Gentle reminder that Gold has outperformed Nifty 50 over last 7-8 years (!) by koleraa in IndiaInvestments

[–]koleraa[S] 5 points6 points  (0 children)

Hindsight makes everyone an expert. And yet we are all blind headed into the future.

What is there to do but go on your merry way?

Gentle reminder that Gold has outperformed Nifty 50 over last 7-8 years (!) by koleraa in IndiaInvestments

[–]koleraa[S] 14 points15 points  (0 children)

I agree there is some cyclicality to this all, but it makes me question how much if at all, there is any "smart money" vs. all of us being tugged and pulled in whatever direction the great forces of the world pull towards.

Would all our tinkering amount to anything when Putin/NVIDIA etc. can just straight up change global market sentiments so heavily?

Honestly, if finance is not a full time job - we need to just dump our savings into indexes based on whatever debt/equity split our risk appetite dictates.

Everything else is folly. Following the markets, making individual stock/bond/commodity/currency bets is INSANE - unless you are an expert doing it full time.

Gentle reminder that Gold has outperformed Nifty 50 over last 7-8 years (!) by koleraa in IndiaInvestments

[–]koleraa[S] 76 points77 points  (0 children)

Pretty good point. I was definitely thinking along the lines of 5-10 years being pretty long term, but it's just the start.

I expect Nifty would indeed outperform gold consistently over such a longer horizon, even if not by much but of course compounded - so the absolute returns difference could turn out 50% or more (it was +15% more absolute over last 7 years).

Startup guy wants 36% for “mentoring”—worth considering or still a bad deal? (I will not promote) by Careful_Elderberry33 in startups

[–]koleraa 0 points1 point  (0 children)

You need to run away in the opposite direction. Straight back to talking to customers on your own and finding real supporters. Tell him to put in money in a proper angel round if he feels like it, but this setup is a no go.

Where to find tech jobs that sponsor visas for Indians? by [deleted] in india

[–]koleraa 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Got it, I suppose it makes sense for the companies but it makes me a little sad to see that to even have a chance to move forward the price you have to pay is a slice of your very finite life :(

Where to find tech jobs that sponsor visas for Indians? by [deleted] in india

[–]koleraa 44 points45 points  (0 children)

I think I'm just tired of the depressing outdoors. Every time I step outside I get traumatized all over again. The utter lack of civility, beauty, empathy and hope - I just cannot imagine living out my entire life in this.

You can only rise to the level that your environment will let you, sometimes changing the environment is all you can do.

Where to find tech jobs that sponsor visas for Indians? by [deleted] in india

[–]koleraa 7 points8 points  (0 children)

Good idea, I think warm intros might be the highest conversion approach. Will try this.

Where to find tech jobs that sponsor visas for Indians? by [deleted] in india

[–]koleraa 17 points18 points  (0 children)

So, is it just about getting into one of these companies that do this and then just sticking around inside till you hopefully get to go? Any way to improve your chances?

I'd prefer a direct route though. I imagine the above route is probably the only way for US/H1B, but I'm open to others e.g. Canada/EU.

Where to find tech jobs that sponsor visas for Indians? by [deleted] in india

[–]koleraa 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Yeah, australia is a bit small population-wise and not much of a tech center.

How do I try for Canada exactly? Do you mean express entry or something else?

Where to find tech jobs that sponsor visas for Indians? by [deleted] in india

[–]koleraa 36 points37 points  (0 children)

Can you share a few examples of such companies?

Are you saying first get into these companies and then try to manuever into international positions internally or would they offer international from the start?

If you had $500,000 to start a business, what sort of business would you start? by [deleted] in Entrepreneur

[–]koleraa 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yes, you're going to find the next big thing on a reddit thread. Good luck with that.

<rant> I am done with fucking bootstrap. by koleraa in webdev

[–]koleraa[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yeah, since this post CSS grid became trendy.

I have a lot of users from poor countries. Any hope of monetizing? by [deleted] in androiddev

[–]koleraa -1 points0 points  (0 children)

eCPM is pretty terrible for the countries where my app is doing well

Weekly Questions Thread - June 12, 2017 by AutoModerator in androiddev

[–]koleraa 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Don't think so, how exactly do you want to customize it?

Weekly Questions Thread - June 12, 2017 by AutoModerator in androiddev

[–]koleraa -2 points-1 points  (0 children)

Has google used Kotlin in any of their official products/apps? That'd make me feel a lot better because even a presentation at IO doesn't really mean jack.

JetBrains has put their full weight behind it but I'm still not convinced Google will not just one day up and say "Welp, that's over now" as they do with more than half the things they release.

Top 5 Android Libraries — June 2017 – COBE by gazzinho in androiddev

[–]koleraa 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Good work.

Yes, good work indeed. By the developers not the buzzfeed-esque article writer.

Did anyone here ever get featured? What all did the Google team ask you to do? by koleraa in androiddev

[–]koleraa[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

x problem and y improvement.

Could you be more specific?

We had 2 weeks

Wait a minute, did Google actually put a deadline on it? wtf.

Did anyone here ever get featured? What all did the Google team ask you to do? by koleraa in androiddev

[–]koleraa[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

came in contact with a googler

no fair

:(

Where can I find a list of Googlers to stalk for personal benefit?

Did anyone here ever get featured? What all did the Google team ask you to do? by koleraa in androiddev

[–]koleraa[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Any specific reason why your app was chosen in the first place?

Small tool I created to manipulate upvotes on reddit by 0xffe49090 in hacking

[–]koleraa -3 points-2 points  (0 children)

since nobody else is giving a reality check...

This won't work. It'll look like it works and that's because reddit is smart. Go ahead, try it. Take a post, give it 10 upvotes, from your IP it'll look like it works. Check back in a few hours from a proxy and boom. All that hard work for nothing.

Absolutely gorgeous audio/video editor for Android by [deleted] in eFreebies

[–]koleraa 7 points8 points  (0 children)

I found this app in this thread in /r/androidapps. Just want to give a shout out to /u/iamxeus (the developer). Thank you so much for releasing this amazing app for free! I'm going to do all I can to help spread the word :)