Hariprasad Kulkarni

@nileshtrivedi They should be renamed to Micro-advertisers, because that is what they are.

Why did we start calling gadget sellers on youtube as "tech influencers"? This is what influencing in tech looks like: Linus Torvalds in 2012: youtube.com/watch?v=iYWzMv… In 2024: youtube.com/watch?v=wvQ0N5…

During this celebration, let us not forget the person who is responsible for the creation of RCB. @TheVijayMallya missing you sir, please come back.

@deepakshenoy Was there any change on the LRS TCS apart from the limit increase to 10L? Is there no TCS for people who already pay TDS?

Retweeting this again:

@p6 ನನ್ನ ರಾಯರು ❌ ನಮ್ಮ ರಾಯರು ✅

ಕಾಮ್ರೇಡ್ಸ್, ರಾಘವೇಂದ್ರ ಸ್ವಾಮಿಗಳ ಆರಾಧನೆ ತಿಂಗಳ ಪ್ರಯುಕ್ತ

@vaibhaw_vipul I know it might be too late but is there any chance you will do a cohort with say Scala instead of Rust?

@The_Kulk awesome!

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@vaibhaw_vipul Thanks. I just discovered your website empowered coder. I'll join the intensive cohort. It's exactly what I need.

@The_Kulk Sessions will be recorded and shared No idea if more cohorts. But mostly yes.

@unmeshjoshi Thank you for writing Patterns in Distributed Systems. Is there a repo with the code in Scala?

@nileshtrivedi Although for better comparison with chess, I wonder what lessons we can learn from here to create squads that can win medals in various Olympiads like physics, maths etc.

@nileshtrivedi The phenomenon of a great sportsperson coming from India and guiding the next generation to greater success is the way to success right now. Example is badminton where Gopichand has coached Olympic medal squads. I think Javelin is up next.

Imagine if Indians put the same kind of effort in something useful. 😆 /ducks for cover On a serious note, it's good to see the new generation taking up the mantle. IMHO, Vishy did more for Indian chess than Tendulkar did for cricket.

@deepakshenoy Is there any opportunity in such scenarios? ITC and hotels demerger will create a similar scenario. The obvious one is to sit tight and let it bottom out.

Why is Jio financial services, JIOFIN at lower circuit every day? It's one of the pitfalls of having so much money in index funds - forced selling. The largest Indian mutual fund scheme is the SBI Nifty 50 ETF. It has 160,000 cr. in assets. It tracks the NIFTY 50 Index. Also, if you just add the list of funds that track the Nifty 50, you will see over 270,000 crore in Indian mutual funds that track the Nifty. In the Nifty is Reliance Industries at a weightage of about 10%. It used to be 11%, but then JIOFIN was demerged out of it, and effectively, 1% of the NIFTY is in JIOFIN. Because Reliance was in the index, JIOFIN, as a demerger result, is also kept in the index. In a set of rules in March 2023, the NSE said this: * when an index stock demerges, the demerged stock will be part of the index till it lists * after it lists, it will still be there for three days after which it will be removed from the index * if it hits circuits for the first two days, it remains in the index for another two days. JIOFIN listed on Monday. It hit the lower circuit on Monday and Tuesday, so it will stay in the index till Friday. If it keeps hitting the lower circuit, it will remain in the index until a day when it doesn't hit the circuits and boom, the next day it's out. Complex? That's because of the index funds. JIOFIN doesn't qualify to be in the index (not enough listed history etc) So it should be removed. But because Index Funds own all the stocks in the Nifty, they will also have JIOFIN through the demerger. Remember all shareholders of Reliance got an equal number of shares of JIOFIN. You can't remove JIOFIN from the index. Because the funds can't sell JIOFIN. If you removed JIOFIN from the index, the weights of all stocks would change but because Index funds can't sell it, they would have the wrong weights and not be able to track the index properly. So the rule explains things: when JIOFIN lists and there's some time to sell it (assuming no circuits) then JIOFIN is removed. Why is JIOFIN falling? Because these index funds want to sell it - the minute it is out of the lower circuit, it's out of the index so they need to be out of it by then. Basically, they don't care if JIOFIN is a good co. It's like hello, it's not in the index, so I sell boss, don't care about anything else. This is "forced selling". Now how much is there? Consider that 270,000 cr. is in Indian index funds (apart from active mutual funds that hold Reliance - those funds don't have to sell and can hold it for longer) 1% of that is 2,700 crores. That's the quantity that will be forced to sell, roughly. At Rs. 224 per share, that is roughly 12 crore shares that index funds must sell. The current sell quantities on the exchange (NSE) are around 14 crore shares. Only 42 lakh shares have actually traded. Until this selling is absorbed, we'll see these lower circuits. It doesn't matter how good or bad the company is. Disclosure: we own it.

@ravi_suhag @gojektech Thanks for this. I signed up. Will the early birds get the unedited copy even if it doesn't reach 100? I sincerely hope it does.

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@btbytes @ijnani I don't understand what's there to argue here. Vidyarthi Bhavan has Vidyarthi in it's name because they are still learning how to make an edible dose.

@ijnani what is this CTR?

Isn't it amazing that in Bangalore you can form an instant argument with anyone by just asking them "CTR or Vidyarthi Bhavan?" Or "Coffee or Tea?" 😂

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@iavins You can insert in between. The whole partition is then reorganised. The problem you mentioned about preformance comes up. But that's the use case you should avoid. Use these DBs for append only operations. Analyse past data that doesn't change. medium.com/analytics-vidh…

@The_Kulk TIL! Any official document where I read up more? Also, what about the inserts? Can I insert in between?

TIL that there are something called Clustered Indexes which put rows next to each other, physically, on the disk. This gives amazing read performance, especially for range queries, but can be worse for writes.

@iavins Works best for reporting with time frame as the filter. BigQuery does something similar, but instead of doing it row wise, it does this with a partition column. Great performance for range bound queries. Edits not allowed, deletion for the whole partition and not just a row.

Imagine, if a new row needs to be inserted in the middle, then all the rows on one side would need to be moved 😲 Also TIL that, if a row gets deleted now there is a gap and it could cause Index Fragmentation more: use-the-index-luke.com/sql/clustering…

@p6 Got you covered there. Idanna publikity maaDbeDi. maps.app.goo.gl/pWa2JfELFeQ3Ez…

@The_Kulk Didn't try actually. Gudbud Ada mEle capakity mugidhoitu.

Last week's exposure testing: Udupi (Woodlands = worth it), Mangalore (Pabbas = !worth it); Also meeting a meLLu guy, who after a deep conversation unmasked the fact that he just got discharged from the hospital (after Covid); Fun.

@shantanugoel Not to forget the other jobs also give you growth. What is a delivery executive supposed to grow into?

The comparison with railways etc is false dichotomy. All those jobs also give a lot of safety and benefits apart from salaries with much lesser load. Even a househelp can earn more than 16k with 5-6 hours of work a day in much better conditions and holidays.

Predatory tactics can’t be overlooked. Swiggy/Zomato couldn’t be built without DAs. It’s our lala/sethji mindset that “atleast they are giving something”. DAs should be employees, not contractors and paid much better. Aren’t the founders rolling in billions on back of these?

@nileshtrivedi Have you come across games by From Software? They are definitely not appropriate for an eight year old, but many life lessons in them.

Once these basics are in place, video games provide huge opportunities for building mental models about not just how the world works, but it might work. This is high-school and college level stuff, but made accessible thanks to being equipped with thinking tools.

Starting my 8yo daughter on an advanced course on society, economics, science & maths - disguised as a curated series of video games. The educational power of video games is highly under-appreciated.