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hvaoc | 5 years ago | on: Facebook establishing a venture arm to invest in startups

This will not work. If they are that good with information, they must be building products after products that people will love. Tell me one last known successful launch by Facebook in the last 2 years, outside tweaking their existing products.

Only way it could work is if they share their wealth in other areas / people which must be invested in and will not get enough capital if not for them. Ex: Google Venture - Solar City, Tesla.

But founders have to be fiercely independent and the companies must be independent. Like Elon Musk as founder and Larry / Sergey as investors.

Facebook DNA doesn’t allow that, they are predatory in nature. Trying to diversify by external forces since internal options simply failed. Founders of the companies they acquired, left with very unpleasant experience.

Take their money, if you are ready to be as independent as Elon Musk were and ready to say NO to Zuck when and if you have to.

hvaoc | 5 years ago | on: Ask HN: My wife might lose the ability to speak in 3 weeks – how to prepare?

This is not open source but this was very good from their demo in terms of your own voice reproduction.

https://www.descript.com/lyrebird-ai

I hope good folks in there will help you, try reaching them.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=VnFC-s2nOtI

hvaoc | 6 years ago | on: Ask HN: What projects are you working on now?

Centralized logging for development

Free centralized logging to be used during development which uses your browser as the data store (IndexedDB).

Features available

Live Streaming logs from multiple apps / tiers Complex Search (Mongo like queries) Views (Saved Search queries)

hvaoc | 7 years ago | on: Show HN: Readology – Simple, bloat-free blogging platform

Refreshing effort making web simple again.

hvaoc | 7 years ago | on: Why do business people love cross-platform so much?

Answer lies in the question I believe, non-business users don’t necessarily know the details and like to pick something that’s cross-platform to meet their business objectives. Practically having two different teams in sync needs extreme collaboration between them, often I have seen other extreme when logic and calculations are computed differently by different teams and users of each platforms were given different experiences. For most business apps, cross platform serves well enough. Easy to extend an web developer to build these apps than having to learn different platforms. Web platforms serves well over time. There exists a certain set of problem spaces when native apps are better. Let the needs drive the decision to choose the platform - would be the wiser option. End of the day business pays for these apps. (I am a full stack Dev.)

hvaoc | 7 years ago | on: Crossplane – Open Source Multicloud Control Plane

Thanks for CrossPlane, this will work if you guys stay true to your mission. A frustrated cloud user. Personally I will support you guys and GitLab any day.

hvaoc | 7 years ago | on: Ask HN: Why not more hiring of junior devs, then on-the-job-training?

Don’t lose hope, it’s just that you haven’t met the right team yet. I have seen many times senior folks are hired to cover the hiring teams back in case something goes down south. You cannot shift the blame if you hire juniors. Am a senior and I believe passionate people do great work irrespective of their age. Reach me (find my email from my profile) if you just want to talk, will be happy to share whatever that I know. Am a full stack engineer.

hvaoc | 7 years ago | on: Ask HN: Why not more hiring of junior devs, then on-the-job-training?

If you don’t break you are not learning enough. What you said is right, process should manage things from being broken. Even a seasoned person will break things if he / she is overstretched for too long. To err is human after all. Junior folks break things is a lame excuse. Am a senior if 15 years is counted as such.

hvaoc | 7 years ago | on: Ask HN: Why not more hiring of junior devs, then on-the-job-training?

Schools are overrated in tech industry, at this point in time, you would do much better if you just spend your time learning and trying things on your pace and time rather than wasting on spending in a school.

hvaoc | 7 years ago | on: Ask HN: Why not more hiring of junior devs, then on-the-job-training?

At the same time, these startups find it difficult to hire people especially when they have money but hiring is expensive in terms of time for a small startup team. This must be changed for the benefit of all involved - job seekers, company.

hvaoc | 7 years ago | on: Ask HN: Why not more hiring of junior devs, then on-the-job-training?

In my opinion everyone company likes to only benefit from experiences earned elsewhere but never like to provide folks a place to earn the same in their company. This is very unfortunate, I also see the same issue when someone is trying to even make lateral movement from one expertise to another. (Like backend to front end.) This whole process is a very lazy and unproductive way to hire. I have been thinking about an alternate approach. Where folks spend their own time to learn and build something in the common forum along in a team. Teammates can rate them, code can be available in open repo. That way folks can prove their skill outside their job and job interviews. Like I proved that I can build mobile app once and anyone can recruit me instead of starting from clean slate job interviews every single time.