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petrbela

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About petrbela

CTO at Plotaverse (plotaverse.com) and Zealous (zealous.app). Previously CTO at Flex (Techstars Boulder '18). Ex-engineer at Chute (YC W12), and a co-founder/hacker at several projects.

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    Comment #47234421

    My screen gets fingerprints from the keyboard, maybe that's what he meant.

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    Comment #43027179

    Cursor is for programmers. Ultimately, you decide what the code should be. v0/lovable/a0 will replace drag-and-drop "no-code" tools for non-programmers who don't care about code an…

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    Comment #32726188

    Notably, SendGrid went through the Techstars accelerator instead. One of their mentors from the Techstars program [1], Jim Franklin, later became SendGrid's CEO and helped the tech…

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    Comment #28193713

    Actually, the compiled JS is `React.createElement('mesh', { ref: mesh } )`. JSX compiler converts all lower-case names to strings. Only upper-case name (and composites like `rn.Vie…

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    Comment #23668701

    There are similarly magic numbers in the database cost. A 2 vCPU/4GB instance is db.t2.medium which comes to about $35/month on demand, plus 120 GB is addt'l ~$13 so it actually co…

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    Comment #19843547

    "Learn once, write everywhere". Can't speak about performance comparison vs using Qt/.NET/whatever but the whole idea about React Native is that today, you can write a native app f…

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    Comment #18747435

    Applied ML is one of the hottest CS jobs these days :-) From startups to big cos, everyone's looking for data scientists.

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    Comment #17797609

    Some of those without an engineering undergrad degree were my classmates.

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    Comment #17771213

    There have definitely been a number of students admitted to the GT's OMSCS program who didn't have an engineering undergraduate degree. Not sure though what are the stats of studen…

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    Comment #17771183

    Intro to Information Security, for example, has four hands-on projects: 1. Exploit a buffer overflow in a C program 2. Use Cuckoo to understand a malware attack 3. Implement CBC en…

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    Comment #17624456

    Very cool! I actually considered building something similar myself about a year ago but got pulled into other projects... definitely see a lot of value in providing a single interf…

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    Comment #16737743

    Flex TV (Techstars Boulder 2018) | Boulder, CO | ONSITE | https://www.sweatflex.com/ Flex is a company on a mission to make at-home bodyweight exercise as exciting as boutique stud…

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    Comment #15900532

    > you really have to do a lot of work on your own in order to be competent in a specialization Totally agree with this. For courses like AI, ML, and RL, I watched lectures from Ber…

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    Comment #15900482

    (I'm also graduating this week, started Spring 2015.) OMSCS is a part-time program by design, meaning you can only take up to 9 credits (3 courses) per term. Most students do it wh…

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    Comment #15624964

    > I think Meteor is building something called Apollo Apollo is a library for GraphQL, primarily client side but there's also a server component (sort of like ExpressJS for GraphQL)…

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    Comment #15020987

    I think I only had one recommendation from my work manager. Perhaps the number of recs has changed (I applied in 2014) but as the acceptance criteria say, current supervisors shoul…

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    Comment #14999718

    ML/AI: * https://www.udacity.com/course/intro-to-artificial-intellige... * https://www.udacity.com/course/machine-learning--ud262 Deep Learning: * Jeremy Howard's incredibly practi…

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    Comment #13740972

    There's https://github.com/ptmt/react-native-macos for OSX and, as mentioned, also Microsoft's https://github.com/ReactWindows/react-native-windows for Win10/UWP

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    Comment #13013210

    Adam actually consulted with Caldwell so he had quite a lot of prior knowledge but still, he's only really studied it for a month. Source: http://www.nationalgeographic.com/adventu…

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    Comment #11446011

    > The best investors don’t spend a lot of time on what can go wrong. They already know the odds are against every startup that ever comes into existence. They already know every st…

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    Comment #11295918

    I'm pretty sure that was the plan.

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    Comment #11075481

    The left sidebar with Actions, Constants etc suggests use of some specific Flux library. Which one is that? Could others be used, too?

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    Comment #11075245

    Guys, this is amazing! I've been looking for something like this for a while and almost ended up building it myself. What about pricing? Will the editor be free with premium paid s…