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That's only in US. ebay classifieds is massive everywhere else out of US.

Things3's projects and areas all the way.

Elixir (Phoenix) in AWS Fargate.

Evernote (notes), Reminders (short term reminders), Google Calendar (for recurring/shared reminders), Instapaper (for links storage), Trello (for home inventory buying/planning)

I have done CodePath twice and highly recommend for iOS and android bootcamps. https://codepath.com/

I agree. I was pleasantly surprised by the Wikipedia iOS app, it's really addictive https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/wikipedia/id324715238?mt=8

Its because of Barry Silbert's Ether trust. https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2017-03-09/bitcoin-t...

So this was one of my last year's goal. Here is how I achieved that $XXX/week extra in saving.

1. Switch to debit card and pre-assign how much you want to spend/month: A translation I made on Credit card was paid automatically in full by the end of the next month (due date), that made me not think about what I am spending on at all. Using debit card (simple.com) made me think after every transaction.

2. Set goals if you want to buy something non essential: I use simple.com for this. If I wanted to buy something, I would first set a goal that I want to save up $300 in N days. This reduced by impulsive buying habit. I still buy few books randomly but you can cheat at times (try BookBub.com, really saves money on ebooks).

3. Map out your cashflow: Just create a note of your incoming cash (after tax). Now send x% of high yield saving account (I use barclays bank), x% of monthly expenses (rent/mortgage/food etc), keep a little in your checking account. This helps you understand where your money is going. Its ok if you are not able to save much, the key is first tracking it manually (mint.com etc is great but start with a simple note).

4. Invest a part of your cashflow: I am not a huge fan of investing all my savings (after 401k): So I invest about 10% of my cash after tax to an index fund on Vanguard (you can use betterment/wealthfront too).

These 4 things gave a much better overview of my finances and where my money is going. This doesn't mean stop spending less (difference b/w being frugal vs being cheap) but at-least start understanding how to deal with money.

Hope it helps.

simple.com

I got this idea of using my twitter follower graph and extracting out entities like movies, restaurants, books and people they talk about.

I have noticed that I end up eating at places, go to coffee shops, read book and watch movies/shows people I follow talk about. If there was a simpler way to browse that, it might be useful.

I am surprised no one has suggested https://www.upwork.com/ (formerly elance/odesk) yet. I have hired people for small work there and made professional relationships with them too. You can find good US based companies there and they do good work! Strongly recommend.

I wish there were laws for H1B visa holders to work on side projects. I had a chat with an immigration attorney and she said I can't even work on a side project because its still "work" outside of my H1B petition.

Going with an LLC is a far dream. I work on side projects but forced to not build something where I can charge for the service because it will be illegal for USCIS.

I know many people who do this (work on side projects, help startups for equity) and then create shell companies to move the money. Now that's really illegal and I don't feel comfortable doing that.

Planner https://products.office.com/en-us/business/office-365-planne...

GSuite has a similar image. I think the idea is teams are collaborating over the internet https://gsuite.google.com/

My personal favorite is "The ACL is Dead" by Zed Shaw https://vimeo.com/2723800

Banks suck at APIs (even if one exists). If you are trying to move money between bank accounts, you can checkout https://checkbook.io, they have a white label, token based API to create bank transactions.

I generally end up on upwork.com if I am looking for hire someone.

I did some work for this startup - crazy smart team and solving hard FinTech problems. Definitely a company to look out for in the near future.

You mean an ACH transaction processing system? Zenpayroll has a nice series of blog posts: http://engineering.gusto.com/how-ach-works-a-developer-persp...

http://engineering.gusto.com/how-ach-works-a-developer-persp...

http://engineering.gusto.com/how-ach-works-a-developer-persp...

http://engineering.gusto.com/how-ach-works-a-developer-persp...

http://www.checkbook.io lets you do exactly that via an API or their UI.

Curious, will such a move by Amazon make 3rd party sellers fear them more and move to other marketplaces like jet.com or ebay.com? Given amazon's margins really come from its marketplace, they might cannibalize that? Yes, amazon's value for 3rd party sellers is its massive distribution compared to others but its a supply/demand game. If 3rd party sellers start to move to other platforms, maybe jet/ebay can spend more to acquire more demand?

Surprised that no one mentioned elasticsearch here. The Java code is truly one of the best I have seen in any large open source Java project.

Thanks! Yeah the four digit precision is annoying, I noticed it for some stocks, that's how the stocks api I am using is returning the data. Will fix it in next release.

Regarding sort by % change: so you don't want a fixed list and "on demand sort"? It should always be changing based on % change?

Doing real time query for report generation for data growing by 50gb per day is a hard problem.

Realistically, this is what I would do (I work on something very similar but not really in adtech space):

1. Load data in text form (assuming it sits in S3) inside hadoop (EMR/Spark)

2. Generate reports you need based on your data and cache them in mysql RDS.

3. Serve the pre-generated reports to your user. You can get creative here and generate bucketed reports where user will fill its more "interactive". This approach will take you a long way and when you have time/money/people, maybe you can try getting fancier and better.

Getting fancy: If you truly want near-real time querying capabilities I would looks at apache kylin or linkedin pinot. But I would stay away from those for now.

Bigtable: As someone pointed out, bigtable is good solution (although I haven't used it) but since you are on AWS ecosystem, I would stick there.

ElasticSearch in my experience has a smart team and good codebase to work on in Java.

Play (scala) even if I am more comfortable using java, I prefer using scala just to use play.

Agree, we have been using Dagobah (https://github.com/thieman/dagobah) for a simple cron on top of AWS. Lets you create DAG, email alerts and logs. (Disclaimer: I am a contributor to dagobah).

Agree, I have 500+ recruiter/sales spam (http://i.imgur.com/W92SuAH.png) which I never check. I still have an account on LI because everyone else is there and I think I might need it but I have never used for anything useful yet.

Good one, would have backed it if it had a round neck tshirt.

Moved to office lens because it supports whiteboard scanning.