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by dbecker 14y ago
"Y Combinator is the most exclusive thing in the world that you can openly apply to." I hope you don't actually believe that... if you do, start-up groupthink is definitely getting to you.
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by dbecker 14y ago
I think the book is excellent for advanced users too.
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by dbecker 14y ago
He's received some useful feedback in the comments here. That's the whole agile/lean idea: get user feedback early rather than spending a ton of time polishing it in isolation.
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by dbecker 14y ago
I don't think the article is arguing that everyone needs to work on a single project. But there are a striking number of people building "pictures of cats doing x" websites. It's technically easy, which appeals to some people. But there's
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by dbecker 14y ago
The argument isn't the news here. We were all familiar with Bezos' argument before reading this article (and most of us already agreed with the argument). The reason this is newsworthy is that it is coming from Bezos. He might as well say
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by dbecker 14y ago
I'm surprised to see this in the Atlantic. I expected more from them.
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by dbecker 14y ago
I hope the "obvious advantage" the author is speaking of isn't "it takes a while to learn numpy if you are used to Matlab." That would be a pretty weak argument in my opinion.
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by dbecker 14y ago
When introducing python, the author writes "Despite the obvious advantages of MATLAB, R, and Julia, it’s also always worth considering what a general-purpose language can bring to the table." Even with thousands of hours of experience in Ma
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by dbecker 14y ago
Though Python doesn't have the library support that R has, it far exceeds what's available in Julie (and,depending what you are looking for, in Matlab as well)
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by dbecker 14y ago
Government may be broken in many ways, but when I hear political discourse, I'm amazed public policy isn't worse.
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by dbecker 14y ago
Perhaps there is a decrease in the popularity of client side scripting. I'd find that surprising, but I didn't anticipate the decrease in javascript search volume either.
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Javascript's declining popularity?(google.com)
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by dbecker 14y ago
I agree with your main point (that the difference in lifestyles can be used to justify scamming comparatively wealthy westerners.) I just thought you were overstating their view of the difference in statements like "wouldn't miss a few k in
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by dbecker 14y ago
There are a lot of pretenders and bad developers out there. If I was serious about pursuing a job, I'd appreciate the opportunity to separate myself from the pretenders using something like Codility.
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by dbecker 14y ago
I told the guy who called me "If you are going to keep doing this, the world would be a better place if you get run over by a bus. How does that make you feel?"
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by dbecker 14y ago
I work with people from India on a daily basis. I think their understanding of american lifestyles is more accurate than you give them credit for.
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by dbecker 14y ago
As much as I'd like to congratulate your volunteerism: you know that your time is valuable and his employer is probably paying him $1/hr to call you?
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by dbecker 14y ago
The library support for data science with python has improved a lot in the last few months... There are lots of shiny new options for web development, but I think python is gaining momentum rather than losing it for data analysis and scient
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by dbecker 14y ago
Tongue in cheek or not, it reeks of desperation. If I developed for the Blackberry, this would increase my skepticism that RIM will be around for a long time, and thus make me less inclined to continue developing blackberry software.
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by dbecker 14y ago
Most startup founders aren't Jobs, Brin or Page.
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by dbecker 14y ago
Econometricians (based in economics departments) have contributed to the cutting edge of statistical knowledge.
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by dbecker 14y ago
I agree that the murderers are obviously to blame. But the film is like a kid who pokes a beehive with a stick with all his friends around. We know you can't control all the bees once you get them riled up, so you're still an asshole if yo
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by dbecker 14y ago
I think calling it "right wing christian propoganda" is generous. It isn't trying to be persuasive... it is just a few scenes depicting Muhammad as an idiot and philanderer.
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by dbecker 14y ago
This isn't "erosion of free speech" in the conventional sense. Google isn't saying "you can't make this video." They are just saying they aren't going to deliver it. The principal of free speech never implied you have to repeat every comm
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by dbecker 14y ago
I would would guess there are is a huge population of not-too-savvy folks who use GoDaddy for registration... and they aren't even aware that registration and DNS can be separated. At least, I assumed they aren't putting Danica Patrick in S
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by dbecker 14y ago
Whether calling c is "required" depends on a few things. The relative importance of run-time vs programming-time, the nature of the problem, etc. I've been doing scientific programming in Python for 4 years, and I've never felt I needed to
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by dbecker 14y ago
I hadn't heard of stacked DRAM. For anyone else looking for a reference, I liked http://blogs.intel.com/research/2011/09/15/hmc/ The description of "getting rid of DRAM" sounds misleading if this is what they are deploying.
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by dbecker 14y ago
Personally, I'm skeptical that cell phones materially affect plane electronics, but the WSJ's argument is laughably thin and illogical. They show that people leave their phones on. But they didn't measure whether there was interference wit
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by dbecker 14y ago
StackOverflow has been very clear that they don't intend to be a discussion site. Even if you like subjective questions, that doesn't mean that a site shouldn't be able to specialize in something else. I like basketball. But I wouldn't ex
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by dbecker 14y ago
The idea is that Paypal will use this to event to understand how their systematic mistakes, and to fix them. That way, others won't need a direct line to the CEO. Of course, they should have developed mechanisms to take customer feedback s

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