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Re: Vista WinSXS woes & MS Brilliance.

Gubbi — Thu, 05 Nov 2009 04:32:12 -0000

Thanks.

Re: Vista WinSXS woes & MS Brilliance.

Gubbi — Thu, 05 Nov 2009 04:31:40 -0000

Absolutely !! And also by including at least some way of cleaning up unused dlls.

Re: Protocol Buffers And JSON, Part - I

Gubbi — Wed, 25 Feb 2009 07:40:11 -0000

Hmm.

At the same time, there is also nothing in JSON that doesn't "allow"
handling multiple versions of objects. Isn't it?

Thanks for stopping by and discussing.

Re: Collaboration Tools for our Distributed Startup Team.

Gubbi — Wed, 04 Feb 2009 16:24:42 -0000

I guess I didn't make something clearer. This post discusses the collaboration tools we are using within our team. We are not building a collaboration tool.

Good to meet a Basecamp fan.

The free email was just to point out that "free" + "ads" works, especially for a commoditized service like email.

Re: Collaboration Tools for our Distributed Startup Team.

Gubbi — Wed, 04 Feb 2009 15:27:27 -0000

Freeware + ads aren't really bad btw. Your daily email is subsidized that way. It works for some, it doesn't for others.

Re: Collaboration Tools for our Distributed Startup Team.

Gubbi — Wed, 04 Feb 2009 15:21:33 -0000

No. We aren't building a freeware and we won't have ads either. :) Thanks for asking.

But we can't be giving out money when our revenues aren't flowing yet.

It's good for a startup to conserve where ever we can.
We will of course have to get a "premium" tool once the team grows.. but for 4-5 guys, to be used internally, this is much more than enough.

If you look closely, this wordpress theme is a premium theme which was paid for. We also pay for hosting this site since no free hosting is reliable enough. The tool mentioned for wireframing: Balsamiq is a premium product.

Thanks for stopping by. Would love to hear about your preferred tools for collaboration.

Re: WATBlog Panel @ Proto 5 - Lessons learnt from failure of startups

Gubbi — Mon, 26 Jan 2009 14:24:37 -0000

Thanks for coming by and I'm glad it helped.

Re: WATBlog Panel @ Proto 5 - Lessons learnt from failure of startups

Gubbi — Mon, 26 Jan 2009 14:24:26 -0000

It was hard to take notes as they spoke :) hence the brevity and not-exact-phrases.

I'm glad it helped. There were several other talks that were interesting and I missed... please do update me if you find some good content regarding these elsewhere..

Re: Mumbai Terror Attacks Coverage Roundup.

Gubbi — Wed, 03 Dec 2008 16:13:22 -0000

This incident shook me like no other terror attacks in the past.

Hopefully something positive will come out of all this.

Re: Life in a Metro.

Gubbi — Wed, 03 Dec 2008 15:07:11 -0000

No. Thats not correct...

I would point out that there's a serious meteor problem up there.... :P

As she says:

It’s nowhere safe anymore.

Only way out is a village.... don't resist that idea and reach out to the stars.... They look beautiful only from down here. :-)

Re: Memiary + Lessons of a Weekend Entrepreneur

Gubbi — Sat, 01 Nov 2008 06:29:54 -0000

Awesome experiment and a good product.
I've shied away from diaries, writing for two days and skipping, then again writing for two days and skipping. This looks like the thing that'll do for me.

And yeah I aspire to be a weekend entrepreneur. :-)

Re: Arrington Heats Up Twitter

Gubbi — Tue, 14 Oct 2008 04:31:31 -0000

Mike is right here. There's a lot of background to the incident that most people don't see. What most people think is that Dare blogged something bad about TC and Mike fired back in an over reacted manner.

Well, that's just not true. Dare is a Microsoft blogger. Why does Microsoft hire bloggers? And just because MS is a BIG company doesn't mean it ignores little entities. It's like an army of ants working on several minor things. It's a huge machine with thousands taking care of minute things. That's what makes it BIG.

That said, let me give you a bit of background on this incident. This is Dare's second attack on TC. First attack: MS was hiring people to edit it's wikipedia pages in favor of it's format against ODF to become the standard. This is clearly unethical and Mike blogged about it criticizing MS. This Dare Obasanjo dude goes and defaces TC's wikipedia entry and confronts Mike to do what he can about it. Now, this is clearly not a *personal opinion*. It reflects on MS and not just Dare.

Second attack: Gillmor put up a post on TechCrunchIT retaliating Dare who was criticizing new standards bodies which were backed by Google, Yahoo, etc., These are mostly the standards which Plaxo and other guys are trying to frame and promote. Now MS isn't involved in these discussions and had not responded to their invites. Dare was of the opinion that IETF was the body to promote internet standards and these smaller and ad-hoc standard committees are a farce and backed by Google et.,al to outwit MS. Gillmor countered that many important standards like OAuth, OpenID, etc., had emerged in similar ad-hoc manner and that waiting for IETF to formally approve standards was just out of pace with the speed at which the internet is moving. Dare counters again and calls Gillmor names and accuses him of personal attack. Gillmor puts up another post explaining his position and saying it was not a personal attack. Then comes Dare's post attacking Mike and TechCrunch. Now, this isn't exactly *personal opinion*. It is clearly MS engine at work. And Mike was right in calling it out. This was all as a response to TechCrunchIT supporting competing standards.

Now coming to this MossyBlog dude here in twitter encounter, even if theres no central mandate, it is driven by the employee's pride for his company. Now he is *pride-blind* and not objective. He feels MS's interference with their bloggers is minimal. But then, MS *has-to* look at their blogger's behavior when they go attacking other bloggers. MS wants to become a part of the blogosphere and want to have their voice by hiring bloggers. Surely then, it should also make sure to watch their step. You can't shrug it off as employee's *personal opinion*.

Re: The Tibetan Story

Gubbi — Sun, 13 Apr 2008 00:55:31 -0000

Your words speak for themselves. Your words reflect you, not me.

You can't stop me from calling out China on it's filth, just because you are "supposed" to be proud of your country. And since of all places in the world china is the best place for you, you should definitely consider moving out of US if it is bothering you so much. We wont push you out forcibly for what you have spoken here. We respect your right to express.

Whom America killed or is killing doesn't justify what China is doing in Tibet. Tibet wont become part of China just because the Chinese want it to be. It wont be part of China just because you use force to keep it in family. Tibetans want to be Tibetans, not Chinese.

We can protest against our President's policies and take away his powers and these elections you'll see exactly that. Try speaking of such a possibility in China.

Its amusing how nationalistic feelings can blind a whole nation into tolerating the ruler's shit. You have traded your freedom, rights, culture and heritage in the name of economic development. I don't really expect any intelligent responses from you.

Good luck with your hatred. Have a good life.

Re: The Tibetan Story

Gubbi — Sat, 12 Apr 2008 02:31:13 -0000

I have lived with Tibetans and have been supporting their cause for last 3 years. What you are saying is nothing new to me. I have heard it thousands of times from several Chinese who have no exposure to history other than what CCP teaches at schools.

Did you even read the linked articles? If you had, you wouldn't ask me if Tibet should be independent because of its scenic beauty. Tibetans have already embraced democracy and the Tibetan government in exile already has this system in place. Take you unresearched rants elsewhere.

If Texas starts protesting for a separate nation like the Tibetans are doing now, it'll be given serious thought. They wont be shot at for expressing their frustration with the government.

For Tibet's history from Tibetans perspective, see this: http://youtube.com/watch?v=0VRneGYpaXc
Hope the country you are living in respects your right to information and doesn't block the above video.

Also read thoughtful writings by your fellow Chinese about Tibet: http://chinadigitaltimes.net/2008/03/tibet-her-...

Dalai Lama is a revered personality and a very sensible person. Read his direct message to Chinese people here: http://zippythepinhead.newsvine.com/_news/2008/...

And do not reply without seeing and reading through the links I have provided.

Re: Movable Type Open Source Hosting.

Gubbi — Tue, 01 Apr 2008 17:08:02 -0000

Test comment.

Re: I just finished installing Movable Type 4!

Gubbi — Tue, 25 Mar 2008 05:52:23 -0000

Testing Disqus commenting system.