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by thedevelopnik 5y ago
Yeah it’s apps for me. I live my life by my Omnifocus setup. They have a browser-based “companion” that I can and have used occasionally but it’s not the same. Airmail is the other big one. There’s just nothing that supports Linux and iOS h
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by thedevelopnik 5y ago
It’ll be even grander when I don’t have to fear for my son’s life because of a variant whose growth and spread was spurred by ignoramuses who reinforce each other’s ignorance.
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by thedevelopnik 5y ago
“Google should not use badly trained beta ML to guess which person in the world with this name is a serial killer” is not “there should be no search engines.” Google was very successful with the latter for a long time before they started in
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UPchieve (YC W21) is hiring a mobile engineer to democratize free tutoring(upchieve.welcomekit.co)
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UPchieve (YC W21) Is Hiring a Mobile Engineer (Remote)(upchieve.welcomekit.co)
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by thedevelopnik 5y ago
A lot probably go to work for school districts rather than into private practice.
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by thedevelopnik 5y ago
As someone who owns a 2 bedroom condo and plans to stay for awhile but is still mostly furnished with Ikea, I would absolutely be interested in a buyout option!
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by thedevelopnik 5y ago
You wouldn’t in this case. All her identifying documents were rendered invalid when she was declared dead.
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by thedevelopnik 5y ago
At my last company we had a gRPC pipeline using Uber’s prototool that generated code but it was still a pain to get that code into projects so I wrote https://github.com/gospotcheck/protofact to package up the code int
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by thedevelopnik 5y ago
Thanks for pointing this out! I use Firefox desktop but we don’t really have devices to test with and services like SauceLabs and BrowserStack don’t have non-profit plans so it’s difficult to cover all our bases. Something I’m still working
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by thedevelopnik 5y ago
Thanks for calling this out. It’s not that obvious, and we need to make some improvements, but there is a way to get access if you don’t qualify by zip code/school. If a student does not automatically qualify, we offer them basically a
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by thedevelopnik 5y ago
Thanks! Aly described most of this in a post below: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27119947 The scalability our volunteer training effort is definitely something we're actively working on figuring out. We're
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by thedevelopnik 5y ago
Aly posted the link to source, if you’re interested in getting involved email me at dave.sudia at upchieve dot org
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by thedevelopnik 5y ago
Yeah, to be clear, we absolutely see it as our responsibility to minimize risk and do everything we can to protect our students.
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by thedevelopnik 5y ago
To expand on #2, we are also open source, with our main app code at https://gitlab.com/upchieve/subway Our long-term goal is to have engaging, fun feature work for community contributors to work on, and we do have thos
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by thedevelopnik 5y ago
Volunteers can set availability, but they can also just hang out on their dashboard. As student requests come in, we immediately show them on the volunteer dashboard where a volunteer can immediately pick them up, and only start texting peo
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by thedevelopnik 5y ago
Thanks! I was a teacher before getting into tech and getting to enable those mentorship opportunities on a large scale was one of the main things that drew me to Aly's project.
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by thedevelopnik 5y ago
Dave, UPchieve CTO here. A really cool thing that's happened over the last year is we've gotten lots of volunteer sign ups from retired people, who were really trapped at home from fear of COVID, who have lots of time to brush up
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by thedevelopnik 5y ago
Destruction of this really annoying planet we live on!
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by thedevelopnik 5y ago
I used to work for Fanatics.com. Together with UnderArmor, they outbid Majestic for the MLB jersey contract. Majestic had had the contract since the 70s. Majestic immediately filed for bankruptcy. Which was good news for UnderArmor and Fana
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by thedevelopnik 5y ago
I’m not trying to be snarky here, would like an honest opinion: how do they win on UX? Are there specific things you like there? I’ve used all three major clouds in production now and I dread using the AWS console. Or really any part of it,
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by thedevelopnik 5y ago
How did Dick not get fired long before if everyone thought he was terrible? Oh right, that company did not learn the lesson of the first one, coding is not as important as being a decent person when it comes to building a team.
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by thedevelopnik 5y ago
Yeah this is good to call out. A couple years ago I used it and got dogpiled for racism and I had to say “ok, I will stop using it, but who am I being racist against?” And I got educated, which was good, because I did not know it is a slur
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by thedevelopnik 6y ago
And to support you but from the other side: I grew up with parents who divorced when I was 18 months old when it became clear they did not love each other anymore. But they both wanted the best for me, and didn't do the petty shit I&#x
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by thedevelopnik 6y ago
That sucks. I called my legislators about it, guess I’ll have to call them again next year as they are closer to re-election.
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by thedevelopnik 6y ago
Hey, the brown M&M’s actually served an important purpose as a signal!
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by thedevelopnik 6y ago
Oh yeah he and I still fundamentally disagreed, but it gave me some insight into Oracle’s position.
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by thedevelopnik 6y ago
Because they’re betting, with a good deal of historical justification, that they can have their cake and eat it too. US has unfortunately been union-unfriendly since Reagan.
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by thedevelopnik 6y ago
I had the opportunity once to talk to an IP lawyer for Oracle and brought this up. I specifically brought up the S3 compatibility of their cloud storage among other instances. His reply was “without admitting anything specific, how do you k
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by thedevelopnik 6y ago
Yes. There is no appellate court above the Supreme Court. The only way things could change now is if Congress/President passed a new law, and I don’t think API copyrights are near the top of the list.

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