JesseAldridge

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by JesseAldridge 9y ago
This is a good essay, but it ignores a huge underlying question: How do you measure productivity? If you spend 10 hours thinking about a difficult problem from many angles before arriving at an ingenious solution are you more or less produc
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by JesseAldridge 9y ago
""" To understand how learning plays out as birds age, the scientists also tested 21 juvenile birds in the groups at 100 days after leaving the nest, and again at 200 and 300 days. While the youngest birds didn't exhibit
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by JesseAldridge 9y ago
I also have pretty serious stress induced insomnia like the author describes. This sleep deprivation stuff didn't really help me. In fact, I wonder how much it really helped the author. I know I've tried various strategies and
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Using logs to build a solid data infrastructure(confluent.io)
2 points by JesseAldridge 9y ago|0 comments
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by JesseAldridge 9y ago
> People already have a share in the GDP. Yeah but the value of that share doesn't increase when GDP goes up. That's the difference. > raise your taxes on the rich and lift up those that are at the lowest end I believe that
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DemoMatch: API Discovery from Demonstrations [pdf](people.csail.mit.edu)
1 points by JesseAldridge 9y ago|0 comments
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by JesseAldridge 9y ago
> Monthly Active Users 2.0 Billion Just as a reminder of how insane this is, the population of the entire world is 7.5 billion.
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by JesseAldridge 9y ago
I have one simple master password. I modify it slightly based on the url of each website. I have a text file backed up on Dropbox with any special rules for the password on each website (e.g. "turbotax: capitalized + bang"). W
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by JesseAldridge 9y ago
The tool is launched on boot via launchctl on OS X and runs all the time. ( https://developer.apple.com/legacy/library/documentation/Dar... ) It automatically deletes screenshots older than four days. I use
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by JesseAldridge 9y ago
I actually wrote a tool that takes a screenshot of my desktop every five seconds: https://github.com/JesseAldridge/screen_recorder Once in a while I go back and review some of the work I did that day and look for ways
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by JesseAldridge 10y ago
I've never run a javascript server in production, but if I do the main reason would be to take advantage of the huge ecosystem. Since js works on both the client and server side, you end up with a lot more programmers hacking on it. I
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by JesseAldridge 10y ago
https://www.reddit.com/r/VXJunkies/ is fun, but can be a bit hard to follow if you're not well versed in the field.
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by JesseAldridge 10y ago
Hmm, I wonder what happened to him... > The navy described his dossier as “subjective and unsubstantiated” and launched an inquiry that concluded by dismissing his allegations as “factually incorrect or the result of misunderstanding or
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by JesseAldridge 10y ago
It's disappointing to see this comment downvoted. The blog post honestly feels kind of fluffy and is definitely far from scientific. A lot of smart people have spent a lot time thinking about this question. It seems foolish to not t
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by JesseAldridge 10y ago
I just read the audiobook version of this: https://www.amazon.com/Make-Stick-Science-Successful-Learnin... It's pretty good. The main idea is that learning is supposed to feel hard. That sense of frustration and conf
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by JesseAldridge 10y ago
On iOS you can go to Settings -> Battery and see what share of your battery each of your apps consume. Uber comes in at 3% for me.
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by JesseAldridge 10y ago
You could try AlternativeTo: http://alternativeto.net/software/promoter-io/
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by JesseAldridge 10y ago
Amazon.com, kindle books. For fields outside of computing, the best knowledge is still mostly stuck in book form.
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by JesseAldridge 10y ago
Forget girls and focus on building basic social skills. Join a club or something. Like any other skill you will suck at it at first and then get better with learning and practice. Being introverted doesn't mean you're incapable
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by JesseAldridge 10y ago
curl " http://foo.com/some_json_endpoint" -H 'Accept: application/json' | python -m json.tool
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by JesseAldridge 10y ago
I think Sublime Text should be able to handle fairly large json files without a problem. If not, I think I would just split data into multiple smaller files. Something like the python code below should work, assuming the file can fit in me
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by JesseAldridge 11y ago
> "do things that don't scale" Indeed. What exactly do you need to build that isn't already available? Somebody else is going to start emailing me summaries for $100 a month while you're messing around with whate
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by JesseAldridge 11y ago
I like this idea a lot. Seems like you don't even need to build a website to get started. I installed the pocket chrome extension and it looks like I can share my list publicly using this service: http://sharedli.st/je
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by JesseAldridge 11y ago
I like it. I'm busy and that summary was really nice. Let him have his one line advertisement.
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by JesseAldridge 11y ago
I had my first experience with Jupyter last weekend when I was trying to learn about document clustering with Python. It seems like a cool idea, but in practice ended up being kind of annoying: https://github.com/brandomr&
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by JesseAldridge 11y ago
I wrote some software that counts the number of comments made on PRs on GitHub, and then posts the results to our company slack channel: https://github.com/JesseAldridge/code_review_scoreboard I think that having visi
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by JesseAldridge 11y ago
GigWalk | San Francisco, CA | Onsite | Full Time $110 - $145K + Equity Gigwalk is hiring backend Python developers. I've been here around four months and am pretty happy. We provide software that matches companies looking for short-te
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Using Artificial Intelligence to Write Self-Modifying/Improving Programs(primaryobjects.com)
2 points by JesseAldridge 11y ago|0 comments
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by JesseAldridge 11y ago
I assume their goal is to someday integrate Atom into GitHub proper (running in a normal web browser) in order to have developers living in a 100% GitHub ecosystem. The chosen stack makes a lot of sense given this objective.
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by JesseAldridge 11y ago
We definitely do have remote engineers. But I think management wants to move toward on-site. So unless you have superhuman abilities, probably not.

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