My background: developer that spends his personal coding time on personal IP. I have never thoroughly explored contributing to open source projects, but am becoming more interested. Out of my last 1,614 commits counted by GitHub (a lot more really since most PRs merged as squash-commits) only 26 commits are public.
As a developer, I quite like it. The idea of getting some tailored recommendations for free sounds worth it to me. I am wondering how you are going to tailor the recommendations? If you would do so by looking through my public commit history, it would probably be way off. If you had an optional survey, I would be inclined to fill it out if it got me some interesting recommendations.
As a member of a small (~30 person) US-based software development agency that is in growth mode, I really like this mainly for recruitment purposes. We have a few open source projects that support our client and private development efforts, and these open source projects are written in languages and stacks that we use in-shop. We recently open-sourced them, so nearly all commits come from in-house. If we could pay $10 to get our open source projects in front of people, maybe (1) the projects get contributors, (2) we get inquiries regarding our open positions, and/or (3) we reach out to contributors to apply.
As for your first question, my plan was to let you, as a developer, pick your interests instead of "guessing" them based on your commit history. Meaning, letting you pick things like preferred languages, size of the project and so on. Once you've selected your initial set of preferences, your likes and follows (of projects) would also influence your recommendations.
Glad to know that the startup option would also be interesting! All the feedback I've received so far has been from developers, you're the first one validating the business plan as a whole, so thanks for taking the time to do so!
I have not faced that exact situation, where the type of thinking you described happens for any and all situations at hand; but, I have faced that situation across my life and can think of a few scenarios at the moment. For example, if my girlfriend is out in town with her friends and alcohol is involved, I worry in general and then there are moments when I do contend with worst case scenarios.
I don't think that computing worst case scenarios is devoid of light, but it can be rough.
What I like to do in these situations is to pray to God. I like to seek refuge at God, from Satan the rejected. I believe God is the Eternal Refuge. I seek refuge as many times as I feel the need to. I believe imploring God is a form of worship, and worshiping God is good, therefore I continuously implore for things, including refuge.
I think (1) pushing equality of opportunity in education, (2) pushing strong STEM education, and (3) nurturing innovation and entrepreneurship at universities and colleges.
I think the following talk by YC Partner Dalton Caldwell talks a little bit about that. If you Ctrl+F for "late" on the following page, the transcript section shows mention of it. I recommend the whole talk though, as it was very informative. BTW I did apply late, just last night :)
https://www.ycombinator.com/library/6t-how-to-apply-and-succ...
Would love to see more mention of naturally acquired antibodies / immunity, else (as in this article) the term "unvaccinated" is overloaded in my opinion. For example, are stats around naturally immunized folks different? I imagine so..
- Resilience of unvaccinated, "naturally" immunized individuals to new infections.
- (relatively) Larger scale studies on the prominence of brain swelling in unvaccinated, infected individuals.
- Meta analysis on social significance of published mortality rates concerning unvaccinated individuals who survived one or more COVID infections among various political factions.
- Meta analysis on sentiment of published headlines that contained one or more statistics among, a variety of news publications.
