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Startups are global

So much for the demand. On the supply side, the universities have ramped up to supply warm bodies (hence the term "bodyshoppers") to the "IT" industry. In India, the "cool" companies are bodyshoppers like Infosys.  There are also social forces that nudge bright young people to "safe" jobs - like arranged marriages, where "status" is an important differentiator in acquiring a good wife or husband. One component of such status is the "prestige" and name-recognition of your employer and scrappy startups have very little. The fact that Indian VCs (with a few honorable exceptions) look for the next big "scalable" services company doesn't help either.

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I'm reading Seth Godin's latest book Linchpin. As i read it, i can imagine him saying it, every word and pacing.

Probable effect of watching a lot of his talks.

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Arroyo visits our crib

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"Why Amazon sucks and becoming evil" -- from the recent Mcmillan-Amazon crisis.

So tell us how you feel about all this?

Look, I use Amazon Prime because I live in the boonies. I read books via Amazon Kindle. I’m even moderate about DRM packaging (I’d prefer not to have it on my books, but as long as it doesn’t get in my way too much I’ll tolerate it).

But this looks to be very dickish, and using your size as a prime negotiating tool to play hardball. Again, Amazon has built themselves up to the size, so they have the right to use their size. It’s just business, you know? But so is my then saying, I will now be dropping all Amazon.com links from my website.

I will no longer be doing any business with them. This includes renting from video on demand, buying books both print and Kindle, as well as buying various goods. I will not use them for payments either.

Because I’ve entrusted my traffic and customers with them over the years, I do expect a slight bit of reciprocity. I don’t like to do business with people who, apparently as far as I can tell, think sucker punching you when they disagree, even if they have the right to do it, is the way to go about this.

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The Organizational Impact of Poor Software Quality

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‘Just start something, no matter how humble’…

(Simon Peyton Jones: ) ‘Just start something, no matter how humble’… Once you start the mill turning then computer science is very fractal – almost everything turns out to be interesting, because the subject grows ahead of you. It is not like a fixed thing.

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Started digging our backyard farm today. Digging part feels like forever.

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Homeboy Mati chill'n at the wedding reception at home.

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I'm going to turn this area into a backyard farm

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Serious fishing business

                 

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