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by achompas 14y ago
There's the bigger issue of DHH picking up his sword and shield yet again and hacking at a strawman with a big "VC" note pinned to the head. We get it, DHH. Generating consistent revenue streams, buying nice offices, and raving about VCs is
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by achompas 14y ago
Sure, but we've also got anecdotes where he'd curmudgeonly agree with the collective after lots of pushback from them. I'm of the opinion that people assign too much importance to Jobs' final decisions. He created a design-oriented culture
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by achompas 14y ago
Very cool! I geek out over SVM optimizations and tweaks--have you collected your work anywhere (post? HN comment?) by any chance?
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by achompas 14y ago
> The recent releases (MacBook Pro Retina, Mountain Lion, rumored iPhone 5, iOS6) haven't thrilled me at all and I have been looking forward to the MBPR and iPhone5 for a long time. All of these have been released so recently (less than
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by achompas 14y ago
Sibling comment is impressed, but I'm skeptical that you've improved libsvm. Sorry, can't help it. :) Can you speak a bit about how you optimized it? I took libsvm to be fairly optimized as far as SVM libraries go...
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by achompas 14y ago
What are you interested in doing? What's your background, aside from a couple of languages you know? Where do you live? Do you have any areas you'd like to work in? Be heavy with the details! I know there area always companies in NYC lookin
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by achompas 14y ago
Same here, I'm really interested in hearing about Disco and potential benefits/costs vs. Hadoop.
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by achompas 14y ago
I hear the above comment about Hadoop a lot. Can you explain why?
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by achompas 14y ago
I think the blogpost is worse than helpful, as the author is simply parroting common hiring tropes, then adding misleading advice. Consider: * He recommends CLRS for learning the basics of algorithms. This is like reading baby Rudin to le
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by achompas 14y ago
The Dalrymple thing doesn't surprise me--once Gruber left, he filled that role of communicating with ardent Apple fans. As for Tumblr, Marco was also a co-founder! I think he has much more to say about businesses than Gruber, who often anal
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by achompas 14y ago
I can't stand his style and I really can't stand his blind Apple - cult thinking. He is leap years better than Gruber and Daring Fireball. His posts are witty without being cynical, and he's frank without being rude. He also has much more
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by achompas 14y ago
I found colors in Terminal to be lacking, and heard great things about iTerm 2. Sounds like you have your setup exactly as you want it, though.
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by achompas 14y ago
For starters, iTerm 2 has great profile/color management, split panes (horizontal or vertical) within the same window, and not-so-broken ANSI coloring.
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by achompas 14y ago
At Knewton, we'll cover expenses for anything that might be useful for getting your work done. In my case, that means attending SciPy 2012 last week and learning about tools (scikit-learn, Cython, Numpy/Scipy) that will help me prototype an
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by achompas 14y ago
Because, as of now, a tool they've come to rely on is essentially done. I relied on Spool. They got bought, I was bummed, then I moved on. This isn't the end of mail apps as we know it. Eventually it will stop working, and the user will
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by achompas 14y ago
Job searching can be tough, but don't get worked up about it. Email them or call them.
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by achompas 14y ago
These developers worked hard to ship the best Gmail client on iOS or OS X. Why is everyone angry about their comeuppance? Software is a business, just like any other. Every project -- even open source projects!! -- needs money to operate, a
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by achompas 14y ago
I've seen Square used by vendors in NYC and DC, and my Miami friends use it to transfer money around.
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by achompas 14y ago
Heh, that probably wasn't phrased well. Let's try again: Dynamo (and thus Cassandra) is designed for write speed and durability. What is MongoDB designed for?
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by achompas 14y ago
EDIT: deleted b/c I didn't make my point clearly.
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by achompas 14y ago
I'm a big cheerleader for NY tech (hence why I live there now), but you see a different flavor of "goofy problems." Instead of social apps, you get advertising or fashion startups. Companies on the west coast (SpaceX, Tesla) are tackling bi
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by achompas 14y ago
What are the chances in NYC that I go into a cafe and meet a startup founder? You have great odds if you're in the right area (Union Square/Flatiron). Probably no different (or not significantly different in practice) than the Bay Area. T
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by achompas 14y ago
Agreed. I was a big Spool fan (used their iOS app a lot) so I'm sad to see them go. Watched tons of tech presentations on my iPhone during long flights.
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by achompas 14y ago
Build and Analyze -- the 5by5 Network podcast with Marco Arment and Dan Benjamin -- had an excellent discussion this week[0] on whether larger companies like Twitter and Facebook would acquire any of the popular "read later" services. Parap
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by achompas 14y ago
Seriously, I saw nothing of value in here. Move along.
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by achompas 14y ago
Right I agree 100%. I just couldn't tell if you were trying to reconcile the 15B with the 45M number from Compete.
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by achompas 14y ago
Are you talking about 15B vs. the visits chart I linked? If so, the 15B number comes from API calls, which do not have to happen through the website (think of all the Twitter clients).
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by achompas 14y ago
See my edit. Your ad impressions reached approximately 3% of Twitter's daily request load last year. Note that those requests can serve up to 200 tweets + metadata. This doesn't account for Twitter's budding ad service, which one can assume
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by achompas 14y ago
Wait, see my comment below. Twitter received 15B (yes, B) API calls/day last July. How does that compare to your typical email client? I don't want to argue that Twitter is astoundingly hard, but serving ~170K requests/sec can't really be t
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by achompas 14y ago
Yes, you have a decent amount of traffic but you're also only dealing with ~160 uncompressed bytes (plus whatever overhead) per event. The hurdles you've overcame aren't that particularly amazing nor challenging. >42M uniques last mon

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