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4di | 5 years ago | on: Ask HN: What collaborative whiteboard are you using?

I heard about it from the React community on Twitter and I've been using it exclusively for system design interviews. I love the look of 'whoa cool' when candidates see my cursor moving around the screen :)

4di | 6 years ago | on: Ask HN: Who is hiring? (April 2020)

Microsoft Healthcare: EmpowerMD | Full-time | Seattle/Redmond, WA, USA | Onsite

Imagine a visit to the doctor’s office where the focus is on you. Not the computer. We’re EmpowerMD in Microsoft Healthcare (https://aka.ms/empowermd), and we’re building an ambient intelligence for the clinic you can see in our 2 minute demo video (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jnGlOCBK3kM).

Last October, we announced a partnership with Nuance Communications to create the exam room of the future (https://news.microsoft.com/2019/10/17/nuance-and-microsoft-p...)

If you’re mission driven, want to work on a collaborative multi-disciplinary team to build AI for good, we’d like to chat with you. We’re actively hiring engineers with full-stack engineering experience on a modern stack (React, NodeJS, serverless, K8S, NoSQL, etc.)

- Senior Software Engineer: https://aka.ms/empowermd-sde-sr

- Software Engineer II: https://aka.ms/empowermd-sde-ii

All positions are Redmond, WA only and international relocation is not available at this time. We are currently working remotely from home due to COVID-19 but we are looking to hire full-time employees now who can work with us in Redmond, WA when we are able to return to work at the Microsoft main campus. We cannot support long-term remote work because of our partner's privacy/security requirements.

If you’re interested, please email (with an updated CV): [email protected]

4di | 6 years ago | on: Fork: A fast and friendly Git client for Mac and Windows

Fork is awesome. I've been using Windows for the past year for a project and missed GitUp on Mac.

After trying a few clients (Tower, SourceTree, Kraken, and a few others) I stayed with Fork - very fast, performant, and intuitive. Right now I have about 15 repo tabs open in Fork with a large number of branches in each. The tree view is excellent (I actually liked the older one-line-per-entry version).

Fork recently added the ability to compare branches - literally click two times to get a diff within half a second.

I really can't believe this app is free. Well done to the makers of this excellent app!

4di | 6 years ago | on: Ask HN: Who is hiring? (June 2019)

Microsoft Healthcare | Redmond, WA | Data Scientist (Junior/Senior/Principal) | Full-Time | ONSITE | https://aka.ms/empowermd

Did you know that doctors spend over 60% of their time on medical documentation? Did you know that this is a major contributor to doctor burnout and soaring medical costs?

At Project EmpowerMD, a team within Microsoft Healthcare, we’re working on fixing this problem. We aim to harness the power of machine learning and NLP by automatically generating notes from clinical conversations.

Want to leverage your knowledge of speech-to-text, NLP, or machine learning on one of the biggest problems in healthcare? We’re a fast-moving multi-disciplinary team. You’ll have opportunities to work with the latest NLP/ML technologies, work closely with doctors, and make a huge impact.

In this role, you will:

- Drive the team’s NLP efforts, extracting intelligence from clinical dialogues to generate medical notes.

- Be a technical leader in the design, prototype, implementation, testing, deployment, and monitoring of ML models for data annotation, language processing, language generation, and dialogue management/ranking.

- Help define our product and architecture while learning from and collaborating with experienced ML/NLP/ASR leaders around the company.

- Join and help build a low-process, high-output team, doing groundbreaking, socially meaningful work.

Apply for:

- Data Scientist: https://aka.ms/empowermd-ds

- Senior Data Scientist: https://aka.ms/empowermd-ds-sr

- Principal Data Scientist: https://aka.ms/empowermd-ds-pr

4di | 7 years ago | on: Yarn's Future – v2 and beyond

I worked with Typescript for 2 years, then worked with Flow for 2 years and now I'm back on Typescript working for a big company.

I agree that Flow had better capabilities around soundness. But the tooling around Typescript really made me jealous, specifically in VSCode.

Near the end of working with Flow, Typescript was getting some cool capabilities like refactoring JSX for React apps.

Nowadays I can easily say that Typescript is a far better experience than Flow. There are updates every two months, adding some neat features that you might find in other languages.

Then you add in the power of surrounding tools and their ecosystems like TSLint and it really feels like a next-level coding experience where the tools start writing the mundane code for you, driven the core TS static analysis.

4di | 7 years ago | on: The new MacBook Pros with T2 chips do indeed kernel panic randomly

Yeah my laptop of choice is 15" MB Pro mid-2015. Picked up 2 of them over the last couple of years from Apple's refurbished store and I think with OS X it really is still one of the best laptops out there. A little tip - you can use https://refurb-tracker.com/ to get alerts when they get in stock.

TBH it's the MB Pro + OS X combo that works so well. MB Pro + Windows is definitely sub-par... lot of other great laptops for that. I've never tried Linux on a MB Pro.

4di | 7 years ago | on: Python 3 is now available on App Engine standard environment

Pretty sure they're being sarcastic. But I'm guessing the commenter hasn't used Google Cloud anyway - Python 3 was supported on Flex enviroments for a long time. The news here is that they're supporting it on Standard environments, and there seems to be good technical reasons for taking so long.

4di | 7 years ago | on: Google Cloud Platform – The Good, Bad, and Ugly

This is actually what I'm afraid of - specifically vendor lock-in and being stuck with a stack that has high operating cost. From some of the comments I've seen, Firebase has high operating costs. But I'm still planning on testing this out myself with a small project soon.

4di | 7 years ago | on: Google Cloud Platform – The Good, Bad, and Ugly

Have you migrated anything off of Firebase? Or still kept the “base” projects and upgraded around it? I’m interested specifically in how expensive Firebase is for popular products
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