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Re:Ask HN: Where have you found community outside of work? on Wednesday May 31, 2023 @11:22PM (#36147253)
No. There are several roles one can play in a meeting.

- Audience

- Prepared speech speaker (usually 5-7 mins. They speak on topics from their manual.)

- Table topics speaker (1-2 mins impromptu. Usually audience & non-role players are picked.)

- Prepared speech evaluator (2-3 mins)

- TMOD (The host of each meeting)

- General Evaluator

- Timer

- Ah-counter

- Grammarian

Usually, most clubs adjust according to guests. If guests are nervous, clubs are very encouraging. If guests are confident, clubs try to improve their speaking skills.

Usually first time guests are asked for their introduction and encouraged to speak on an impromptu topic. They are heavily applauded for getting over their stage fear. Most times, they are also voted as the best speaker of the day to encourage them.

Re:Ask HN: Where have you found community outside of work? on Wednesday May 31, 2023 @01:45AM (#36134906)
Toastmasters. Attending my own club meetings, other club meetings, contests and conferences have been fun. We insist that speakers share their own original content and they usually share stories from their lives. Lots of networking offline via WhatsApp, Facebook and phone calls as well.

Ask HN: Will you pay for someone to mentor you in an open source project?

I feel a lot of people would contribute financially to open source projects if they could associate more of their time and energy with the project, by having a human connect.For example, I would like to pay an open source contributor or donate to the project itself, if they are able to walk me through the code base, help me build knowledge by pointing me to the right docs, mentor me through...

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I had the same question and I found this: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCxS98ISZNcuaJRCvy6JV6Fw
Re:Ask HN: Who is hiring? (November 2020) on Thursday November 05, 2020 @02:05PM (#25000935)
Ark Neo Finance | Chennai, India | Onsite | Fulltime | UI & UX Designer, Flutter Engineer, Full-stack Engineer

At Ark Neo Finance, we are on a mission to build the next generation of Finance products for Indian consumers. Our team consists of experienced online financial services professionals who have extensive expertise in building large online retail financial services platforms.

Our tech stack is Elixir+Phoenix for the backend and Flutter for our mobile apps.

UI & UX Designer: We want creative designers to build beautiful apps for our consumers. We expect you to envision new ideas and come up with wireframes, mock-ups and high-fidelity prototypes for Desktop web, Mobile web, Android & iOS.

Flutter Engineer: Can you build the best experience for our mobile app users? We expect candidates to have experience building cross-platform apps in Flutter and also enough knowledge in building native Android & iOS apps.

Full-stack Engineer: If you love solving problems at scale and believe in the value of a well-designed functional programming language, you are bound to love working with Elixir. We use Phoenix, a web framework built on top of Elixir, for our Web and API layer. We believe that a Full-stack developer loves challenges and can pick up new tools & frameworks easily. Do you also believe so?

If you are interested in working with us, send your resume to anirudh [at] arkneofinance [dot] com.

Re:Asteroid that killed the dinosaurs was great for bacteria on Sunday February 09, 2020 @12:04PM (#22283050)
For anyone wanting the scientific paper being referred to in the journal Geology (without opening the NY Times article) here is the link: https://pubs.geoscienceworld.org/gsa/geology/article/doi/10....
I have been using Brave on macOS for more than 3 years now. I used Brave on Android for a while and I am currently using Brave on iOS as my daily driver. I don't use their BAT system or anything associated with that. I like their default vanilla experience and the fact that I can install Chrome plugins on Brave. I still use uBlock origin on top of their default blockers. I use the built-in Tor experience time-to-time as well.

To me, Brave is what Firefox should have been. Good UI, good defaults, fast enough, support for Chrome plugins, etc. I am slightly concerned about their future direction though (if they enforce the BAT system down users' throats).

Re:Twitter was down on Thursday July 11, 2019 @04:13PM (#20415328)
Is that a reference to the Black Mirror episode?
Re:Flex on Wednesday March 29, 2017 @12:30AM (#13983415)
I recently stumbled upon something similar but probably more light-weight: http://ncase.me/loopy/
Does this affect remote working in any manner? I am from India and have considered working remotely in later stages of my career. I have no intentions of leaving India and moving to the US, but I might be applying to organizations within the US.
Re:We Don’t Simply Get Remote Jobs, We Join Remote Teams on Friday September 16, 2016 @12:42AM (#12511878)
I think there are 2 sides and both sides are important. I think that the author was focussing on the half of our awake time that we spend doing our job, while you are focussing on the other half.

The author is probably talking about naive remote job seekers who focus on the job but don't consider the team culture. I was one such naive job seeker and used to think in that manner until a few years ago.

Re:I want to motivate you to keep trying to switch to Linux on Saturday September 03, 2016 @02:40AM (#12418063)
I think yes. But I'm not sure if non-technical people understand the implications. They'll probably take it more seriously if Windows-collecting-data has a direct impact on their lives. For example, if their browsing history gets posted on their social networks, or something like that.
Re:I want to motivate you to keep trying to switch to Linux on Saturday September 03, 2016 @02:17AM (#12418000)
Personally, I think there are only 2 advantages (over something more polished like OS X):

i. Doomsday scenario: Competing platforms do something awful like direct spying on users, making it unaffordable/inaccessible or generally taking terrible, permanent decisions. Then, a free/open source OS will become The only feasible option. The counter point to this is, competition ensures very few companies will take that route.

ii. Learning & contributing: As a developer, I can understand and improve any part of the stack. Counter point: This doesn't address non-developers, who are a majority in today's world.

Re:A simple Vulkan Compute example on Monday May 30, 2016 @05:11AM (#11800382)
I think you're referring to Marshmallow, which was released last year. N is still in Beta Preview and Vulkan support is landing only in N.
Re:VIVE X: HTC's Accelerator for VR Startups on Wednesday April 27, 2016 @08:21AM (#11579708)
"HTC originally stated that the Vive X program would be held in three cities – Beijing, Taipei and San Francisco – however have now added that this is just the beginning. The company is aiming to ‘rolling out across other global hubs in the near future’."

as stated in this article: http://www.vrfocus.com/2016/04/htc-comments-on-vive-x-accele...

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