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by karterk 13y ago
Sure, but wouldn't it be better if it's actually used? A tumblr clone is probably too much work for an eventual ghost town. You can pick more focussed projects that solve a small problem really well - in that way, you have a chanc
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by karterk 13y ago
You will have to prove that you can "ship it". I suggest that you start off by picking a domain that you're interested in and building a body of work that demonstrates your ability. Be sure you pick some thing that's nei
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by karterk 13y ago
There are lot of companies that hire project/engineering managers where the work will mostly revolve around dealing with people - clients and your team. They will still be 8h work days, but far less intense. Some will suggest software
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by karterk 13y ago
Big data, in my opinion, technically should be data that's atleast 5-10 TBs. But that hasn't stopped people from calling data that's an order of magnitude smaller to be "big data". Example of big data could involve
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by karterk 13y ago
I think for first time bootstrappers, investing some time in a quality blog on a particular field you would like to build products for is really really useful. Apart from having a good audience to launch your first product, it helps you int
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by karterk 13y ago
I'm sorry, but you just can't "edit" quotes - that's just bad journalism. They wanted a sensational story that will rake in pageviews, and have conveniently slanted the quotes towards that. Pathetic to say the least
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by karterk 13y ago
Having taken this path from a 2-person running a "nobody cares about this" app to an app with some decent traction, there are always other things more worthwhile to do in the early stages than trying to get insights from the invar
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by karterk 13y ago
At the end of the day, it's all about the trust between you and your employer. Unless you know the people well, I won't be mixing code this way - with or without a written permission. Just too much hassle. Even if your direct mana
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Gunning fog index(en.wikipedia.org)
2 points by karterk 13y ago|1 comments
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by karterk 13y ago
The Raft paper [1] is very well written and easy to understand. You should check out Google's research papers [2] - they have some good papers on various topics and are very practical. [1]: https://ramcloud.stanford.edu&#x2F
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by karterk 13y ago
Seems not. Fuck you. Not the OP, but don't take it personally. When someone's building a side project, there are so many things to do, and making using of an existing authentication system is fairly reasonable in the interests o
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by karterk 13y ago
Couple of ideas: * offer levels of support along with the pricing tiers - larger companies sometimes require SLAs that require having someone they can call up if something goes wrong. You can charge for this. * charge based on number of use
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by karterk 13y ago
Most of the time spent in typical "big data" analysis is actually I/O. GPU doesn't help in making the data reads/writes any faster. Keeping that aside for a moment, even though GPUs are the rage these days, it'
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by karterk 13y ago
No, the laws around H1B are pretty clear on this. You can launch something, but can never charge for it legally. So, that rules out B2B. You can of course launch a social app or something, hope that it grows like a wildfire and then try mon
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by karterk 13y ago
What does it take for a foreigner to own a LLC-like company in Ireland (LLC is a see-through entity so individual just pays standard income tax)? For e.g. how easy is it to set it up compared to a Delaware Corp, which can be done in a singl
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by karterk 13y ago
Even at Google's scale, at this point, I think it's a negligible cost.
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by karterk 13y ago
I can't talk too much about C#, but in Java there is no first class support for `map`, 'filter`, `reduce` etc. (with Google's Guava, you can imitate these things, but not so elegantly). So transforming a data structure involv
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by karterk 13y ago
I'm part of a team who moved from Java to Scala recently (C# is a nicer language than Java these days). Apart from me, nobody else had real-world Scala experience but were generally good programmers and were able to pick up the functio
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Ask PG: Why did the JustFab post get killed?
8 points by karterk 13y ago|3 comments
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by karterk 13y ago
The thing that riles me is that this exact thing turned up on HN 1 year back [1] (and hit the front page), but nothing has changed since then. They continue to screw people. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4592778
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by karterk 13y ago
October 2011 is some time back. Anyone knows what's the status of this lawsuit?
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by karterk 13y ago
It does not try to position it as anything other than a subscription, and the language is plain english. Yup, plain english which is pretty loaded in the favor of subscription. Point me to one heading which says "VIP subscription cos
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by karterk 13y ago
Not the OP - but I did take a look at that page, and I do find it misleading. The "checkout as a regular member" is in a small font on the sidebar, while the main CTA is big, bold and defaults to the VIP program. The part where yo
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Stop asking about stuff one doesn't need to get the job done(codassium.com)
1 points by karterk 13y ago|0 comments
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by karterk 13y ago
But optimizing later can also be the smarter thing to do. Especially when you're in the early stages, you don't know what direction your product/company will take. Optimization is a happier problem to have than say, trying to
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by karterk 13y ago
1) get a remote-friendly job that fits your skill set and ambitions. Move every quarter or so. Stay in one place for a while. That's kind of the best of both worlds. It's actually pretty tiring travelling AND working at the same
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Ask HN: Visiting Singapore next week. Coffee?
1 points by karterk 13y ago|0 comments
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by karterk 13y ago
I think they receive a little too much credit in many cases for invention when their primary contribution has been popularization. That's being a little pedantic. Applying X for Y is definitely being inventive. That's how largel
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by karterk 13y ago
The work that Jeff Dean and colleagues at Google are doing is pretty mind blowing [1]. Sometimes, I feel that you need Google's scale of problems to be forced to push technology that way. The joke at my company is that everytime Google
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by karterk 13y ago
Link bait-y title. > But we’re deadpooling all of ‘em, effective immediately. I really don't like the tone of many parts of this article. > Facebook is just too big to fail when it comes to normal people and photos. The same

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