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Have you see Paperspade (https://www.paperspade.com/)? It parses equations from English to math.

I'd love that! My email is at the bottom of the page.

Absolutely devious :) I love it!

Yeah absolutely! This was based off of a small experiment that I did (albeit with job rejection letters) over the course of a week, and I felt a lot more numb to the rejection than I had before. It's anecdotal and only one data point, but I thought to make a weekend project out of it to get something shipped.

Re: timing the email, Mailchimp allows you to specify a time range, which I believe sends the emails at a random time between that time range. I set the time to between 8AM and 8PM EST, so people should be receiving emails between that time.

Thanks for the feedback! I also briefly toyed with the idea of letting users OAuth in via their Gmail accounts to compile a list of applications that they've sent in, but I really wanted to get something out quickly.

Good catch! Thanks for the heads up :)

Definitely will work on expanding to other organizations! Universities are definitely at the top of the list as early admission applications are nearly due, as well as job/internship application rejections

Hey all,

This is a weekend project that drew inspiration from my own experiences of getting rejected from various applications. Although I personally haven't applied this time around, I know the sinking feeling of seeing a rejection email pop into your inbox and reading the lines "We're sorry to inform you..." I hope you find this useful and welcome feedback to improve on this.

I remember how ridiculously long the waitlist was for that class, even for a course in the CS division. Really hoping he teaches it again next spring.

Bridgewater Associates[1]? From what I could gather, they have a very unique company culture to the point of being cultish.

[1] https://www.wsj.com/articles/the-worlds-largest-hedge-fund-i...

YES! I'm a student at Columbia and I hate having to spend money on cheap furniture and having to sell it for a very low price at the end of the school year when moving out. This is EXACTLY what I'm looking for, and I'm sure that a ton of other students are looking for the same too. Best of luck with YC :)

Relatively new developer here- does anybody have any advice for someone who eventually wants to migrate a web app from Firebase to a custom server if I start to see good traction on the project? I was initially drawn to Firebase because I could iterate quickly, but now I'm not so sure if I should continue with them.

I'm currently in the experimentation phase and I find FaaS to be a blessing. I'm currently using Google Cloud Functions since I hooked the initial app (which has a real-time messaging component) to Firebase and it's saved so much time wrt overhead.

Fleet management will become a true need, so maybe that will turn out to be their main value prop.

And I don't doubt you; I'm not trying to discredit USC at all. I'm just saying that before reading this article, I wouldn't have guessed that USC would go on the list.

From the study that they linked (https://hiringsolved.com/blog/hiringsolved-identifies-top-sk...):

> HiringSolved also compiled the leading alma maters based on volume (of all levels of hires) made by the top 25 Silicon Valley companies in the past year.

Most of the schools listed are big public schools, so it makes sense that more students from those schools are hired than students from Ivy League schools. Harvard has 22k students- for reference, UT Austin has 50k, more than twice that.

Stanford and CMU are no surprise- they're CS powerhouses. The one that takes me by most surprise is USC, a school I commonly associated with the entertainment business rather than tech.

I find that making music (especially on a computer) is very similar to writing software in that they require both hemispheres of your brain. I love the state of flow that you get into when you're deep in a project.

I think what's important for Goldman is the quality of feedback that is given. Feedback is so contextual and subjective that there are a lot of variables that could make it difficult to extract the signal from the noise, and increasing the frequency of this would make this worse.

If you don't mind me asking, what did you guys fall back to, and were you guys satisfied with it?

I think (and maybe this is a flawed premise) that most folks desire genuine, helpful feedback (or perhaps more generally what other people think about them). However, it seems like folks have difficulty when being on the giving end of the feedback, which makes tools for real-time feedback a one-sided marketplace. I could hypothesize a few reasons (i.e, feedback taken the wrong way could damage interpersonal relationships, feedback is awkward to give to a colleague, feedback is based on a sliver of the full-picture of an employee's performance, etc.), but I'd like to know y'all's opinions on the matter.

What seems to be a part of the problem is also how nebulous workplace interactions are when administrated by HR. It's awkward and unnatural to ask a close friend to "describe something that <other close friend> has done well." Most of the time when I give feedback about someone, it's a reaction to something that that person did that I observed. Having such an open-ended review in annual performance reviews seems to create a breeding ground for feedback that isn't helpful, and asking those questions constantly like Goldman and a lot of other companies are trying to do serves only to exacerbate the problem.

I've never been through a performance review before (currently a college student), but I'm curious: what distinguishes a good conversation about your performance from a bad conversation? Do you receive a plan of action? Is it the way that the conversation is conducted?

To dive deep into React Native, I'm working on a crowdsourced playlist creator called Jampot. Currently, it's super simple; you create a mix and send a form to input a Spotify playlist URI to the friends you want to add to the mix.

Written with a Flask/Postgres backend.

Here's a Node-based framework: http://loopback.io/

Github repo: https://github.com/openemr/openemr

Opendoor seems promising- company buys houses from sellers to sell to buyers. Guarantee of a sale seems more important than maximizing return, so they've experienced success in quite a few markets in the Southwest

I wonder if there's something along the lines of a credit score for public servants out there. This score would probably need to be comprised of several stats, but one of the most important would be a score of all commitments and obligations an individual has per office and how many they've actually done. Another stat that comes to mind is NPS- are voters willing to vote again for this candidate?

The article mentions that the practice was discontinued in 2010

Care to extrapolate?

I'm a total outsider to this field, so forgive me if the answer to this is trivial/obvious, but why not sell a service like this directly to the client?

LA Hacks? I got the same impression when he spoke there back around 2013/2014-ish