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travis_bickleon Ask HN: Who is hiring? (December 2020)

Ornate Solar | Delhi, India / Remote | Full-time | Backend developer, Frontend developer, Product associate | Cleantech

Ornate Solar is a major distributor in solar hardware products in India. Having established a cost effective, tech driven supply chain of solar products, we want to solve the issue of post installation services in solar energy. The problem statement is to reduce the average down time from weeks to matter of hours.

We are looking for a backend developer, a frontend developer and a product associate to help us found this vision. No tech stack and experience constraint. The most important requirement is the drive.

Interested please reach out to me at ankush@ornatesolar.com

travis_bickleon Microsoft to acquire LinkedIn for $26B

On their press release[1] presentation[2] they have shown this as Microsoft's Graph - http://imgur.com/elacuzH. How and Why is the question.

[1]-https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/Investor [2]-https://c.s-microsoft.com/en-us/CMSFiles/InvestorPresentatio...

travis_bickleon Facebook disabling messaging in its mobile web app to push people to Messenger

Problems of Messenger App (and not Facebook company): 1. Can't log out 2. Can't turn off the 'online' indicator 3. 'Seen' indicator

travis_bickleon Ask HN: What is an open-source alternative to Google Home?

"""Search is cool, but Google-style universal search might be a bit overrated. Google still relies on institutions to provide data in indexable form, and those institutions build their reputations in ways that only partially rely on Google traffic.""" (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11729467)

travis_bickleon Spaces, a tool for small group sharing

A better alternative : http://cubeit.io

travis_bickleon Gboard: Search, GIFs, emojis and more from your iPhone keyboard

Yeah, young enough to just barely recall it :) Anyways, this is again a nice strategy, or better call it data grab. (Although, I haven't use GBoard)

travis_bickleon Gboard: Search, GIFs, emojis and more from your iPhone keyboard

Meet the new Google toolbar. GG Sundar Pichai

travis_bickleon YC Fellowship

We don't have beta ready, but we do have wireframes. Should we post them instead in "If you have an online demo, what's the url? (Please don't password protect it; just use an obscure url.)" question?

travis_bickleon Ask HN: How to take personal care when you are in front of screen for 16 hours?

Thanks, do you have anything to add for the time slot? Should it be a single sitting or divided? Should it be all night or all day?

travis_bickleon Ask HN: What to watch after How to Start a Startup?

  If you want to start a startup I would advise you to come up with an idea and start working on your product.

I just want to know more about it, I know that it wouldn't be as helpful as doing it yourself and it won't be a comprehensive guide.

travis_bickleon How Not to Sort by Average Rating (2009)

Can the design tell the user the meaning of upvote("I like this" / "I think this submission should be higher")? Because the significance of upvote could be either of the two depending on the area. Also, then one can sort accordingly.