What if I need to learn both - the strategic depth of a relentless intellectual and the cocksure bravery of the stupid?

March 20, 2025 4:44 PM (GMT+5:30)

DENSO Wave decided not to exercise patent rights on QR codes. A technology that has become ubiquitous.

March 20, 2025 4:44 PM (GMT+5:30)

Samuel Finley Breese Morse, inspired by personal tragedy, sought to improve long-distance communication, leading to the creation of the Morse code. His work established a method for efficiently encoding information, which would later influence the development of barcodes and, inevitably, QR codes.

March 20, 2025 4:43 PM (GMT+5:30)

"Markets know no nationalism; in fact, markets know no emotion."

-Shekhar Gupta, The Print.

March 20, 2025 4:43 PM (GMT+5:30)

Platforms should support the most popular shortcuts. Redoing them does not serve any practical purpose. When Cmd + K is the search shortcut in Slack, Notion, Telegram, etc. and was initially supported by Google Chat, what purpose does changing this shortcut serve? Increases the cognitive load for the users.

One of the things that fast-tracked the migration of a lot of engineers from Sublime to VS Code was that it came with built-in support for Sublime shortcuts, something many engineers have been using for a decade and senior engineers for more than that.