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illuminekon Ask HN: How do I deal with my engineering team and motivate myself?

"educate them what ever I learn" here I meant just making them aware about what is latest going on I am not pushing for that, instead I push them to learn about stuff which will be useful in near future.

illuminekon A Plan to Turn Engineers into Managers

Agreed. MBA just helped me a bit, but I guess most of my career is a result of coding & sitting with fellow programmers spending nights and learning vudu tricks.

illuminekon A Plan to Turn Engineers into Managers

Well I am an MBA(IT)[+ Mechanical Engg.], and right now I am managing some 15+ people engg team. I can very confidently say that being an MBA has helped me a lot. It gave me an insight in being a leader and made my job of managing a engineering team easy.

However I started my career as developer and have spent 7+ years in developing complex systems. The one difference I could always notice was leadership/initiative distinction between me and other developers and I used to think why these guys are not able to manage their time and guide their juniors. Simply they were not able to think beyond code(I am not generalising but the pattern I noticed with obvious exceptions).

illuminekon Google will block access to its Autocomplete API on August 10

Does it affect location apis or places auto complete apis as well?

illuminekon Ask HN: Should I use Polymer for my next project?

Thanks for sharing the link http://www.getmdl.io/ I did not know about it.

I think you are right, Team is thinking in similar lines. Thanks.

illuminekon Is housing.com hacked/down? India's Leading Startup

I am surprised to see, that people are not able to redirect it to some decent maintenance page. What could have gone wrong at tech?

illuminekon Is housing.com hacked/down? India's Leading Startup

True. They seems helpless.

illuminekon Is housing.com hacked/down? India's Leading Startup

Down again. For sure someone is playing with it.

illuminekon Is housing.com hacked/down? India's Leading Startup

It is backup again now.

illuminekon Is housing.com hacked/down? India's Leading Startup

If I am not wrong then there was a townhall meeting going on @ Mumbai headquarters when it all happened.

illuminekon Is housing.com hacked/down? India's Leading Startup

BTW! It went down at around 4:15PM IST and came backup at 4:35PM IST for couple of minutes. After that same story.

illuminekon Is housing.com hacked/down? India's Leading Startup

Recent events @ housing.com look like a movie.

illuminekon Is housing.com hacked/down? India's Leading Startup

Is this the maintenance page or has it been hacked?

illuminekon Housing.com, CEO fired. Board says enough is enough.

It was bound to happen sooner or later.

illuminekon Nepal earthquake, magnitude 7.3, strikes near Everest

I did not quite understand "3.981 times stronger (energy release)", but god bless everyone.

illuminekon Nepal earthquake, magnitude 7.3, strikes near Everest

Aftershocks felt, there were at least 2. I ll call them major ones. I was sitting on 4th floor. It felt very strong.