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Nov 4 • 4 tweets • 2 min read
Streaming records discussed on the upcoming episode of #ScalerPod with @akisaxena has since, already been broken last week 🥲

Should have probably shot the episode after T20 World Cup only 😅

P.S. This is coming out tomorrow at 5pm on @scaler_official YouTube!
But no better time than during WorldCup or IPL to sit and discuss the history of Hotstar's tech and how the team and tech got built that has the world record on livestreaming sports events!

This is true made in India, planet-scale tech right here!
Go ahead and set yourself a reminder to be notified when this premieres !

And while you wait for this to drop, if you haven't seen this video yet - do check out @OyeHooye talking more in depth of how Hotstar's platform reacts to this sort of scale during live matches.

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Nov 4
I was in USA, (specifically San Francisco and other parts of Silicon Valley) for the larger part of last month, and I talked to over 25 people, mostly Indian (but not all) and mostly working on big tech (but not all as engineers).

Here's a thread on the "vibe" I got
First off, the famous perks and "playground in office" myth of most tech companies - got the most first-hand experience this time around, because I literally got myself invited to a bunch of companies to have free lunch most days (Uber, Google, Salesforce, LinkedIn and more)
Even companies which historically are not part of the "free lunch" culture (the non-valley originated ones like Amazon, Microsoft), have offices in SF/Bay Area with lunch and perks not found elsewhere.

SF tech offices truly do pamper employees in a different way.
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Nov 4
Met @dering_peter, founder of @peakdesignltd - a brand I'm a big fan of! (The bag that @MKBHD uses)

Inspiring story of how a camera clip on Kickstarter led to one of the world's best known camera accessory and backpack company! Image
Hayes Street in SF is quite my fave haunt, with @timbuk2, @Allbirds and bunch of other highly functional apparel brands (made for geeks) having outlets right there!

Not many places in the world where you can launch a luggage company (@away) and become an unicorn!
Over the week took 2 friends on 2 occasions to the Peak Design store and just asked one of their team members to give them the "full tour" of the bag (mind you it takes 15+ min to explain all features).

Both of them ended up instantly buying it 😅
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Nov 2
After dabbling in Android Smartwatches in the early days, I had mostly given up on them and moved to using bands like Sony SWR10, SWR30 and then to Fitbits

Got the Galaxy Watch 5 Pro this time on my US trip (because cheaper + you can enable ECG/BP in US editions). So far, great!
The biggest reason I couldn't use Android smartwatches (Wear 1.0, Wear 2.0 era) was that whenever I'd need it, I'd pick it up and find it out of charge

I'd find myself frequently turning it off (like during flights), to save battery

Just not a great experience that way
The Watch Pro 5 (I am using without LTE - I rarely go out without phone, and when I do I do not need calls/sms) can run for *more than* 3 days on a single charge!

Not near the 1 week range of a Fitbit, but you need not carry charger for an overnight trip at least.
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Oct 31
The point of the verified status is very different from what a rich capitalist guy thinks it is

There are social activists who get death threats, get fake accounts impersonating them. Verified accounts prevent others from impersonating you and from mobs mass-report-block you
But obviously now that it is owned by the emperor of Late Stage Capitalism, it becomes a platform where you can "buy" status, protection and the ability to pass off lies as truths.
It is coming as not much of a surprise on my TL seeing who find this as a great idea and who think it is not.

There's evidently a certain type of mindset that goes "oh you really want to prove your identity? How about you pay me 20 bucks every month for it". Sigh
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Oct 3
Somewhat of a rant, but I really want to talk about UPI and ONDC, and especially the "digital infrastructure" of the country that the techno-sanghis have been using as the backbone for a patriotism-flavoured Twitter clout-farming of late.
My first issue with a lot of things things, isn't even about whether or not they are really made in India, by Indians, or for Indians. Whether or not they are a testament to India Govt's technical prowess etc.

My issues is with abuse of words like "open", "universal" etc
There's very little open, universal, accessible, and national about these protocols/stacks.

But they have the overpowering marketing engine of Modiji (and Aadhaar and 'IndiaStack' is older than 2014, so not just him to blame) that makes them appear to be so.
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Oct 1
Probably put together the cheapest APS-C setup to shoot really high quality photos (looks par with professional grade, when shared on social media)

Sony A5100 (cheapest APSC camera, now replaced by ZV-E10)
Tamron 17-70 F2.8
Tamron 18-300 F3.5-6.3

Costs around INR 1.5L total Image
The 18-300 is the most "all-round" lens ever I've seen.

This is 210mm, F6.3, ISO1600 at 1/400 shutter.

Hand held, no monopods, very casually, "shooting from the hip", without even a viewfinder.

Not much worse than say A7 with a 100-400m (which costs 3x). Image
The 17-70 is just as good as a walk-around street lens.

This is in extreme low light at 70mm F2.8. ISO1250 at 1/125 shutter.

Again, to post on insta/Twitter, sharper than you'll need.

Can be passed as A7 with 50mm too again. Image
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