netvarun

8 ms·

1. 61.▲
   by netvarun 7y ago

   I have qualms on Mattermost too, particularly their licensing. Does it even qualify as open source? I strongly would recommend Zulip - https://zulipchat.com/ ``` You are licensed to use compiled versions of the Mattermost p
2. 62.▲
   by netvarun 7y ago

   Initially skeptical on your first claim but did find a source: https://www.businessinsider.com/coronavirus-spain-says-rapid... ( https://outline.com/uBBJvY )
3. 63.▲
   by netvarun 7y ago

   I had to do a double take - I'm pretty sure you meant 'asymptomatic' :)
4. 64.▲
   by netvarun 7y ago

   Also this fails HN’s guidelines of title editorializing, by including the author’s name.
5. 65.▲
   by netvarun 7y ago

   [off-topic] Kinda late to the party, but always a pleasant surprise to see an article written by a former schoolmate you've lost touched with trending on HN :) Hi shadowsun7!
6. 66.▲
   by netvarun 7y ago

   IHMO, the second half is more apt for the HN crowd. https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/7444685-the-door-refused-to...
7. 67.▲
   by netvarun 7y ago

   A Scotsman who spells Whisky with an ‘e’, should be hand cuffed and thrown head first in the Dee. In the USA and Ireland, it’s spelt with an ‘e’ but in Scotland it’s real ‘Whisky’. So if you see Whisky and it has
8. 68.▲
   by netvarun 7y ago

   Not having the site https-enabled is also a tenet of boring technology? /s
9. 69.▲
   by netvarun 7y ago

   The IEEE profile on NwAwGuy had some HN discussions: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7451062 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10961061
10. 70.▲
    by netvarun 7y ago

    There used to exist https://thisairbnbdoesnotexist.com/ [1] Oh the irony... [1] On Archive.org - https://web.archive.org/web/20190220071550/https://thisairbn...
11. 71.▲
    by netvarun 7y ago

    My favorite Bitnami hack -> Using the free EdX Bitnami image[1] to hack a sophisticated LMS (Learning Management System) for your company. [1] https://bitnami.com/stack/edx
12. 72.▲
    by netvarun 7y ago

    Daniel and Erica are two of the most thoughtful and kindest founders I know. We got to know each other during our yc batch (w13) and it’s been a great privilege to have Daniel as an advisor for my company. Can’t think of a better match - th
13. 73.▲
    by netvarun 7y ago

    I presume this is the backstory for https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19763518 (which btw was a very engrossing read in hardware reverse engineering)?
14. 74.▲
    by netvarun 7y ago

    Glad I was of some help. There was also https://uncertain.io => https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18109846
15. 75.▲
    by netvarun 7y ago

    vistimo.com => more in the context of software time estimate management They had a post on it yesterday https://blog.vistimo.com/post/169546687605/estimation-math https://causal.app => might be i
16. 76.▲
    by netvarun 7y ago

    IIRC this is by one of the creators of RocksDB.
17. 77.▲
    by netvarun 8y ago

    Awesome work! Here’s a similar project (done using an fpga) I saw on github: https://fotino.me/consolite-fpga/
18. 78.▲
    Show HN: The State of Ecommerce – 2019 Report(semantics3.com)

    1 points by netvarun 8y ago|0 comments
19. 79.▲
    by netvarun 8y ago

    As an alternative I would suggest a top-down approach. Start with the theorems/results you truly wish to understand and work backwards. There was a great quote from an interview of Peter Scholze (one of last year's Fields' Me
20. 80.▲
    by netvarun 8y ago

    I think it's a tired meme - just like the 'Stephen (Wolfram) The Braggadocio' meme. It starts getting quite annoying after a while. Especially in the latter case since Stephen blogs quite a bit and lot of his articles do tren
21. 81.▲
    by netvarun 8y ago

    tptacek posted some good commentary on this a while back - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14292223
22. 82.▲
    by netvarun 8y ago

    Previously discussed: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10962026
23. 83.▲
    by netvarun 8y ago

    >> What else would you call one of the top math students at cambridge? I would call him a good, hardworking student. (At least that's what we'd call it in Singapore ;) Coincidentally me and Xu went to high school at the sam
24. 84.▲
    by netvarun 8y ago

    Can we stop using the term ‘math prodigy’ for someone who was essentially a quant monkey - that too at best a decent one? He ain’t no Ramanujan, or a Terrence Tao or any of the recent Fields’ medalists who have poured their heart and soul i
25. 85.▲
    by netvarun 8y ago

    Since this is such a contentious topic let’s explicitly tag it as /s ;) Ps: Thanks for your contributions to Raku!
26. 86.▲
    by netvarun 8y ago

    Did it actually fail? Can’t tell from the article (though they quote an expert calling it a gimmick)
27. 87.▲
    by netvarun 8y ago

    TLDR: barely any increase in sales/revenue after a really popular YouTube channel did a video on them. Possible causes include having no direct clickable link or the channels’ viewers don’t quite monetize well (or maybe this is endemic
28. 88.▲
    by netvarun 8y ago

    Peter Norvig, director of research at google, made some observations on this topic: https://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/44kpzk/peter_n... I was somewhat involved in the programming Olympiads in
29. 89.▲
    by netvarun 8y ago

    There was an Ask HN recently on what tools to use to write a textbook - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17781569
30. 90.▲
    by netvarun 8y ago

    Thanks, fixed.