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Verifying myself: I am samvit on Keybase.io. E0GrCyY4tU1TxOQcu3uy06HHvFE9ZWZRF7EI / https://keybase.io/samvit/sigs/E0GrCyY4tU1TxOQcu3uy06HHvFE9ZWZRF7EI
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rsamvit··on The benefits of note-taking by hand
What about writing on a phone? I've been taking a lot of mobile notes and have found it to be a very convenient optimal point between slower, intentional writing vs digital format and accessibility.
rsamvit··on Ask HN: Who is hiring? (June 2016)
Equidate (https://www.equidateinc.com/)

REMOTE INTERNS VISA

Equidate is the leading secondary marketplace for private companies. We help employees at private companies get liquidity for a portion of their stock, and over the last year and a half we've worked with shareholders from many of the largest pre-IPO tech companies. We currently give shareholders across all companies millions of dollars of liquidity a month via our marketplace.

Equidate was founded by Y Combinator alumni and has raised money from top investors including Scott Banister, Charlie Cheever, Tikhon Bernstam, and others. The founding team has strong backgrounds in product, engineering, and legal and have previously sold multiple companies. The team includes two of SecondMarket's founding team members, as well as the former CEO of NASDAQ Dubai.

See our current team at https://www.equidateinc.com/about

Roles we're hiring for: - VP Engineering - Senior Software Engineer - Full Stack Developer (Software Engineer) - Engineering Intern

Email talent@equidateinc.com

rsamvit··on How and Why to Log Your Bash History
I just do:

function cd () { builtin cd "$@" && ls; }

rsamvit··on Ask HN: Who is hiring? (July 2015)
Equidate (https://www.equidateinc.com/) is a marketplace for equity in private companies. We give employees at pre-IPO companies liquidity for their shares, and we let investors invest in these pre-IPO companies. We've probably facilitated transactions for every major $5B+ tech company at this point.

- We're profitable, growing, 9 people, and located in San Francisco

- We're Y Combinator alumni and are deeply technical

- Looking for full stack engineers

- We use Python, Clojure, React, React Native, Postgres, Redis

Contact us at jobs [at] equidateinc.com

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rsamvit··on We need to rethink employee compensation
Equidate founder here! Feel free to email me directly at samvit@.. if you have any questions
rsamvit··on Atom
From a quick glance it looks like its architected the same as Light Table (Local node server that accesses the file system and a decoupled UI that connects over http and uses WebKit). If it works like that it could run in the browser. Not so easily from anywhere though
rsamvit··on Flappy Bird creator, Dong Nguyen, taking down game; "I can't take this anymore"
well done
rsamvit··on It’s time to say goodbye
No, Any.do is a different company
rsamvit··on Vim: from n00b to meh
One of the best resources I used to build up my vim customizations was probably this video http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xZuy4gBghho. It's got a lot of good stuff in it
rsamvit··on Schema for Clojure(Script) Data Shape Declaration and Validation
This is excellent. I used to occasionally use assertions to accomplish the same thing.
rsamvit··on Vim Revisited (2011)
I agree with a lot of your conclusions, but I think there is a lot of value to be found from nerdtree if you use it correctly.

I'm a super heavy Command-T user as well, but when you are working on a sufficiently large project there is just a lot of value you can gain from being able to see the file tree.

Nerdtree is also my favorite way to rename/move/copy files

rsamvit··on Ask HN: How/where should I host my personal site?
If its going to be a static site, host it on S3 for pennies. I'm also a fan of Jekyll
rsamvit··on Getting started with Clojure
Clojure is most definitely a Lisp. The biggest difference from more traditional lisps is that it has literals for a wider variety of data structure types. Apart from that, it has every single characteristic that defines a lisp.

> After proper Scheme training (CS61A) Clojure looks awkward and messy but very useful, as it supposed to be due to its "productivity beats clarity/conciseness" philosophy of scripting languages, such as Ruby.

As someone with "proper Scheme training" (CS61A), I've found that Clojure is actually much more clear than Scheme in most cases. The code is less beautiful from a purely visual perspective because there is more syntax, but a lot of complexity gets removed when you add literals for sets, vectors, and maps.

rsamvit··on LinkedIn suffers DNS hijack
Sigh. At least they didn't leak plaintext passwords again
rsamvit··on Ask HN: Useful services for static websites
I agree. I use s3 for this and it is excellent
rsamvit··on Ask HN: Useful services for static websites
You can get some pretty cool stuff done with firebase. Its not really providing a service though. off the top of my head I've used Disqus, Facebook pages, and all kinds of social buttons
rsamvit··on Skrive - Writing (Used) To Be Difficult
I went through your sign up flow but I still have no idea what skrive does
rsamvit··on Why I Don't Have A Girlfriend: An application of the Drake Equation
1 in 20 is a pretty high standard
rsamvit··on Building a Lisp to Javascript compiler
It's a bit harder to set up but it's very much worth it once you have it running. I use clojure.browser.repl
rsamvit··on Building a Lisp to Javascript compiler
The most barebones version is very simple: lein has a plugin called lein-cljsbuild. In your project.clj there is a way to specify the directories this program needs to watch for file changes. lein cljsbuild has an option "auto" which activates the directory watcher and automatically recompiles the cljs files when one of them changes.

This long-running program keeps the same jvm running for all the compiles, and lets you iterate more quickly.

rsamvit··on Building a Lisp to Javascript compiler
I'm working on a clojurescript project right now that compiles to 80K lines of javascript (using the most basic compilation level during development). In my actual workflow I've found that the compilation takes under 250ms each time. I have it auto-compiling every time I save the file using the lein cljsbuild plugin and it's near instant as far as I'm concerned.
rsamvit··on Building a Lisp to Javascript compiler
"So, I decided to implement a simple version of Clojure that compiles to Javascript and can be run on top of nodejs."

Did you know that Clojurescript can run on node.js? https://github.com/michaelsbradleyjr/node-clojurescript

Cool project though!

rsamvit··on YC without being in YC
The first thing to do is actually validate that people need your product. If you can't win in the short term then there won't be a long term.
rsamvit··on A new Light Table experience
Beautiful Editor. I'd switch to it completely if it supported a more complete vim emulation -- for now I use it as a repl
rsamvit··on Show HN: burn.fm - A new way to listen to music on Youtube
Looks Great - your UX needs a lot of work though, It took me a long time to figure out what to click
rsamvit··on Show HN: SendRail - The easiest way to send files from the desktop
Fixed!
rsamvit··on Show HN: SendRail - The easiest way to send files from the desktop
We're extremely sorry about that- our invite system is having some glitches at the moment (were working fast on fixing the problem)
rsamvit··on Show HN: SendRail - The easiest way to send files from the desktop
We use facebook so that you can start sending files to your friends with minimal friction -- gmail integration is included as well.
rsamvit··on Show HN: SendRail - Easy P2P File Transfer From The Desktop
Thanks! We'll be sending out versions to our beta users really soon.
rsamvit··on Show HN: SendRail - Easy P2P File Transfer From The Desktop
We also support hooking into your address book on your Mac, and are working on integrating your online email address book and ActiveDirectory into it. We're trying to cover every single contact mechanism out there so you don't have to worry about "finding the right tool" to send a file to someone -- we hope to make SendRail work for every single use case you encounter.
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