Stories by yarapavan

Distributed Systems and the End of the API

Announcing reddit live

Announcing Cloudbreak – the Hadoop as a Service API

How Are the Mighty Fallen - On Peer reviews and Rejected Papers

How to create illusion of faster web pages (while creating actual happier users)

39 years of computing in 11 hours, with $5K in costs vs. $44M estimate

The Six Books Bill Gates Thinks You Should Read This Summer

The redBus sale: A cautionary tale for Indian Startups

Failed Science: On the emptiness of failed replications

Writing tips from the CIA’s ruthless style manual

You soon may not need citizenship to vote in the US; just become a New Yorker

We Just Ran Twenty-Three Million Queries of the World Bank’s Website

Stanford Free Course – CS101 – starts on July 15. Register here

First principles thinking: a better way to innovate

Career Advice From Reid Hoffman

The Official Computer Bowl Trivia Book (1996) [pdf]

Prediction model for the FIFA World Cup 2014

How Our Delusions Keep Us Sane:Psychology of Essential Self-Enhancement Bias

A Century On, This (Ramanujan) Math Prodigy’s Formulas Are Finally Unravelled

A Conversation With Linus Torvalds