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Indeed! Amazon does top-notch customer service at scale like nobody else. Everyone else just assumes that it is impossible to scale up something like this and they let the a previo…

They mention that the “the client base moved to enterprise” and I think that, if Gigster is ever reasonably successful, it will end up as a shop making niche products for enterpris…

Look at it from the other side. If a designer were to suggest some of the more fundamental changes to how your product should work, would you genuinely listen to their opinions and…

That Apple was ever good at design was probably the relative side effect of other software and hardware developers being abysmally bad at it (probably due to monopolistic inefficie…

> The further down in the software hierarchy that you push the complexity, the less work has to be done by everybody above. This. From the interview[1]. I think this is the most im…

Browsing Facebook, or for that matter any other similar network (including HN :)), is like anti-meditation. They rattle your mind with so much information in such quick succession …

Great metaphor, but I think smartness is something even lesser than a torch. Creativity, it seems, is the torch that helps you find the right wedge. Smartness is probably what tell…

In today’s tech environment, you have to be a fickle programmer to get yourself hired. With age however most people learn just the opposite - to be less fickle and more focused. I …

Cleartax has done an amazing job, really. I filed my last two returns using Cleartax and everything went without a hitch. Even when the system fails to parse the Form-16 correctly …

There is nothing inherently wrong with complexity. Complex things can be made to appear simple, usable and open too. It is just that, when it comes to software, we haven’t yet figu…

Growing up I read a lot of the Nancy Drew books that my sister would borrow from the library and her friends. I got hooked on reading because of these books. Short and fast paced, …

While most of us are pointing fingers at the fast-changing nature of and innovation-craziness in the tech industry, I think the core reason may be quite the opposite. It seems plau…

Also, collaboration. I think we tend to over estimate how much people like to collaborate. And the organic UI looks very childish to me.

I have worked with several project managers who cite this article and claim to live by this ideal. However in practice they do everything but what is mentioned of a good product ma…

I only started running regularly a year back, and I certainly feel something like a long-drawn low-ebbing pleasant kinda 'high' after a run. I also have double the energy now-a-day…

Just wondering - wouldn't it be easier, not only for music notation but also for math and other scientific notation, if there was an on-screen keyboard custom-built for this very p…