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shekispeaks··on Databases in 2025: A Year in Review
TiDB has gained some momentum in silicon valley with companies looking to adopt it. Does he have any commentary on TiDB which is an OLTP and OLAP hybrid?
shekispeaks··on A mechanic offered a reason why no one wants to work in the industry
This is a very low quality article rehashing some ones FB/Instagram video
shekispeaks··on I'm Peter Roberts, immigration attorney, who does work for YC and startups. AMA
Hi peter, do you use any legal specific ai software ? Do you use ChatGPT in your work?
shekispeaks··on Ask HN: What cars do you drive?
The only people who will respond is those who want to claim some status by saying they drive a reliable old car or some rare version of Porsche or Saab.

Nobody who drives the most recent bme x3 or Audi a8 or Nissan kicks is gonna respond.

I drive a Hyundai Ioniq5

shekispeaks··on Y Combinator Traded Prestige for Growth
We can keep going down here, the problem with society can also be that prestige in itself is valuable.

Instead of say prestige being the side effect of being good at something useful for the society.

shekispeaks··on Launch HN: Airhart Aeronautics (YC S22) – A modern personal airplane
This is commendable, people who travel 50-300 miles do not use an Aeroplane because you need a car on the other end regardless, so I rather take my car.

For example, SF to Tahoe is demonstrated as a route I could fly, but I need a car on the other end for sure. I could rent a car which is a pain.

I could arrange a driver service, but at that point I could get driver to drive me from San Francisco.

It is too expensive for folks who want to fly themselves and save money, it is not a great deal better for those who can hire drivers.

shekispeaks··on Asian groceries like H Mart and Patel Brothers are reshaping America
Berkley bowl in Berkley carries it. It is I think one of the best grocery stores out there.
shekispeaks··on Ask HN: Did you encounter any leap year bugs today?
Yes, we had a test fail when generating `12 days ago` strings from a past date.
shekispeaks··on Yup, that was an earthquake outside SF
In Oakland, I felt it more significantly than any other earthquake in a while.
shekispeaks··on LK-99 isn’t a superconductor
They should have also included a quote from CISR an Indian lab that go there about the same time as many of the American labs https://arxiv.org/abs/2308.03544
shekispeaks··on Theory of interstellar trade (1978) [pdf]
We are all sheeple.
shekispeaks··on Theory of interstellar trade (1978) [pdf]
OMG somebody just listened to the OddLots podcast. We are all sheeple.
shekispeaks··on I'm Peter Roberts, immigration attorney who does work for YC and startups. AMA
I am a greencard holder who has moved back to Europe and will give up my GC. Can I open and operate stock trading accounts in US to manage the money I made in the US?
shekispeaks··on Ask HN: What could a modern database do that PostgreSQL and MySQL can't
Automatic indexes. Adding indexes is a guessing game. It's a bit of abstraction leakage. Imagine a product engineer did not have to think about how the data is laid out on disk
shekispeaks··on The Great Roadside Motel Comeback
A similar article from CA-California’s New Era of Roadside Motels http://www.californiaweekendmag.com/california-boutique-hote...
shekispeaks··on Ask HN: How to increase SWE salaries in Europe?
In Silicon valley, its usually a race of execution. Hire an engineer today at any price rather than wait for tomorrow. This is due to sheer competition breathing down your neck. I do not see this in Europe and hence they do not have the urgency and low wages.
shekispeaks··on Ask HN: How to increase SWE salaries in Europe?
Getting very rich allows me to do cook less, do less chores and build up my skill further (get better) or to pursue passions that do not pay well.

I calculated moving to Europe as a SWE would lead to a drastic lifestyle change for me—even with retirement, healthcare and children's education considered (with 2 children, Europe wins at 3 hands down).

shekispeaks··on Rideshare operations are being suspended in California
Lyft is being petty here. I understand that they cannot make all drivers employees, but they could have some drivers on the road and not pulled the rug on users.

This goes to say that you cannot trust private companies like Lyft for critical services. The government actually has been transparent about this change and Lyft is acting like a spoilt child, not even willing to try the employee route.

Lyft pulling the rug overnight is in bad faith.

shekispeaks··on Density raises $51M Series C led by Kleiner Perkins
On my street in SF that has a dead end, cars keep coming up looking for parking and on weekends they usually find nothing. But they get stuck turning around and cause a mess.

Could I use Density to count cars and display number of empty spots at the entrance of my street?

shekispeaks··on Spreadsheet – A Personal History
Hi I am the author of the above essay. I think spreadsheets are a highly underrated software that has made us all productive. This essay is a paean to the spreadsheet.
shekispeaks··on Launch HN: The Juggernaut (YC W19) – A Publication for the South Asian Diaspora
I subscribed and am excited about it.

I have a little gripe about the name, the name Juggernaut. Juggernaut is already an Indian company that sells books written by home authors to people to read on their phones.

https://www.juggernaut.in/

They are fairly successful. Naming two things Indian the juggernaut

shekispeaks··on Redis Labs Raises a $60M Series E Round
The Basecamp model has the risk of some other company doing the same thing by taking venture capital and growing by getting more customers. At some point the economy of scale kicks in and the service get cheaper than Basecamp model.

Basecamp could have been slack, but slack ate their cake.

shekispeaks··on Design Review: Key-Value Storage
This doc says LevelDB has no transacion, thats not true, they have batch writes and LEVEL-DB is not implemented in Go. Its implemented in CPP
shekispeaks··on Ask HN: Which startup offer would you take?
Better health insurance and lunch are signs that the company cares more about employees. This is a big signal in my book
shekispeaks··on Introducing React Navigation for React Native
Blessed Library: Something that is not part of the core offering but is the recommended way of doing certain things by the core maintainers. The main reason it is not in core is that it is probably not needed by all users of core.

:)

shekispeaks··on Introducing React Navigation for React Native
The design of the website does not tell us who the maintainers / creators of the library are. At times it feels like a blessed library by the react-team. Most likely this was not intentional. It would be cool to have an about-us page where they talk about the maintainers and the "react-community".
shekispeaks··on Ask HN: What happened to Facebook graph search?
My source tells me people did not use graph search. Only engineers or programmers used it. The wide population is not used to searching in a structural format. The cost benefit ratio did not work out
shekispeaks··on How Facebook Tries to Prevent Office Politics
The Philip Su example is great, but being an early employee and a manager has basically has insurance against getting fired and he can do what he pleases. That IMHO does not reflect the life of an average facebook employee.
shekispeaks··on I am Peter Roberts, an immigration lawyer who does work for YC and startups. AMA
Can I drive for lyft part time on an H1B?
shekispeaks··on I am Peter Roberts, an immigration lawyer who does work for YC and startups. AMA
How can people on H1B Visa be founders. What is the best way for them to say spend 6 months figuring out what the product is without actually having an actual company?