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by adw 13y ago
I've screwed up countless things, many much more expensive than this, but those stories aren't entirely mine to tell. But this was one of my first. Years ago, making boot floppies for a physics lab where I was reinstalling all the
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by adw 13y ago
Send me email! We do have some ops people working remotely
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by adw 13y ago
Honestly, I'm not entirely sure, but email me and I'll put you in contact with the right people. Broadly, it's going to be engineering + data science, design, product management, maybe bizdev.
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by adw 13y ago
Email me at andrew at flipboard.com and I'll pass you on to the right people. Cheers!
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by adw 13y ago
Flipboard ( http://flipboard.com ), Palo Alto, CA and New York, NY (INTERN yes, REMOTE probably not) We're building the world's best personal magazine. We have about a hundred employees, just raised a hundred million dol
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by adw 13y ago
What address? (You need to stick it in your bio to make it public.)
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by adw 13y ago
Flipboard ( http://flipboard.com ) – Palo Alto, CA (and New York, NY), both full-time/permanent and intern positions. http://jobvite.com/m?3nQZ9gw6 We're building the world's best personal magazine.
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by adw 13y ago
Yeah, I was referring to Nick. (I really admire what you guys do, but when I played out I was an Ableton guy, I'm afraid...)
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by adw 13y ago
I've met one of the performers in the article; he was doing this (in SuperCollider, largely) back in at least 2004 if not earlier. Not diminishing how awesome Giles is, but it wasn't original in '08. It may not have been orig
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by adw 13y ago
Only when you're selling to end consumers. Which this isn't – it's selling to businesses who then give their beers to their employees. :-)
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by adw 13y ago
The majority of Internet companies operating at scale likely have services running on the JVM. They might be writing Scala – Twitter, LinkedIn, say – but it's still the Java ecosystem.
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That depends on the population variance.
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by adw 13y ago
Some of the worst estates in the entirety of the UK are around there, though. Do you really want to live in Toxteth? Honestly?
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by adw 13y ago
TiddlyWiki is pretty near: http://tiddlywiki.com . (the IPython Notebook is utterly, utterly wonderful. It's the first digital lab notebook worth a damn for data scientists.)
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by adw 13y ago
Yep, this looks more like Sony buying Ericsson out (and leaving Ericsson with a very nice, profitable core business)
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by adw 13y ago
Generalizing from the Valley to anywhere is insane. The Valley, right now – like it or not – is the NFL for geeks. (For better and worse.)
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by adw 13y ago
RP isn't especially common at Oxbridge.
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by adw 13y ago
Flipboard (flipboard.com) – Palo Alto, CA (local only) We're a personal magazine for tablets and phones. That means; award-winning design, very serious mobile and HTML5 work, and lots of lots of crunchy data - I'm a PM/data s
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by adw 13y ago
The biggest problem I have with not A/B testing is that it breeds a culture where people assume they really know what's going on. Common sense is often only common sense in retrospect!
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by adw 13y ago
Well, what they were doing was probably never illegal. That doesn't mean the City of London are obliged to let them do it – they're their bins.
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by adw 13y ago
Every business of any size has to do it. Costs about $100. It's not hard.
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by adw 13y ago
Isn't that a final-salary pension as opposed to a defined-contribution pension? They're both pensions. (Though I agree a final-salary scheme is much more attractive, and as it happens, I have a couple of years in one from an old g
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by adw 13y ago
Yes. Don't most funded startups have 401Ks?
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by adw 13y ago
Palo Alto, CA – Full-time, permanent – Flipboard, Inc ( http://flipboard.com ) tl:dr; go here, if you can do good stuff we want you: http://jobvite.com/m?34QnZgw1 or email andrew@flipboard.com Flipboard's a s
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10-12.5%, but not if there's a mandatory service charge. Restaurants, cab drivers, barbers etc, but not in pubs (if you're mates with the landlord, offer them a drink on you sometimes...)
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by adw 13y ago
... not with 100% accuracy, but it's totally plausible that you can do substantially better than random (or a simple regex). So there is incremental value here.
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by adw 13y ago
I'm a Python guy, and there's something in this, I think. One of Python's underrated virtues is how uncontroversial a lot of Python idioms are. The "only one way to do it" attitude helps there. In my (limited, biase
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by adw 13y ago
Thanks for the clarification –- I misspoke. The distinction I was trying to draw is that this is most likely not prop trading.
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by adw 13y ago
Worth noting that those names highly likely point at index funds. In other words, a lot of those shares are economically in the hands of small investors. (I'm sure some of them are in my 401K.)
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by adw 13y ago
Density is kind of the opposite of sprawl. The real problem is European density needs European public services. San Francisco is enormously less livable than London, unfortunately...

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