Nishith Shah

Mar 4

I'm gonna be a happy guy for the next couple of days :)

“Sachin Tendulkar played another sublime innings, with seven fours in 91 as his team made 258-9 after choosing to bat.”

Mar 1

Why join True Sparrow Systems

A nice post by Stephen Wolfram, founder of Mathematica. And it’s so very true of True Sparrow as well.

“A lot of what goes into starting companies is turning nothing into something. Starting with a blank slate, and just inventing all kinds of stuff.

You’ll never know if it’s ultimately correct. You just have to use your judgement, make decisions, and move on.

To some people, that’s pretty scary. Not to have any answers to look up in the back of the book. Just to do stuff.”

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Feb 26

Adobe AIR looks pretty promising.

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Feb 26

Don't join True Sparrow Systems if this scares you off

From PicoBusiness blog:

“In my time at the various startups I’ve worked at, I’ve loaded and unloaded trucks (as a product manager), emptried trash (as a CTO), bought coffee and whiteboard markers (as a chief architect). I’ve chased down thieving employees, fixed servers by candelight, slept on the floor in my office, hand-built whiteboard stands, and personally couriered rackmount Linux servers from Atlanta to Washington DC, carrying an awkward 40+ pound box through the airport. And I’ve gotten off easy! I know of other people who have taken turns fixing the leaky roof of their building, sprayed for bugs and a lot of other unpleasant things completely unrelated to their job function.

But I did them because they needed to be done, time was of the essence, and conserving cash is very important.”

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Feb 26

but hell.. we’ll try our best.

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Feb 26

All Hands on Deck

Our way of saying… the team is ‘front and center’ at True Sparrow Systems.

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Feb 22

The Architecture of Participation

Very intereseting post by Tim O’Reilly describing “the nature of systems that are designed for user contribution.”

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Feb 19

The company’s only assets walk out the door every night

Recently someone whose dedication and commitment I greatly respect, asked if the company values his work. To that end, I have failed the team miserably by not letting each one know how much I value their individual efforts.

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Feb 19

Web medium is not supposed to be a one-way street

Just wondering… why is Tumblr not letting users write comments? The irony is that if you think you know why, you might not be able to communicate that to me. :)

Btw, this tumblelog is powered by Tumblr.

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Feb 19

If you didn’t know or realize, Amazon’s S3 went down for about 3 hours last Friday, and it took down a lot of web services/applications along with it. Here’s why it failed.

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