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by acconrad 7y ago
Let's unpack a few statements here: > financially responsible enough to save and pay off their loans early What if you are financially responsible and you don't have enough to save and pay off early? > like me worked thei
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Why coding boot camps are troublesome(twitter.com)
1 points by acconrad 7y ago|0 comments
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A $15T opportunity for farmers to fight climate change(cnbc.com)
9 points by acconrad 7y ago|3 comments
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by acconrad 7y ago
So would a non-conformist in a land of tech non-conformists stand out by ironically wearing a suit? Is this like that saying that everything in fashion is cyclical?
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by acconrad 7y ago
Walk through privacytools.io with them for at least their browser and their browser extensions, and possibly the email portion. That 30 min lesson may do them years worth of good.
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by acconrad 7y ago
I'd say work for my company ( https://www.indigoag.com/join-us ) but you work in Europe. Look for agtech or renewable energy companies who need software engineers. You're helping tackle climate change by being a par
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How to Save the (Institutional) Humanities(scholars-stage.blogspot.com)
2 points by acconrad 7y ago|0 comments
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by acconrad 7y ago
sorry when i say "died" i mean the battery life was under 2 hours without needing to be charged again
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by acconrad 7y ago
My Nexus 6P died in the fall of 2018 and I had to upgrade so I got the Pixel 3. If i knew they were going to make a $400 Pixel 3a I would have waited. Really pissed about this release cycle and I feel like I wasted money I didn't want
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by acconrad 7y ago
This felt like a dispassionate ramble on San Francisco's roots in 60s counterculture while also ironically offering no help to the problem of big money flowing into the Valley (and in a way, being part of the problem she identifies fro
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by acconrad 7y ago
Pea protein is incredibly chalky and earthy. It's a tough one to stomach. The other thing that people don't realize is that peas are incredibly high in iron. So much so that you actually need to watch your intake or you'll ge
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by acconrad 7y ago
Interviewing is a skill in of itself. Practice. Grind Leetcode, HackerRank, and interviewing.io. It's not the best answer because institutionally we are incentivizing the wrong behavior. But unfortunately until we make that change your
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by acconrad 7y ago
> the research showed that too little or too much sleep was associated with increased risk of dying – approximately 65 minutes more than, or under, the average nightly sleep duration (7 hours in this sample) was associated with a 10 per
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by acconrad 7y ago
would this mean that outside of runway models, you wouldn't need models to showcase your clothing anymore since you can just "wrap" your clothes over these AI humans?
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by acconrad 7y ago
Indigo Agriculture | Back-end, front-end, DevOps, PM, Data Science, Computational Biologist | Boston, MA | Full-time | On-site | https://www.indigoag.com/join-us ================ We're the fastest growing unicorn you&#
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by acconrad 7y ago
The term "millionaire" is very dated. It was first coined in the 1700s and first popularized in American culture as early as the 30s, so really when people envision that "millionaire" from their childhood or from their p
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by acconrad 7y ago
> If you snore or have mild sleep apnea BIG WARNING HERE: equating snoring to sleep apnea is NOT the same thing. Sleep apnea can happen when snoring, but it is only 1 kind of type of snoring. If you have nightmares and wake up in fit
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by acconrad 7y ago
I'm using NLP with Spacy for my slack bot and it's awesome! Glad to see they're offering a more advanced course to use their library.
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by acconrad 7y ago
Idea: turn them into actual portrait prints. Set up an Etsy page for people to make posters out of these.
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by acconrad 7y ago
The article was exhausting (unless you're into stuff like the history of table manners going back to the Victorian era) so I'll save you having to read it for the final paragraph which sums up the opinion nicely: > Really, wha
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by acconrad 7y ago
Every place is a toxic place. More specifically, every place has toxic people . It is your responsibility as a citizen of that community to speak up (either in the form of a flag or hiding that person) if you see content that is objectiona
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by acconrad 8y ago
> that you’re head over heels excited about. How are you supposed to know passion at 18? I do alumni interviewing for my college and most kids have no singular passion they want to pursue (and more often than not, they are hoping college
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by acconrad 8y ago
Indigo Agriculture | Back-end, front-end, DevOps, PM, Data Science, Computational Biologist | Boston, MA | Full-time | On-site | https://www.indigoag.com/join-us ================ We're the fastest growing unicorn you&#
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by acconrad 8y ago
Here's a good summary from Reddit: https://old.reddit.com/r/cscareerquestions/comments/b4jp0k/w... As someone who has a CS background who wanted to work in front-end, I think a big portion of the &q
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by acconrad 8y ago
GoRuck GR-2. I got it used on eBay for 1/2 price (used in this case isn't a big deal because these things are bulletproof and last forever). It's great because: * It has a laptop sleeve * It's big enough to pack for I&#x
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by acconrad 8y ago
Can I suggest you find languages that solve problems you are facing? Go is great if you do a lot of scripting or web dev. But wouldn't be so good if you're making chatbots. A chatbot or real-time message passing would be great to
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by acconrad 8y ago
As someone who was a 1st engineer of a startup that successfully exited I had what would be considered a good payout. When looking over the course of my career, however, it simply made up for the reduced salary I took for the years I worked
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by acconrad 8y ago
I haven't seen this advice yet but follow thought leaders on Twitter. They'll post blogs and offer advice to keep you up-to-date on what the zeitgeist of your lingua franca is.
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by acconrad 8y ago
Regardless of where you stand on this issue politically, I think what upsets me the most is that we have the means to solve this problem. And hunger. The most basic needs for all humans can be solved: we have enough food to feed everyone.
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by acconrad 8y ago
For anyone interested, I took notes on The Algorithm Design Manual for JavaScript if you are studying chapters 3 through 5 like the blog post suggested: https://userinterfacing.com/tag/algorithms

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