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swrj··on Minsky Moments in Venture Capital
There is a good list of startups that went bankrupt here: https://www.cbinsights.com/research/startup-failure-post-mor... Katerra seems like the latest big one - $1.5B in funding that filed for chapter 11 last year.
swrj··on Gail.com
I could see this being a leetcode medium/hard level backtracking question.
swrj··on Disasters I've seen in a microservices world
I can only speak for my own experience (large, top 25 state school in the US) - this sort of thing is still not taught. There was maybe one or two optional courses that taught software engineering related material, the rest of it was just a lot of computer science theory. Definitely struggled the first couple of months at my first job out of college due to this.
swrj··on The first 18 months of a startup
You use it for gaming? What was the input lag like for the Witcher 3? I imagine you wouldn't be able to play certain genres of games (like online FPS games for example) due to high latency.
swrj··on Inside a viral website
I would guess that minting a site as a NFT on OpenSea takes a whole lot less time than making that change. As for if it's more fun - that's debatable...
swrj··on Show HN: Ray.so – Create images of your code
yes - https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=ericadam...
swrj··on Robinhood sued by family of 20-year old trader who committed suicide
More people would if mobile apps weren't horrible. I have schwab and fidelity and the lack of basic features like listing option greeks, auto refreshing tick values, L2 data by established brokerages is baffling.
swrj··on Could giant SPACs be next?
It's not $10 for every SPAC, different SPACs have different NAVs.
swrj··on Show HN: Publicly share your stock portfolio
Been looking for something like this for a while, +1 for adding support for options.
swrj··on Reddit Is Down
Same here, hope it's just a coincidence and not indicative of a larger outage.
swrj··on Trump administration announces overhaul of H1B visa program requiring higher pay
Wipro, Infosys, TCS, Cognizant, HCL - a bunch of consulting companies.
swrj··on Feds say Yale discriminates against Asian, white applicants
Link to original tweet here: https://web.archive.org/web/20200702004840/https://twitter.c...
swrj··on Q2 2020 Update
Some browsers and apps auto download the pdf.
swrj··on Smokers quit in record numbers amid Covid fears
Yeah, but you don't really use toilet paper for it. People usually use a separate towel.
swrj··on California accuses Cisco of job discrimination based on Indian employee's caste
They usually have different surnames or they might have volunteered that information to their coworkers.
swrj··on The Police Data Accessibility Project
That sounds very interesting and is not something I had ever considered. Is there a reason you did not publish your findings anonymously?
swrj··on Microsoft: Cloud services demand up, prioritization rules in place
>"We have seen a 775 percent increase of our cloud services in regions that have enforced social distancing or shelter in place orders."

Seems to be a cherry picked statistic, not an overall increase in utilization.

swrj··on Show HN: ShowList – Share Bands You've Seen Live, Discover New Bands
Any option to delete your account?