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by achompas 15y ago
Seriously. It's unbelievable how people on HN have noahc's attitude. Look, if you want to build a Rails app, go build the app and post it on HN afterwards. If you want to (1) develop an incremental optimization algorithm, (2) push the bound
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by achompas 15y ago
These are excellent--halfway to my favorite LTJ Bukem mixes. Thanks for the links.
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by achompas 15y ago
If this style of interviewing is so awful, then how do these companies have such great engineering teams? (1) Companies like yours (Foursquare) hire conservatively to avoid false positives. You can afford to do this because... (2) Great o
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by achompas 15y ago
Seriously, it isn't close. Startup volume here is insane, there's a large number of big-scale successes (Tumblr, Etsy, Foursquare, Kickstarter), a mature group of companies (Google, AOL, Facebook by the end of the year), and a robust small
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by achompas 15y ago
Submit this as an article next time, maybe?
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by achompas 15y ago
This has been addressed ad nauseum in the past: you don't have to move to the Bay Area to join YC. Lots of YC companies spend the summer in the Bay, then move back to continue working.
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by achompas 15y ago
There is a blind CS professor at NYU. His name escapes me right now, but watching him navigate OS X (with its built-in voice guidance) is amazing.
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by achompas 15y ago
No problem--just responded. Good luck!
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by achompas 15y ago
Should've mentioned above: if it's no longer Friday, just feel free to reach me at the email in my profile.
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by achompas 15y ago
I have to disagree. DuckDuckGo + keyboard is great for searching docs, Stack Overflow, etc., and the box helps me navigate with j/k.
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by achompas 15y ago
Time for no strings! Like last time, I'll piggyback on Mike's thread and offer help on any type of statistical, machine learning, or econometric problems. I can also offer help with Python, as that's my language of choice.
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by achompas 15y ago
Definitely not. I can think of a couple of teams in NY alone off the top of my head: Knewton (where I'm interning now), Foursquare (summer only I think?), Etsy (confirmed for summer)...
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Knerding Out at Knewton #1: Bayesian Inference and Gibbs Sampling(acompa.net)
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by achompas 15y ago
I disagree. Package management is a nightmare on Mac--bad enough that I work on a Mint VM at home for my OSS contributions and on a Ubuntu VM at work. This is a significant consideration for any dev. Note: I know MacPorts exists, and I'm no
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by achompas 15y ago
I love these things and have wanted to participate for a while, so I'll ask you (Mike) something and offer other HNers my services. Mike, what do you think about the technology scene in south Florida? I'd like to move back home at some poin
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by achompas 15y ago
Ohhh yep, Yegge has talked about this. Meanwhile, at NYU some MS students are excited to interview with them. Hope they know what they're in for...
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by achompas 15y ago
Was talking about going Linux soon, and this'll help me work from Terminal exclusively. Thanks!
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by achompas 15y ago
Have an upvote: you're absolutely right, and I shouldn't have hammered out a response during class. Forgive me though--it's finals time, and I only caught this through HN (and not my RSS feed).
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by achompas 15y ago
Serious question: are those points conventional wisdom? Aside from Engadget reviews or whatever. I'm biased, as I actually get a decent amount of my tech news from DF.
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by achompas 15y ago
I had a bit about the irony of Gruber quoting PG's "Trolling" essay, but took it out. It really seems like Gruber trolls for views and ad money at this point.
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by achompas 15y ago
Who is talking about quotas? ICS has revolutionized Android, but you wouldn't know it from reading DF. That's already a failure by Gruber, as a tech journalist.
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by achompas 15y ago
I mean, you're right. 's/unyielding/strongly' and all that. I've read DF enough to know that Gruber points out small Apple missteps far more often than he points out Android victories (often; never).
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by achompas 15y ago
"Class warfare"? Seriously? This is a phone review. Topolsky's point is that Sigeler's piece isn't just a phone review. As technology becomes affordable to more income levels, people need to make sure they frame the debate correctly. I
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by achompas 15y ago
tl;dr : Gruber is too smart to pull shit like this, which makes his pundit-like editorializing even more disappointing. Gruber recently addressed criticisms about his lack of "objectivity" on The Talk Show [0]. He substituted the word "fai
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by achompas 15y ago
Is anyone else not tipping the Humble team anymore? Are you just splitting payment between devs and charities?
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by achompas 15y ago
Thank you so much for this!
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by achompas 15y ago
I know! It's always defended as a way to "see how the candidate thinks," but that only invites pop psychology assessments. Whatever, the person was a jerk regardless.
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by achompas 15y ago
That's fine, I'm just surprised you'd make such a sweeping generalization. Not all BigCos are the same--why would all startups be the same? I'm not a startup cheerleader -- "come change the world!" is the most overused pitch line ever -- bu
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by achompas 15y ago
You really think this would be true across a spectrum of companies with different funding situations, different revenue streams, and different user bases?
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by achompas 15y ago
I don't get this sentiment--it completely ignores the differences between mature and fledgling startups. It's clearly not all unicorns and cupcakes, but there's a difference between "work for us at 2/3rds market plus 1%" and "we're VC-backe

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