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This might be a dumb question, for which apologies in advance, but isn't 200 million a little low for a company with $ 50 million revenue? But maybe not, -- the profit is say $20 m…

"Kingdoms of Faith" by Brian Catlos is an excellent book about Al Andalus, from the Arab invasion to the fall of Granada (the aftermath is not covered extensively).

wow! the YC application has changed quite a bit since the early days. Employment history and "Should you be selected for interview, we may ask for references"!

Tamil Brahmins usually use the father's first name as the last name for the child. so wheras in the North, you'd have Narayan Sharma's son being named Vishal Sharma, in Tamil Nadu …

What helped me get a grip on learning mathematics was learning to prove theorems. Working through Daniel Velleman's book "How to Prove It" (the only pre requisite is that you can u…

Zerodha built a market leading company with conservative tech choices, about 30 devs, and no VC funding. Conservatively estimated to be worth about $2 billion, last I checked. Very…

Thanks for this. "Proof idea" is a phrase that concretizes a vague intuition I had about something that exists between a theorem and it's proof

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I have a few questions but you don't have your email in your hn and profile. :-)

Which system of Chi Kung(if you don't mind) ?

that makes sense. Trump and Modi have much in common.

Imagine if Joe Biden's photo was on every vaccine card issued in the USA!

Congratulations Spenser! From the YC article "But, in fact, they rather quickly settled on a different problem space that they understood deeply and which immediately resonated wit…

Down, Bangalore, India

then he probably shouldn't be managing people who do (programming)

The book skips major components of a lisp implementation - garbage collection, macros - as "bonus projects" to be implemented by nhe reader.

India also demands government Id for covid vaccination. No Id, no vaccine. ( These days there is a desperate shortage of vaccines for everyone, which is another story for another t…