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Re:Hello on Sunday November 06, 2022 @02:22AM (#33490064)
Passionate about creating full-stack CRUD web applications!
Re:Arizona’s dry future begins as Colorado River shrinks on Saturday April 23, 2022 @11:10PM (#31140960)
Probably you also should make plans not to live in California - this state is also experiencing quite severe droughts year after year - probably will be same fate as Arizona in maybe couple decades?
Re:Ask HN: Easiest way to build a CRUD app? on Sunday February 13, 2022 @05:25PM (#30326244)
+1
Re:Why Build Toys on Monday July 12, 2021 @08:20PM (#27816548)
Here is some useless stuff that I built to learn React. Backend in Spring Boot. https://www.everysportinfo.com/
Re:Internal Combustion Engine on Friday April 30, 2021 @07:34PM (#27000993)
This is unbelievably awesome! I wish I had such material and teacher like Bartosz Ciechanowski when I was learning IC engine during my undergrad for mechanical engineering. Thanks a million to Bartosz wherever you are and whoever you are! Simply wonderful! Thank you, thank you, and thank you!
I frequently communicate architecture with diagram that simply contains following three things: - boxes (rectangles with text in them) - arrows connecting these boxes - and some brief text to convey any architecture/ideas

Apart from this, sometime I also use "sequence diagrams" - vertical lines representing systems/modules to illustrate the sequence of flow of any system/user action.

Re:Ask HN: How to Get Sports Data? on Tuesday April 20, 2021 @05:13PM (#26881773)
I think ESPN does not support APIs anymore. http://www.espn.com/apis/devcenter/blog/read/publicretiremen...
Re:Ask HN: How to Get Sports Data? on Monday April 19, 2021 @11:21AM (#26863732)
Thanks. I do not have any intention to do web scraping. Let's reduce the scope of my request: I want to do two things - 1) Get the schedules of the upcoming (future) matches in most of the popular sports across globe - football, soccer, cricket, tennis etc. How does ESPN or other sources get this? Do they get this information 3 months/6 months in advance from all these sports organizations? Or do they simply have people to enter this data manually in their own system? 2) I want to keep history of who won/lost the particular match and any other interesting tidbits about the match that already took place. So I am not planning on doing any web scraping and neither I plan to offer any live feed API or data. So my question is - how do I accomplish my above stated 2 goals efficiently without doing web scraping? Thanks.
Re:Ask HN: How to Get Sports Data? on Sunday April 18, 2021 @11:20PM (#26858831)
How does Betfair get this data into their system? Who provides them with this data or they too write their own web scraping application to collect and consolidate the data?
Re:Ask HN: How to Get Sports Data? on Sunday April 18, 2021 @11:18PM (#26858818)
Thanks. But i am still curious to know how does ESPN gets all the schedule for all sports in their persistence store? Does NFL, NBA, IPL or other sports league provide them with APIs to fetch data or does ESPN too has web scraping scripts that goes after NBA/NFL/MLB websites to get the data they need or do they have people actually doing manual data entry for all of this information via some UI into their own database?

Ask HN: How to Get Sports Data?

I am thinking of creating a free REST API service that will allow users to list tournaments, schedules, match results etc - for basketball, cricket, badminton. How do I get the data into my database? Do I need to purchase this from someone or I simply do web scraping of different websites to get the data I want?

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I come myself from middle class Brahmin family in Maharashtra, have a engineering degree from a mediocre school in Maharashtra. If at all I witnessed something negative is snobbishness from people who graduated from better school than me. I have been in silicon valley for over 25 years now. I worked in 2 startups and 4 mega corporations/public companies with friends/superiors/colleagues (some of whom are Brahmin IIT graduates) from various parts of India - I personally never asked anyone's last name to find their caste and neither I witnessed anyone making any derogatory remarks about anyone's caste/religion. I have never experienced or seen any of this that is being reported in this article. It is truly shameful and disgusting if it is happening now or before. Let's stop this right now and right away!
Aren't they using AT&T fiber network though? So what differentiates them from AT&T and others - customer service or something else?
So is it expected that you do this intermittent fasting until you reverse T2 diabetes? If so - how long? Six months, 1 year, more or less? Or does this depend on individual - how long it takes her/him to reverse T2 diabetes? Or is this a lifestyle change that you incorporate until EOL?
Re:From McDonald's to Google on Friday October 30, 2020 @05:19PM (#24946998)
Awesome!
Re:Ask HN: How do you deal with chronic illness? on Monday October 19, 2020 @02:56PM (#24829627)
Thanks for sharing - at what age did you start insulin - if you don't mind sharing and how long it's been since you are on insulin/pump now?
Re:Ask HN: How do you deal with chronic illness? on Monday October 19, 2020 @02:55PM (#24829615)
Intermittent fasting? 16/8 or something different? Thanks for any info you could share. I know this is not health advice forum - but still it is encouraging to hear positive anecdotes/references from others.
Re:Ask HN: How do you deal with chronic illness? on Monday October 19, 2020 @02:52PM (#24829599)
I am vegetarian who eats eggs + dairy products; no meat or fish. So it is bit challenging to reduce carbs - but I hear you - I agree - reducing carbs should definitely help. Thanks.
Re:Ask HN: How do you deal with chronic illness? on Monday October 19, 2020 @01:27PM (#24828618)
Diabetes - since my mid-30's - now am approaching 50. Have maxed out on all pills. Very soon will be put on insulin. Did lot of running for a decade or more. Diet control is my weak point and toughest to be disciplined about. Not that I gorge on sweets/candies - but rice, fried food is something I cannot do a clean breakup with. But as and when I can - do regular exercise (running) and diet control. Very difficult for me personally. Hope once I am on insulin - I can still lead reasonable decent life past 80. Not sure if I know anyone who had diabetes in their 30s and lived past 80s with reasonably good health. :-)
Re:How to Get Promoted on Monday September 28, 2020 @03:25PM (#24620336)
This true; at least in the US; where I am - in my experience. If you are at Sr. Manager or Director level (leading group of 10+ HR reporting to you or cross functional team lead), it gets increasingly difficult to change jobs frequently.
Re:Laid Off, Now What? on Sunday September 20, 2020 @03:48PM (#24536813)
Correct - I don't write code 100% of my time but I do code reviews on daily basis, involved in architecture, design of new feature; implementing a side project using swift, xcode,java for personal finance app. But still I feel so clueless when I see these questions on leetcode or similar sites.
Re:Laid Off, Now What? on Sunday September 20, 2020 @03:35PM (#24536705)
This is mind boggling to see so much effort need to put into getting into FAANG. I am 49 years old and working as an engineering manager in a public company. I have spent decades writing large distributed, Saas, on-premise, enterprise application - many of which I helped implementing, architecting and supporting. Then I just went to leetcode and saw one of the "EASY" question about how to prepare for FB interview. It is something about finding an island that's surrounded by water given a two-dimensional array. I simply stared at it and have no clue how to solve it. Am I the dumb one or does anyone have similar reactions when they see these leetcode problems? Also - if I plan to interview at FAANG - I plan to interview at least for engineering manager positions - but looks like even these positions are tied to these kind of coding questions? I am depressed.