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by samblr 9y ago
Interesting. I clearly lack any knowledge in gumbo. But from what I understand from comment is >> benchmarking the gumbo-python bindings, it was 95%+ parsing, < 5% spent on tree construction 95% on parsing - this speeds up since it
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by samblr 9y ago
Big fan of calibre. Really appreciate your work. Have converted many books to put in kindle! Flawless. I have worked on document formats (office, pdf etc) and I understand these standards are simply tedious!
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by samblr 9y ago
30x is quick! But still it doesn't appear to be sequential parser. html -> gumbo parse tree -> lxml tree What makes it efficient even with two tree transformations ? Is one of the above trees constructed in sequential way and is
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by samblr 9y ago
..$300k/year is really a good amount! And what are your expenses - $200k is high - you pay someone to manage site ?
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by samblr 9y ago
At what point you approached an affiliate and what analytics you use to bill an affiliate ? in short how is deal made and managed.
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Ask HN: How much ad revenue you make from your side project?
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by samblr 9y ago
In your editor, select option to convert tabs to spaces - you turn rich even using tab(key)!
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by samblr 9y ago
>> it was indeed just a php website. How quickly can one build and how quickly can it scale ? - Speed is the name of the game - is it not this rule which holds true when building things on internet. Or else, most of top internet app
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by samblr 9y ago
A CS degree isn't a must if you can understand time-space complexities and how they are at play in a problem. basic knowledge of trees will help.
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by samblr 9y ago
I did 'foobar' thing in april sometime. Had got that challenge when I was doing some google maps api thing. After finishing 3 rounds (5 or 6 problems) - it asks you to fill in [number, email, linkedin/github ] and reach out
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by samblr 9y ago
Initial setup to get started with programming and run a hello world kind of thing. With things we do outside of an IDE. Language specific functions and behaviour.
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by samblr 9y ago
Second this.
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My first job involved writing developing test suites for a platform (with few software layers). Each layer again had many levels of tests - unit(api), component(state machines), integration(2 layers), alpha, finally-a-swiss-knife test scrip
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by samblr 9y ago
The best years when I left work related stress to home was whilst brisk walking close to 4 miles back home. It took me about an hour. Also, an hour on exercise bike at home is good. Benefits of above activities was/is - I cared more ab
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by samblr 9y ago
I understand Gov are lagging behind in these things. But still I cannot help but think why can't it be done ? And how can Uber/Lyft survive vs their own SaaS avatars.
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by samblr 9y ago
There is a percentage for every transaction till one reaches subscription price (i.e max that will be paid)
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Ask HN: How would Uber or Airbnb fare against subscription model?
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by samblr 9y ago
Im a 'competent' programmer who has done few whiteboard interviews in my time and I have failed in most of them. Here is why ? I consider myself a competent programmer since I have developed decent work@work and my peers recognise
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by samblr 9y ago
..this at top of Ask HN ? Why
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by samblr 9y ago
One of trending 'dirty' trick while signup is multiple social account signup. Signup form shows social singup like linkedin or facebook. User chooses one, say linkedin, you think it almost signedup. Then application would say some
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by samblr 9y ago
(may be) google app-maker (+ more AI) - something to watch out for.
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by samblr 9y ago
This is cool! Yes, looking forward to tomorrow's post.
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by samblr 9y ago
Is it something you are doing as open source - pls share link if so (above comment downvoted, why ?)
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by samblr 9y ago
Belief in creating a change that they have perceived in their minds.
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by samblr 9y ago
Devops is kind of diminishing with advancement in docker, kubernetes and paas. So full stack developer is not really a myth if only one sticks to one front end tech right now. I think it's a good time to be full stack dev. Thinking of
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by samblr 9y ago
Cool, $40 is really nothing - what about database servers ? How many max concurrent queries are made by users.
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by samblr 9y ago
>> I'm running 3 on the side. Each could easily sell for $5M down the line. That is cool! what are your cloud/infrastructure costs vs number of users ? And which cloud provider are you using ?
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by samblr 9y ago
I have worked in two Western European countries and none required me to provide any Id lest alone unique id. As I see you are doing BS.
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by samblr 9y ago
>> It's used as KYC - Know your Customer - for getting the JIO connection Ok, I am Jio SIM company. So I have your aadhar KYC or a xerox of your aadhar card as well. How as a citizen, can you trust me (a private company) to not p
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by samblr 9y ago
Who has power to abuse in unique identification system (aadhaar) - individual or state? State. Where does the state in questions stand in corruption ratings, human development index ? very low. (Looking up in internet) Latest use of aadhar

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