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What sort of a use case requires you to run "lots of VMs"? What nature of development do you do?

That's crazy. Is it the 4K display?

My Thinkpad X1 Carbon 7th Generation with a FHD screen lasts about 3.5-4 hours under heavy load and about 10-11 hours doing casual web-browsing etc on Ubuntu 20.04. On Windows, it should be better. But if you go with the 4K screen, you'll only get half the battery life.

Bhakths are devotees of Modi. "Bhakth" in Hindi/Sanskrit means devotee. They are like the die hard Trump fans in the US.

They usually come in hordes and attack any content against Modi on the web usually by unethical tactics like questioning your character/love for country, down-voting, mass reporting, abusing and general trolling - whatever it takes to shut the critics up.

Modi is part human and part mythical figure for the Bhakths - I kid you not :).

Hey, more power to you if you want to use more expressive/functional languages than Javascript like Erlang or Clojure. However claiming that a language that allows nothing beyond the Object oriented model of computation like Java or Go is more robust or allows you to have less errors would not be accurate (see the comments above).

The primary reason anyone would use Javscript over say Erlang would be the ubiquity of the language and the availability of libraries or strong familiarity with the language. But my point is Javascript provides you the tools to write functional code that is robust (if you are disciplined) and generators + promises (and async/await) makes the single threaded async model painless. I certainly did not claim that it was a silver bullet or a revolutionary model of computation.

Love this. This is precisely why I love Javascript too, I find these douchey condescending comments on Javascript/Node.js from people who've not grasped the language and it's philosophy deeply, extremely annoying.

There's a lot a capable developer can accomplish with Javascript, with it's first order functions, collection operations, generators, promises and now, async /await. Granted JS is not idiot-proof, but I'd any day use a powerful language than a highly restricting one (think Java and Go).

Sure, but there are a large number of tech product startups in Bangalore too.

Given that Solar power is the fundamental source of energy leading to petroleum based energy (starting with photosynthesis), it's surprising that we still rely on petroleum to the degree we do today. In 100 years this would perhaps be something people would find shocking (like how we are shocked today at how mainstream slavery used to be 150 odd years ago).

Solar Energy is unlimited, cheap and clean. My guess would be that energy will eventually end up being near free.

Thanks for the reply, and I apologise I did not see this earlier. So, these are my questions:

1) In a consulting business, what is the technique to discover clients and get a steady stream of work?

2) For a product business, how does a software developer without any business experience identify a good niche to develop a product in (I'm assuming the product would be a SaaS product) and what are some general techniques to market and sell this product?

I hope my questions were not too vague. If possible, could you share your approach to self employment as well?

This is clickbait title. In what sense of the word is Reliance Jio a startup? It's a division of a big co.

Can you give me some tips on self employment? In general where do I start from? Currently I'm taking a break from work and would really love to be self employed as opposed to going back to a job. I'm a software developer and most of my experience is in developing full stack web apps and in scaling web backends.

If I understand correctly, the problem was that they were making several thousands of requests to S3. While the requests to S3 themselves were asynchronous, the callbacks for these requests were queued up for (synchronous) execution in the event loop. Due the large number of callbacks in the queue already, new callbacks for the incoming requests were queued up for execution behind the previous callbacks, leading to latencies in serving up responses.

Well the point of the article is that the said personality type makes good entrepreneurs. Its totally understandable that they would not be the best of employees (which is what you are describing).

Agreed that its mostly empirical and that correlation does not imply causation.

Can you elaborate on what you mean by "other positions" though? Do you know of specific cases where startups have failed as a result of the said personality of founders?

In addition to what linux_devil has mentioned, on the enterprise side there is Plivo, HackerRank, FreshDesk, Helpshift, Druva, RecruiterBox, Webengage, VisualWebsiteOptimizer etc.

Yes I am.

This is such a stupid comment. There are lots of specialists in India, isn't it possible that Snapdeal just doesn't appeal to them? Snapdeal is not exactly building anything ground breaking and a job at Snapdeal is nothing to write home about, for a specialist. They just come off as a shitty Flipkart/Amazon clone. All of my experiences buying from them was unsatisfactory.

At the higher end of the market, people really do not care about paying a few hundred dollars extra if the overall experience is smooth. Apple provides a high quality hardware-software experience which helps users' to get their work done without worrying about configurations or other headaches. The battery life, light weightiness, beautiful display, faster boot-up times, overall smoothness of the UI all contributes to this experience.

What technologies did you use to build this bot? Are you using any libraries?

And DDoS the end sites?