Lokesh Gupta 🇮🇳

Enjoy the little things, for one day you may look back and realize they were the big things. --Robert Brault

1) Indian IT DOES NOT innovate. 2) Indian Manufacturing lacks capital and CAN'T innovate. 3) Biggest capitalists in India have NO NEED to innovate. They survive on government patronage. And, can't compete globally. India is their only hunting ground. This is a fact. Like it, hate it, bash it. When the focus is on religion, freebies, hate-mongering, it doesn't lay the basic groundwork for any innovation. Give it 5 more years, India will feel 20 years behind due to speed at which AI is moving.

Friends- This is a tough note to write, but since a bunch of you have started to suspect something, I’ll cut to the chase: Last week I was diagnosed with metastasized, stage-four pancreatic cancer, and am gonna die. Advanced pancreatic is nasty stuff; it’s a death sentence. But I already had a death sentence before last week too — we all do. I’m blessed with amazing siblings and half-a-dozen buddies that are genuinely brothers. As one of them put it, “Sure, you’re on the clock, but we’re all on the clock.” Death is a wicked thief, and the bastard pursues us all. Still, I’ve got less time than I’d prefer. This is hard for someone wired to work and build, but harder still as a husband and a dad. I can’t begin to describe how great my people are. During the past year, as we’d temporarily stepped back from public life and built new family rhythms, Melissa and I have grown even closer — and that on top of three decades of the best friend a man could ever have. Seven months ago, Corrie was commissioned into the Air Force and she’s off at instrument and multi-engine rounds of flight school. Last week, Alex kicked butt graduating from college a semester early even while teaching gen chem, organic, and physics (she’s a freak). This summer, 14-year-old Breck started learning to drive. (Okay, we’ve been driving off-book for six years — but now we’ve got paper to make it street-legal.) I couldn’t be more grateful to constantly get to bear-hug this motley crew of sinners and saints. There’s not a good time to tell your peeps you’re now marching to the beat of a faster drummer — but the season of advent isn’t the worst. As a Christian, the weeks running up to Christmas are a time to orient our hearts toward the hope of what’s to come. Not an abstract hope in fanciful human goodness; not hope in vague hallmark-sappy spirituality; not a bootstrapped hope in our own strength (what foolishness is the evaporating-muscle I once prided myself in). Nope — often we lazily say “hope” when what we mean is “optimism.” To be clear, optimism is great, and it’s absolutely necessary, but it’s insufficient. It’s not the kinda thing that holds up when you tell your daughters you’re not going to walk them down the aisle. Nor telling your mom and pops they’re gonna bury their son. A well-lived life demands more reality — stiffer stuff. That’s why, during advent, even while still walking in darkness, we shout our hope — often properly with a gravelly voice soldiering through tears. Such is the calling of the pilgrim. Those who know ourselves to need a Physician should dang well look forward to enduring beauty and eventual fulfillment. That is, we hope in a real Deliverer — a rescuing God, born at a real time, in a real place. But the eternal city — with foundations and without cancer — is not yet. Remembering Isaiah’s prophecies of what’s to come doesn’t dull the pain of current sufferings. But it does put it in eternity’s perspective: “When we've been there 10,000 years…We've no less days to sing God's praise.” I’ll have more to say. I’m not going down without a fight. One sub-part of God’s grace is found in the jawdropping advances science has made the past few years in immunotherapy and more. Death and dying aren’t the same — the process of dying is still something to be lived. We’re zealously embracing a lot of gallows humor in our house, and I’ve pledged to do my part to run through the irreverent tape. But for now, as our family faces the reality of treatments, but more importantly as we celebrate Christmas, we wish you peace: “The people walking in darkness have seen a great light; on those living in the land of deep darkness a light has dawned….For to us a son is given” (Isaiah 9). With great gratitude, and with gravelly-but-hopeful voices, Ben — and the Sasses

@TheStatesmanLtd Fix the issue. Don't run from it.

#INDvsSA | Should BCCI shift winter cricket matches to South India, as suggested by Shashi Tharoor?

Congress MP @ShashiTharoor has urged BCCI Vice President #RajeevShukla to move winter matches to South India after the India against South Africa T20I in Lucknow was cancelled owing to fog. #INDvsSA #T20Cricket #Lucknow #TheStatesman

@IndiaNewGen Baba and yogi darshan they do…

Often I fear using the word vacation context to the middle class. Some people will also have a problem taking vacation. Vacation is for rich. Only 2% people can afford vacation in India. You are rich. In India everything is only for the top 1%, 2% & 5%. Wtf others are doing?

@DiyanshLLP This will be immensely helpful during fights.

Thinking to buy a JCB as next vehicle. Reasons: 1. No fear of Thar, Auto scratch, potholes 2. Give it on Rent and make side income when idle Any other positives?

Take notes. 🖊️

@sivalabs Mostly, people engage in discussions based on emotions rather than facts. You can never change how a person feel about something. It is waste of time. 👍

Protecting Your Mental Health While Being On Social Media sivalabs.in/protecting-you…

@_2001_guille @DVATW 😆😆😆

@DVATW Well once u put an Indian manager, all the new hires are gonna be his cousins

In my experience, Indian people come to the UK, work hard, create business and integrate. By contrast, Pakistanis come here, live in their ghettoes, behave in disturbing ways and prefer Welfare. It's a simple choice.

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Bharat Bandh on 24th Jan against the anti salaried class tax rates before the budget. If we don't do anything, they will keep robbing our houses. Our tax system is designed to loot and exploit only salaried class. Bengalore, hyd, pune, hyd, gurgaon streets should be empty.

@kothariabhishek @zomato @Swiggy These platforms are a tool for many restaurant owners to dump their stale food in the name of discounts, which otherwise will go to dustbin.

Deleted food delivery apps .@zomato & @Swiggy; due to massive overpricing / misleading pricing on their app menu vs physical menu of restaurants. Also, items are lesser in apps menu vs physical menu, at certain restaurants.

@Sidcap_100 Good choice 👍

I will leave India and permanently shift to Singapore in 2025 Documentation in process. I cannot stand the politicians here Can’t pay 40% tax and breathe polluted air while nobody takes accountability My honest suggestion would be that if you have good money, please leave

Changing your privacy setting in whatsapp is a good idea.

@JoeTheCynic @mindfulmaven_ ha ha ha

@mindfulmaven_ Dont eat yellow snow

the road to Spring Boot 3.4 is amazing and saw Spring Security 6.4.0 go GA! * support for Passkeys and One-Time Tokens * simplified OAuth 2.0 Configuration * refreshable SAML 2.0 Asserting Parties, and * new method security annotations and capabilities spring.io/blog/2024/11/1…

#SpringSecurity two-factor authentication (#2FA) by sending secret token over email and using #JWT for secured communication howtodoinjava.com/spring-securit…

Latest Thoughtworks Technology Radar is out - our regular survey of technologies that capture our attention in our client work. We found lots of AI-adjacent tools to be useful, but also that coding assistants often lead to problems thoughtworks.com/radar

The Hibernate Search module works as a bridge between Hibernate ORM and full-text search engines such as Lucene or Elasticsearch. howtodoinjava.com/hibernate/hibe…

@sivalabs @jetbrains Congratulations Siva. Much deserved.

Today I joined @jetbrains as a Developer Advocate 🙂