aditya

7,523 karma · joined February 21, 2007

Hi.

I'm Aditya - a software designer based in New York, interested in technology, design, creativity, code and culture.

currently @QuriousLabs

Web: http://4ditya.com

Twitter: http://twitter.com/ac

(Email: aditya at sublucid dot com, feel free to say hey!)

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aditya··on Delivering Breaking Bad on Netflix in Ultra HD 4K

How do I know what quality stream I'm getting?

aditya··on FOILing NYC’s Taxi Trip Data

Good thing mega.co.nz gives you 50GB for free. :-)

Also, BitTorrent was built for this, as mentioned elsewhere...

aditya··on Apple To Abandon Headphone Jack? Beats Deal Suddenly Makes Sense

Wild theory: the bezel has 4 sensors - including the earpiece, FaceTime camera, ambient light sensor, and proximity sensor[1]

They already have a patent to put the proximity/light sensor in the display, now they're removing the earpiece. If they get rid of the camera, they won't need a bezel. Boom?

[1] http://www.macrumors.com/2014/06/05/solar-cell-ambient-light...

aditya··on Ask HN: How does Sway app know where I work and crush?

Spam, most likely. Crawl LinkedIn and associate to public email address somehow, I got the same thing and deleted the app once I realized it was fake. Nice way to get pissed off users...

aditya··on The Founder Visa (again)

They did make it easier to get an H1B visa as an entrepreneur: http://www.uscis.gov/eir/visa-guide/entrepreneur-visa-guide

I'm not sure if anyone's ever successfully received one, however.

More here: http://www.murthy.com/2012/12/17/entrepreneur-h1b-petitions-...

aditya··on Today my startup failed

I wonder if moot would've been able to turn DrawQuest into a revenue generating product if he'd had more runway?

I guess my question is this: what is the difference between DrawSomething today and Google and Twitter before they started making cash? All three seem to have great usage and engagement? Is it just market size that prevented more capital being deployed?

edit: I meant DrawQuest but wrote DrawSomething, thanks for the bug report tricolon :)

aditya··on A peek inside Exist, our quantifed self app close to launch

The new jawbone UP24 is similar in that you need to push a button but if you forget to manually do it, it asks you later if you want to count those immobile hours as sleep. Works pretty well by measuring deep sleep, light sleep and awake time along with counting steps etc.

aditya··on Facebook Acquires Branch

The Verge reports an acquisition price of around $15mm.

http://mobile.theverge.com/2014/1/13/5303702/facebook-acquir...

aditya··on T-Mobile to offer free unlimited international data, texts

thanks!

aditya··on T-Mobile to offer free unlimited international data, texts

thanks! was gonna go to vzw, but now strongly considering tmob.

aditya··on T-Mobile to offer free unlimited international data, texts

Awesome. How's the HSPA/LTE network in the city? Can you do a quick speedtest and post results?

aditya··on Ask HN: What's a better way to send USD to GBP than PayPal?

xoom.com has been pretty good for me so far.

aditya··on Google Fails the Turing Test

but there is absolutely no circumstance in the entire company where a customer can reach a person and receive true support.

Google Apps has great phone support if you're paying for it: http://contact.googleapps.com/?&rd=1

aditya··on Web Development: A Crazy World

What's wrong with that if every service is using the right tool for the job and provides a sane API? Maybe maintenance?

aditya··on Project Gutenberg's science fiction bookshelf

Brilliant list, fogus.

I would highly recommend adding Richard K. Morgan's work to the 2000s. Very very well written stuff.

aditya··on 2012 Personal Annual Report

Good job presenting the data as usual, Jehiah! The d3 stuff looks nice :)

aditya··on Nexus 4 available for purchase again today at 12pm PST

If you're still looking to buy one and don't want to use the JS hacks, just tab over to the Proceed button and hold down the enter key (I'm guessing this starts making continuous ajax requests) - took me about 30-45 seconds of holding it down but the checkout/payment screen popped up.

HT: https://twitter.com/TomDanTheRock/status/273546858289303554

aditya··on Google Launches Ingress, a Worldwide Mobile Alternate Reality Game

Hmm. Are you a gamer? I'm not, and I don't play Shadow Cities anymore for the same reason but it seems to be doing well with people who're more active gamers, which is why I was wondering if there's a way to make the games more casual for people that don't want to live in that universe all the time.

Foursquare is close, but it doesn't feel like a game at all.

aditya··on Google Launches Ingress, a Worldwide Mobile Alternate Reality Game

Lots of interesting stuff going on in this space. Shadow cities is another one that's doing pretty well. The big question to me is, where's the Zynga of this world? Can you make casual location aware ARGs?

aditya··on E17 (Enlightenment) enters alpha after 12 years

Would love to see screenshots if anyone got it built and running?

aditya··on Jive Software acquires Meetings.io (YC W11)

More info here: http://techcrunch.com/2012/11/05/jive-software-acquires-meet...

Congrats guys!

aditya··on Our Magic

NYC has FreshDirect though... How does this compare?

aditya··on 2012 Startup School, Oct 20 at Stanford

Since it sort of worked well last time (http://areyougoing2009.heroku.com/), I updated the are you going app for this year!

http://areyougoing.herokuapp.com/

aditya··on Introducing human.io

Oh, right on. The landing page needs to be optimized, but Joshua didn't do an Ask HN: post so he never got our amazing feedback :-)

aditya··on 27” Retina math

Just tried it on my clearly LG panel. Did not have the problem you mentioned. I've had the machine for a week, from CDW running 10.8.1 so perhaps they've figured it out?

aditya··on Introducing human.io

Maybe this'll help? http://photohunt.human.io/

aditya··on Prepaid Cellphones Are Cheaper. Why Aren't They Popular?

This is huge. I've got the Sprint iPhone in NYC and I'm on "Extended" quite often even in the city, if the Virgin phone was just going to go dark and not roam, that would make for pretty crappy coverage...

aditya··on Ask HN: Why are all the Digg stories immediately killed?

digg.com is perm-banned on HN, maybe because HN didn't want to become (the old) digg?

EDIT: To clarify, HN didn't want to become the old digg just like HN doesn't want to become reddit. The old digg community was... Less than stellar.

aditya··on Hashable is shutting down

Hashable was a pivot on tracked, so I suppose it is the same startup since they didn't raise more money.

aditya··on An idea for Github to make more money

They used to have automatic Pledgie integration[1] -- guess it didn't work out too well...

[1] https://github.com/blog/57-getting-paid-the-open-source-way/

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