francisb07

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by francisb07 10y ago
Jupyter + Spark. tableau if I'm feeling lazy for viz.
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by francisb07 11y ago
I honestly wouldn't have minded if they kept the same form-factor and aesthetic with the original N5 (the one I use and love right now), and just did an internal overhaul...similar to how Apple does minor cosmetic changes, but a whole
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by francisb07 11y ago
Before I sleep, I download a set of podcasts for the commute the following day on Pocketcasts. Mine are usually about ML, Freakonomics, Startup School, and AI. But you go try whatever you want. I find that it's best to spend idle time
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by francisb07 11y ago
I come from a very technical background--CS with Machine Learning, and I'm currently diving into the humanities and arts. I'm using Hackdesign as a primer into the arts and design frame of mind. I think it's best to engage in
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by francisb07 11y ago
I agree with the speed, quality, and market fit issue all driven by systems thinking. Diminishing happens when you don't hire well (this is from a startup's perspective). Having 100 10x-ers will obviously perform better than 500 5
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by francisb07 11y ago
This was already posted a few days ago. It's all a matter of perspective though. People see the JFDI speed as piling on technical debt. Others see it as agile or lean. Personally, speed is a matter of motivation and dedication on how m
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by francisb07 11y ago
I use a Macbook Air and an iMac 5K at work. I keep these synced up heavily with cloud-based solutions like GDrive, Evernote, and VPN access to the hadoop clusters I work with. Config-wise, I just built a shell script that I ran on both mach
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by francisb07 11y ago
For me it's based on how recent I put it in Pocket. I usually read uplifting and inspiration go-getter startup posts and articles on firstround or HN to get me going in the morning. Later in the day during breaks, I read the more techn
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by francisb07 11y ago
We use lucidchart and balsamiq at times to model ERDs using the crow's foot style. There are certain gems for Ruby on Rails dev that generate ERDs from the schema,.
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by francisb07 11y ago
There are configs within nginx that prevent this from happening. Also, I symlink only the publicfiles from a different directory into my /var/www/html folder.