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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

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Post by ForTheKidz »

cbracketdash wrote: post #7

> Passion and interest don't really come across ... What an oblivious statement made by your actual reviewer!

Tbh, if I could go to a conference that guaranteed all signs of passion and interest would be banned, it would be depressing.... but far more useful. Passion is something best saved for happy hour. The best advice I've received is not from passionate people but rather people who have resigned themselves to the work.

Very grateful I'm nowhere near conferences or academia, but equally grateful others are doing the work filtering the bullshit out for me.

Re: How I accepted myself into Canada's largest AI hackathon

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Post by Brian_K_White »

bombcar wrote: post #38
igleria wrote: post #37

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Gives the impression of it being by design: They want talent but only for so long, they don't want the talent to "overstay their welcome" thus they complicate things, like not allowing the spouse to work

Exactly. It’s designed to allow you to work for a time and then return. They’re nice enough to allow a spouse to accompany, but not to work or remain.

nice enough, wow

Re: How I accepted myself into Canada's largest AI hackathon

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Post by johnecheck »

ForTheKidz wrote: post #25
Anduia wrote: post #11

Earlier 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?

Pretty much. Google manages everything. It handles Auth, which ties into the rules for accessing Firestore (the db), and you've got Functions for any code that needs to run server-side.

All with libraries in a lot of languages to make it easy. Pretty solid product with a cohesive experience and a generous free tier.

Naturally, you'll pay an exorbitant amount once you start to scale and realize you've been locked in.

Re: How I accepted myself into Canada's largest AI hackathon

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Post by Aicy »

bertylicious wrote: post #9
gukov wrote: post #5

Earlier 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?

Here's a pleasant article on the subject from Richard Stallman, the developer of GNU / Linux.

https://stallman.org/articles/on-hacking.html

Re: How I accepted myself into Canada's largest AI hackathon

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Post by 9dev »

JackDanMeier wrote: post #36
ngruhn wrote: post #4

Ah yes, the four foundational criteria to rate a hackathon application: passionAndInterest, projectAndPracticalExp, techSkillsAndExp, diversity

What would this realistically be rated on? If anything it seems like racial profiling

Pretty obvious—"Guys, this year we need a few people of color and especially women on the hackathon, I don't want another white wiener party!"

So they artificially skew the participants by granting bonus points for any minority groups.

Re: How I accepted myself into Canada's largest AI hackathon

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Post by ForTheKidz »

johnecheck wrote: post #53
ForTheKidz wrote: post #25

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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?

Pretty much. Google manages everything. It handles Auth, which ties into the rules for accessing Firestore (the db), and you've got Functions for any code that needs to run server-side. All with libraries in a lot of languages to make it easy. Pretty solid product with a cohesive experience and a generous free tier. Naturally, you'll pay an exorbitant amount once you start to scale and realize you've been locked in.

Huh! I just spent an hour diving in and I see now.

Crazy giving up that much control of your product to a third party. I can definitely see the appeal to spike realtime/chat projects, though—they really leaned into that api design well. Selling out to google was a mistake.

Re: How I accepted myself into Canada's largest AI hackathon

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Post by paradite »

paradite wrote: post #23
accurrent wrote: post #22

Nice 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

Ok looks like people are not getting my comment.

Being a judge in a hackathon is one of the criterion for O-1 visa.

https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/getting-o-1-visa-easier-than-...

Re: How I accepted myself into Canada's largest AI hackathon

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Post by Brian_K_White »

kimixa wrote: post #47
JackDanMeier wrote: post #36

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What would this realistically be rated on? If anything it seems like racial profiling

Could be diversity of proposal - if they don't want 50 people all trying to solve "the same problem"

No one uses the word diversity by itself to mean that.

Even if the writer did, it still isn't reasonable for a million readers to presume that a writer meant anything other than what they wrote, according to the consensus usage of the the words/phrases in the given context.

It only makes sense to assume the writer meant what most readers would interpret they meant, and don't move off of that assumption unless the writer issues some update or correction.

Re: How I accepted myself into Canada's largest AI hackathon

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Post by CalRobert »

setopt wrote: post #30
Etheryte wrote: post #24

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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?

Not just a US thing, Ireland did this to critical skills employment holders for years. Worse, they pretended your spouse could work, but then made the process so cumbersome it was almost impossible to comply.
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