Siddharth Balaravi
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Customer Delight

By Siddharth Balaravi On February 26, 2013 · Leave a Comment · In Web, Work

A satisfied customer is the best business strategy of all.

So true!

Over the years, I’ve come to realize that some of the best designed products that I’ve come across are the ones that just let you do stuff – they’re simple, elegant, and subtle. One such product that I’ve been using is Sublime Text [...]

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I’ve been busy

By Siddharth Balaravi On September 24, 2012 · Leave a Comment · In General

It’s been a very, very long time since I posted here. There were times that I promised myself that I would do something about it, but the deluge at work, and then some more work prevented that from happening. Anyway, enough rant, here’s what I’ve been busy with over the last few months:

Work. Lot’s, [...]

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Thanks, but no thanks

By Siddharth Balaravi On September 5, 2012 · Leave a Comment · In General, Rant

A couple of things that I like to remind myself all the time

Don’t waste time arguing with fools, they usually have nothing to lose and have all the time in the world to argue about why they’re right. These folks are better avoided than dealt with; wish I had some way to ascertain this [...]

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Can we clean Indian politics?

By Siddharth Balaravi On December 15, 2011 · Leave a Comment · In General, Politics, Web

Problem: How do I make an informed decision about who I vote for? There’s no way for me to find out what the political representatives in my constituency are up to, how well/poorly they’ve performed, their criminal record history (if any [sic])

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I love to cook!

By Siddharth Balaravi On December 4, 2011 · 2 Comments · In General

I love cooking!

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Validating a start-up idea

By Siddharth Balaravi On September 9, 2011 · 4 Comments · In General

Most web start-up ideas fall under two broad categories: me-too’s and potential winners. The problem with a majority of ideas almost always is what I call the entrepreneur’s bias.

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Round-up on software patents

By Siddharth Balaravi On September 8, 2011 · Leave a Comment · In General

Do software patents really achieve anything at all? Clearly, the system has its benefits, but is it broken beyond fixing?

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On bug reporting

By Siddharth Balaravi On August 26, 2011 · Leave a Comment · In Programming

Anybody who has written software will probably have received at least one bad bug report. Reports that say nothing (“It doesn’t work!”); reports that make no sense; reports that don’t give enough information; reports that give wrong information.

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Broken on purpose

By Siddharth Balaravi On June 22, 2011 · Leave a Comment · In General

Are some products and services inherently designed to be broken; things their architects or creators must go to great lengths to ensure are broken?

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Note to self

By Siddharth Balaravi On January 27, 2011 · 2 Comments · In General

Things to do in 2011

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