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by veeralpatel979 6y ago
I hate gerrymandering too. More competitive elections, in my view, makes politicians less partisan and incentivizes them more to deliver for their districts. But who should determine who draws electoral lines? Right now, it's in the ha
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by veeralpatel979 6y ago
I'd say choose an area to specialize in. Whether it's security, graphics, drones, something else...find what you like and don't just gravitate toward AI/machine learning/blockchain since that's what's hot.
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by veeralpatel979 6y ago
I wrote my first web app with Django. And then Rails. These frameworks taught me how a web app should be structured (models, views, controllers, services, migrations, middleware). Now, if I wanted to, I could build my own application withou
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by veeralpatel979 6y ago
I'd define framework as something that dictates your file structure. I don't view React to be a framework; Rails definitely is.
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by veeralpatel979 6y ago
https://mightyapp.com/ I think it would be incredibly cool if this tweet especially was turned into reality: https://twitter.com/Suhail/status/1253781213363363840
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by veeralpatel979 6y ago
Meant to say critiques above, not "technqiues"
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by veeralpatel979 6y ago
I love reading about people's first principles technqiues of different technologies on HN! What do you think React will be supplanted by?
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by veeralpatel979 6y ago
what college was this if you don't mind sharing? I recall a similar thing happening at the college I went to
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by veeralpatel979 6y ago
Pro tip: if you live in California, there's something called IGETC, which is a set of GE classes you can take at a community college. Look up the equivalent in your state. Once you do that, you don't have to take GE classes at mos
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What are the chances of a third world war? (from Taleb) [pdf](fooledbyrandomness.com)
2 points by veeralpatel979 7y ago|0 comments
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by veeralpatel979 7y ago
non paywalled link: http://archive.is/mhfp8
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by veeralpatel979 7y ago
non-paywall link: http://archive.is/npL70
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by veeralpatel979 7y ago
Actions, Packages, Sponsors, free unlimited private repos, this...Microsoft's GitHub acquisition has turned out really great so far in my view.
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7 techniques for assessing frequency when quantifying (cybersecurity) risks(medium.com)
1 points by veeralpatel979 7y ago|0 comments
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by veeralpatel979 7y ago
Non paywalled link: http://archive.is/M4COJ
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by veeralpatel979 7y ago
By Tandem do you mean the YC-backed virtual office startup ( https://tandem.chat )?
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UI Driven GraphQL Design(medium.com)
3 points by veeralpatel979 7y ago|0 comments
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by veeralpatel979 7y ago
Yes, specifically this is what Ryan discusses: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Words_of_estimative_probabilit...
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Collection of awesome projects, blog posts, books, and talks on quantifying risk(github.com)
118 points by veeralpatel979 7y ago|12 comments
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by veeralpatel979 7y ago
Will these features be available in gitlab.com for free users as well?
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by veeralpatel979 7y ago
I'm wondering this as well!
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by veeralpatel979 7y ago
Yes I believe they use Akismet: https://akismet.com/
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by veeralpatel979 7y ago
Netlify Forms is another alternative: https://www.netlify.com/products/forms/ https://docs.netlify.com/forms/setup/
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by veeralpatel979 7y ago
The killer GitHub feature for me is "browse files" at any commit in the past.
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by veeralpatel979 7y ago
I tried out the beta version of GitHub's iOS app. I didn't find a single bug in it, and I really enjoyed using it for casually browsing code on my phone. I would highly recommend downloading it if you sometimes take a look at GitH
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by veeralpatel979 7y ago
Just curious: will this help the economy recover, when for large parts of it (entertainment, dining, travel, etc) the reason it's closed is due to the virus and not due to lack of money?
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by veeralpatel979 7y ago
I'm a fan of Plague Inc on iOS and have unlocked all the pathogens...what's the difference between Plague Inc and Plague Inc Evolved? Is the latter worth buying and playing? Also: if there's a design doc out there for Plague
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by veeralpatel979 7y ago
I chatted with Markus de Shon, one of the creators of riskquant, a few days ago. I would also check out Ryan McGeehan's writings on this at scrty.io. I'd be happy to discuss this topic with anyone; my email address is in my profil
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by veeralpatel979 7y ago
The point I was trying to make is that there's many scripts which are easy to write as shell scripts, so developers will write them as shell scripts. But they are time-consuming to write in mainstream languages, so developers often won
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by veeralpatel979 7y ago
Functional core, imperative shell is how this is commonly described! https://www.destroyallsoftware.com/screencasts/catalog/funct... https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18043058

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