Sitemap - 2016 - Kartick Vaddadi: Tech Advisor to CXOs
Photography Experiment: UV Filters Don't Hurt Quality
How Google Can Keep Shutting Down Products Without Losing Users' Trust
The Mac App Store Is a Crappy Place to Distribute Apps
Levels of Abstraction With Cloud Servers
Photography Experiment: The iPhone 7 Plus Is a Better Camera than the Nexus 5x
Photography Experiment: Focus Modes Are All Unreliable At Night
Photography Experiment: Metering Modes Don't Generally Matter
Photography Experiment: Moonlight Is Actually Yellower than Sunlight
Photography Experiment: Prime Lenses Are Noticeably Better Than Zoom Lenses
Photography Experiment: Gamut Doesn't Seem to Matter
Photography Experiment: Grey Card White Balance
Photography Experiment: Which Aspect Ratio Works Best?
Photography Experiment: 4 Megapixels Are Enough
Photography Experiment: iPhone Dynamic Range With RAW and JPEG
A Commercial Reuse License Can Be the Best of Both Worlds
Some Things You Didn't Know about the Tablet Market
It's Time for a Common Framework for Mobile and PC Apps
Why Laptops Should Have Ports of the Same Kind
How Bank Regulation Can Encourage a Cashless Economy
When You're Pleasantly Surprised by the Fine Print
Notes Apps Should Strike the Right Balance Between Simplicity and Features
How to Improve Time Machine on the Mac
Desktop OS Images Should Be Cryptographically Signed
Networks Should Integrate Better with Apps
Why You Should Buy Multiple Term Insurance Policies
Insurance Cover Should Be Adjustable
Insurance Companies Should Offer 'Everything Insurance'
What You Should Look for When Buying Medical Insurance
How Much Medical Insurance Should You Get?
The Insurance Industry's Stupid Jargon
RAW Has Significant Drawbacks on Mobile
Bundled Apps Should Be Uninstallable
The Software I Was Willing to Pay the Most For
How Pizza Companies Can Make Us Healthier
Companies Should Offer Sabbaticals Between Projects
How Do Investments in Various Countries Perform?
How an FD Can Give Half the Returns of a Liquid Fund
How Do Funds of Various Caps Perform?
How Do Flexicap Funds Actually Invest Their Money?
Should You Accept a Discounted Annual Plan Instead of a Monthly One?
How the NPS Performs Relative to the PF and Mutual Funds
Summary of Kalpen Parekh's Talk on Investing
Criticism of Science Fiction Suffers from a Serious Flaw
Almost All Coffee Mugs and Teacups Are Badly Designed. Here's How to Fix Them.
App Stores Should Automatically Optimise Revenue For Developers
Companies Should Sell Tea Concentrate
The iPad Pro and Chromebooks: Platforms For Getting Work Done
Android Should Prioritise Privacy over Backward-compatibility
Finer-grained location permissions
Rethinking the Need for Pointing Devices
The Mac's Modifier Keys Are Messed Up. Here's How to Fix Them.
How Powerful Is UWP Compared to iOS or Android?
A Lighter and Smaller Laptop than You Could Imagine
Reducing Interruptions In The Office
AMP Is What HTML Should Have Been
Summary of Astro Teller's Talk on Failure
Hidden Settings Are a Great Idea
How Uber Should React to the Ban on Surge Pricing
Bluetooth Devices Should Have a Pair Button
Checklists Are a Way to Build Great Devices
Simpler and More Sensible File Associations
Taxes Should All Be Automatically Deducted
Tontines Sound like a Great Retirement Plan
Why We Need T-Shaped Engineers
The Problem of Compounding Fees
Robo-advisory Will Be the next ATM
The O(N²) Communication Problem In Big Companies
How to Design Better Bookshelves
Multiple Inheritance Comes in Multiple Flavors
Using a Debt Fund as a Bank Account
Use Your Debit Card Instead of Netbanking
Kartick’s Laws of the Supermarket
Protocol Buffers Are Needlessly Complex
Developers Should Use Low-End Hardware
The Mac’s Declining Software Quality
Pro Tablets Are Actually Heavier Than Light Laptops
Subscriptions Are the Right Way to Charge for Software
When and How to Disappoint Your Users
Why Every Team Needs a Decider
The Curious Case of the $300 Frying Pan
Statically Typed Languages Should Be As Productive As Dynamically Typed Languages
All Languages Should Have Type Inference
Most Type Errors Should Be Warnings
Statically Typed Languages Need Better Support for Dynamic Typing
How To Evolve Programming Languages
Preview Is a Poor Image Viewer
Why Aren’t There Simple Programming Languages?
Tech Companies Are Eating the World
Simplifying and Modernising the Finder
The Recent Call List Is a Trainwreck of UI Design
Socially Responsible Investing
Thinking Different with Newspapers
Zero-overhead Abstractions in Programming Languages
The Biggest Money Mistake I Made
Protocol-Oriented Programming in Swift
How Programming Languages Handle Null Differently
Keeping Our Data Safe From Foreign Governments
Hardware Home Buttons Are Better
BigBasket sets a high bar for simple, customer-friendly pricing
Interaction Models Control Everything Else
Donations Are a Solution to the Piracy Problem
What Would Apartments on Alien Planets Be Like?
How E-commerce Results in Lower Prices
Measuring Risk with Investments
Opinionated Mutual Fund Houses
Companies Should Quote Net Pay
Duplicate Is Better than Save As
The iPhone Supports Too Many Video Formats
Simplifying Taxes for Investors
APIs as a Political Battleground
Indian Startups Solve Physical Problems