aliakhtar

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   Ask HN: Where can I access live, raw data of Covid 19 cases by country?

   2 points by aliakhtar 6y ago|7 comments
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   by aliakhtar 7y ago

   Why? Mental illnesses are not a choice, so its not others will start getting mental illnesses if its celebrated. But if you're successful despite a mental illness (by any measure of success), its worth celebrating that so others with t
3. 33.▲
   by aliakhtar 7y ago

   Uh, what's wrong with listing if you have a mental illness? To me, its no different than listing any physical illness you're a survivor of.
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   by aliakhtar 7y ago

   Cool project, what would be cooler is if you had an API to retrieve the labels for a given word. May be that's in the works?
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   by aliakhtar 7y ago

   nah, we genuinely prefer working for ourselves if that's an option.
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   by aliakhtar 7y ago

   I found that to be a bit dry personally, I personally just looked up Scala tutorials online and followed them
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   by aliakhtar 7y ago

   You should definitely go for Scala if you're coming from Erlang. You'll find it much more Erlang-like. I don't have the time to convert their whole site right now, sorry, but you'll find the same pattern holds - Scala do
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   by aliakhtar 7y ago

   Its copied from Scala pattern matching, and still isn't as good as it.
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   by aliakhtar 7y ago

   Its really amusing to consider Java somehow simpler than Scala. Take any Java class and rewrite it in Scala, you end up with at least 3x fewer lines of code.
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    by aliakhtar 7y ago

    I think its growing because its the only way to do Android dev if you don't want to do Java 6. For that, its still great, but for any backend programming, you should consider getting the real thing (Scala) and not its watered down copy
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    by aliakhtar 7y ago

    All of what you're describing here is bad programming practices. Bad programming practices * scala's power = Incredibly bad work. If you're a good programmer who writes well engineered code, you can do that incredibly well in
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    by aliakhtar 7y ago

    > overengineered code False, scala is really concise. > slow compile times A few seconds slower on average, you mean > worse compatibility with other JVM languages. Its completely backwards compatible with Java.
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    by aliakhtar 7y ago

    Absolutely untrue, Scala is completely backwards compatible with Java - you can use all your java code in Scala and even write scala as mostly a better Java.
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    by aliakhtar 7y ago

    For fun, I'm going to rewrite all of the examples in Scala: 1) Main def main() = println("Hello") 2) Variables: val y = 1 3) Options (nulls are discouraged): val name: Option[String] = None 4) Null 2: //If bob is no
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    by aliakhtar 7y ago

    It pisses me off a bit to not see Scala mentioned anywhere. Scala has everything Kotlin has, and a lot more.
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    by aliakhtar 7y ago

    I get it about naming struggles. I built something to solve this, https://naminator.io
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    by aliakhtar 7y ago

    Sent you an email.
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    by aliakhtar 7y ago

    Tweets do show up in search though
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    by aliakhtar 7y ago

    Clickable link: https://naminator.io
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    Show HN: Name generator that learns your tastes

    5 points by aliakhtar 7y ago|1 comments
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    by aliakhtar 8y ago

    http://paulgraham.com/pierced.html
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    by aliakhtar 8y ago

    (I.e those who got accepted, then rejected, and are now accepted again. I.e, Team 2nd chance!)
23. 53.▲
    by aliakhtar 8y ago

    We have a slack group of people who previously didn't get in but are now in, feel free to join: https://join.slack.com/t/startupschool-rejects/shared_invite...
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    by aliakhtar 8y ago

    Awesome, thanks :)
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    by aliakhtar 8y ago

    As some of the 'accepted' companies with advisors quit / drop out and spots open up, could those spots be filled with promising companies who don't have advisors?
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    by aliakhtar 8y ago

    This is fantastic. It would be great if there could be a way for teams to 'level up' and get access to an advisor + the AWS / Stripe credits. Is that possible @yc ?
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    by aliakhtar 8y ago

    For those of us who didn't get in, but still want to be in a network of other founders.
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    Slack group for StartupSchool 2018 Rejects(join.slack.com)

    3 points by aliakhtar 8y ago|1 comments
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    by aliakhtar 8y ago

    For those who didn't get in but would still like to join a slack group of founders: https://join.slack.com/t/startupschool-rejects/shared_invite...
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    by aliakhtar 8y ago

    Created a slack group: https://join.slack.com/t/startupschool-rejects/shared_invite...