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Electric Sheep Blog: From programming to business: Lesson 0

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On hacking and startups. From programming to business: Lesson 0. When you ask people for tips in their area of expertise, they often gloss over the most basic things they do because, you know, it's obvious. They live and breathe this stuff, so it doesn't occur to them to call it out. I've been a programmer since I was six, and some of these basics were the hardest to learn when I made the transition to being an entrepreneur. 1) Causality is a bitch. This blog post is an excellent example of my having mad...

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Electric Sheep Blog: Ruby blocks gotchas

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On hacking and startups. New to blocks in Ruby? RubyMonk has chapters covering both introductory topics. As well as more detailed lessons on blocks. Do try them out! There's this thing they say about Ruby - everything is an object. It's true, with very few exceptions, one of them being the block. Well guess what, this little gem of an inconsistency came back to bite me when I was trying to do something involving dynamic redefinition of methods. Anyways, this didn't take long, but once I was done, I was i...

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Electric Sheep Blog: Loading classes from strings in Ruby

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On hacking and startups. Loading classes from strings in Ruby. When working with Ruby, every once in a while you'll find yourself messing with a bunch of strings which are the names of classes. Given these strings, you'll need to go and instantiate the appropriate classes - something like taking "Array", "File" or "Booga" and figuring out how to call. The usual suspect -. The first time I needed to do this, I did a Google search without actually thinking about it too much. The number one result was.

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Electric Sheep Blog: Next up: making online matrimony more transparent

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On hacking and startups. Next up: making online matrimony more transparent. Update (15 Oct 2013): Our landing page is up! Welcome to TrustedRishta.com. We've been fascinated by relationships and marriage in the Indian context for several years now. So when we decided to do a new product a couple of months ago, we started researching this space to understand if there were any major pain points that a startup could address. Let me quickly summarize for you what we learned. Leading to a 30% year on year gro...

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Electric Sheep Blog: The future doesn't need you: 8 pieces of advice to myself as a new graduate

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On hacking and startups. The future doesn't need you: 8 pieces of advice to myself as a new graduate. A couple of weeks ago, the engineering college I graduated from invited me to join an industry panel to give the graduating batch some advice about careers and dealing with the real world. Too little of it, in my opinion, focussed on the single most important problem you need to solve in a modern career: The rapid pace. The future doesn't need you. So accept this: Your skills will be obsolete shortly&#46...

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Electric Sheep Blog: Everyone is running a business, including you.

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On hacking and startups. Everyone is running a business, including you. If you need to make money for any reason whatsoever - food, housing, fun, whatever - you're in business. Being employed is simply a lower-risk lower-return business that utilizes just one individual - you. It's all in the mindset. As an employee in the average company, you have some. Job security, but the days of life-long employment with lovely retirement plans are in the past. Staying relevant so you retain your current job. Plotti...

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Electric Sheep Blog: Find The Thing You're Most Passionate About, Then Do It On Weekdays And Weekends For The Rest Of Your Life

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On hacking and startups. Find The Thing You're Most Passionate About, Then Do It On Weekdays And Weekends For The Rest Of Your Life. The Onion just published a post that satirizes the desire to chase one's passion. While being stuck doing something else for a living. I've re-written a portion of it from the other side as an experiment, just to see how much greener the grass really is. Turns out it doesn't read all that differently. See if you can spot the differences. Is there any other way to live?

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Electric Sheep Blog: Die, Matrimonial PHP Scripts!

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On hacking and startups. Die, Matrimonial PHP Scripts! Our B2B beta is live at BureauBuilder. BureauBuilder is Shopify for online matrimony. BureauBuilder provides a SaaS alternative to self-hosted PHP Scripts that are commonly used to set up online marriage bureaus or matchmaking websites. Tuesday, March 25, 2014. Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom). MD, GO-JEK India. Director, GO-JEK Indonesia. Formerly founder and CEO of C42 Engineering. Please send your resume to work@go-jek.com. Follow me on Twitter.