Hacker News: sparuchuri

New comment by sparuchuri in "Using “underdrawings” for accurate text and numbers"

sparuchuri — Fri, 01 May 2026 18:58:51 +0000

This hack definitely falls in the “duh, why didn’t I think of that” category of tricks, but glad to now have it next time imagegen comes up short

New comment by sparuchuri in "Uber lays off 435 people"

sparuchuri — Tue, 10 Sep 2019 22:24:55 +0000

That was referring to Pool / Lyft Line.

As others said, Sidecar was technically the first to the "ridesharing" model

New comment by sparuchuri in "The highest paid workers in Silicon Valley are product managers (2016)"

sparuchuri — Mon, 15 Oct 2018 16:37:36 +0000

This.

Compounded by the fact that most companies don't hire PMs until they're more mature (aka more able to pay higher compensations), the methodology is pretty broken.

New comment by sparuchuri in "Why not just a simple spreadsheet of salaries?"

sparuchuri — Mon, 21 Mar 2016 20:46:03 +0000

My anecdata having worked in Seattle and Chicago now:

Chicago's 'tech scene' is mostly either trading or tech applied in an incremental way to an existing business model, eg Groupon. The trading firms do pay quite well, but you'll be in an extreme niche and likely have limited insight into how you could ever leave, given you've not been building products/programming so much as coding performance improvements. The few "hard tech" companies I've seen come from Chicago are either a generation old at this point (eg Motorola) or have gone under (eg TempoIQ).

The other fact of Chicago is, most of the tech talent here is here for reasons beyond having the best job ever. When I moved back, just about no one could believe that I didn't have a family/significant other/etc reason to move back beyond the job itself. When you have a market like that, employers have some buying power with the talent that does need to stay here. There's simply so few alternatives to the situation, given there's also little appetite for significantly striking out on your own, compared to the coast.

Edit: I'll also say the appetite for go big or go home company growth is limited here. Can't tell you the last time I saw a "shoot for the moon" idea originate in Chicago. There are pros/cons to that, admittedly.

New comment by sparuchuri in "Nexus 4 battery bloating"

sparuchuri — Tue, 14 Jul 2015 16:11:22 +0000

Same here. I actually thought I had damaged the backcover clips when disassembling to retrieve a wayward nanosim to microsim adapter. Didn't realize it was the bulging battery until the random reboots finally forced me to buy a battery on the aftermarket.

The one downside I've noticed is that even with my "OEM" replacement battery (who really knows with these things), charging a lowish battery via a high amperage USB still takes significantly (multiples) longer than my iPhone 5 or 6.

Consumer Startups without Revenue are Products, not Businesses

sparuchuri — Thu, 17 May 2012 19:04:53 +0000

Article URL: http://expletiveinserted.com/2012/05/17/consumer-startups-without-revenue-are-products-not-businesses/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3988511

Points: 3

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New comment by sparuchuri in "Show HN: Filepicker.io - dead simple file uploads"

sparuchuri — Thu, 19 Apr 2012 23:25:27 +0000

Why not? This isn't necessarily all they're doing with their time and (assumed) talent.

New comment by sparuchuri in "Show HN: Filepicker.io - dead simple file uploads"

sparuchuri — Thu, 19 Apr 2012 23:23:07 +0000

As with many things, there may be more than meets the eye. I'm sure these guys are putting together a lot more functionality that is not visible/ready yet.