frequentnapper

Is your video chat platform Hipaa compliant? How do you handle calendar and other timing or non-technical issues which would waste the providers time?

Is it still possible these days to found a startup and raise funding based on just powerpoint slides? Are there examples of this?

not op, but there was a post today about how to build single page apps using Rust on the front page: http://www.sheshbabu.com/posts/rust-wasm-yew-single-page-app...

sounds like masochism to me.

what is the appeal of Blazor (as for that matter yew), when now there's a healthy ecosystem based on Typescript for the front-end? Is it just the ability to never leave C# (or rust)?

> nor even JavaScript itself was designed for web development

Javascript was designed for web development of the 90s. It evolved along with web development.

unless you happened to criticize the chinese govt and travelled via hong kong at a later date.

As an anecdote, i have a Tajik friend from Xinjiang who's seen friends kidnapped by Chinese authorities and never heard from again for daring to criticise the govt.

I was 17. Questioned reality for 3 whole days. So surreal!

Isn't it also sophomoric to not drink because of some superstition originated by a guy 1400 years ago that a being in the sky will burn you for all eternity because of it?

>The CCP could have all the data they want on you but there is almost nothing they can do about it because an ocean and a military separates you, outside some fringe cases.

Not yet, but they recently passed a law that says otherwise.

You are refusing to look at the bigger picture. China is at a silent war with western countries -it has been for decades. Tech is the backbone of China. We have to hit them where it hurts in order to contain them, otherwise you lose much more than "your ability to trade". China just recently passed a law criminializing anybody outside China - of any nationality - criticizing China or its regime.

While people like you whine about your chat app, it can be a matter of life and death if China is allowed to continue.

You need to study up on game theory. Being the only nice guy surrounded by jerks who take advantage of you benefits them and wipes you out.

what makes you say that Zoom is most reliable? Did you evaluate google meet, etc.?

I could stomach going through all the algorithms and data structures that I learned many years ago even though we don't use most of them just for fun, but what I can't stand is the time pressure. There is no way in real life somebody will write a complex algo like that in 45 minutes. Their process is just so broken.

Nothing, as long as they only operate in China.

Yep, can't upvote this enough. I would rather not even look at companies who have hiring process like the FAANG.

I agree. It's a trade-off, especially if you're a startup or a company with a hot product trying to beat competitors to market. Security practices would translate to loss of opportunity, so maybe it's a worthwhile trade-off to pay 1% of the gained revenue to these kinds of threats as a company. Unless there are harsher penalties and victims start caring more (and are given more tools and power to punish the companies that make that trade-off), this situation will remain.

But then again, this makes the barrier to entry even higher for newcomers and gives an unfair advantage to the entrenched players. Tragedy of the commons?

Well then China should not actively be sabotaging western businesses and governments through various means. You get what you sow. About time somebody took a hard stance towards the Chinese govt.

That's like saying building a video startup is a bad idea because everybody else including MS, Google, FB, etc. already have same tech. You just need a polished product that's appealing.

"The pursuit of achievement distracts from the deeply ordinary activities and relationships that make life meaningful."

Obviously if they value achievement more, then that's what's more meaningful to them. Not sure how anybody can define what's meaningful in general for everybody. And meaning changes with time - what's meaningful today, may not be tomorrow.

Damn, can I do one just for fun and then let's code review together? :p

I recently had a humiliating experience. Just was approached on LinkedIn and at first they sent me a take home. I learned the front-end tech which was required for it, and then coded it. They just wanted me to fill out a doc but I put it all up on stackblitz. Another portion was back-end which I also put up on another online env so they could see not only the code but how everything was laid out.

Get to the over the screen share interview - just nervous and both the interviewers were impatient, and just the atmosphere was so nerve-wracking - they did nothing to make it more relaxed. Just seemed like the senior guy was stressed out and I was wasting his time. My brain kind of shut off and the seemingly simple problem at that time just seemed insurmountable because I felt myself second guessing my every thought.

Been developing for a number of years for a few companies, and I guess I haven't prepped for the tech interview - I thought my existing skills are what they need and should be enough to evaluate but boy was I wrong.

Needless to say they didn't go with me. It's not like I needed the job, or probably wouldn't have taken it anyway since what their maximum range was lower than what I make, but the startup seemed quite interesting. Just such a bad experience.

still, to be handing over money to a chinese govt owned and subsidized company at the cost of our own perfectly capable industry who can't compete with their subsidies is just foolish.

She specifically warns about chinese companies inflitrating infrastructure and the Canadian govt just handed over our embassy security to them: https://nationalpost.com/news/chinese-government-owned-firm-....

Doesn't make much sense to me from a financial standpoint. The prospective students got the visa, they will be attending online classes from within US when they go there, and will pay international tuition. You don't want their money?

I fail to see the point you're trying to make. This post was written by a homeless person in a "first world" country so the target audience is people in those countries. Nobody is obligating whomsoever you consider "third world" to read or follow her advice...

I live in Tokyo, and pretty much every neighborhood has some cafe/izakaya being run from the back of a home by a grandpa or grandma. Usually these places are extremely tiny and can seat max 4 people. I've seen some of them open all night. Not sure if they have to deal with some sort of licensing especially for liquor.

Weren't they all acquisitions?

maybe i'm missing something here, but could we not have just used a stick on the ground and rotated it accordingly, and still end up with the same result - if the stick ends up perpendicular to the plane, i.e. you? Why do we need the light polarization setup?

Thanks dang, I understand and appreciate you pointing this out. However, I would say the original flamebait and a tangent was mention and praise of a person who has committed well documented genocide. So I don't see why my comment is the only one being flagged for pointing this out.