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dupe https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29682051

dupe https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29682051

if you're interested in this, you might find this alternative interface useful -- https://hckrnews.com It keeps track of top links each day and you can scroll back in time. This ha…

It seems one of the biggest business issues is site visitor perception. I have a couple questions please. What's your opt-rate rate so far out of the sites that have shown this opt…

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That's a very real problem I totally forgot. We could do the same thing and have a small team of interns + mentor do maintenance mode work.... but not exactly exciting. I don't kno…

You can buy all sorts of Chinese phones (with dual SIM) directly from China online on sites like Aliexpress.com. The thing is, US uses weird 3G frequencies or something from the re…

do you have a few minute to chat in the next few weeks? drop me an email please paul@quantisan.com

yes, a large part of it is figuring out the problems and where are the lower hanging fruits and what resources are needed.

drop me an email please paul@quantisan.com I'd love to hear of your experience.

lots of great suggestions here! I'll reach out to local schools, bootcamps, etc. to get some feedback

what student would get is a tech mentor and a chance to solve real problem with a good cause. wouldn't that be a competitive selling point vs. a paid internship with perhaps a few …

good question, I edited post to clarify.

not yet, but probably eventually. I'll start with just doing it for a project first to test out the model. I have a nonprofit on board with needs. I have connections with developer…

that depends. to pay students I would need to source funding too. that is doable but does add another level of barrier to get things going. I'll probably start with finding unpaid …

I can get everything in place to spin out a partnership project. What I lack is time and experience (haven't tried this before). So I'm asking for help to iron this out so as not t…

I did a piece on using Clojure with Go recently. For me, it wasn't a switch but using them along side each other to tackle different problems more efficiently. Here's the link -- h…

Much of Clojure itself is written in Clojure. I would recommend going right to the source for idiomatic examples. https://github.com/clojure/clojure

I wrote some R scripts to perform historical data-driven asset allocation for long-only, low-load funds investment for the long term. This seem like a good time to put it here: htt…

Regarding ground changes, we can look to current bullet-train rail systems. Nobody has ever died on a bullet train in Japan due to earthquakes. I saw on a documentary that Japan fe…