
⚡Kevin Mathew
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⚡Kevin Mathew
@neverloquacious
Coder, athlete, musician, tries to be funny @kevinam99 on GitHub and Strava











In 2020, we did something very odd. Well, K (Kailash, CTO) did. He helped open-source Alar, a Kannada–English dictionary. It's a little absurd, considering we're a stockbroking company, but the project itself is one of monumental importance. The story of how Alar came to be is even more inspiring. It was essentially the life's work of one man: V. Krishna. Alar is the online version of what he had built over 40 years—researching, writing, and cataloguing more than 150,000 Kannada words and 240,000 English definitions, complete with all their attendant details. Just thinking about someone spending four decades relentlessly pursuing one single project is beyond inspiring. Oh, and he is still working on adding to the corpus. That @zerodha had even a small role to play in this is deeply gratifying. It has now been five years since Alar launched, and over two lakh people visit it every month. It also just received a major update, faster than ever. And K has been working on improving dictpress, the underlying open-source technology that powers the creation of online dictionaries includng Alar. So if, by any chance, you're obsessed with languages and dictionaries and have been wondering how to build one online, you should definitely check it out. (link in comments)


Recent Layoff Announcements: 1. UPS: 48,000 employees 2. Amazon: Up to 30,000 employees 3. Intel: 24,000 employees 4. Nestle: 16,000 employees 5. Accenture: 11,000 employees 6. Ford: 11,000 employees 7. Novo Nordisk: 9,000 employees 8. Microsoft: 7,000 employees 9. PwC: 5,600 employees 10. Salesforce: 4,000 employees 11. Paramount: 2,000 employees 12. Target: 1,800 employees 13. Kroger: 1,000 employees 14. Applied Materials: 1,444 employees 15. Meta: 600 employees The labor market is clearly weakening.


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