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by dxbydt 6y ago
I totally, 100%, agree with you. I worked at Twitter pre-ipo. There were no “expert psychologists” anywhere in the company at that time, unlike what people below claim. Whatever features we built were mostly organic ( things like hashtags r
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by dxbydt 6y ago
Is there a Slack channel or forum where solo founders hang out & share progress ?
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by dxbydt 6y ago
> Meanwhile I’m very good at competitive programming Not to burst your bubble, but you aren't. You are very good when you get it right. You aren't when you don't get it right. But then you are leaving out that part because
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by dxbydt 6y ago
imho american programmers are in for a world of hurt. Day of reckoning is coming. Its just not today. So if you say its today, you naturally get the derision and downvotes. But that doesn’t mean there is no such day. Just 2-3 days ago we se
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If This Is Your Inspiration from Space, You’re Doing It Wrong(hackaday.com)
23 points by dxbydt 6y ago|2 comments
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by dxbydt 6y ago
its a fairly common optimization to drink hot coffee first thing in the morning while sitting on the toilet seat.
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Tyler Cowen: Forced Quarantines UnAmerican(bloomberg.com)
1 points by dxbydt 6y ago|1 comments
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by dxbydt 6y ago
> Maybe my understanding is all wrong, feel free to correct me, as my understanding on this subject is entirely self-taught. I wouldn't say it is all wrong. Just that the stuff you are talking about is a very tiny fraction of LA. I
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by dxbydt 6y ago
Never been more proud of my former employer. This is amazing. Kudos, Twitter! Hope more Bay Area companies follow your lead. The last project I worked on at Twitter was a 3 person affair - me in SF, front end guy in Seattle, our manager in
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by dxbydt 7y ago
Sorry, I am relatively new to your state. This my second year in Indiana. I tried going to Meijer https://www.meijer.com/ a few times. imo clientele's too posh & everything felt too upscale, clean & stuck up. I
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by dxbydt 7y ago
I have been averaging a dollar per gallon for over a year now in Indiana. Just get a gas card. At my store https://www.kroger.com/fuelfaqs?storeNumber=02900364 "up to 1,000 fuel points can be redeemed for up to 1 dolla
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by dxbydt 7y ago
I stand corrected.
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by dxbydt 7y ago
> My SaaS is so opinionated right now that only one person is using it. Heh heh! Don't worry, you just have to find one more person like that, and then those two find two others & so on and so forth. 2^64 is the planet. I'm
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by dxbydt 7y ago
I’m building an online math community for middle schoolers, by middle schoolers, of middle schoolers. Front end was written by a 7 year old so it looks quite funky. I want to keep it fun and quirky, no adult influences :) http://
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by dxbydt 7y ago
We had a bunch of people who worked on the recommendation system at netflix at the stat seminar. Their whole movie catalogue after hashing comfortably fits into a dataframe in R on your laptop. Even the audience-like matrix is not very big.
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Statistics at Crossroads [pdf](amstat.org)
3 points by dxbydt 7y ago|0 comments
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by dxbydt 7y ago
> Hedging is extremely odd in that while it is thought of as a way to lock in 'certainty' on the price of something, it really is just another way of gambling on a price. Actually, yours is a rather odd take on the term 'c
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by dxbydt 7y ago
I just wanted to take 2 minutes to thank you personally for that comment. Honestly its amazing to find another person on this planet who has the exact same reaction to this idea ! I was going to type out what you said pretty much word for w
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by dxbydt 7y ago
Amazing amount of cognitive dissonance in these comments. Simultaneously happy to pat oneself on the back for automating some task yet thinking same can’t happen to you because ... ? Don’t spear & shield yourself. https://en.
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Algos Have Ruined Trading(cnbc.com)
1 points by dxbydt 7y ago|0 comments
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by dxbydt 7y ago
> large portion of CS students nowadays choose to focus on Machine Learning, many brilliant CS students decide to get a PhD in ML These claims are massively exaggerated. Students don't "choose", "decide" etc. In
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Misleading random numbers used to hawk medicine(reddit.com)
2 points by dxbydt 7y ago|0 comments
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by dxbydt 7y ago
I'm mostly amused by this - > 6. CS professors know how to program. Back in grad school, we had an Algorithms Professor who was my advisor & wrote several important papers. We also had a PL professor who mostly taught Lisp/
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by dxbydt 7y ago
from the horse's mouth: https://twitter.com/genchuckyeager/status/111284127532415795... Aside: Incidentally I just drove to campus on Yeager Road ! 25 astronauts graduated from Purdue including Neil Armstrong
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by dxbydt 7y ago
I’m quite dumbfounded by the comments on this thread. If I make a python library where I take three points as input and spit out the area of the triangle you get when you join those points with straight lines, I have to ensure that said are
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Major Cities Unlivable by 2050(mobile.twitter.com)
2 points by dxbydt 7y ago|1 comments
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by dxbydt 7y ago
It’s a particular point of view that obviously won’t find resonance in this HN audience. Were the author’s view to prevail, you would be out of a job. Vast majority of people here owe their livelihood either directly or indirectly to the de
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by dxbydt 7y ago
This is a fantastic thread https://twitter.com/nntaleb/status/1163192701472428032?lang=... from Taleb. As always, a little bit over the top, but mostly on point. I've seen the exact phenomenon he describes pl
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by dxbydt 7y ago
I think Bill Gates prefers the term Microsoft.
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by dxbydt 7y ago
Speaking as a current grad student, this whole anti-test movement in America is a complete train wreck and will devastate the nation over the long term. Short term, yes, lots of kids will get into lots of programs they are mentally unequipp

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