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I grew up in Pondicherry, went to Pondicherry Engineering College (class of 99). I used to bike up from college to Matrimandir a lot of weekends for meditation. There are several c…

Narendra Modi is the Prime Minister of India. He has a very interesting (and controversial) history. He grew up selling tea at a railway station and now he's Prime Minister of the …

In India, our income tax department accepts returns as an XML document, and tax prep software developers have built tools that basically help you generate the XML and upload it to …

On a related note, a Stanford tax law professor Joseph Bankman had run trials of pre-filled forms for a few California state taxpayers. Listen to his journey on Episode 760 of Plan…

In 2003, I was working for a startup in India doing GPS/GSM based vehicle tracking system for fleets of trucks. The trucks would have our unit installed in them, and they would use…

If you observe the 2 scripts in the pic in wikipedia, you would notice that in the original one, the "i's are not dotted" as it were. This seems to be a practice that has carried o…

The Tamils originally wrote on dried palm leaves with a sharp scribe. So, if you didn't want to tear the leaf, you had to avoid straight lines and dots. That's why there are so man…

He has clarified that it is 1GB for 20 Rupees.

Congratulations Karam and Shubhendu! Two questions: 1. Does this mean you are an ISP? If so, how did you go about registering as an ISP. 2. Most other WiFi (ex: at Cafe Coffee Day)…

We have a distributed team, and switched to howdy.ai bot to ask the standup questions on Slack and post them to a channel. During our actual standup call, we only discuss blockers.…

> But unlike apps, I'm not sure how to showcase a particular "devops project" to future employers. One of the key elements of DevOps is automation. If you can make sure everything …