> Passion and interest don't really come across ... What an oblivious statement made by your actual reviewer!
A useful reminder of the nature of academia
How I accepted myself into Canada's largest AI hackathon
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Re: How I accepted myself into Canada's largest AI hackathon
#22Nice catch.
I remember the days when one could just show up to a hackathon and do cool hacks. Now it feels like they only exist for serious reasons.
Re: How I accepted myself into Canada's largest AI hackathon
#23Nice catch. I remember the days when one could just show up to a hackathon and do cool hacks. Now it feels like they only exist for serious reasons.
O-1
Re: How I accepted myself into Canada's largest AI hackathon
#24Nice catch. I remember the days when one could just show up to a hackathon and do cool hacks. Now it feels like they only exist for serious reasons.
O-1
The O-1 visa is appealing otherwise, but the fact that it doesn't give your spouse a right to work is an absolute no starter as far as I'm concerned. So it only really makes sense if you're single or if your other half qualifies for a separate visa.
Re: How I accepted myself into Canada's largest AI hackathon
#25I'm curios - my naive understanding that instead of using backend which will allow limited subset of actions/validate input, there is some 3rd party DB ( Firebase ?) which works via some sort of per-user API keys to allow fetch directly by frontend devs?
Firestore's quick setup uses "test mode", which is free and unrestricted. The "locked mode" recommended for production blocks all reads and writes until you set up the rules. So I don't know if they had the site in test mode, or they simply set a rule to allow everything (I've seen that happen) instead handling access based on user permissions.
Wait, firebase allows full access to http connections accessible from a browser? Wtf? Why would you want to give the user direct access to a database to begin with? Is firebase built around the idea of not running your own servers or something?
Re: How I accepted myself into Canada's largest AI hackathon
#26So, was he accepted after the bug was fixed?
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#27Earlier quoted context omitted.
Hacking a hackathon itself, maybe.
But there is no irony, because it's two different meanings of the word "hacking": firstly "gaining unauthorized access", and secondly "focused programming". I always hated that there is this second meaning. Especially since IMO it's being used to "steal" some of the glory associated with the original meaning. When did this second meaning emerge anyway? Is this site here partially at fault?
They both stem from the more general meaning of hacking as looking for clever outside-the-box solutions to a problem, showing disregard to the intended/expected/typical way of going about that sort of thing. It apparently originated with this meaning in the late 50's at MIT's Tech Model Railroad Club.
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#29Earlier quoted context omitted.
Firestore's quick setup uses "test mode", which is free and unrestricted. The "locked mode" recommended for production blocks all reads and writes until you set up the rules. So I don't know if they had the site in test mode, or they simply set a rule to allow everything (I've seen that happen) instead handling access based on user permissions.
Wait, firebase allows full access to http connections accessible from a browser ? Wtf? Why would you want to give the user direct access to a database to begin with? Is firebase built around the idea of not running your own servers or something?
Firebase is not a db, its an entire platform as a service. So you don't really create much a backend, it handles it all for you.
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#30Earlier quoted context omitted.
O-1
The O-1 visa is appealing otherwise, but the fact that it doesn't give your spouse a right to work is an absolute no starter as far as I'm concerned. So it only really makes sense if you're single or if your other half qualifies for a separate visa.
That’s ridiculous. So if your SO doesn’t qualify for their own work visa, they can immigrate but not work? Or they can’t join you at all?