sushrutbidwai | 10 years ago | on: Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (October 2015)
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sushrutbidwai | 10 years ago | on: Fixing Twitter
Bigger issue is no developer trusts twitter any more. Just like LinkedIn. twitter has been unkind to the developers which helped it make popular. Remember things like lists, hashtags, media embed are all brought to twitter before twitter did so itself. But developers of these innovations were treated badly. And hence no developer wants to develop for twitter platform any more.
sushrutbidwai | 10 years ago | on: Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (September 2015)
Location: Melbourne, Australia
Remote: Yes
Willing to relocate: No
Technologies: Java, Python, D3.js, Solr, Lucene, Mongodb, AWS, Scala, Mysql, RabbitMQ
Most recent product was building a full text faceted search engine with 100 million+ products for Indian consumers.
Most recent contract work was aggregating custodian data to build a wealth management application for HNIs and wealth managers.
Resume: http://sushrutbidwai.com/static/resume.pdf
Email: [email protected]
sushrutbidwai | 13 years ago | on: YC W13 Will Be Smaller
(a) can be solved using technology to some extent. What you need is a tool to record what a startup is doing and why certain decisions were made.
sushrutbidwai | 14 years ago | on: How we got the Hall.com domain
Can you please contact me as well? [email protected] . Thanks in advance.
sushrutbidwai | 14 years ago | on: Mint.com turns 404 ad page into date ad for developer
Interestingly fab404's 404 page itself is not at all great. http://fab404.com/404.html
sushrutbidwai | 14 years ago | on: Ask HN: How Can We Help Make HN a Better Online Community?
I think best thing we can ask pg to do is remove points altogether. Points are great for optimizing and ranking, but just let them go from display and keep them only in backend. May be keep average karma for comments but thats about it. Also if removing points is not possible, then punish people, in some way, who have less average karma for submissions. I think that will remove any incentive from submitting non interesting posts.
sushrutbidwai | 14 years ago | on: Warn HN: Lots of Launches Coming
Perhaps you should create a launch module like jobs and pipeline the launch stories as is case with jobs stories. will help all startups of YC to get even attention from community.
sushrutbidwai | 14 years ago | on: "Hello Paul Graham" - Y Combinator hopeful buys Google ads targeting pg
I recently had a thought on how Viaweb's YC application will look like. It will be awesome if you fill it out. Will give us a bit more insight in how you think and look at an application.
sushrutbidwai | 14 years ago | on: Google Please Hire Me
I doubt he will say no if facebook/twitter/zynga/any other large internet company comes calling. Its a effective campaign which aims at google, but of course can go viral enough to be noticed by everyone else. Clever.
sushrutbidwai | 14 years ago | on: Ask HN: When was the last time you used big-o in a web app?
as recently as Yesterday. We use algorithms like knapsack problem, shortest path, minimum spanning tree and lot of predictive analysis algorithms. I have used 3 levels of analysis - memory complexity, CPU complexity and database calls complexity including cache hit/miss.
sushrutbidwai | 14 years ago | on: Founders: Burn Your Boats
Even though most of the times its good to have resources to your disposal, but few other times it does make sense to burn your boat.
From my personal experience - I was running a services company which was very profitable and doing good. I tried building 2 different products in parallel but got no where. As there always was money coming in and I was moving far deep into a comfort zone to motivate me. Finally I decide to shut down services business to focus on latest product. Even though its still early, I have at least been able to get product in front few hundred users.
I think thats why having too long runway (excessive funding) has its own downside.
sushrutbidwai | 14 years ago | on: Early Stage Investing in New York Got Supercharged Mid-2009
It will be good to see what are core reasons for this. Any correlation between recession & increased startup activity for example?
sushrutbidwai | 14 years ago | on: Which options do I have to monetize desktop application like TweetDeck
You can charge people to use your product if it solves a real pain point. For example http://clipyourphotos.com/bulkr/ and some other applications by a developer seems to be doing nicely. It may not get you to millions of dollars in revenues, but few thousands every year is a good start nonetheless.
sushrutbidwai | 14 years ago | on: Ask HN: Freelancer? Seeking freelancer? (August 2011)
SEEKING FREELANCER - content writing, copy writing. Remote work, 20 hours/month.
sushrutbidwai | 14 years ago | on: Airbnb Nightmare: No End In Sight
Given how much information is available online, why cant airbnb use, eg facebook, data for identity verification. There are face recognition softwares available now which work well in controlled environment. Of course a persons online identity may be compromised as well. But that does not mean we can not device ways to protect against such incidents using multiple checks. Eg facebook account used to create person profile of guest & host and using face recognition of facebook training dataset and real photo via webcam along with perhaps social security number we should be able to devise ways to protect against such incidents at not very high engineering costs.
sushrutbidwai | 14 years ago | on: Mozilla is building an operating system
I think you need minimum 2 GB of RAM, ideally 4GB+. More than 4-5 tabs on 1G machine will deteriorate performance very easily.
sushrutbidwai | 14 years ago | on: Unannounced Facebook feature uncovered
you may want to try out http://prolinkd.com then. It runs on top of Linkedin and provides most of the things you are looking for.
sushrutbidwai | 14 years ago | on: What's yours stays yours. - Dropbox Terms Update
I dont think you are being accurate here.
1. Everyone even the most loyal apple fanboy now believes that there is some evil in there. Even pg wrote an essay about it. http://www.paulgraham.com/apple.html
2. Google got lot of bad press after the deal for internet deal with sprint and since then have lot of trust in its users.
3. I think microsoft's evilness is perhaps more influenced due to mediocre products than anything else. Its no more evil than modern apple.
sushrutbidwai | 14 years ago | on: Show HN: HN Trends - like Google Trends, but for Hacker News
Sounds like PG/YC should launch a hacker news app store now. :)
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Remote: Yes
Willing to relocate: No
Technologies: Java, Python, D3.js, Solr, Lucene, Mongodb, AWS, Scala, Mysql, RabbitMQ
Most recent product was building a full text faceted search engine with 100 million+ products for Indian consumers. Most recent contract work was aggregating custodian data to build a wealth management application for HNIs and wealth managers.
Resume: http://sushrutbidwai.com/static/resume.pdf
Email: [email protected]
Open to short term (3-6 months) contract gigs.