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TechTalk: Data Jujitsu featuring DJ Patil in Burlingame, CA on July 25(bigdatatellatalk.eventbrite.com)
2 points by ganjianwei 14y ago|1 comments
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by ganjianwei 14y ago
TellApart in Burlingame, CA. Predictive analytics for ecommerce retailers. Hiring software engineers--generalists, machine learning specialists, storage specialists. - We use machine learning to predictively model online shopping behavior a
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Culture fit just means no assholes(blog.ganjianwei.com)
2 points by ganjianwei 15y ago|0 comments
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by ganjianwei 15y ago
If you're joining a startup or a company where you're offered equity as part of your compensation package, spend some time to understand what it means. You don't have to be an expert at it, but a couple of hours of learning here could go a
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by ganjianwei 15y ago
It creates a lot of unnecessary tension between management and employees if employees can't just assume that they'll be rewarded for outstanding results and don't have to ask for it. If there's a tacit agreement that if you do great work yo
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by ganjianwei 15y ago
Burlingame, CA (Burlingame is near San Francisco Int'l Airport) - TellApart http://www.tellapart.com/ We're hiring Software Engineers, senior and junior, as well as Software Engineers specializing in machine learning. We help eCommerce co
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by ganjianwei 16y ago
Burlingame, CA (between San Francisco and Palo Alto) TellApart, Inc. is hiring Software Engineers and Machine Learning Engineers among other positions. We're a startup founded by ex-Googlers building a next generation eCommerce customer dat
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by ganjianwei 16y ago
I doubt Keith Rabois joined because he felt he could become CEO. I think you're underestimating the draw of getting to work with someone as good as Jack Dorsey and on a product as exciting (to Keith) as Square.
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Log Event Processing with HBase(cloudera.com)
2 points by ganjianwei 16y ago|0 comments
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What is Hadoop?(ailiangan.com)
8 points by ganjianwei 16y ago|0 comments
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Whartonites Fight Back (against Whartonite Seeks Code Monkey)(whartoniteseekscodemonkey.tumblr.com)
2 points by ganjianwei 16y ago|0 comments
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by ganjianwei 16y ago
They do have an ad sales force. http://bits.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/08/24/new-hires-at-twitte...
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by ganjianwei 16y ago
"After all, you wouldn't want to jump into Scala without learning Java first." Anyone have any opinions on this? I've never learned Scala but I didn't think Dojo : JavaScript as Scala : Java.
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by ganjianwei 16y ago
Looks like we have a candidate for next year's Apple Design Awards.
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by ganjianwei 16y ago
Agree that there's luck involved but "waiting" can involve building a product and keeping your burn rate low while waiting for market conditions to be right. "If you are betting on emerging trends it is better to keep your burn low and runw
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by ganjianwei 16y ago
"What are you working on" was the standard conversation starter at the Startup School mixers. It's amazing how there are so many makers; makes me feel like the world's being improved every second.
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by ganjianwei 16y ago
Look for potential cofounders. Make friends with people who have similar interests as you (hacking, startups) and whom you get along with really well. Building trust and learning what people are really like takes time and being friends for
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by ganjianwei 16y ago
I think the point is that they should learn enough jQuery before maintaining jQuery code.
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Tell HN: Angel office hours on Formspring(blog.formspring.me)
2 points by ganjianwei 16y ago|0 comments
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Chris Yeh responds to Arrington's blog: Yes, there is a super-angel conspiracy(venturebeat.com)
55 points by ganjianwei 16y ago|4 comments
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by ganjianwei 16y ago
I call 1st row to be filled first: "BDD, Active ____, NoSQL, Monkey Patch, Social Graph"
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by ganjianwei 16y ago
This is one of those things where playing around with the example leads to a much quicker/better understanding than reading the text.
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by ganjianwei 16y ago
Singapore. The government seems hell bent on kick starting the startup scene. http://www.e27.sg/2010/07/26/singapore-startup-government-fu... http://www.spring.gov.sg/Entrepreneurship/FS/FS/Pages/young-... "This scheme provides funding
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by ganjianwei 16y ago
More likely than who? Anyone else in an organization? Also, the elaboration of "Providing deep domain knowledge" explains it as deep domain knowledge of product management. The is akin to saying the engineers have deep domain knowledge of e
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by ganjianwei 16y ago
I really enjoyed Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance by Robert Pirsig. It's not quite a philosophy book but I found his take on the concept of 'quality' very useful. To me it's a story of how a westerner discovers eastern philosophy,
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by ganjianwei 16y ago
I got the chance to hear Matt talk about this in person at my college. He said what was really interesting was that what people fill in for what they would pay in "a perfect world" is very strongly correlated to the price they're offered.
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by ganjianwei 16y ago
When I read the comments I can't help but feel that Hacker News is 99% male because all the comments are written from a male perspective. Not just that, they also address the community as though the entire community is male. E.g. "is really
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by ganjianwei 16y ago
I agree with the terminology being a problem. Regarding private key public key encryption, I think the public key should be called the "lock" since people use it to lock data they want to send you, while the private key should be called the
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by ganjianwei 16y ago
I'd like to see larger up/down scrolling buttons. Fitt's Law is working against me when I try to click on those. I think they should be larger because it's the controls that users are most likely to use. Maybe Marco Arment's Instapaper pagi
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by ganjianwei 16y ago
I recently wrote an iPhone app that lets you time how long you take to do routine activities. It's at http://www.ganjianwei.com/iphone/weiwatch/ Interesting how I never thought of how it fit into this bigger concept of using data in your

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