dpandya

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Intro to Sales for Software Engineers(blog.versemedical.com)
5 points by dpandya 4y ago|0 comments
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by dpandya 4y ago
Verse Medical | Full Stack Software Engineer | NYC preferred, remote (US or Canada) also works | Series A startup It costs nearly $12,000 a night to spend a night at the hospital in the US. We're building software that allows patients
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A Better Phone Interview for Software Engineers(blog.versemedical.com)
1 points by dpandya 5y ago|0 comments
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Making the Engineering Phone Interview Process Less Awful(blog.versemedical.com)
2 points by dpandya 5y ago|0 comments
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For academic research citations, no replication is no problem(arstechnica.com)
11 points by dpandya 5y ago|0 comments
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by dpandya 7y ago
Please correct me if wrong, but these are likely measured via the book value of the investments which reflects the private market valuations of the companies you mentioned.
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by dpandya 7y ago
The target market for Google Hire was probably Lever's ( https://www.lever.co ) customers, i.e. mostly funded startups and other companies hiring white collar employees. For these businesses, $200-400/month for an Applic
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by dpandya 7y ago
As someone working in this area, this is an interesting article. The core issue of compliance is somewhat buried in the text, but worth pointing out. Optometrists' chief complaint is that very few offices seem to be prescribing the Hub
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by dpandya 7y ago
You could make this same argument to argue that Slack would fail against email. Something like: there are all kinds of email integrations, user-specific and group-specific setups, etc. at companies. How can Slack ever compete? The answer wa
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by dpandya 7y ago
On the flipside: if you're a person that's convinced Uber should be valued at a fraction of what it is and you're not shorting it, why aren't you? You might argue the market will remain irrational, but this is unlikely t
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by dpandya 8y ago
Whether or not a company is a "tech" company is kind of a muddled question, but taking even a brief glance at https://airbnb.io/ (their engineering blog) makes it clear that AirBnB does some pretty serious enginee
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by dpandya 8y ago
I meant applying a linear approximation.
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by dpandya 8y ago
Not meant as a critique to this book, but the fact that RL-based approaches rarely work for optimal control problems (in, for example, robotics) came as a surprise to me, given the hype and focus on RL [1]. It turns out that model-based met
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by dpandya 8y ago
This seems like a questionable comparison. Apple Music, et al. license content and there are few companies that are able to do this. This creates a barrier to entry that wasn't present for the "content clubs" Gates discusse
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Scaling Machine Learning at Uber with Michelangelo(eng.uber.com)
112 points by dpandya 8y ago|59 comments
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by dpandya 8y ago
One of the keywords you're looking for is "statistical forecasting." It's a fairly specialized data science skill since it requires experience with some fairly specific techniques (e.g. dealing with seasonality, autocorr
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by dpandya 8y ago
This is great to hear! We've had a peak sales day thanks to all the HN-directed customers.
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by dpandya 8y ago
These are all great points. > Where did you guys get that idea that prescription should match so very precisely? It's often much less about the prescription than the characteristics of the material used for the contact lenses and th
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by dpandya 8y ago
Sure, I can talk a bit about it. Essentially, the problem (like all other ad opt. problems) boils down to estimating the expected value of a particular click. This is a particularly challenging/weird problem in this space because unlik
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by dpandya 8y ago
+1
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by dpandya 8y ago
We don't claim to be the cheapest on all products yet - there's some bizdev work to do before we can say that.
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by dpandya 8y ago
That sounds interesting, but if you've been prescribed the Acuvue Moist, you can only purchase the Acuvue Moist as per law. So, although this info would certainly be interesting (and maybe reduce some customer confusion), it wouldn&#
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by dpandya 8y ago
We're transitioning to a new website ( which is already live on mobile devices when you go to https://beta.jetlenses.com/ ) . It's probably order of magnitude better and the logo is rendered as an SVG :)
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by dpandya 8y ago
Interesting point. We currently direct a lot of our customers to Opternative ( https://www.opternative.com/ ) to renew their prescription. Medium term, we might look into doing some of this in house.
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by dpandya 8y ago
Yes! Please just email me at dhaivat @ jetlenses.com with the specific lenses you need and we can figure out if we can get them for you.
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by dpandya 8y ago
This is a really important question and @alaskamiller has got the right points other than the selling software to others bit - we're pretty confident the stuff we're building is impactful in our space since we're seeing the r
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by dpandya 8y ago
Basically: scale and supply chain. On some lenses, where we're on an even playing field, we're able to dramatically beat everyone else on price (e.g. Biofinity Toric XR, MyDay Toric, Proclear Toric XR). As we grow and we can add m
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by dpandya 8y ago
It depends on the particular contact lenses - can be anywhere from 1 - 8+.
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by dpandya 8y ago
Hi. If you have out of network benefits in your insurance plan , then we can provide you with the necessary paperwork to make a claim. We can also process HSA/FSA cards at checkout. We aren't an in-network provider for VSP yet, ho
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Launch HN: JetLenses (YC S18) – Lowest Prices on Contact Lenses
80 points by dpandya 8y ago|70 comments

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