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aditya

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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 SSDs have become fast, except in the cloud
got a link to the rails improvement?

nvm, found it: https://dev.37signals.com/solid-cache/

aditya··on Imba – A friendly full-stack language
Previously: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10091454

Imba was actually forked from CoffeeScript... hopefully, they've managed to avoid all the downsides.

aditya··on Ask HN: What do you use for ML Hosting?
what discord bot? :)
aditya··on Ask HN: What are your best and safest investment options?
0. Compound interest is your friend

1. Time in market > Timing the market (you're good starting early)

2. Use bogleheads (as mentioned) but check EU specific tax avoidance strategies. Ideally, prefer tax free > tax rebate > taxable investments

3. The younger you are the more risk you can take on, go 10% crypto, 90% equities and don't worry about bonds for now or something along those lines

4. Diversify into US stock, foreign stock, bonds as time goes on rebalance.

5. Once all that is done, look at real estate and other alternative investments.

6. Dollar cost averaging is always a good idea, invest the same amount every month no matter how good or bad the markets are

7. The only caveat to #6 is when you have a lumpsum amount (bonus, etc.) the earlier you invest the more time it spends in the market the greater your returns

aditya··on Hertz paid Accenture $32M for a website that never went live (2019)
1/10th usually
aditya··on Web3? I have my DAOts
this already exists, just not widely deployed on web2. 'Connect Wallet'.
aditya··on GPU.js
Now to just make it mine ethereum...
aditya··on The Framework is the most exciting laptop I've used
you can: https://frame.work/products/laptop-diy-edition/configuration...
aditya··on Transitioning to Tesla Vision
Be interesting to see if Tesla Vision vs LIDAR ends up being massively different as car autonomy develops...
aditya··on Indian startups have raised a record $11.3B this year
Zomato, Swiggy and Paytm alone are expected to close rounds worth as much as $3 billion in the coming months - wonder where the other $8bn is going
aditya··on Schwab Removes U.S. Stock, ETF and Options Commissions
What credit union is this? Didn’t realize there were any that reimburse worldwide ATM fees...
aditya··on I’m Peter Roberts, immigration attorney who does work for YC and startups. AMA
Any predictions on the India EB2/3 backlog? Is it really going to take 5 years to clear 2009?
aditya··on Faster and simpler with the command line: deep-comparing JSON files with jq
Not jq but JS itself.

Here's the epic jwz rant on it: https://www.jwz.org/blog/2010/10/every-day-i-learn-something...

with Brendan Eich chiming in: https://www.jwz.org/blog/2010/10/every-day-i-learn-something...

aditya··on Uber Scam in Brazil – Drivers Have ‘Challenges’ Ending Trips
Was it in portuguese or English? I'm on my way down next week
aditya··on Apple Signs Deal with Volkswagen for Driverless Car
I wonder if this is the Motorola ROKR all over again
aditya··on AWS Pinpoint Launches Two-Way Text Messaging
Hmm. Interesting.

Cheaper (~0.65c) per SMS than twilio (~0.75c) in the US, great if you're already on AWS and support for sending to 200+ countries[1] but no MMS support that I can see...

[1]http://docs.aws.amazon.com/pinpoint/latest/userguide/channel...

aditya··on Updates to our Google Voice apps
Where in gods name are these new apps anyway
aditya··on USCIS Proposes Rule to Welcome International Entrepreneurs
China and India are heavily backlogged due to high demand

https://travel.state.gov/content/visas/en/law-and-policy/bul...

aditya··on Show HN: Trigger – IFTTT for the stock market
Awesome app! Great work, Rachel and congrats on launching. You guys rock!
aditya··on Apple fans are coming to hate Apple software
Wow, that's a lot of media hoopla.

Let's be real, Apple's never been a software company -- they've always made excellent hardware and good enough software that people will deal with because they want their amazing hardware. No one has ever said anything about any Apple software compared to what people say about their hardware.

Software's not in their DNA and I think all this media attention will just fade after a while and people will keep using and loving Apple hardware and putting up with their miserable software.

For the record, I use Notes/Mail/Photos on my iPhone, and Preview has never crashed for me.

aditya··on Piracy and new content creation: a Bollywood story (2014)
Fascinating.

>> Thus, our study provides affirmative evidence on a central

>> tenet of copyright policy, that stronger effective

>> copyright protection effects more creation.

aditya··on Ask HN: Recommendations for a book about algorithms and data structures?
CLR is probably the easiest to get started with: http://www.amazon.com/Introduction-Algorithms-Edition-Thomas...
aditya··on Ask HN: Is there a place to submit early stage market surveys?
http://www.google.com/insights/consumersurveys/how

and

http://aytm.com/

come to mind...

aditya··on The Shazam Effect (2014)
EchoNest used to do this[1] and is open source

1. http://developer.echonest.com/forums/thread/3650

aditya··on Robert Morris: All About Programming
typo: absorbtion should be absorption
aditya··on Intel Compute Stick
$149 for Windows 8.1 version and $89 for Linux version, not bad.

via: http://techreport.com/news/27619/intel-compute-stick-is-a-14...

aditya··on How I made $40k within Shopify's trial period
How did you make $40k?

Post says TINhouse was useless and reddit has the lowest conversion rate (but still accounted for 25% of the sales).

Could your talk about the "engaging people on various forums/communities" part and where the majority of that 40k came from?

aditya··on Ask HN: Should I do a MS to move to the US
4 ways:

1. Work for a US company in the Middle East and transfer over on an L1

2. Apply to US companies and play the H1B lottery

3. Immigrate to or work for a Canadian company (work visa's are easier)

4. Get your Master's

Since you specifically asked about #4, I'll address that. You could see your MS as a glorified work visa but if you go to a top school (Stanford, Caltech, Berkely, CMU, etc.) you're getting a lot more intangible benefits as your career progresses. The network you build and the fact that your degree is from a top school are going to look fantastic on your resume and will qualify you for much better jobs. The credential still makes a difference for certain kinds of gigs.

Of course, if you start your own startup that credential is kinda useless but the network will still help.

So, my advice would be to get into a top school, if you're going to go the #4 route (especially if you can pay your way through, it's much easier) and if not, it's still not a bad way to come work in the US. There are 20k extra H1B visa's for MS degree holders which helps with the lottery as well.

Disclaimer: I came to the US to get my Master's 10 years ago and stayed.

aditya··on A Rare Peek Inside Amazon’s Massive Wish-Fulfilling Machine
Not the same video, this has more real world footage...
aditya··on A Rare Peek Inside Amazon’s Massive Wish-Fulfilling Machine
Interestingly, AMZN bought Kiva and will deploy 10,000 robots soon. Very cool video here: http://money.cnn.com/2014/05/22/technology/amazon-robots/
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