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niravshah··on Ask HN: Gmail Down (Again)?
I am receiving a number of bounce errors from AWS SES to gmail accounts with this same error. Started ~5:40p ET.
niravshah··on Shake Shack Bets Against Peak Burger
Dick's is pretty good if you want something (very, very) straightforward
niravshah··on Div Turakhia has sold his seventh business, Media.net, for $900M
Pretty ironic that this uncritical puff piece makes the front page of HN the day after Gawker wrote their last
niravshah··on Street food chef's stall becomes world's first to earn Michelin star
DC is getting a Michelin guide this October

https://www.washingtonian.com/2016/05/31/michelin-star-resta...

niravshah··on Ask HN: Freelancer? Seeking freelancer? (January 2016)
SEEKING WORK

Location: Washington, DC and remote

Skills/Technologies: Product Consultant, PHP, MySQL, Ruby on Rails, Python, jQuery

Websites: http://www.nivshah.com

Email: nivshah@gmail.com

I am a developer with PM experience that can help with every phase of product development. I have experience with product consulting & planning, prototyping, development (both individual and as a cross-disciplinary team lead), product launch, and scaling.

I have worked on a variety of projects:

- Built and maintain an expert-tier fantasy sports provider, ottoneu Fantasy Sports (http://ottoneu.fangraphs.com)

- Built and sold a daily fantasy baseball game to SB Nation / Vox Media

- Led the cross-disciplinary team that developed Vox Media's custom display advertising and native advertising platforms

My website has more details and a link to my LinkedIn profile. I look forward to working with you!

niravshah··on Ask HN: Freelancer? Seeking freelancer? (December 2015)
SEEKING WORK

Location: Washington, DC and remote

Skills/Technologies: Product Consultant, PHP, MySQL, Ruby on Rails, Python, jQuery

Websites: http://www.nivshah.com

Email: nivshah@gmail.com

I am a developer with PM experience that can help with every phase of product development. I have experience with product consulting & planning, prototyping, development (both individual and as a cross-disciplinary team lead), product launch, and scaling.

I have worked on a variety of projects:

- Built and maintain an expert-tier fantasy sports provider, ottoneu Fantasy Sports (http://ottoneu.fangraphs.com)

- Built and sold a daily fantasy baseball game to SB Nation / Vox Media

- Led the cross-disciplinary team that developed Vox Media's custom display advertising and native advertising platforms

My website has more details and a link to my LinkedIn profile. I look forward to working with you!

niravshah··on Ask HN: Freelancer? Seeking freelancer? (November 2015)
SEEKING WORK

Location: Washington, DC and remote

Skills: Product Consultant, PHP, SQL

Websites: http://www.nivshah.com

Email: nivshah@gmail.com

I am a developer with PM experience that can help you with every phase of product development. I have experience with product consulting & planning, prototyping, development (both individual and as a cross-disciplinary team lead), product launch, and scaling. My website has more details and a link to my LinkedIn profile. I look forward to working with you!

niravshah··on The Hostile Email Landscape
> Greylisting still works amazingly well. With a long, long whitelist and greylisting plus DNSBL, I don't even bother running a spam filter, since the little bit of spam and emails from new senders ends up in its own directory as it came from a non-whitelisted sender.

Any good tips on this section in particular? If I'm running my own mail server, how would I get started making sure this is in order?

niravshah··on Ask HN: Freelancer? Seeking freelancer? (October 2015)
SEEKING WORK

Location: Washington, DC and remote

Skills: Product Consultant, PHP, SQL

Websites: http://www.nivshah.com

Email: nivshah@gmail.com

I am a developer with PM experience that can help you with every phase of product development. I have experience with product consulting & planning, prototyping, development (both individual and as a cross-disciplinary team lead), product launch, and scaling. My website has more details and a link to my LinkedIn profile. I look forward to working with you!

niravshah··on Beyond ad blocking – the biggest boycott in human history
I strongly agree that adtech has overstepped bounds in a number of ways, but articles like this seem more interested in claiming the moral high ground for ad blockers, equating them with consumer activism. However, ad blockers are clearly not a boycott - websites are still being "dealt with" (i.e. content is being consumed) to use the definition language, they are just not being paid.

Disclaimer/Context: I was the Product Manager for Ad Products at Vox Media for 2+ years

niravshah··on After selling his company to Google, this man now wants to block ad-blockers
I think Adieu (https://www.adieu.io/) is attempting something like this.
niravshah··on Mycli: A MySQL Client with auto-completion and syntax highlighting
I spend more time than I should in a mysql console and this client looks pretty awesome. Great job
niravshah··on Technology Is Magic, Just Ask the Washington Post
Seems to be in response to an op-ed from October 2014 - https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/compromise-needed-on...

EDIT: In a similar vein, WaPo also published this, though not from their Editorial Board https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/apple-and-google-thr...

niravshah··on You Drink, Uber Drives – For Free
I wasn't getting the page itself to load - here is a cached version of the page http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:jj45GHq...
niravshah··on A shoeshine guy who guards some of Twitter’s most desirable geographic handles
Twitter is pretty good at "releasing" accounts that are unused for a period of time. A couple of users mention being "screwed over" or "hacked" when losing accounts, but if you don't use a Twitter handle, you run the risk of losing it if someone reaches out to Twitter about it.
niravshah··on NHL partners with GoPro to deliver fans unique perspectives of the game
Don't underestimate the completely different experience of watching sports from a first-person perspective instead of the God view we get today. As broadcast TV becomes more slanted towards live sports, since all other content can be consumed in other, more convenient ways, these kinds of deals are going to be very important to a space filled with a lot of money.
niravshah··on You’ll Always Miss Being in the Basement
I wonder if the author considers the work environment and culture he describes as inherently unscalable and also unprofitable. One could imagine a workplace that maintains this kind of ethos while also making money but while remaining small (EDIT: 37 Signals is a possible example). I think it is an open question as to whether an organization can be all three - large, profitable, and 'a basement', to use the metaphor.
niravshah··on Bitstamp is open for business
Probably meant "Bitstamp's fees"
niravshah··on Life in New York City, Where Arrests Are Down and Tickets Are Rarities
There are a number of reasons for the decrease in crime in the 1990s, including a decrease in the use of crack cocaine and, famously, lead removal (http://www.motherjones.com/environment/2013/01/lead-crime-li...). Causation/correlation, etc.
niravshah··on Ten Years of World of Warcraft
Try this: http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:http://...
niravshah··on Why You Shouldn't Interrupt a Programmer
This is why programmers (and everyone doing deep analysis/critical thinking) get a huge benefit from taking notes.
niravshah··on Gwapo's Professional DDOS Service
or an attempt to be 'viral'
niravshah··on [dead]
Very clever! How does this define "pronounceability"?
niravshah··on Ask HN: Who Is Hiring? (May 2012)
Washington DC, New York City, Austin or remote.

Vox Media is a media/technology startup. We run a consumer technology news site (http://theverge.com/), a video game news site (http://polygon.com/), and a network of over 300 sports news sites & communities (http://sbnation.com/). You can read about some of the interesting challenges we run into on our product team blog: http://product.voxmedia.com/

We're hiring Ruby developers and operations engineers, among other roles: http://jobs.voxmedia.com/

Our investors include Accel Partners, Allen & Company, Comcast Interactive Capital, and Khosla Ventures. We get around 35 million unique visitors every month.

niravshah··on Sam Sure & Giacomo
This is pretty neat - can anyone give any insight/guesses into how this was done?
niravshah··on Louis CK's self distributed special up to 1MM revenue in 12 days
What a great contrast to anyone defending SOPA.
niravshah··on Regretsy Issue Resolution
No, I agree - re-read my comment, I don't think they admitted to any wrong-doing at all.
niravshah··on Regretsy Issue Resolution
Great, it was resolved once it was picked up by some media and someone high up at PayPal realized it was an issue. Nothing about the bad customer service, nothing admitting to any kind of wrong-doing - just "we are truly sorry that it happened"

Being sorry it happened and working towards preventing it from happening in the future are two very separate things, and PayPal is only saying the first. Can someone take these guys out already (Stripe?)

niravshah··on New Arrested Development will appear exclusively on Netflix Streaming
Given the existence of MLB.tv and NBA League Pass, I'd say the NFL is behind on online streaming of their games. MLB.tv especially is quite good compared to anything the NFL offers.
niravshah··on Matz (creator of Ruby) joins Heroku
That must have been a tough interview...
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