kareemsabri

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by kareemsabri 4y ago
At our last startup we told people during the first interview that if they joined it would be the hardest they'd ever worked in their life. Some people opted out. Some people were excited and energized by the challenge. I don't se
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You don't have to be all that skilled (depending on the field). You do need the money to self-petition though. Many pretty average people use the O-1.
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I found it useful conjecture. It presents evidence and states the conclusions it draws, with appropriate disclaimers. Based on the facts, the conclusions are not unreasonable. - Apple has kneecapped ads from competitors, this is acknowledge
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So if they don't use your marketplace are the royalties not collected?
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Why did you want to do this in the first place?
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What sort of errors? You're talking about eventual consistency issues?
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Well, what you said is this. > FM does not guarantee most mortgages, only certain govt types like FHA and VA loans, which the govt decided to back in order to help low income people get loans (otherwise the rates would be even higher for
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by kareemsabri 4y ago
I don't think this is true. > At Fannie Mae, we provide liquidity to the single-family market by purchasing and guaranteeing mortgage loans made by lenders and issuing debt securities and mortgage-backed securities that attract glob
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by kareemsabri 4y ago
I disagree with the author (and stated as much as recently as yesterday: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32485460#32489682 ). > With thousands of geometries in an interactive map, with lists and tables of items filte
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by kareemsabri 4y ago
We use a mux router https://github.com/gorilla/mux#matching-routes
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I've used many languages in my career, including Java, Scala, Ruby, and Node. I didn't really consider Java, for a couple of reasons. - I didn't love the Java tooling at the time. Maven for example. - I don't love OOP. G
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The "affordable housing" in Atherton would likely be $2.5M townhomes. Dunno what sort of ruffians you think would be buying those.
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It's not a function, it's an immediately-invoked function expression. Edit: I guess it would be a bit inefficient to invoke the IIFE every render just to initialize the value once. Probably better to use useMemo with [] as the dep
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by kareemsabri 4y ago
Yes, in 2017 and 3 companies later I've never looked back. Current application is an event-sourced system that includes a REST API, asynchronous event processing over SSE, and a scheduled job runner. It's been great. We don't
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by kareemsabri 4y ago
So if we fed an AI with Beethoven we'd get to Miles Davis and 2Pac?
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Why do you have to use current everywhere? You can do const { current: myStableValue } = useRef(computation); Not sure what you mean by one time constructor function, but you can pass the result of a function to initial value. const { curre
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useRef is useStableValue
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He touches on this in the piece briefly. > I think as developers, we tend to overestimate how expensive re-renders are. In the case of our Decoration component, re-renders are lightning quick. Certainly it's there for a reason, and
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by kareemsabri 4y ago
Yeah, this is not to belittle the complexity of React under the hood. But they are functions, and it seems you can assume they will be called in a straightforward manner when they render (whether they are invoked as explicit function calls
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by kareemsabri 4y ago
Good article. What I've found interesting is how many developers think a React "component" (which since hooks is just a function) has some special privileges or abilities that a normal JS function does not. Like, whether it w
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This is really not true. How do you think people start companies together when they don't have capital? By splitting 50-50 and working on something "for free" on nights and weekends.
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OnDeck is a pretty good community for this https://www.beondeck.com/ I also think working at early-ish startups, Series A-C, will help you find people more interested in the founder path than FAANG type companies. From ther
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I don't have this experience at all. I have a car in NYC and am a daily subway rider. Regularly comparing estimated time via Google Maps (which doesn't even include parking) the subway is almost always faster, certainly during hou
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NY subway for virtually any destination is faster than driving, during busy hours.
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I like OneMedical (I'm a customer) but I don't know how much "innovation" it's done in healthcare. That's not to say it's their fault, healthcare is a startup graveyard, but you can't really go to One
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A boy/man and his dog is a pretty classic American archetype (Old Yeller, Where the Red Fern Grows). I don't think it's evo-pysch really, but it does indicate you are somewhat active probably, you have your shit together enou
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There's a lot of dog breeds. Some are aloof and distant, some are needy and anxious (which people do confuse as affection/love). I prefer the former.
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I don't think that's what I implied.
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He appeared on the author's podcast. The author seems generally supportive of him.
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I'm not sure that's an inside-out acquisition as Larry Page would not have control of Excite in any meaningful way. My point was more that if a guy wants to start a company to create passive income to fund his massively ambitious

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