harshvladha

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Comment · 6 years ago
No, if u keep changing frequently!
Comment · 6 years ago
a little help to bypass tracking by fingerprinting
Comment · 6 years ago
- use incognito to avoid trackers

- use proxy / vpn

- resize your window if you are still scared

Comment · 6 years ago
I got 0.5/6

and still it says "Your burnout risk is HIGH"

I feel, it was because of little high Self-inefficacy.

I experimented with different answers, once I got 0.6/6 and it said: "Your burnout risk is MID", but for that Self-inefficacy was LOW.

It seems like Self-inefficacy has been taken as a high factor for Burnout.

Comment · 6 years ago
they mentioned in the introduction only.

"we decided to give up external caches like Redis, Memcached or Couchbase mainly because of additional time needed on the network"

reason: additional time needed on the network.

there are many scenarios in which you will want to consider in-mem cache of the application, one scenario is very low latency requirements.

Comment · 7 years ago
OK. I don't know about how much developer take in Ukraine. But my comparison was from US.

Since there's a lot of investment going on, by startups and giants like Google, Apple, Amazon etc who are hiring a lot in India, it is difficult to get good devs easily because devs will see few things even before trying for interview,like

1. Company's product and how it aligns with their perspective 2. Brand 3. Monetary value

(not in any order)

And these companies will keep on paying large amount of money because it will still be cheaper than what they pay in US. These giants will give a brand recognition. And as we all know, these companies have amazing/challenging work too.

So smart talent gets occupied and is hard to snatch from such giants.

Comment · 7 years ago
:O Just checked this. I knew about AliPay but never bothered to check the valuation.
Comment · 7 years ago
Thanks for this perspective.

I think CRED is also doing the same.

Comment · 7 years ago
It is still cheaper than hiring in US.

Even if you pay half the amount you pay avg (let's say 60K USD) in US, that will be very very good amount for an Indian living in India (30K USD/year is very good for living in India).

So, if you expect good work and don't want to pay even the amount which is equivalent to what an entry-level developer in US might get, then you will never get good developers.

Comment · 7 years ago
> burning cash like anything Burning to acquire end-user (in terms of number). Not to gain loyalty, that's the sad part.

Zomato is locked to food & restaurants. See Swiggy, they have not locked themselves and expanded to many other Supply chain related businesses

Oyo, is like WeWork :)

Comment · 7 years ago
> Online businesses that use "Pay with PhonePe" links have to pay commission

Can you please share, any relevant or merchant integration link which says about transaction charges.

I don't think there are transactional charges, at least in beginning (I have not digged deep) but saying as per UPI.

UPI service is directly by banks (and government) (transfer from user's bank to merchant's bank without intermediary).

I can understand that very small transaction fees can be levied in future because PhonePe, Gpay may provide more business to these merchants as their user base grows.

Why I am saying very small? Unlike dispute resolution in PayPal kind of platform (which holds money) here it is much difficult to provide similar resolution to end-user, as payment is directly done to merchant.

But. It is B-2-B and B-2-B is mostly driven by trust, loyalty and partnerships, unlike end-users in India who runs after app providing new offer(s).

Such B-2-B business can change the end-user behaviour in terms of loyalty. So that may be it. But there are so many apps for same payment interface, and I can imagine that there can be just an app which helps merchant receive payment from end-user without any additional fees (0.0000).

Comment · 7 years ago
Comment · 7 years ago
If someone is not able to read article because Bloomberg asks for premium fees, then don't miss out to check out their HTML ;)
Comment · 7 years ago
and so 97 VPN products may fall under single digit organizations, big one being NSA!
Comment · 7 years ago

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