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Re:Ask HN: Y Combinator invite/rejection on Tuesday October 23, 2018 @09:17AM (#18283079)
On the form it says by 10pm Pacific time.
The UK is an amazing place as well if you are looking for tech jobs outside of Asia.

Almost all major companies have offices her plus a decent startup scene.

Re:Ask HN: What do you struggle with? on Wednesday August 29, 2018 @06:05PM (#17872479)
Not applying is the surest way not to get the ml job. Or try switching roles within the same company?

If you find the time you can do an online masters in Machine Learning from Georgia Tech for around $7k. You can hack on your own projects and build credentials.

Some companies might be willing to sponsor the OCMS course.

Ask HN: Can you share your YC application story?

I'm just trying to get some insights from previous applicants about the state of their startup when they applied.Some questions you could answer :-1. How long had you been working on the product?2. How many of you were in the team? How did you meet them?3. Were you working or had you quit your day job when you applied?4. Did you have any users that were paying for your service?5. How was the...

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Re:Ask HN: Who are the next FAANGs? on Friday August 17, 2018 @05:27PM (#17785656)
Maybe Blockchain. Is the adoption as much as the internet? I don't know if there's anything useful coming out of it.

Virtual Reality seems like a safer bet.

Re:Ask HN: How did you learn python? on Friday August 17, 2018 @05:06PM (#17785576)
Hmm, I did this a while back. I realise that I should have suggested a Python 3 resource.

I wouldn't say that the course is geared towards devs at Python. From what I remember it's pure Python and there's nothing "Google" about it.

Re:Ask HN: Help (no life thread) on Friday August 17, 2018 @04:21PM (#17785388)
I'm 22 and I can empathize with you. I'd suggest seeking a psychologist to talk about your possible depression is the best thing you can do.

Otherwise, get into a routine? Try to include waking up on time, work , gym and exercise into that routine.

I've been trying headspace for the past week. It feels nice.

I've been thinking of project ideas to work on or people to work with. I wish there was a better way to find this. Maybe talk to your friends who are into such things?

Perhaps the best way to find co-founders and ideas and interesting work is to work for a startup? It allows you to learn about startups at someone elses expense.

Re:Ask HN: How did you learn python? on Friday August 17, 2018 @04:15PM (#17785359)
Google's Python class is a pretty good start[0]. It's enough to get you started and moves at a nice pace! After that I'd hack on a project of my own. Even better if you have a project in mind before learning the language. This book by Jeff Knup will get you familiar with the pythonic way of doing things[1].

[0]https://developers.google.com/edu/python/ [1]https://jeffknupp.com/writing-idiomatic-python-ebook/

Re:Ask HN: Who are the next FAANGs? on Friday August 17, 2018 @04:10PM (#17785329)
I had a similar question. What is today's equivalent of the internet of the late 90s?
A "Tiffin" in India is a meal in a box. There is this website https://tiffinplanet.co.uk/ that provides a tiffin service. That is serves Indian food to you for lunch/dinner. You can find similar services on Gumtree. I briefly subscribed to a Tiffin service that would advertise the food a day before and you could decide whether you were interested or not.
Wish you could configure a finger to erase all data if needed.
I saw one of the meal packs that was around 23.50 and said 3-4 meals, so I calculated it to be around $8/meal.

I agree that cooking can get quite exhausting, procuring ingredients, cooking and then cleaning up is a long process.

You are solving a real problem. Good luck!

Hey!

I'm am an expat who lives in the UK. I'm from India as well. $24 for 3-4 vegetarian meals seems really expensive, will you adjust pricing as you scale?

How do you plan on preserving taste and the "home cooked feeling" as you scale? This might be an absurd question at this stage, but a friend and I who wanted to get in this space couldn't come up with a good answer.

Personally, I just cook a lot of food whenever I cook so that I am able to do a couple of meals. I've recently considered having a soylent for dinner and I just ordered my first pack of Huel. I can cook whenever I want to eat really authentic food.

Here in the UK a lot of house wives provide a tiffin service. Is there something similar in the US?

Great website. Nice story. I wish you luck :)

Re:Ask HN: What will you be working on this weekend? on Friday August 10, 2018 @08:27PM (#17737612)
Your weekend seems longer than my weekend. I guess you are just really productive on weekends. What's your regular job like?
Re:Ask HN: What will you be working on this weekend? on Friday August 10, 2018 @08:26PM (#17737611)
Thanks, I'll check it out.
Re:Ask HN: What will you be working on this weekend? on Friday August 10, 2018 @05:42PM (#17736948)
Interesting. What does this app do?
How do you pick what to work on from your Trello list?

Ask HN: How did you get past the analysis paralysis for startup ideas?

A few friends and I have been talking about doing a startup as far as I can remember. After University all of us took jobs and now we feel fairly comfortable to start a business/something on the side. Only problem : Can't decide on an idea.We create spread sheets and Google docs of ideas but can't zero in on anything. In University we would hack on anything and release it. I feel we are...

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Thanks for this! This sounds lovely and is 12-16 hours long. Fits my schedule :D
Thanks for the suggestion. I've added it to my list. Do you recommend some good first apps for learning distributed systems?
I've been through this. It's a good starting point and can be fairly useful for interviews. It gives a good high level overview of systems, enough for you to talk about them.

Maybe I can go through this again and dive deeper into topics that interest me.

I'd like to say both! I guess I can get started with the second one and then move onto the first one?

Maybe after playing with a few components I can look into their internals.

Ask HN: What are some good projects/resources to learn distributed systems?

I'm a kind of person who likes to hack on projects to learn things. If I am learning a new language, I'll think of a problem that I want to solve. After reading some syntax I'll start hacking on a solution.I have decided to learn distributed systems.I think this weekend would be a good start to hack on things. I can continue later in the week I understand I won't pickup distributed systems over...

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I'd have guessed that people would have become better talking over screens given how much time people spend on social apps these days. At work I do find it easier to catch hold of a person and talk to them rather than messaging them over our instant messaging platform. Though if they are working from home the experience is similar to the in person experience if I can have video call with them.

The second issue seems to be due to a lack of autonomy on part of the engineers in India. It seems they had a satellite office in India and the Indian workers themselves lacked autonomy to act in case something went wrong. What was so good(I guess you are being sarcastic) about the teleconferencing software?

Ask HN: What stops your organization from being remote first?

I can't help but think that the future of Software Engineering is remote. I was watching a talk by Peter Thiel who was talking about how it's weird that most of the VC money goes to pay rent, either directly(for the office) or indirectly (employee pays for their house).Earlier last month there was a post by YCombinator asking, "Why would you not want to work in a start-up?". Most answers were...

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I can empathize with your problem. Was just talking to a friend an hour ago about this.

I am wondering whether you have considered companies that don't white board.[1]

[1]https://github.com/poteto/hiring-without-whiteboards

Re:Uncle Bob and Silver Bullets on Friday October 06, 2017 @10:51AM (#15417213)
How do you make sure that what you are writing is secure?

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