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by villgax 6y ago
Reads like a joke with no explanation for needing a rewrite in the first place. The product itself was not used, dunno how folks assumed a rewrite would solve everything.
872.
by villgax 6y ago
Arvid Kahl's Zero to Sold
873.
by villgax 6y ago
Amazing man, this is what I wanted Markdown files to be used for!
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by villgax 6y ago
How exactly does a movers-n-packers/goods shipping company become prejudicial to the sovereignty and integrity of India let alone not be in the best interest of the citizens? Like did they conduct a poll to ban Lalamove? Real baller mo
875.
by villgax 6y ago
You don't expect anyone to write up code to create image classifier for obscure category or the daily?
876.
by villgax 6y ago
One aspect of their hiring seems to be just hiring housewives who want to have a side job, which allows the company to keep paying low & also to brag about the same whilst undermining actual experience or knowledge about the courses. Wh
877.
by villgax 6y ago
The way in which everyone has overlooked the abuse of Copyright Flagging System & silencing criticism is just appalling, don't even get me started on the imaginary kid they posted in their Ads. Lol they claim hacking of slack conve
878.
by villgax 6y ago
Thanks!
879.
by villgax 6y ago
r/India & me too
880.
by villgax 6y ago
He posted on r/India a while back. Many have offered to contribute & help out. https://www.reddit.com/r/india/comments/jyt7et/whitehatjr_fi...
881.
by villgax 6y ago
Yep, simple steps like this would ensure children & parents don't buy into this false sense of securing someone's future with some random course.
882.
by villgax 6y ago
Dang has mentioned at the bottom regarding the change in title & original URL which was the reviewers tweet sharing case doc. u/dang Url changed from https://nextbigwhat.com/whitehatjr-files-20-cr-defamation-ca ...,
883.
by villgax 6y ago
Sheer disgrace
884.
by villgax 6y ago
Yeah hopefully parents glance at news articles & think real hard before forking over $2000/yr
885.
by villgax 6y ago
Not surprised about people losing free account with a company that has no free-plan customer support.
886.
by villgax 6y ago
Khan Academy is a golden standard, which these guys can't ever aspire to become.
887.
by villgax 6y ago
The problem is wider with such startups using money to copyright strike or takedown critical content. They abused Content ID to take down valid & legal use of copyrighted content in reviews as well.
888.
by villgax 6y ago
They made it out to make believe that kid got a job at google, somehow.
889.
by villgax 6y ago
Doesn't seem so, it's just a PR/Legal team with a lot more money & head in the ground attitude towards people seeing through their lies & reporting it.
890.
by villgax 6y ago
Bit old but relevant https://www.forbesindia.com/article/take-one-big-story-of-th...
891.
by villgax 6y ago
Yeah, I used to live in a shared accommodation with many of their newly hired Civil Engineers for sales/business development roles. They had to close a family at the end of the day as part of their target, usually in the same neighbour
892.
by villgax 6y ago
Yeah all those media houses frequently had prime time spots & full page ads from the parent company so any actual journalism is not going to appear.
893.
by villgax 6y ago
Check the reviewer's twitter. He has shared slack threads where the marketing Execs ask the entire channel to brigade & report his tweets/linkedin posts/YouTube videos without any copyrighted content as well. https:&#x2F
894.
by villgax 6y ago
Not just the ESA, India's most prestigious college IIT-Bombay also fell for him. The roster usually includes folks like Stroustrup, Vint Cerf etc & then a couple years ago 'Siraj Raval' of all the people on earth.
895.
by villgax 6y ago
Imagine the Ti calculator monopoly but something similar for digital teaching if not kept in check.
896.
by villgax 6y ago
Basically milking FOMO onto Parents, making kids build random apps & giving out visiting cards + auto-generated content.
897.
by villgax 6y ago
Exactly! If you look at their employee Twitter feeds, it is littered with under 18 kids who somehow have twitter accounts & are tweeting the same generic content linking back to their websites. Also questionable is internal slack screen
898.
by villgax 6y ago
Yeah they got acquired by Byju's(Disney collaboration) for $300mn, so their PR/Legal team has no bounds.
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by villgax 6y ago
https://www.forbesindia.com/article/take-one-big-story-of-th...
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WhiteHat Jr’s founder files $2.6M defamation suit against critic(techcrunch.com)
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