listed it more from an information point of view. Though it would be interesting to know of companies which have actually done this

Very good article. It is not possible to build a product if cashing out is the first thing in the CEO's mind.

We always hear and talk about only two exits IPO (getting rare now) and Acquisition (the $B glamour). However there is also a third valid way of investor exit which is 'Management Buyout' (never heard in tech circles)

http://www.inc.com/guides/2010/10/how-to-choose-an-exit-stra...

This is good news! I will definitely evaluate it now and decide whether it is worth away from Chargify which we use now.