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by amoorthy 2y ago
Xpertly | Founding fullstack engineer | Remote (US), ideally Bay Area | $150k + 1% equity Seed-stage company, backed by top-tier investors. CTO is former YC co-founder. Founders previously built and sold startup so fewer dumb mistakes this
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by amoorthy 2y ago
Sorry for tangent but any recommendations for small smart phone (i.e. <6" screen)? I like my iPhone 12 mini with its 5" screen (though it is glitchier than one would hope) but now all phones seem to be 6"+ which is hard to
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by amoorthy 2y ago
I'm very curious if experienced staff is available and less expensive now. As a venture-backed startup founder myself I'm quite eager to hire such folks and don't have the money to compete with larger firms. Maybe silly quest
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by amoorthy 2y ago
Thanks for sharing your experience and glad to hear you've found a good job/team/product-environment! My experience working with junior devs is that while they may be smart they haven't worked in teams and contributed to
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by amoorthy 2y ago
I don't have a view into many large tech companies but I imagine some level of tech debt exists in all of them. Are you suggesting that hiring fresh grads to resolve tech debt is unwise given the complexity of doing so?
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Ask HN: Fresh CS grad – are you struggling to get a tech job?
3 points by amoorthy 2y ago|6 comments
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by amoorthy 2y ago
Sorry to hear you're burned out. Do you want to work after your current job? If so, curious why you feel this is your last tech job. Is it because of ageism or something else?
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by amoorthy 2y ago
Really thoughtful comment. (An upvote was not enough :-)
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Five common mistakes by first-time startup founders and how to avoid them(onstartups.com)
2 points by amoorthy 4y ago|0 comments
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by amoorthy 4y ago
Hi Richard - I'd like to donate as well to help you retire your debt. I'm sorry the company didn't work out but I am so happy there are people like you in this world doing such a good thing. I hope there is a way to resurrect
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by amoorthy 4y ago
Excellent points. Let me see if I can address: 1. We do not enforce an equal number of articles from all sides of the political spectrum. We use the political lean ratings only to help identify different framings on topics so people can see
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by amoorthy 4y ago
Rats. 26 actually (scroll down) but bad presentation layer for sure. Our search engine doesn't do great on one-word search terms so "ukraine mariupol" shows 100+ articles.
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by amoorthy 4y ago
Hi folks. If you’re worried that Google is giving you biased search results when it comes to news, or just unsure which of the many search results to click on, then you might like The Factual’s news search engine, which I built with my co-f
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Show HN: A search engine tailored for news(thefactual.com)
7 points by amoorthy 4y ago|6 comments
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by amoorthy 5y ago
Ah silly me. Thanks for the clarification.
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by amoorthy 5y ago
Wow, the home button reappears! Love this. On my iPhoneX I've had the touch screen get into a frozen state so many times and there is no way to unlock or dismiss apps. And then there's the face ID unlock issue when you're wea
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by amoorthy 5y ago
The approach I'm trying to take with my kids is make mistakes while your mom and I are here to watch over you. Get this all out of the way now. Because after 18 we might not be around as much and that is not when you want the bulk of y
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by amoorthy 5y ago
My startup eschews ads and has a low cost subscription news service. However, both models work for different market segments. 1. The segment of users that doesn't really care about the quality of news and is happy to skim headlines is
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by amoorthy 5y ago
I'm torn on this. No doubt money is important but how much is needed? I've been thinking about this for a while [1] and I think more important to drive innovation is to change our culture to admire people who dedicate themselves t
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by amoorthy 5y ago
I built a news app (The Factual) that sends only 1 notification per day for a morning briefing. And the newsfeed is consolidated by topic so that you can easily finish browsing what's newsworthy. The app has a small subscription and ze
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by amoorthy 5y ago
I'm biased but you can check out TheFactual.com. We make it easy for people to get unbiased news on pressing topics. No ads. Affordable for the masses. I don't know your background or what kind of work you like to do but if this s
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by amoorthy 5y ago
I did the Udacity courses on full stack web-dev in ~2 months. Really good though I have a CS background so I knew some of the concepts (haven't coded in 20 years though). The very first intro CS course is really well done and all exerc
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by amoorthy 5y ago
Well said! Thank you.
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by amoorthy 5y ago
Can someone help me understand if users saying they do not want to be tracked affects CPMs on Facebook? We've seen a large increase in CPMs and I'm wondering if the two are related. Thanks.
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by amoorthy 5y ago
I know what you mean. What I've seen is that many people, myself included, fear retribution for talking about politics - even things we deeply believe to be true. I think HN works reasonably well in that it is pseudoanonymous and there
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by amoorthy 5y ago
A long time ago, I had a bitter and stupid fight with a (former) friend on Facebook when I inadvertently argued that the US foreign policy record is inconsistent at best and entirely self-interested at worst. The experience taught me many t
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by amoorthy 5y ago
There's a startup doing this :-) http://www.makeamericadinneragain.com/ . They were profiled on NPR a while ago I recall.
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by amoorthy 5y ago
Agreed! It's one reason I'm bullish about our children learning and applying math better than us. Btw, 3 Blue 1 Brown's videos on linear algebra [1] are similarly awesome and of course his video on Fourier is magnificent [2].
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by amoorthy 5y ago
This comment has a lot of merit. The expected value from day-trading or short-term investing by retail investors is likely negative. (I learned this during undergrad doing day trading for a few months and nearly losing my tuition. stupid).
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by amoorthy 5y ago
I once built a prototype app to soft delete near-duplicate photos to save space. i.e. it would look at images that are very similar and identify the one that was sharpest, with the best lighting etc, and soft-delete the rest. The app worked

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