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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 million and the acquirers are paying 10 X annual profit?

plinkplonk

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"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).

plinkplonk

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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"!

plinkplonk

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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 Sriram Narayan's son would be Vishal Sriram.

So yes, the system does exist

Due Disclosure: South Indian, not a Brahmin, but I have many friends whose names follow this system.

plinkplonk

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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 understand boolean logic, which programmers have no problem with), and then a Set Theory book (I used Enderton) set me up to tackle (proof based) Linear Algebra, Analysis etc.

Just my personal experience. Hope this helps.

plinkplonk

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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 hard to pull this off, especially in a market like India, with a lot of stupid money folks chasing companies with flimsy / non existent business models.

plinkplonk

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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

plinkplonk

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Replied!

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

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

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

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

plinkplonk

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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 with their batchmates. It was also a problem for which the market had not yet, in Spenser and Curtis’s opinion, come up with a great solution. Their chosen target was, of course, mobile analytics. This, it turned out, was precisely the right idea for the team. "

How did you come up with/converge to this idea? what was the thinking process? TIA

plinkplonk

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Down, Bangalore, India

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

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

plinkplonk

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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 time)

plinkplonk

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>I don’t understand what Modi is doing.

I assure you, neither does he.

Not a particularly intellectual or introspective man. He is a living example of the Peter Principle.

Too bad a billion people have to suffer for his incompetence.

plinkplonk

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"I don't believe long hours are a badge of honor but I also believe that we have to do whatever it takes to win, even if its on a weekend."

Especially when said "doing" is done by other people (engineers, testers,SREs etc) , not the manager.

Easy enough to hold such beliefs when the cost is paid by others.

plinkplonk

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(fwiw) you could have left the question out and your second sentence would have conveyed your intent perfectly.

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