bpchaps

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by bpchaps 11y ago
I had a hard time with those filters. "Linux Admin" could have been about three top-level filters, yet I wasn't able to find it in any. Why does everyone forget about us? :(
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by bpchaps 11y ago
Sometimes they flat out just ask, though. When I interviewed at google, they asked me my college GPA. After telling them I left college before getting a degree, they just repeated the same question. Silliness.
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by bpchaps 11y ago
They're the ones who inspired me to start these projects and seek funding, actually. Half of that inspiration comes from a huge amount of annoyance in the ineffectiveness of most of their work, though. It's all very feel-good in t
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by bpchaps 11y ago
Nice! I'm doing this out of Chicago, IL.
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by bpchaps 11y ago
Never thought of that, honestly - I'll look into it. I've had surprising amount of folk ask in seriousness why I'm trying to take money away from the budget starved city, though.. That mindset might push back. Still worth a s
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by bpchaps 11y ago
I'm actively working on data-based civics projects that should hopefully have positive individual financial impact - particularly for lower income households. It's very fulfilling work that perhaps comes close in addressing locali
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by bpchaps 11y ago
They don't need to: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DARPA_Shredder_Challenge_2011
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by bpchaps 11y ago
Autocompleting is by far my biggest pet peeve in modern IDEs. With default settings in Jupyter, for example, typing """ immediately creates another """. Another great one is when autocomplete tries to be vindi
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by bpchaps 11y ago
Maybe they should put that effort into their documentation ;)
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by bpchaps 11y ago
At the last place I did sysadmin work, this was basically how I functioned. Just about everything was done to prevent having to use google, stackoverflow, etc. It was absolutely amazing in terms of learning and gaining confidence in the t
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by bpchaps 11y ago
Ugh, man. Ever hear of the principle of charity? I'm just offering my thoughts on why /I/ was thrown off by it with mild suggestions. The number of upvotes I got seems to indicate that others agree with me, so maybe, just may
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by bpchaps 11y ago
Nope - thanks! I'll check these out.
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by bpchaps 11y ago
Bit extreme, don't you think? What gives you the impression I'm hiding in a basement waiting for success? There are other routes, you know.
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by bpchaps 11y ago
The heuristics comment was more of a reflection of what I've seen outside of YC - at workplaces, gatherings, etc. It is what it is. What makes you think it's a problem with social awkwardness. There's nothing awkward about it
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by bpchaps 11y ago
I think it's a mindset problem on both ends. But - agreed that my mindset is shallow on the subject. Maybe from a lack of exposure or maybe from something else. Really, all I'd like to see is some sort of other avenue through YC
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by bpchaps 11y ago
Thanks. I agree with just about everything you said. And another thanks for not being immediately dismissive and sharing your insights from going through the process. I do think that there could be a middle ground, though. An explanation of
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by bpchaps 11y ago
This isn't most cases and the kind of work doesn't really require talking to that many folk, really. I understand what it shows as a signal. It's a shitty signal. Not trying to sound too negative here, but it's a legitim
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by bpchaps 11y ago
I'm not trying to sell it here. I'm expressing my frustrations. Nothing more.
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by bpchaps 11y ago
Entirely agreed. This whole thing is frustrating. I just went to apply to YC but ended up closing the tab. A significant portion of the process seemed geared towards "We want highly visible projects with highly charismatic individual
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by bpchaps 11y ago
It's March :)
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by bpchaps 11y ago
Oh no, I totally understand - typing this on a happy hacker keyboard ;). I'm just somewhat of a cynic, since my workflow tends to fall on its face when I'm on a server that uses special snowflake rc files. Furthering that cynicism
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by bpchaps 11y ago
Is this really the reason? One keystroke? That just borders on bloat... Just put "set -o vi" if you want to remove keystrokes, which this doesn't include.
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by bpchaps 11y ago
Yeah, I don't get this one, either. This seems far away from sane. What's the rationality behind it?
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by bpchaps 11y ago
Yep :). I think it was actually my laptop at the time.. it's having issues loading random things these days (holy crap do I need to just wipe the dang thing), so it might have been that!
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by bpchaps 11y ago
In my experience with mental health adventures, sleep is absolutely essential. It's difficult to explain, but when my sleep patterns become sporadic or light, my behavior and thought processes become... erratic. The way I internally de
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by bpchaps 11y ago
Unfortunately, jumping doesn't work for me and I can't continue! Neat concept, though.
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by bpchaps 11y ago
One of the guys who started this gave a talk at Chicago's OpenGov Hack Night about a year and a half ago. I honestly don't remember much about it, except for a huge feeling of "meh". A class on excel would be better than
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by bpchaps 11y ago
I actually tried that for a bit. Biggest problem is.. then you have two phones in your pocket. Since it's possible to send a text to an email address, I just tell folk to shoot me an email with anything important. The conversation can
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by bpchaps 11y ago
Sometimes it's not as easy as just quitting facebook. This argument comes up a lot, but it's a solution that works entirely on a case-by-case basis. When I had a smart phone, the methods of communicating with me were email, work e
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by bpchaps 11y ago
Thanks! It's a bit of a hacky way (why doesn't their non-mobile version at least link to it?!), but it's better than nothing, I guess.

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