bkrishnan

Don't blog myself (mostly due to imposter syndrome), but I'd imagine the biggest plus would be the ability to connect with like-minded individuals without the noise / constraints / biases imposed by bigger platforms.

On that note, what would be a recommended approach to connecting with individuals? Just throw in a contact email? I hate the idea of a Disqus or other commenting system forcing you to throw away ownership of the user interaction.

As someone who was about to use Remark (https://github.com/remarkjs/remark) and Next.js to start a new blog, does this solve something that Remark doesn't? Genuinely curious.

"They found strong indications of a 157-day activity cycle; 121102 seems to flare up for 90 days and then go silent for 67, the team reported in a new study."

Maybe there's nothing to it, but both 157 and 67 are primes.

Started as a simple python script to scratch my own itch to track USCIS Visa Bulletins and my Green Card progress. Due to demand by friends and co-workers who had the same need, I used it as a learning opportunity and created a website powered by Django and Beautiful Soup: https://www.seekingvisa.com/

Is there a CliffsNotes version of the content?

Right now when they land on the website, they can see which priority dates are current, although they don't get to see a customized view of how many days behind the dates are from _their_ priority dates. Thanks for the feedback, that would also be useful information in the email that goes out as well.

So churn is basically any line of code that was updated. Would that always be a bad thing? Just asking because I'm curious.

Hi HN,

This was originally a script running in my desktop and used only by me, but I made it into a site when I realized many of my friends wanted to keep an eye on the USCIS Visa bulletins every month as well. If you're one of us that keeps checking USCIS bulletins every month, then site is for you. You get an email as soon as the bulletin is released and you can see what changed this month instantly. No more refreshing the state department's site manually.

I'm very eager to see any feedback on what is / is not useful with the site.

Thanks! That makes a lot more sense.

Can someone please explain how a valuation of $16B is arrived at? I mean, from the math above, they have approximately 250K ARR?

Bitbucket has had free private repos for the longest time. Any compelling reason to move small private projects to GitHub?

Why can't I see it from PA? http://imgur.com/XNs0hpc

If you still have an invite, I would appreciate it. bkrishnan at gmail dot com