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Nice! Check out liftosaur as well - comes with a DSL and ability to write programs (pun intended).

But "this will increase salaries by reducing supply" is the common narrative on HN that one cannot fight. Reasoning bottoms-up, you are right. This will reduce Bay Area footprint, …

Why is the burden of proof on the poster arguing that India is more democratic rather than the side arguing that US is more democratic? India is the world's largest democracy, has …

This is nothing particular to India. On the day Snapchat went public, investors in the US bought the wrong company - Snap Interactive. These were investors, who were putting their …

It's really sad how hard it is for an Indian-born migrant. The 10 year wait he cites is the wait time if one had applied 10 years ago. Current backlogs are much much worse: https:/…

While I do feel for Dragon Systems and James Baker, I agree with the finer line toed by Matt Levine's article here: http://dealbreaker.com/2013/01/dragon-systems-shareholders-c... …

He chaired the committee that ran and organized foss.in - (un)arguably India's greatest open source event. Held every December, it attracted thousands of students and working profe…

Anecdotally (n=1, of course) I have seen and heard tremendous resistance to clisp in the industry I work in 5 years ago. Now, clojure and Scala are being adopted and recommended by…

FYI, Simon Marlow is incredibly big in the Haskell community and is the leading expert in Multi core parallelism via STMs in Haskell. Some of the work he has done for the GHC compi…