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Signs of a troubled startup

India has been developing the startup culture quite seriously over the past half a decade. In this time I’ve seen dozens of ventures pop up and quite a few of them fizzle out. If you’ve gone through a startup bootcamp or an equivalent program, you’ve probably heard the stats. Failure rate of...

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Net Neutrality: Why should I care?

Yes, that’s one of the most often asked questions right after “What is that?”. I don’t often provide this explanation to techies because doing that is as simple as giving them a few lines of explanation and pointing them to a good website with information. The real challenge, if you...

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.NET has been open sourced!

Have your first look at Microsoft releasing the .NET source on GitHub: https://github.com/microsoft/dotnet Full Linux and OS X support for .NET is coming soon! I hope this also heralds the arrival of Visual Studio for Linux and OS X :)

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ThoughtWorks Welcome Video

I usually don’t post much about work but this is something I’ve never done before and would like to remember for a long time. I joined ThoughtWorks early August 2014 and by the end of it 8 of us had joined the Pune office in the month. We got together to create a video...

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Karun AB, that's me!

It’s been almost a year now since I bought the domain http://karun.me and a few months back I decided to put in some of my free time to put something up there. The domain, being named what it is, makes sense to house things about who this mythical Karun is and...

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Google I/O 2013 Easter Eggs

Most people don’t know about this but if you head on over to the Google I/O, their 2013 event website shows big I/O images that you can click and it reads out the letters ‘I’ and ‘O’. Enter the right code and you get nice effects. Here’s a list of...

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Back to blogging!

I realize that over the past 3 and a half years I haven’t blogged as much as I used it. It’s not because I had nothing to say but was mainly because most things I had worked on were things I wasn’t allowed to talk about in public (thanks to...

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MP!L Forum Elite Member

You might have heard about Messenger Plus! Live, a Windows Live Messenger add-on that has over 62 million users already. I’ve been on their support forum for nearly 5 years now and been a beta tester for nearly 2 years. Early on the morning of the 27th of October I...

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Windows 7 Launch Party

Windows 7 Launch Party is a party organized by individuals in their homes, offices or other commercial venues celebrating the launch of Windows 7 and showing off its prowess. Its being done through the House Party website and the only reason its not called that is because Microsoft didn’t want...

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Anonymous Microsoft Developer opens AMA discussion on reddit

Ever wanted to ask what really goes on at Microsoft to a softie? Want to know about some random bytes of code inside Windows? Want to know who really killed Microsoft Bob? Well, here’s your chance! Ask him about anything from life at Microsoft to questions on their product and...

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Visit to Microsoft, Redmond

Firstly, I’d like to apologize to all that have been waiting for this. My health and unusually booked schedules are to blame. Lets get into the trip on a day to day basis then! Before I begin, I’d like to thank Microsoft for having us in Seattle despite the prior...

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Team SKAN: Enpower

Its been a long road going through the SDI National Finals where we came second, going to IIM-A where we got project incubation and then finally to the World Finals where we won the interoperability award. Along the way, we made lots of new friends and learned a whole lot...

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New Home

So welcome to the new home of j@x, the minimalistic CMS made by.. well me :-) Lets clear up a few things. I was supposed to release the new version of j@x with the arrival of this domain, this didn’t happen. The new version will have quite a few improvements...

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New beginnings

Here it is, the launch of my new site. What is to come, you shall see. I’ve been working on this despite my exams going on cause i wanted to complete this project. I’ve wanted to do this forever now. Thanks to dt and segosa for their help over the...

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