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Re:Calendso: An open source Calendly alternative on Thursday April 15, 2021 @06:09AM (#26818471)
Great product, much awaited! Feature request: Maybe consider adding terraform scripts or such for easier self hosting?
Congrats on the launch! Curious, how do you plan to acquire customers? Wouldn't hospital systems want to keep the treatment within their system or partner hospitals?
Hi Peter, I am on STEM extension part of my OPT.

Can I start a company and fundraise on my current visa?

If not, can I be a founder and work as a CTO under an American CEO since technically that is still a supervised job?

4:00 is hilarious!
Re:Ask HN: How do you measure contributions to a coding project? on Wednesday February 06, 2019 @02:44PM (#19099005)
I found one measure: Hits of Code

It measures the "the amount of times programmers touch the lines". Source : https://www.yegor256.com/2014/11/14/hits-of-code.html

I think you mean 'forward-deployed' engineer.
Re:6.S974 Decentralized Applications, Fall 2018 on Wednesday October 10, 2018 @11:34AM (#18185823)
Not sure. The attached readings and class notes are great resources though.
> As there are more than an average number of stupidities there.

Please post more meaningful comments. Sure it doesn't have static typing or performance of C, but it has a stable framework in every conceivable application (Web Dev, machine learning, CLI, you name it) and works as a top notch scripting language. This is not "stupidity", it was by design to make it batteries included and easy to use with a tradeoff with the above things.

Re:Fail on Saturday September 01, 2018 @06:04PM (#17894127)
I am pretty sold on the idea that failure of ambition = good, failure of sloth = bad. This post seems to be in line with that.
Re:The Conversation We Really Need to Have About Bias at Google on Saturday September 01, 2018 @05:58PM (#17894101)
This may be an opinionated article, but the facts it cites are real and credible. I wonder why its flagged?
As an F1 visa holder, can I host a commercial app on internet if it includes not actively working on it?
Re:Microsoft Is Said to Have Agreed to Acquire GitHub on Sunday June 03, 2018 @10:51PM (#17224190)
Just after acquisition, Linkedin started systematically shutting down available API resources, and removing CRM support. Microsoft reigns in eventually. source:https://www.fullcontact.com/blog/linkedin-state-of-crm-2014/

redacted: i mistook the acquisition date

Re:Facebook is launching a dating feature on Tuesday May 01, 2018 @10:44PM (#16973656)
One of the core advantages I see here is trust. It would be so much more effective to match with someone who is connected to you by shared people/interest, rather than just a photo card.
Re:Competitive Programmer's Handbook (2017) [pdf] on Sunday April 29, 2018 @11:18PM (#16955450)
Tell me a better standardized question set for programmers that measures intelligence efficiently.
Re:Competitive Programmer's Handbook (2017) [pdf] on Sunday April 29, 2018 @04:18PM (#16953714)
I think its more of aptitude test in a domain common to all programmers.
Re:Barbara Bush Dies at 92 on Wednesday April 18, 2018 @12:40PM (#16868780)
Just to be clear, this was a response to the comment.

I do not have any opinion on Barbara Bush in particular other than knowing that she has a lifetime of experience in top American political circles and has been widely respected for that.

Re:Barbara Bush Dies at 92 on Tuesday April 17, 2018 @09:31PM (#16863935)
> Perhaps the most influential woman (literally) in American history

That's a little far fetched.

Re:Spotify opens on NYSE, valuing company at almost $30B on Tuesday April 03, 2018 @03:28PM (#16748251)
Just so you know, 1.recommender systems != collaborative filtering. 2.RBMs are good only for certain situations like explicit ratings (where users provide direct feedback), its a really hard problem in implicit recommendations (which are most sites). See Bayesian Personalised Ranking Algorithm. 3. >I'd argue that the logistics of shipping perishable food is significantly more difficult than streaming an audio file. Thats exactly the point. I am not measuring hardness. But that looks a supply chain problem that a software engineering problem.
Re:Swedes turn against cashlessness on Tuesday April 03, 2018 @01:55PM (#16747282)
One of the issues that nobody seems to address is when entire societies shift to cashless, there are network operators who are still milking their first mover advantages. A product that is worth x, is now priced at 1.01x to pay for transaction networks. Europe is definitely ahead than US, but there needs to be better regulations around this.
Re:Spotify opens on NYSE, valuing company at almost $30B on Tuesday April 03, 2018 @01:51PM (#16747232)
Spotify is a tech company by all measures. Their core value propositions - recommendation engine, UI/UX, scaling responsive applications - those are pretty 'tech' problems.

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