varunkho

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I love building stuff. Now focussed on completing stuff that I build :)

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Comment · 13 years ago
From the outset, I learnt programming by craving to build a thing. It started with tic tac toe that I built in vb6 in school, with computer as a player, sound and lighting effects. Then I built a full-disk media player/ image explorer hybrid. Followed by a multilingual word processor with screen reader and brail keyboard input and ...Finally full-stack web apps.

At the core of my learning was always a desire – that I wanted to build this thing, and rest was the details that I figured out from the internet and MSDN CDs (yes, that used to be my primary and definitive source during initial years of learning.)

In my experience, when I'm passionate about building something, I do not need to motivate myself to learn the details.

Edit: Finally I also did post graduation in CS to cover the gaps of CS fundamentals. Degree is also essential for getting a job at reputed companies which usually have it as the first filter to auto-reject candidates.

Comment · 13 years ago
Comment · 13 years ago
I see where you are coming from. It seems that you are already into selling emails business therefore you see others doing a legitimate thing as "harvesting emails to sell for millions." or maybe you are living in your own bubble and has never gone out to try to build something that non-technical can relate to solving their problem. Good luck and next time try to conduct yourself with little humility and that would go a long way in helping you achieve something.
Comment · 13 years ago
The penalty requirement is recently waved off. I should update it. But the notice is required to be sent under the section 18B of FLSA. Also, if the employee does not receive the notice and he misses the open enrollment period, he can sue the employer later at any point.
Comment · 13 years ago
The server is in fact in USA, if you could have cared to check. I think it would have been better had it been into India to safe it from NSA snooping. isn't it?
Comment · 13 years ago
Keep on imposing your line of argument, and of course downvoting. But the truth is I was trying to solve a pain for small businesses most of which have not yet complied by sending the notification. It seems you never tried the website and started with your baseless arguments. Again with this website I have just made electronic delivery of the notification simpler as the same requires that "delivery is tracked". I just take employees email and name (optional) and basic business information necessary to prepare the model notice obtained from DOL website.

Solving somebody pain is a path to a startup, if you have some other definition please feel free to live by that.

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