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dhaivatpandya

1,071 karma · joined October 29, 2011

Studying CS + Stats at Harvard.

http://www.dpandya.com

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dhaivatpandya··on How's the page looking?
I'm not a designer by a long shot, but, its an open source project, and I don't want it to look atrocious. Feedback would be awesome :)
dhaivatpandya··on Ask PG: What successful startups has Y Combinator passed up on?
Browserling (http://browserling.com/) might be one.
dhaivatpandya··on The frequent fliers who flew too much
I really, really want to buy one of these.
dhaivatpandya··on A quick introduction to x86 assembly for everyone
Fixed the CSS.
dhaivatpandya··on The most important tool for Ruby/Rails on *nix
"lolwut" is all I have to say.
dhaivatpandya··on The most important tool for Ruby/Rails on *nix
True. Thanks a lot. Will fix it.
dhaivatpandya··on Evernote Raising $50 Million To $100 Million At A $1 Billion+ Valuation
I actually think Evernote is not very well designed; especially on the web front.

Not sure if there any other people out there who feel the same...

dhaivatpandya··on Ask HN: Are there any mature HTML5/canvas libraries?
Hydroxide: https://github.com/Poincare/Hydroxide

Disclosure: I'm the developer.

Its very easy to use, small, and if you fire me an email about anything going wrong, I'll fix it :)

dhaivatpandya··on Online JavaScript Hacking Game. How do you Rank?
Kept having to auth, kind of sucks.
dhaivatpandya··on If you've ever used a textarea/contenteditable, read this.
I use the tab key when shifting focus, but, for things like editors, you can't have it jumping around to shift focus.

For things like forms, its fine.

dhaivatpandya··on Do you keep your own javascript "standard lib"?
Underscore.js is my standard lib.
dhaivatpandya··on Go is amazing, period.
Haskell also has (pretty) good library support (talking about "batteries included")
dhaivatpandya··on Go is amazing, period.
I've used web.go successfully before; its quite nice.
dhaivatpandya··on Go is amazing, period.
I didn't give Lisp 5 minutes; something I still regret (could have learned it so much earlier!)
dhaivatpandya··on Go is amazing, period.
Even if I was 59, I still think that the comment above is quite misinformed.
dhaivatpandya··on Go is amazing, period.
I usually wouldn't respond to mean comments, but, this one really throws me off (I'm the OP).

There is a very strong difference between "cannot write" and the need for something to be simple.

I can definitely handle C/C++, and I don't think writing something in a higher-level language changes that.

If something is doing processing with 4000 threads with around 10 years worth of by-the-minute data, it sure as hell will run too slow in Python.

And, the arguments stated after are not crucial to "making you switch to Go", which was not the point of the article anyway.

EDIT: Also, I did not abandon the app, and in fact open sourced the Bayesian filter stuff I wrote right here: https://github.com/Poincare/Bayesian.go

dhaivatpandya··on Ask HN: How to do Project Management for personal projects?
A piece of a paper and a Staedtler pencil.
dhaivatpandya··on Pollly - Simple Frictionless (and Free) Surveys
I like it! Color scheme could be a bit more refined though.
dhaivatpandya··on Draw and save circuits online
I would upvote this 700,000 if I could.

I absolutely love the application's idea and the implementation.

dhaivatpandya··on Choosing a template for a geek's website. Did I do it right?
I really like it.
dhaivatpandya··on Ask HN: Question about rewriting my app in NodeJS
If you want to learn Node, go ahead write in Node, there's not much you can lose.

If not:

Is it realtime? Does it need the speed? Is scaling important?

If not to all of them, don't rewrite.

dhaivatpandya··on Easy-to-add instrumentation of Java apps for online monitoring.
Design is nice, idea seems cool.
dhaivatpandya··on Show HN: My week project - FundingList.us - find out any startup's funding.
Design isn't too good, lots of typos, nice idea though.
dhaivatpandya··on Show HN: OliveLog - keep track of your time
Keeping track of your time makes you more efficient.

This is especially useful for freelancers who go by the hour.

If you guys like this, the next step I'll be adding would be sign ups so people can save worklogs.

dhaivatpandya··on You don't need a logo, you need a type face. This is the best way to find one.
This is awesome.

I'd like it if you could include a "press enter" in the "type your logo name here", because I sat there for 10 seconds not knowing what to do!

dhaivatpandya··on How to go about getting freelance jobs?
See, for me, I don't really want to work if its $10/hr, because "just making money" isn't really my goal, and I would rather spend my time working with open source projects.

Thanks for the suggestion, though!

dhaivatpandya··on How to go about getting freelance jobs?
Ruby on Rails, Python, PHP (Symfony, CakePHP), MongoDB, MySQL, jQuery, Javascript, C/C++, algorithms.

I learn new things pretty quickly, too.

How would you like me to contact you?

dhaivatpandya··on Referential Transperancy
Yup! I love feedback!
dhaivatpandya··on Functional programming explained properly
Sure, I'll do a post like that :) Seems like a good idea, thanks for giving it to me.
dhaivatpandya··on Functional programming explained properly
I really like this, I'll incorporate in once I get a bit of time.
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