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Algorithmic Governance and the Ghost in the Machine(ribbonfarm.com)
5 points by calcsam 13y ago|0 comments
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by calcsam 13y ago
"I'm sorry, there's not room in this round" usually does the trick. You don't tell a friend of a friend that you don't trust him. If he is upset that he's not going to be part of the round, he will ask you
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by calcsam 13y ago
Go talk to Bright.com. They are doing the same thing.
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by calcsam 13y ago
Offer to take them out to lunch. Keep the email short. Five sentences or less. That usually works.
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by calcsam 13y ago
Count me in this bucket...
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by calcsam 13y ago
As a fellow programmer who just learned to code, I also find the lack of feeling "I-know-how-to-do-this" disconcerting. But turning around when one isn't finding progress is also how you avoid getting stuck in cul-de-sacs. Ke
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Q: What happens when too many brogrammers work at a startup?
1 points by calcsam 13y ago|0 comments
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by calcsam 13y ago
As an econ nerd turned programmer, this is why I feel right at home.
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by calcsam 13y ago
Quick note: dollar-using countries like the US write $4.99 meaning one cent less than 5 dollars. Or they write $4,999 for one dollar less than 5 thousand dollars. Or they write $499 for one dollar less than five hundred dollars. Hope that h
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by calcsam 13y ago
Kevin's great. I got to know him after he came to present at HackerDojo and did a heck of a job -- extremely helpful guy!
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Outsource your job search(medium.com)
1 points by calcsam 13y ago|0 comments
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by calcsam 13y ago
Question: do you use an offshore staff? If not, how can you charge only $3400/m for two dedicated team members? If so, clever!
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by calcsam 13y ago
I believe the Onion nailed it here a couple years ago: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cqggW08BWO0
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Break into programming: customer development and landing your minimum viable job(medium.com)
6 points by calcsam 13y ago|0 comments
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by calcsam 13y ago
Works great. Each Coursera class takes about 1GB of HD space. Will watch the videos on my BART commute.
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by calcsam 13y ago
Forgive my physics ignorance here, but black holes can suck in matter by becoming arbitarily more dense. This isn't possible for such sinkholes, so how can they suck in stuff without expanding?
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by calcsam 13y ago
Not that I know of. If you're in the Bay Area (contact info on piece), drop me a line and we can grab coffee.
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by calcsam 13y ago
Quite interesting; I've heard similar things. A good friend of mine, not as math-y as me, was a psychology PhD student in John Bargh's lab in Yale. She ended up getting her doctorate and leaving the field because she didn't w
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Bridging Economics and Data Science(medium.com)
53 points by calcsam 13y ago|23 comments
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by calcsam 13y ago
SEEKING WORK - San Francisco Bay Area or Remote Data Scientist -- Python/Java/SQL/Matlab/Hadoop/etc Need recommendation engines, traffic predictors, personalization systems? Let's chat. Other stuff: I was one o
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Zynga is hiring??(twitter.com)
1 points by calcsam 13y ago|0 comments
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Silicon Valley Startup Funding Map(fundmap.vc)
5 points by calcsam 13y ago|1 comments