squillful's comments

squillful | 8 years ago | on: I’m Peter Roberts, immigration attorney who does work for YC and startups. AMA

Hi Peter! A friend of mine has just started OPT and has founded a company. She plans on using the STEM extension too, which was a successful path for myself and some others, but the recent changes to the STEM extension seem to be considerably more limiting now. Do you have any guidance on options for founders considering the OPT and STEM extension route?

Many thanks in advance!

squillful | 8 years ago | on: Introducing Backup and Sync for Google Photos and Google Drive

This is confusing in so many ways

1. They give no mention of how this handles existing installs of Google Drive or Google Photos Backup.

2. The application has the exact same name for Google Photos and Google Drive. Do I need to download and install both? I tried that, but couldn't move the second to my applications directory without overwriting the first. Looking at the downloads they're the same size, so I'm guessing they're the same, but that begs the question, why the two download links in the blog?

3. Where will photos be saved? I save mine in Google Drive, and choose the option to sync to Google Photos. Will they be stored directly on Google Photos? Because I'd rather keep them on Drive.

I'm still a huge fan of both products, and hope that this cleans up a number of integration issues between both services, but this announcement feels like it wasn't thought through at all.

squillful | 8 years ago | on: Pinboard Acquires Delicious

I was a longtime Delicious user, but it really fell apart after the Yahoo acquisition. I'm happy to hear that it won't disappear.

I've recently switched to raindrop.io, which is an excellent replacement. Bookmarking serves two purposes for me:

1) It provides a way to record sites I don't visit often, which I hope I'll be able to find easily in the future if needed.

2) It provides me with easy access to the sites I visit regularly on all devices, without restricting me to a specific browser, and with an aesthetically pleasing and intuitive UI like Speed Dial

https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/speed-dial-2/jpfpe...

I want the record of these two kinds of pages to live in one place, and while Delicious and Pinboard were close, I felt that they never quite met that need.

squillful | 11 years ago | on: Ask HN: What are you doing to improve your health?

This is 100% incorrect. In fact, there is a much higher risk of injury lowering a power clean under control, especially if you're going heavier.

That's not to say that you won't benefit from working with a weight where it is possible to control when lowering, but there's a lot to be said for power cleaning a higher amount and dropping upon completion of the rep.

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