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Re:Ask HN: Who is hiring? (December 2020) on Thursday December 03, 2020 @03:09AM (#25286708)
Ornate Solar | Delhi, India / Remote | Full-time | Backend developer, Frontend developer, Product associate | Cleantech

https://ornatesolar.com/

Ornate Solar is a major distributor in solar hardware products in India. Having established a cost effective, tech driven supply chain of solar products, we want to solve the issue of post installation services in solar energy. The problem statement is to reduce the average down time from weeks to matter of hours.

We are looking for a backend developer, a frontend developer and a product associate to help us found this vision. No tech stack and experience constraint. The most important requirement is the drive.

Interested please reach out to me at [email protected]

Ask HN: How to start using mental models?

With so many people commenting on a recent thread "Mental Models I Find Repeatedly Useful"[1] that this the list, although useful for people who already know how to use mental models, but is of not much use to the ones that are unaware of how to use these models or are not familiar with the models[2]. Could you suggest some reading list/knowledge path to be trained with mental models? Or is...

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Re:Microsoft to acquire LinkedIn for $26B on Monday June 13, 2016 @09:45AM (#11893792)
On their press release[1] presentation[2] they have shown this as Microsoft's Graph - http://imgur.com/elacuzH. How and Why is the question.

[1]-https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/Investor [2]-https://c.s-microsoft.com/en-us/CMSFiles/InvestorPresentatio...

Problems of Messenger App (and not Facebook company): 1. Can't log out 2. Can't turn off the 'online' indicator 3. 'Seen' indicator
"""Search is cool, but Google-style universal search might be a bit overrated. Google still relies on institutions to provide data in indexable form, and those institutions build their reputations in ways that only partially rely on Google traffic.""" (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11729467)
Re:Spaces, a tool for small group sharing on Tuesday May 17, 2016 @05:43AM (#11712295)
A better alternative : http://cubeit.io
Yeah, young enough to just barely recall it :) Anyways, this is again a nice strategy, or better call it data grab. (Although, I haven't use GBoard)
Meet the new Google toolbar. GG Sundar Pichai
Re:YC Fellowship on Monday July 27, 2015 @05:43AM (#9954232)
We don't have beta ready, but we do have wireframes. Should we post them instead in "If you have an online demo, what's the url? (Please don't password protect it; just use an obscure url.)" question?
Thanks, do you have anything to add for the time slot? Should it be a single sitting or divided? Should it be all night or all day?
Re:Ask HN: What to watch after How to Start a Startup? on Thursday July 16, 2015 @06:10AM (#9896281)

  If you want to start a startup I would advise you to come up with an idea and start working on your product.
I just want to know more about it, I know that it wouldn't be as helpful as doing it yourself and it won't be a comprehensive guide.

Ask HN: What to watch after How to Start a Startup?

After completely watching How to Start a Startup[1] 2-10 times (depending on lecture) and reading and watching all the readings[2], what should I watch now?A. There are plenty of reading resources (many shared on HN), but I am looking for videos.B. There are plenty of great talks (but what I want is detailed videos (instructional) just like HTSAS)C. I haven't read (m)any books on the topic, do...

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Re:How Not to Sort by Average Rating (2009) on Thursday July 09, 2015 @02:11PM (#9859672)
Can the design tell the user the meaning of upvote("I like this" / "I think this submission should be higher")? Because the significance of upvote could be either of the two depending on the area. Also, then one can sort accordingly.