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by iamsb 6y ago
It has decent support. It is based on sprint which has had social auth for many years now. Plus good third party support like okta. Note to self - dont post about Java on HN, people downvote even non hateful comments!
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by iamsb 6y ago
Spring Boot Kotlin is worth giving a go. It has rapid prototyping abilities, but underlying Java promise of easy refactoring, great tooling. I recently refactored entire frontend and parts of backend code without ever having to restart serv
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by iamsb 6y ago
I really hope they focus on non english searches as primary focus. Google has pretty much stopped innovating in non English, non Latin script search quality and it will be much easier to target that market. It may not immediately drive reve
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by iamsb 6y ago
Hypothesis - A show hn does make it to frontpage with lower number of votes.
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by iamsb 6y ago
The only thing that stands out for me, not a single one of these startups use Microsoft tech, even though DOT NET apparently is quite good to work with, from what I hear.
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by iamsb 7y ago
It is quite interesting to re-read this after the zoom ipo. Zoom built a huge team in China, effectively outsourcing most of the development to lower cost countries, that gave them leverage in terms of being able to deploy capital more effi
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by iamsb 7y ago
I am not an expert on American car market by any stretch, but I was interested to dig more into the claim about car prices of a certain. So I thought I will ignore that specific car brand (grand caravan) and see what data comes up in cars.c
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by iamsb 7y ago
How is investing in companies which are already 100 bn in valuations more risky than SP500? I am sure all investors who put money in these companies when they were risky, made very good returns, far more than SP500.
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by iamsb 7y ago
So it was a bubble then?
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by iamsb 7y ago
bet 3 - gitlab was in that batch and is alone worth 2.7 bn, so yeah total batch valuation is well north of 3bn.
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by iamsb 7y ago
I dont think he won the first bet did he? Airbnb, Palantir, Dropbox, Uber, Spacex, and Pinterest together are less than 200 bn and falling. All still pretty good companies (not you Uber), doing interesting things though. bet 2 - I have not
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by iamsb 7y ago
Main suggestion - do not drastically underbid projects. It is usually a bad trust indicator. If you do not have confidence in your own abilities, how can I? Bidding 250 for a 300 project is okay, but 100 is too less. I will also not mention
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by iamsb 7y ago
Many good suggestions here, I will add a couple of slightly different suggestions. While you look for work, may be you can find some casual freelance gigs from upwork.com . It takes a while to get good reputation on upwork, but once you do,
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by iamsb 7y ago
Also just to add - In countries like India, it is incredibly difficult to defer which major to choose. You basically have to choose a major as soon as you have graduated high school and it is quite painful and costly(time+money) to change i
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by iamsb 7y ago
will bro culture explain women not enrolling to these majors or just dropping out of these majors? My guess is latter.
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by iamsb 7y ago
I do not know how to calculate that. At least few stem fields have very high number of women, medicine for example. So why more women do not choose mechanical engineering, hard to say. It is not because these fields are dominated by men. Wo
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by iamsb 7y ago
Also remember lot (most) of Marxism predates Darwin and evolutionary biology. Even though Darwin and Marx were contemporaries. Since left is still quite based on Marxists ideas, it just does not account for many evolutionary biology theorie
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by iamsb 7y ago
Factory work was not yet as common place as America and England in many other countries. Ford assembly lines were not yet widely used when WW1 broke out, most of the WW1 was fought with less industrialized weaponry.
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by iamsb 7y ago
It is quite difficult to reason with people who would rather blame an invisible force. For example - most women did not work in factories until much later or even today. More Americans died in making stuff for the WW1 than in the actual war
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by iamsb 7y ago
It absolutely does. I know many men in India who would rather do something else than do engineering. Look at the background of most standup comedians in India for example. Most of them come from engineering/stem background and use that
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by iamsb 7y ago
The most important thing that matters is ability to earn a decent living. Decent living is essentially ability to afford most things like a property in good neighborhoods, personal identity (clothes), transportation, quality education for c
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by iamsb 7y ago
I have always found this quite amusing that every company I have ever applied to for a job has SQL in required skills and yet not a single one of them has ever interviewed me on it.
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by iamsb 7y ago
Have you had luck winning any referrals into the companies? Often that is the best way to find work, unless you are in a location where your network is limited. If you are someone who is not good at networking and hence finding referrals is
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by iamsb 7y ago
Many artists are also similar, who experience flow in creating. But then there are many successful ones who follow a schedule and still create amazing body of work. For example - Roald Dahl. Based on the notes in his books, he was someone w
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by iamsb 7y ago
Any practice which almost no one gets it right, may be there is something inherently wrong about the practice that so many smart people are failing to implement it right.
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by iamsb 7y ago
What do you think of pair programming and the more extreme nature of it called mob programming. Have you seen either of those two things work well in any context?
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by iamsb 7y ago
You use a proxy botnet and route your scraping requests through that. Use something like hola proxy or crawlera for example.
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by iamsb 7y ago
You see them everywhere in urban and rural Australia too, though the aussies call them ute. Honestly if my family is going to own just one car, it will be a SUV, instead of a sedan/compact.
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by iamsb 7y ago
FWIW Google had orkut long before facebook became a success and moved out of colleges. Google had gtalk long before WhatsApp was conceived.
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by iamsb 7y ago
Just dont sell the startup to google again and keep building the same product over and over again. :)

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