maxucho

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by maxucho 10y ago
Respectfully, I think you may have missed the point of the article. In the committee hiring process that Facebook uses, it would seem that every candidate was actually not being judged purely on their capabilities. So telling folks to &qu
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by maxucho 11y ago
Genes may play a factor, but they are certainly not the most important one, or even a significant one in this context. If you grow up in a poor family / poor neighborhood, you won't have access to the same education as those who g
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by maxucho 11y ago
If anything, I could see Uber being one of the first adopters of self-driving cars when they're ready. They're already investing in it heavily, hiring away 40 robotics researchers from CMU to focus on it. [1] They want to corner t
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Show HN: A Slack Bot for Commending Your Teammates with Your Company's Values(github.com)
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Show HN: Chrome extension that visualizes your history as pie charts(chrome.google.com)
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by maxucho 13y ago
(Full disclosure: I'm the developer for this site). You make a really interesting point, and I think the reason for this is that each college's solution is different in tiny ways. In my opinion this is not an insurmountable proble
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by maxucho 13y ago
Yeah, this is something we're concerned with as well. The reason we have it the way it is now is because we're concerned about having too many category-specific criteria. For instance, price would be nice to show on the front page
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by maxucho 13y ago
Yeah we found that library posted on HN a few days ago, and figured since we have very low traffic right now we'd have nothing to lose with a library like this (even with the additional requests it sometimes incurs when a user hovers b
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by maxucho 13y ago
I'm the developer for this site, and we're using Node.js w/Express, MongoDB, and deployed on Heroku. Mongo might not scale super well for this kind of thing, but for ease of development you really can't beat it.
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by maxucho 13y ago
Hmm that could be just an issue on my site, not necessarily with the plugin. I've been experiencing some strange load times with it even before using InstantClick.
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by maxucho 13y ago
Awesome work! I just installed this in my own new experimental (read: very low traffic) web app: http://www.penngems.com/ I set the preload to occur on mousedown rather than mousover, as per the docs, but even with this I n