CloudYeller

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by CloudYeller 9y ago
Yep. It would be like what happened after they made online poker illegal: anyone sufficiently committed will either have to cut their losses or leave the country.
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by CloudYeller 9y ago
Yep. Everyone yelling "We're gonna replace the US Dollar! We have a superior currency and The System is evil!" are doing the equivalent of walking into a Wells Fargo, yelling out "Hey everyone! We should all rob this b
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by CloudYeller 9y ago
Interesting read.
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by CloudYeller 9y ago
Inspiring to see why $1000 makes so much of a difference for many recipients: the most common theme was spending time with family. Sometimes work just seems like random people fighting tooth and nail to earn millions. It would be interes
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by CloudYeller 9y ago
So TL;DR: tshirts, ads embedded in their docs, and corporate sponsorships. Makes sense for an open source project with a fairly large community at least.
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by CloudYeller 9y ago
Yes, something feels off. My guess is that huge funds and algo traders have found that the optimal strategy is to create massive long positions while there aren't any major crises. I bet someone out there knows what will trigger a re
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by CloudYeller 9y ago
Yes. Many coding boot camps are full of people who are simply very employable. I think that's part of the reason why some of their hiring stats are so good-- there's huge selection and survivorship biases in their grads. I went to
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by CloudYeller 9y ago
For anyone saying that, in spite of digital currencies being poor candidates for replacing fiat, they're still legit "stores of value", I have an alternative "store of value" that is also guaranteed to never inflate
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by CloudYeller 9y ago
The one and only surefire way to make money hand over fist in the food business is authentic American Southern-style fried chicken & BBQ in China, made by actual Americans living there. You could start an empire rivaling KFC if you do
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by CloudYeller 9y ago
Ironic how the decentralized economy is increasing social inequality more than ever before. "Fight the power man!" yeah, ok, more like "shift the power to just me and my 17 friends-- we're cool, I promise!"
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by CloudYeller 9y ago
I bet returns were similar in 1998-99 from dotcom IPOs. Guess it's a game of getting in early and getting out while you're ahead.
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by CloudYeller 9y ago
Yeah, in 2013, the top bootcamps were raking in like $15k per student, and they were churning out hundreds of students per year. Earning millions from teaching people JavaScript was an incredible proposition.
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by CloudYeller 9y ago
It's 1999 all over again, except s/web/blockchain. "Hey everyone! This business uses a block chain! It's going to the moon!"
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by CloudYeller 9y ago
You can get part of the way there with operator.attrgetter: NT = collections.namedtuple('NT', ['x', 'y']) nt1 = NT(1, 2) nt2 = NT(nt1, 'asdf') assert nt2.x.y == 2 get_two = operator.attrgetter('x
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by CloudYeller 9y ago
I used to volunteer with meals on wheels in Harlem, and I swear the people in those buildings were 10x nicer and friendlier than the people in my own lower manhattan apt building. In the projects, people always make eye contact and say &quo
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by CloudYeller 10y ago
Another reason why I'm glad python is winning (and a fun read): http://arrgh.tim-smith.us/
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by CloudYeller 10y ago
Spot on. I respect the depth of Ng's knowledge, but for 99% of people, knowing how to implement a linear regression algorithm is completely useless. Hardly anyone is trying to write a better ML algorithm; the rest of us just need to
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by CloudYeller 10y ago
Yep. It makes sense though, if you were a cofounder at a bootcamp as of like 2-3 years ago, you went from struggling just to get students in the door, to showing the first 2-300 students your passion and teaching skills and delighting in t
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by CloudYeller 10y ago
Given the volume of applicants you have to sift through, I don't blame you for generalizing that "bootcamp == noob". I know several people who had a CS degree and/or had been working as actual "Software Engineer&quo
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by CloudYeller 10y ago
Yep. If you're getting paid to maintain even 10-20 UI's, frameworks help preserve your sanity. At least you'll know what to expect from the boilerplate and what are the general capabilities of dozens of apps, just by learni
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by CloudYeller 11y ago
I wouldn't say it's a "lack of carpenters", but (to continue the metaphor) a lack of good carpenters who work in nice woodshops. In other words, it's failure to hire high quality people to implement high quality ET
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by CloudYeller 11y ago
I think Paul missed an opportunity to identify economies of scope , not scale, as a major lever in advancement. He says: > Incumbents faced new competitors as (a) markets went global and (b) technical innovation started to trump economi
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by CloudYeller 11y ago
I've shipped ui's that popped up unstyled alerts and had just enough CSS to work in perfect conditions on desktop chrome, because those uis, as awful as they were, were light years ahead of existing tools and I wasn't given t
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by CloudYeller 11y ago
Work battles are kinda dumb, but in a way, they aren't dumb-- they're a much smarter and less-deadly form of primitive warfare. We're not perfect today, but ideas like enforcing openness+honesty in a safe environment will dr
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by CloudYeller 11y ago
Yep this was the main reason why I stopped using them. I was using their app while I was out on a saturday night and noticed some drivers setting insanely high prices like $999-- and some prices appeared to change at the last minute, so my
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by CloudYeller 11y ago
I don't like this kind of article that presumes that their readers have a choice in this matter. Reminds me of a friend of mine who once naively advised me to only take a job at a company that I would invest my own money in. I said a
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by CloudYeller 11y ago
It's scary that if you don't jump on some kind of framework bandwagon, you'll be half as productive as framework devotees within 4-5 years. When I joined my current team in 2015, they were still using Python Paste and jQuer