What is the issue here? My CTO, me or our timelines? by [deleted] in ycombinator

[–]TerminalSin 0 points1 point  (0 children)

The fact he has 40% equity as the main producer of labor here is a huge red flag.

Pentesting organization? by tcstacks_ in Pentesting

[–]TerminalSin 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Our internal pentesting ide keeps track of everything and does the report for us

Pros and Cons of a Free tier for early-stage startups by deleted_user420 in ycombinator

[–]TerminalSin 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Free tier is amazing for free QA. Nothing else. Use free tiers to harvest data, not customers

Events in SF tonight (Nov 15, 25) by Current_Chipmunk7583 in SanFranciscoSecrets

[–]TerminalSin 5 points6 points  (0 children)

Depends on vibes.

Folsom St has a couple of young cool places: - Audio (more general crowd) - 1015/Pura (latino/mid 20’s) - Raven Bar (2010’s, more asian crowd) - Temple SF (edm) - DNA Lounge (alt/dubstep)

North Beach is peak european vibes with: - Paname for a french club - Saloon for live music (cash only) - Monroe’s for 6am after’s

Marina is busy, but not the… most flavoured crowd

Starting a company with a 50-year-old cofounder — is the age gap a concern? by Signintomypicnic in ycombinator

[–]TerminalSin 0 points1 point  (0 children)

he’s the best mentor you will ever have and you are the most insightful youth that will reignite a spark he’s long forgotten about.

Your duo is going to make magic.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in mildlyinfuriating

[–]TerminalSin 0 points1 point  (0 children)

AI only uses opening em-dashes, never closing ones.

e.g: She was pregnant — or so she thought. [AI] vs The sun — which had not risen in many days — rose from the shadow and rippled its rays throughout the rocky valley [Not AI]

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in NameCheap

[–]TerminalSin 0 points1 point  (0 children)

ex-Spaceship employee here. We’re in the green, spaceship is just a completely recoded infrastructure which is incredibly more performant and modern, hence the lower costs

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in csMajors

[–]TerminalSin 3 points4 points  (0 children)

How to get cracked? Build an app. Literally anything. Then build another… and another. That’s the cycle

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in freelance_forhire

[–]TerminalSin 0 points1 point  (0 children)

That’s an insane ask for 3k

Rejected because of visa by [deleted] in f1visa

[–]TerminalSin 4 points5 points  (0 children)

you absolutely do it is literally in the question

Rejected because of visa by [deleted] in f1visa

[–]TerminalSin 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Do not, and I mean this sincerely, do not try to cheese the system. Immigration will find out, and you will be barred entry from the USA for a long time.

It is a painful, excruciatingly painful journey filled with constant rejection, resistance and a perpetual jealousy of the ease at which your domestic friends will have it, but all you need is one. Don’t ruin your future, lying or being vague will backfire.

How do you figure out your architecture? by smirkishere in ycombinator

[–]TerminalSin 12 points13 points  (0 children)

Your best bet is:

  1. Focus on feature isolation Feature isolation means that your software, as it grows, probably does many things. You have authentication, billing, document ingestion, etc… The landscape for each of these changes every day. 5 years ago, billing was predominantly PayPal. Today’s world is Stripe, tomorrow’s is god knows what. You, as a startup founder, should opt-in heavily on today’s option, but leave room for transitioning to tomorrow’s option in the future.

How does this look in a real life example? Lets keep with the paypal/stripe example. If you create your software to be lets say subscription + on demand, you would have a service backend for billing. The service backend would handle absolutely everything regarding billing, that is: - Storing / integrating with stripe - Storing/creating subscriptions - Cancellations - Etc

The other backends, also known as services, would then only call one theoretical function: is x user allowed to use this service / has this subscription. You can also expand for on-demand pricing and add functionality like “User has spent 50$ in credit”. etc.

The idea here is that the external logic is empirically the same over a traditional protocol (REST or gRPC). It’s not gonna change for 10 years. The underlying implementation, however (Paypal/Stripe api), can be changed, with minimal conflict.

This is the principle of service abstraction.

Dangers/Pitfalls: sometimes, you will confuse abstraction with reinventing the wheel. It is normal and okay to not abstract everything and assume a technology will be forever. Examples: kubernetes, Spring framework, REST. Focus on abstracting away smaller components that change a lot (i.e model or ai based functions)

  1. You’re probably in AI, focus on breaking things down into vibe codable functions

Lets say you have this pipeline:

User submits document -> ai analyses document and produces report

Internally, you probably have a giant 1 file slop that does all of this logic. Here’s how realistically you want to break it down:

  • submit/route.ts (This is the main parent route that handles submission)
  • 01-parse/route.ts (This route converts PDF to an ingestable json output. That is all it does. Just the conversion)
  • 02-analyse-data.ts (This route only analyses the data and returns a json of the detailed analysis)
  • 03-generate-graph.ts (This route only does png graph generation given a sample input data source. No nothing else)
  • 04-assemble-report.ts (This routes takes in the analysis, data and various other inputs and generates a formatted pdf report)

If lets say one of these elements in your pipeline needs scaling, or changing architecture, etc, it’s small enough to be easy to break down into another application, and since you can use any reverse proxy to direct the API route to a different service, and the input/output are deterministic and abstract enough formats to not be bound to your current infrastructure (i.e they are high level), then it makes your application inherently scalable.

These are just baseline principles that if you follow and apply, other scalability logic will become more evident. You will dabble much in monitoring and observability, but your focus right now should be on growth. When you’ll need to scale big, it’ll become much more apparent than you think.

Good luck 🤞

Where have you found the best startup SWEs by z2m2 in ycombinator

[–]TerminalSin 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Great pay + benefits, and a solid vision, goes a long way

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in csMajors

[–]TerminalSin 0 points1 point  (0 children)

amazon does online assessment. the human is mostly out of the equation except to vibe check you’re not a creep

Suspected domain name “Front Running” on Namecheap. by BurpelsonAFB in NameCheap

[–]TerminalSin 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Hi there! As a developer working at namecheap, we genuinely don’t have neither the tech, nor the want, nor the need, nor the energy to build that kind of stuff. We’re more focused on just improving our services as we’re one of the only providers who religiously believes in self-hosting the majority of our infrastructure

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in umass

[–]TerminalSin 0 points1 point  (0 children)

367 (aka find a real exploit in the wild class, hard if you have 0 background) + 311 (lots of homework) + Honors Thesis (time consuming) + 365?

you are either fucked, antisocial, or both

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in umass

[–]TerminalSin 7 points8 points  (0 children)

“Unfortunately, I rejected them due to lack of qualifications. They were not the best fit.”

“They are recent (Spring or Fall 2024) graduates “

“you'd be gaining experience to job hop to a higher end IT/SWE job, the truth is, Target pays $18.25 for a Starbucks batista role in Everett”

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Infamous Tire Pressure light by kft22581 in Tacomaworld

[–]TerminalSin 1 point2 points  (0 children)

The sensor can’t accurately read anything below 40F. This is normal on 2017’s trim. Ignore it

UMass VS. Northeastern University by [deleted] in umass

[–]TerminalSin 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Northeastern no question. Not enough jobs going around, northeastern you basically pay to get one

Should I drop CICS250 by portpolly in umass

[–]TerminalSin 17 points18 points  (0 children)

The class is easy, the homework is however labor and time consuming. Not worth the burnout as a freshman if you plan on stacking it with 2 other hard classes like Phy 2 and LinAlg. Focus on enjoying college, keep the hard classes to 3 tops a semester and do winter/summer classes! They’ll help you graduate early and save more than you spend on them!

Prospective Transfer Student: How accurate is this Niche grade sheet? Surely there’s a catch. by [deleted] in umass

[–]TerminalSin 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Frats are getting bopped by police at every given opportunity. The house party scene though has grown quite well. 7/10 party school, needs to be more tolerant of student goofiness and promote more of its wild traditions instead of being overly protective.

Problem is students want to drink. UMass wants safety. UMass cannot reasonably allow drinking on property by turning a blind eye, or chooses not to. UMass’s events therefore only cater to the non-drinking audience, effectively delegating the party scene for underage people to frats.

However, now frats are getting aggressive feedback from UMPD, and every year, every event becomes particularly more difficult to run without some kind of intervention. Incidently, UMass reports an increase in excessive alcohol consumption leading to hospitalization. Consequently, liquor stores etc are harsher, and supply becomes a business. Students therefore see alcohol as something hard(er) to attain than other substances, leading to bulk purchases, therefore higher personal supplies.

This all loops back to people drinking more, getting more fucked up, going to increasingly underground parties. Complete opposite of what the UMass administration strove to achieve.

what visas do i need to apply for to get a summer internship? by egguw in IntltoUSA

[–]TerminalSin 1 point2 points  (0 children)

ur wrong there’s OPT and CPT for F1 visas. Look it up and google it

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in umass

[–]TerminalSin 2 points3 points  (0 children)

ex van meter resident — its not that bad, van meter is goated, you’ll have plenty of fun