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mebr··on Renew your service or we’ll trash your credit score, Spectrum tells ex-customer
It would be reasonable to include in the letter how much the debt is and the date of that perhaps. And with good intentions, an alternative way of resolving the issue. This letter is not friendly. I get letters with the same spirit and those bug me a lot.
mebr··on How JavaScript Works: the evolution of graphics
While the introduction section was informative somewhat, this is really written to promote a commercial service at the end. And it's badly out of place.
mebr··on First Public Working Drafts: WebGPU and WebGPU Shading Language
A question, I was wondering if you happen to know whether there is a long term commitment from these orgs/companies to support WebGPU, say for at least 10 years?
mebr··on GitHub blocks entire company because one employee was in Iran
What happened after? your account was unblocked later?
mebr··on Ask HN: Recommendation on Apple Hardware for iOS Development
The low cost option is mac mini.
mebr··on The biology of dads
I'm going to be a dad in 2 weeks. I already feel the changes mentioned in the articles, i.e. higher oxytocin and lower. testosterone.
mebr··on Ask HN: What in wix/square space do dislike most?
This definitely resonates with some people who have left such services and hired a web designer.
mebr··on Ask HN: What in wix/square space do dislike most?
Thank you for the insightful comment. I'm not sure you're not my target audience. In summary I gather you find the extremely rigid system of these builder inconvenient. I guess you had to consult the docs to figure our how to create that link for your son, and a good chunk of that 10 minutes was spent on this. Am I correct?

I'm thinking if my builder can make a software engineer build website quicker with a high level of abstraction that's exclusively mutual with others being able to do so. I've been researching intuitive interfaces, as my hypothesis is that the interface is the bottleneck. Thank you again for your comment, it is helpful!

mebr··on Ask HN: What in wix/square space do dislike most?
I have heard this opinion from some other people as well. I'm wondering what are the particular needs that call for a custom website vs. staying with wix/squarespace or another similar service?
mebr··on Asciimatics – create full-screen text UIs on any platform
That looks really fun!
mebr··on IBM completes successful field trials on Fully Homomorphic Encryption
Re your last question, I don't think so. It's just an attractive application, hidding neural network weights is valuable in some settings, for instance.
mebr··on Luckysheet, an open-source spreadsheet
Fair point, updated my comment to give an idea what this is to someone like me who doesn't get right away what this.
mebr··on Luckysheet, an open-source spreadsheet
A web-based spreadsheet, the code is under the MIT License, seems to have some (/many?) features of the commercial products.
mebr··on How to Deploy AI and Computer Vision Containers on Google Cloud Run
I wonder how this compares to https://cloud.google.com/ai-platform/ and how is the cost compared to AWS?
mebr··on A Guide to Unbundling Reddit
The author appears to forcefully prove his theory about reddit in order to sell a website he's an advisor at. I wish the disclaimer was at the top of the text.
mebr··on Trueface Visual Density
That sounds great. Thanks for sharing the info.
mebr··on Trueface Visual Density
What's the accuracy for very dense and very sparse crowds?
mebr··on Jetson AGX Xavier
I work at a startup that uses edge AI. There are many factors that edge is preferred over cloud. Security is one. Latency is important in many cases. If the internet connection is another dependency for a critical system, it can be a big headache. Once you start working on a real-world project you run into these issues. In return you give up monitoring the data and model that can be done with cloud deployment.
mebr··on How to break everything by fuzz testing
Let's go one step higher, keeping track of the state by a state machine. When designing/coding with the correctness on mind, I try to stay focused, and not think of edge cases. Or I will end up spending more time coming up with edge cases and what can go wrong. I'm not lazy, I'm almost certain of that. But I do feel time is a limited resource and want to add more value per hour spent working. Maybe, this is more the case of if it can be automated then automate it.
mebr··on How to break everything by fuzz testing
My summary of this blog post: plenty of random input data can reveal code bugs. The kind of bugs that would take probably a lot of time of think of and write unit tests for, in advance.
mebr··on Generating MIDI Music with GPT-2
The author mentions about 5% of the generated music is any good to take a listen. Even the best sounding ones shared don't sound that good to me.
mebr··on Biggest companies pay the least tax, shows new research
I side with the comment above yours. The model you are talking about in my mind has no such assumption, from the experience of owning a tiny company. So this make me angry and is novel every time I read more about it.
mebr··on Flat HTML
The reason behind the design is not mentioned. Why would one take this seriously?
mebr··on Ask HN: Do you think wallpapers can impact in productivity?
Maybe to impress the visitors to your office? Or to make employees feel loyal to the company?
mebr··on Show HN: FaceGuard – Kill the Habit
Without offering an alternative for how to deal with an itching face this will not be well received, I guess.
mebr··on Show HN: Fast, human feedback on your CV
I'm not looking for resume feedback. The price point looks fine to me. In most cases people want to optimize their resume/CV for a particular position they are applying for. I'm not sure how your service can help with that.
mebr··on Visual CSS Editor – Grab'n Go
Agreed, I recently spend more time working with css and html for a side project. This doesn't seem anything essential or novel.
mebr··on Ask HN: Who is hiring right now?
thanks for the heads-up!
mebr··on Ask HN: What projects are you working on now?
A website builder that is 10x easier to use than the competition.

Why? There are too many small businesses without a website. The upfront cost is too high to see if a website benefits their business. Wix and Squarespace and such are way too complex to use for an average small business owner(or say their kid). Most customers of these websites hire a 3rd party to develop their website. That costs more and takes longer.

Solution: if you can build a website without any training using an intuitive interface 10x quicker than what you thought it would take, most likely you build a website for your business yourself.

I have the MVP ready, and some customers. Currently I'm trying to scale to meet the demand. There is still a long journey ahead.

mebr··on Thank You, Arash
I don't know what he's been up to. But I'm certain he has inspired many Iranian-American tech entrepreneurs indirectly.
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