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Does anybody know what sort of bots they are looking for?


So you have to make the bot first and then be awarded the grant?


I wonder if they are calling it a grant for tax planning purposes.


I thought the wording was a little bit strange. You could be right. What would be the implications for me as a developer to receive a grant?


It depends on if it's you or your company.

For academics, when you get a fellowship or grant that must be recorded on the 1099-misc in the united states. And you pay full taxes as an independent contractor.

I am not a lawyer nor am I an accountant. This is not legal or tax advice :)


it's a prize, not a grant. but grant just sounds better...


Good news, everyone! This year, Pavel Durov will be giving away one million dollars to bot developers in the form of grants starting at $25,000 each.

Note that 'grants' is bolded in the article. A grant is not a prize, and a prize it not a grant. So it's one or the other, and since what they are doing would normally be called a prize (or reward), the fact that they specifically mention grants is likely because it has special significance.

It's like if I say to my uncle, "I'm giving you a gift of $10,000 in the form of a loan. Enjoy your $10,000". A gift can't be a loan, and a loan can't be a gift (for tax purposes). But I might say that, because the tax treatment for loans and gifts are different.

So that goes to my question of whether or not calling it a grant has tax significance.


Funny enough, if you look at the comments for pretty much the landing page of web pack you get the same sentiment

http://webpack.github.io/docs/what-is-webpack.html


Yeah I agree with most of the sentiment but I let it by when you go to the github repo and check out contributor statistics. Pretty much it's just sokra doing everything and he does it in his free time last I heard. I think webpack is missing the support it needs in regards to how much it's actually getting used.


just started using grunt for my django project. I can't even imagine going back to using something else.


seems a little bit sparse on the documentation or am I missing something?


We'll be providing short user training videos very soon.


As someone who is the core audience for this tool can I say that I strongly prefer clear documentation over videos? Videos are way too hard to maintain and end up being stale the minute after you post them in fast-moving projects. I can't text-search a video and I can't be linked directly to an answer in a StackOverflow response.

Written documentation is vastly superior to videos in my opinion.


To add--you can also skim text MUCH more quickly for the piece you want compared to video.

I absolutely loathe video for any analytics-related documentation. It rarely adds any real value over text outside of live webinars where I can ask questions.


seconded. videos are not useful as documentation.


Would very much appreciate that as well as walk-through docs.

Got it up and running easily enough, and connected to Redshift. But seemed like creating a new "slice" required custom JSON params to define it. Unless I missed something?

edit: yep, missed something. Can "explore" a table by clicking it's link in the table listing.


Is there an API for building viz in code similar to something like Bokeh, or is it end user viz design only?


the lack of response in this thread makes me weary of using react native for my own project.


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