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I celebrated my 30 birthday last month & yes, I am three decades old now. Few of the lessons were learnt willingly but most of them forcefully imposed/taught the hard way. Family comes first Avoiding alcohol can do magic to your health Run & exercise regularly for better physical and mental health Keep your …
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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 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 …
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 …
We are entering in 2016, my journey to open source started in 2004-05 when i attended one of the Linux User Group meetup in New Delhi, India. Those days we had to pay one$ for surfing internet for an hour, having a dial-up internet at home was considered luxury. What was the scene those days? …
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When we were born we had no identity, we were just another creature on planet Earth. Then came : Parents : religion, caste, surname Physical appearance: Looks, Color, Weight, Height Personal nature: Empathic, Rude, Jolly Job & Education: MIT/IIT/IIM/XLRI/MIT/Harvard Social Status: Bank balance, Car, House You will be judged & reminded about your identity at …
People say success & failures are complementary. It is like two side of coin & both co-exist. Over last few years I have noticed in every spectrum people are celebrating failures be it cover page of famous magazine, online portal, help/advice avenues like Quora or social media portals like Twitter, Facebook, Medium or LinkedIn. I …
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