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by ehurrell 12y ago
Great read, I think a lot of startup blogs skip the ...start bit and jump to "here's how we scaled!" Glad to see an Irish company talking about this stuff too (though I wasn't sure if ye were Irish until I read that Darr
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by ehurrell 12y ago
Seconding the power of NLTK for prototyping, it's very easy to build something quickly to test an approach on your data, and at least in my experience, designed in such a way that I could easily replace elements with my own code.
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by ehurrell 12y ago
Can't agree with this breakdown strongly enough. Uneven equity is one of many indicators that your co-founder relationship won't be a balanced one, and from there there are a lot of toxic things that can happen. At the end of the
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by ehurrell 12y ago
That's great, looks really slick! I know you've posted what you'd consider for 2.0, if you are taking suggestions my ideal non-emacs org would be iOS compatible and sync with webDAV/Dropbox.
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by ehurrell 12y ago
It's very interesting, I've done much the same on http://myrobotwrites.com except I kept the texts generated short to keep a tumblr posting schedule :P
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by ehurrell 12y ago
I've spent some time writing Clojure recently and I like it, though I think there can be readability difficulties quite easily, things can at times get twisted into a functional way of doing things (the capacity for abuse of this is ma
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by ehurrell 12y ago
I think people are learning Betteridge's law of headlines [0] so questioning title constructions are more obviously link-bait. [0] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Betteridge%27s_law_of_headlines )
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by ehurrell 12y ago
I usually combine sharing what I can with showing my credentials (I've a PhD and can share the work I did for that, which I don't put on GitHub because it doesn't feel like the place for it), as well as share anecdotes and ge
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by ehurrell 12y ago
I strongly agree with this, I push a lot of toy projects to GitHub, and some of the more interesting work I've done can't/won't end up there (I designed the algorithms behind an advanced analytics startup, but can't
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by ehurrell 12y ago
It seems to be in these legal areas that people expose what's really important to them. Sadly sometimes that means finding out people you thought were friends are capable of toxic things, even when you have written agreements. It can b
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by ehurrell 12y ago
Watching Jolla has been interesting, there seems to be a huge amount of potential in Sailfish, and though I have a friend who owns a Jolla phone and seems to be frustrated by it often I'm still interested in this. It sort of reminds me
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by ehurrell 12y ago
Yes, I agree, I think pragmatic discussion like this is important, the 'magic, beautiful, life-changing' hyperbole is probably better left alone in analysis I'd say.
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by ehurrell 12y ago
In fairness there is some good context for wanting to get the 'magic', Lisps are talked about in such a context, as beautiful life-changing experiences, so it's understandable to be curious. I'd agree, the right tool for
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by ehurrell 12y ago
Interesting article. While the central conceit pointing out the event's evolutionary traits is a bit laboured there are a few good points in there: "...turning startup entrepreneurship into a spectacle akin to The Voice is demeani
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by ehurrell 12y ago
Things like this seem like touchstone topics for startups, HBO's Silicon Valley had a scene with the sanest member of their group at a whiteboard filled with names desperately saying "choose one so we can get back to work", a
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by ehurrell 12y ago
That sounds like an interesting stack, I use python quite a bit and have been dabbling with elasticsearch, glad to see the options for combining the two!
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by ehurrell 12y ago
I think from a perspective of learning functional approaches it's useful to have things like this, as a more complex worked example of applying functional concepts to a problem. That is to say it seems like a broader version of "Y
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by ehurrell 12y ago
"Foundations of" tends to be a common academic title start, so I would expect an academic approach. To not talk of cleaning at all seems like a serious error, from academic experience it does not take lone before your work require
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by ehurrell 12y ago
I find it excellent in production, and it's one of the backbones of Python as a 'data science' language. Being able to leverage dataframes in the same environment you build the webserver that serves the results is a really po
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by ehurrell 12y ago
Seems very similar to Datahug, how is it different/better? While both services offer something compelling they both want full access to emails which isn't exactly necessary, I've done something similar looking at LinkedIn dat
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by ehurrell 12y ago
HN has showed me that this sort of thing is more common than I expected. Any and all experiences shared help people know what to look for.
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by ehurrell 12y ago
I can completely understand wanting to be rid of something like this, if only for the author's mental health.
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by ehurrell 12y ago
I have to say I admire your courage in writing this. I've been put in a not dissimilar situation in the recent past. I said nothing. I'm hoping one day the situation will resolve itself, but I doubt it, and I suffered a lot for it
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by ehurrell 12y ago
I'd agree with almost all of those, the biggest thing I'd say is, as with all startup jobs, risk is a factor you shouldn't ignore, the last point I kinda disagree with for that.
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by ehurrell 12y ago
Frequently anonymity can be easily broken when discussing the sorts of things that probably warrant speaking up. I've definitely felt the "systemic pressure to stay quiet" as mentioned in the article, in situations where spea
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by ehurrell 12y ago
Worth reiterating, I've seen good people run themselves into the ground with an endless 'crunch', because they felt it was a valid strategy. 'Running themselves into the ground' might seem wishy-washy, but to make i
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by ehurrell 12y ago
I live in a country where Bob Ross isn't really known at all, and I spend a lot of my free time doing illustration or painting ( http://ultimatehurl.tumblr.com is where I post stuff, to give an idea). Having relatively recen
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by ehurrell 12y ago
Great to see. I was recently in their Dublin office, they seem to be doing interesting work, and doing it well.
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by ehurrell 12y ago
This would definitely elevate this project to something really noteworthy, I've a friend who works with EEG data who would absolutely love this. Chances are the data would be too noisy to be useful (from experience this is one of the b
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by ehurrell 12y ago
Definitely something I'd be interested in taking a look at, I imagine others would as well!

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