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Ritwik Roy
I’m a mechatronics/software engineer whose main area of interest is Robotics. I’m also interested in app development (iOS, Web) and human computer interaction. I'm an engineer at Shoes Of Prey.
In my free time I take photos of things, play squash, and explore the lovely city of Sydney.
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Great post by Marco Arment on handling customer comments. The bit about pricing complaints especially stood out.
Someone saying they won’t buy at your price is just one data point. Each sale of your appis another data point. If you sell 100 copies of your app and get 3 comments on Twitter from people saying it’s too expensive and they won’t buy it, I’d say you’re doing great.
Your product will never be affordable to everyone (and some of those who can afford it won’t be happy about the price). If you can find enough people who attribute more value to your product than what you charge them for it, you have paying customers and a potentially growing business.
Cool interactive chart, I’d love to see something like this across more countries, but it might be difficult to collect the data … hmmm. Might be fun a weekend project.
I feel I’ve seen useful cases for certain types of duck wrapping, e.g Google Closure functions that take either a string or an element and getElementById if you gave them a string. If it’s well documented it doesn’t seem that bad?
The best part of this article was the beginning:
Duck-wrapping (verb): If it doesn’t quack like a duck, wrap it in a duck.
Back of the envelope calculations are great for estimating the answer to life’s biggest mysteries: “Could You Actually Build BioShock Infinite’s Floating City in Real Life?”
It never ceases to amaze me how quickly technology improves. I remember hearing about IBM Roadrunner beating the speed record for supercomputers (it feels not that long ago), and now it’s already obsolete as one?
#4 - Definitely true. I can’t believe how much free time I used to have, yet I feel like I get more done per week in the little free time I have now than I did back then.
#6 - “Let’s talk about this offline” has always struck me as a hilarious phrase when used in a physical meeting, offline.
Quite a few interesting points in this piece that I relate to.
- Three eras of currency
Commodity based, e.g. Gold
Politically based, e.g. Dollar
Math based, e.g. Bitcoin
Interesting categorization of currencies. I was initially pretty skeptical about bitcoin, but I’m getting really curious about how a non-government-based currency (not necessarily Bitcoin) could work long term. I need to find more articles about this.
Interesting post on how not to and how to approach devs, if you’re looking to recruit them for a job at your company.
I didn’t realise it was possible to detect if the chrome inspector is open, pretty cool trick.
This is super exciting. A little hardware block that connects to your car’s data port and lets you track your driving patterns / behaviours, to help you be more fuel efficient as you drive. It also does a few other things:
- Detects crashes and automatically calls emergency
- Can read the actual engine messages when your check engine light goes off, so you have a better idea of what happened.
- Marks where you parked with a gps location so it’s easy to find.
It works via bluetooth so hopefully it’ll work on more than just iphones (as the images suggest).
Check it out here: http://www.automatic.com/
I’m really hoping this will be successful and make its way to Australia.
How can Moleskine, a company that makes notebooks and stationery products, push for an IPO at “a valuation between 22 and 29.1 times the company’s earnings last year”?
Filed under: Interesting things we can learn through machine learning.
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I am an engineer at Shoes of Prey (www.shoesofprey.com).
My ambition is to develop technology that pushes the boundaries of what our tools can do to make our lives easier.
Specialties: programming, c, c++, python, objective-c, java, html, css, javascript, interaction design, user experience design
Experience- Aug 2012 - PresentSoftware Engineer / Shoes of Prey
Being in a startup with a small engineering team, I work on a variety of areas in both the front and back end of shoesofprey.com. I have however spent the bulk of time on:
- Autonomous 3d rendering in Amazon's cloud, using blender, EC2, and Amazon Simple Workflows (among other smaller tools).
- Scaling of web servers on EC2 at the core software level, the server level (apache) and the infrastructure level (scaling with multiple regions for customers around the globe). This has given me a lot of DevOps experience, especially with AWS tools. - Nov 2011 - Jul 2012Software Engineering Intern / Shoes of Prey
As an intern, I built social features on the site, to encourage sharing, inspiration and community growth. I gained experience with Python for Google App Engine and Google Closure (Javascript).
- Dec 2010 - Nov 2011President, Postgraduate Council / Arc @ UNSW
- Feb 2010 - Jun 2010Teaching Assistant, Mechatronic Systems Design / Curtin University of Technology
- Feb 2009 - Jun 2010Teaching Assistant, Mechatronic Automation 331 / Curtin University of Technology
- Feb 2007 - Jun 2010Teaching Assistant, Engineering Programming 100 / Curtin University of Technology
Having received commendable results in this unit, I was offered a tutoring position for it in my 2nd year. This unit teaches student engineers the basics of programming, using C as an example, but aiming at teaching the fundamentals that can be carried across to any programming language. I was involved in running tutorial-style classes as well as lab demonstration and marking. While teaching this unit, my communication ability improved and I became comfortable speaking in public.
- Jul 2008 - Feb 2009Student Mechatronic Engineer / WellOps SEA
I did 6 months of work experience here where I gained a number of skills and had a chance to see what real world engineering work is like.
Skills gained/improved were:
-Drafting with Autocad and Solidworks
-Engineering Design process
-Sourcing of components for engineering designs
-Working in a corporate environment - 2008 - 2008Vice Chairperson / IEEE Networking Forum 2008
- Nov 2007 - Nov 2008Curtin Student Branch Chairperson / IEEE
- Jan 2008 - Jun 2008Customer Service Staff / McDonald's
- 2007 - 2008Curtin Student Branch Treasurer / Golden Key International Honour Society
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2010 - 2012University of New South WalesMasters in Artificial Intelligence
Activities: CSE Society (CSESoc), Arc Postgraduate Council, rUNSWift -
2006 - 2009Curtin University of TechnologyBachelor of Engineering in Mechatronic Engineering
Activities: Curtin Student Guild (on campus student representation), IEEE student branch, Curtin Engineers Club -
2002 - 2005Strathmore SchoolHigh School in KCSE
Activities: School magazine, Basketball,
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Honors:Member of UNSW rUNSWift, 3rd place in the Humanoid League at Robocup 2012. Best Final Year Project in Mechatronics for 2009
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Interests:Robotics, Intelligent Devices, App development, iOS development, Interaction Design, Photography, Electronic Music
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- Robotic Software Architecture assignment1 fork / 3 watchers / Pushed Oct 20, 11
- Official repository for IPython itself. Other repos in the IPython organization contain things like the website, documentation builds, etc.587 forks / 1901 watchers / Pushed May 19, 13
- Zipline, a Pythonic Algorithmic Trading Library132 forks / 940 watchers / Pushed May 16, 13
- Build agents that monitor and act on your behalf. Your agents are standing by!219 forks / 2682 watchers / Pushed May 16, 13
- A tool for creating EBS AMIs. This tool currently works for CentOS/RedHat Linux images and is intended to run on an EC2 instance.16 forks / 68 watchers / Pushed May 15, 13
- An extensible open-source mobile backend framework227 forks / 2679 watchers / Pushed May 14, 13
- A full-featured & carefully designed adaptive prompt for Bash & Zsh88 forks / 843 watchers / Pushed May 14, 13
- A python application that detects and highlights the heart-rate of an individual (using only their own webcam) in real-time.111 forks / 1360 watchers / Pushed May 13, 13
- Pythonic command line arguments parser, that will make you smile73 forks / 1250 watchers / Pushed May 13, 13
- A better way for new feature introduction and step-by-step users guide for your website and project.544 forks / 4969 watchers / Pushed May 10, 13
- The exceptionally handsome dashboard framework in Ruby and Coffeescript.301 forks / 4139 watchers / Pushed May 09, 13
- The easiest way to get started with PostgreSQL on the Mac66 forks / 1102 watchers / Pushed May 05, 13
- OAuth Modules for Node.js - Supporting RSA, HMAC, PLAINTEXT, 2,3-Legged, 1.0a, Echo, XAuth, and 2.063 forks / 972 watchers / Pushed Apr 30, 13
- A generic data dashboard that displays in the terminal33 forks / 954 watchers / Pushed Apr 29, 13
- Parse log files, generate metrics for Graphite and Ganglia115 forks / 769 watchers / Pushed Apr 18, 13
- Better error page for Rails and other Rack apps156 forks / 3448 watchers / Pushed Apr 17, 13
- An SIL-licenced (GPL-compatible) icons font for bootstrap155 forks / 1793 watchers / Pushed Apr 14, 13
- A window management application (replacement for Divvy/SizeUp/ShiftIt)134 forks / 2517 watchers / Pushed Feb 23, 13
- A jQuery plugin for creating draggable 360 image sequences24 forks / 154 watchers / Pushed Feb 18, 13
- a top like tool for inspecting memcache key values in realtime33 forks / 340 watchers / Pushed Jan 01, 13
- It's your commit logs. From last night. Honorable Mention at PennApps 201117 forks / 137 watchers / Pushed Nov 28, 12
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- Sell tickets to your events, customise it to your event's logic.1 fork / 2 watchers / Pushed Sep 10, 12
- A running-jumping-swordfighting game I made on the Apple II from 1985-89358 forks / 3091 watchers / Pushed May 04, 12
