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We are living in a hyper-converged world, smart phones & social media taking more time than family/friends/nature/surrounding. We have enough to feed ourself unlike those laborers working in mine/rail/road constructions. We have enough to commute from one place to another in cab/car/taxi/auto unlike many others who still walk miles barefoot for work. We are free/independent …
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Surge pricing for taxi aggregators has been banned in Karnataka. While I have been reading the opinions of various people on different social media platforms on it, there are a few voices that are missing – taxi drivers. They’re the ones who really suffer from this ordeal, especially drivers who have bought cars on loan …
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I finally finised reading Bhagwad Gita, a hindu holy book which is collection of over 700 verses. It’s a discourse between Krishna and Arjuna on the battlefield of Kurukshetra. I would strongly recommend almost everyone to read it, it has nothing to do with your race/religion. We all can relate to one or the other discourse provided, …
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FOSDEM is the mecca for all the free software developers/hackers. No wonder the attendance in the event runs anywhere north of 7000+ developers coming from all corners of the world. To attend FOSDEM this year is a dream come true for me. The event provides free demo booth to open source projects, also there is …
I am no billionaire philanthropist or a startup guy who just made a big exit. The content of this post has more to do with my experience with life/people & surroundings over year of time. These are some of the learnings: 1. Family should get all the attention. 2. Heath comes next 3. People will …
We are living in App driven economy from Match making to Cab to Pastry to Doctor all it needs is a mobile phone loaded with app. You can get world news, podcast, jokes everything in this little supercomputer called smartphone. I am part of this same world like you all & felt like sharing my …
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I have been experimenting with what I have been eating for past 60 days. I am adding list of same & its outcome. Lots of fruits. Eggs in breakfast & sprouts in dinner. Heavy lunch rice/chapatti & some lentils. Beer 1.5 L/Week from one or the other microbrewery in bangalore. One death by chocolate from …
Most of my close friends know that I joined https://minio.io couple of months back. As a developer evangelist, most of my time is spent getting application developers excited, evangelize Minio and also hack on Minio’s software stack (yes you heard it right!) Minio stands for minimal cloud storage and derives from our belief in the …
Happy New Year to everyone to start with. Year 2015 been amazing in following ways : Joined minio.io as developer evangelist [blog will follow soon :)] Met long time friends Razique & Heiko in person after interacting with them for over 4 years on IRC regarding OpensStack project. Two of my junior buddies Prashant & Jithesh …
Woke up & read this r/linux thread where Ian Murdock [Debian Linux project founder] tweets are mentioned. Ian says he is committing suicide. I will be more than happy if these tweets turn out to be hoax or coming from someone else who gained control of his Twitter account. This incident got me thinking about one of …