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by siavosh 11y ago
With SaaS services this is pretty straightforward, especially for small-medium sized companies: you don't want transactional sales. You end up with sales at all costs culture, and the mess is left for the account managers/dev&#x2F
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What It’s Really Like to Risk It All in Silicon Valley(nytimes.com)
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The importance of latency in health care(pmd.com)
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Bootstrapping your startup, Q&A with pMD CEO(pmd.com)
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by siavosh 11y ago
Not to sound too cynical, but didn't we all have similar questions when it came to investment banks and sub prime mortgages and credit instruments a few years ago? Can the greater fool theory coupled with herding behavior help explain
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by siavosh 11y ago
Can you elaborate on why you'd rather be poor today than rich 20 years ago (~1995) ?
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Co-founder of Faqt, mentioned in the blog post. The lack of good options is what drove us to create our own solution, with our primary/religious focus being on simplicity. At the risk of self-promotion, we have been quietly beta testin
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Why people used to look so serious in photos but now have big smiles(washingtonpost.com)
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Ask HN: What investment insturments will correlate with AI breakthroughs?
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by siavosh 11y ago
One counter example to this is John Carmack which seems to still be flourishing after leaving his companies id Software and Armadillo Aerospace, and now working for Oculus/Facebook. Exceptional entrepreneurs and visionaries by definiti
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by siavosh 11y ago
The biggest issues I've seen haven't been legacy/technological challenges, but almost completely political/incentive/motivation reasons on the part of hospitals wanting to build interfaces for many practices. On the
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Keeping Up with Technology and Searching for Serendipity(pmd.com)
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Don’t forget to clear your client side state when logging a user out(carouselapps.com)
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Introducing Collections for Faqt(blog.faqt.co)
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by siavosh 11y ago
I don't use it everyday, as Clojure is just a side hobby for me. I had tried LightTable and another dedicated lisp editor but at the end I just embraced Emacs instead of fighting it. I'm still a novice, and I struggle between a ch
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by siavosh 11y ago
One of the best and most enjoyable ways to get started with Clojure, very well done. The part on setting up emacs was hugely helpful for a VI guy for me who's mucked around with other Lisp editor plugins.
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by siavosh 11y ago
This is one good resource: https://www.owasp.org/index.php/Web_Application_Security_Tes...
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by siavosh 11y ago
Depends on what your definition of a side project is, but I would add a security list as well.
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by siavosh 11y ago
I've heard good things about it, but my understanding is it's ideal for creating REST endpoints, so it doesn't have some standards MVC stuff out of the box. Spark is a JVM version of Sinatra which may be closer to what you&#x
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by siavosh 11y ago
We use Play for www.faqt.co, and it's been nice, but (like any framework) you start hitting random limitations that takes a lot of work and occasional Scala code to get around. Sometimes I wonder if using something like dropwizard.io f
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Taming Latency Variability and Scaling Deep Learning (2013)(youtube.com)
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by siavosh 11y ago
One resource I've found to be a refreshing take on the nuts and bolts of insight meditation that I think may appeal to engineers is the free book by Daniel Ingram. http://integrateddaniel.info/book/
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Driven to kill(slate.com)
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Google Docs Voice Typing(support.google.com)
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by siavosh 11y ago
It's an interesting time when one can build a living/breathing piece of engineering that can outlive us indefinitely.
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by siavosh 11y ago
Curious if you could tell us more about what you've worked on with Guile/Racket in a production environment?
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by siavosh 11y ago
The frustration, I think, is the feeling that a very powerful turing machine is being limited by 7000 years of biological and cultural idiosyncrasies.
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by siavosh 11y ago
The closest paradigm to what I was trying to imply are more general purpose declarative languages. Something like sql or rich logic libraries that let the developer describe the desired result rather than the 'how.' Now advance th
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by siavosh 11y ago
The futurist in me thinks the following: in a 100 years programs will program themselves. We'll just need a reliable way to tell them what to program.
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by siavosh 11y ago
"It just feels like there's so much territory out there that's beyond the bounds of ASCII text that's just line after line, roughly 80 characters wide, mostly 7-bit ASCII, something that you could type in on a teletype.

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