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by ghc 13y ago
If this works as well as Python's requests library, then you are my hero. I hate dealing with email in Python, because the standard library interfaces to email are horrible. I have a have a project that could use this now , so I wil
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by ghc 13y ago
Thank you! I'm glad someone finally agrees with me. I keep getting overruled on this point, but I wanted to put an interactive product demo on the landing page. Algorithmic.ly is a simple service for certain kinds of algorithms without
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by ghc 13y ago
Okay, I'll go for it. I'm very curious to see how the traffic will compare to Hacker News. Yesterday I put a link to my company ( http://algorithmic.ly ) in a comment and the response was overwhelming. I've heard th
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by ghc 13y ago
I believe all of the material is still pertinent. It primarily uses the MovieLens data set and mostly builds off of textbook techniques and generic Python. It's not a book that will go out of data quickly.
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by ghc 13y ago
Well, I don't expect The Customer Factory to be a philosophy book. Instead, I expect it to be full of practical ideas and tools. Most business books, even those about Lean, start from what I see as an alien perspective. Sure, I can g
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by ghc 13y ago
I can't judge the coursera course, but for anyone who is interested in this field and wants a gentle introduction, I high recommend Programming Collective Intelligence ( http://shop.oreilly.com/product/97805965293
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by ghc 13y ago
Recruiting is an entirely separate issue. Building a team begins where recruiting ends. In this talent market (in Boston in my case) we have a difficult time with recruiting, but our experiences with team building have been far more painful
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by ghc 13y ago
If you're not good at building a founding team, how will you excel at building a company? Technology and design are great, but companies are the people that they are comprised of. There's nothing wrong with being a solo founder be
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by ghc 13y ago
One lesson I've learned over the years: You can keep launching until someone notices, but if you have to "launch" in the first place, that's the business equivalent of a code smell. Once you accept that you will not get
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by ghc 13y ago
You are completely right. But...is 1366x768 really the dominant resolution right now, even with the emergence of Apple as a dominant PC maker? On my site, the top 3 resolutions are as follows: 1. 1440x900 2. 1600x900 3. 1920x1
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by ghc 13y ago
I find it interesting to see all of the comments on HN about the dislike of args and kwargs, especially given their necessity for higher order programming. If you are making functions that modify other functions (like decorators), these are
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by ghc 13y ago
Whenever I teach a Python workshop I have to make sure to go over this or it leads to confusion for about 20% of people. But that's for new programmers. Either AngularJS is attracting people very new to programming, or there must be so
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by ghc 13y ago
I looked at the live demo first. It didn't look like there'd be much bootstrap involved so I almost closed the article, but it's actually worth a read because there's more to it than meets the eye.
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by ghc 13y ago
This is the foundation for the Lean Startup methodology espoused by Steve Blank, Eric Reis, Ash Maurya and others, but until recently it has been articulated in the jargon of the business community such that it is difficult to see in terms
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by ghc 13y ago
Agreed, when I was at Tech (03-08) startups were all the rage and there were tons of them forming around campus. I think times have probably changed in Atlanta thanks to the financial crisis, and startups are no longer as common.
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by ghc 13y ago
When I was at Georgia Tech (graduated '08), I was forced to take CS and EE classes. You could easily get exceptions to prerequisites for classes if you asked, and so I did. Having open access to CS/EE changed my life, and I change
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by ghc 13y ago
They're not mutually exclusive. I was ADHD diagnosed, but I'm also lazy. Even medication didn't make me less lazy. But then I became a Haskell programmer, and now "laziness is a virtue." edit: Not making light of AD
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by ghc 13y ago
The reason That Hideous Strength is a better blueprint for what's happening than Brave New World or 1984 is that its focus is on the intersection of communication, government and human behavior, rather than on a dystopian future enab
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by ghc 13y ago
Do I regret choosing MongoDB a couple years ago to augment Postgres for several data analysis applications? Not really. But I do wish Mongo has been more mature. I'm happy to see each step forward taken, but it does bother me that often ser
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by ghc 13y ago
The original claim was that there was no language as open as Dart. I vehemently disagree. Plenty of languages are as open as Dart, and there are several, including Python that are more open. I believe you are underestimating the importance
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by ghc 13y ago
How about putting it in the care of an independent foundation like the Python Software Foundation? Until Dart is wrested from corporate control Python will still be the more open language.
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by ghc 13y ago
I think that there is an element of California (inland) that you would recognize as similar to elements of the South (mega churches, militant anti-abortion sentiment, amazing amounts of poverty). You might just be shocked at the level of ho
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by ghc 13y ago
For reference: I lived in Midtown and went to Georgia Tech. 1. Highly visible poverty in the city, and frequent crime. 2. Frequent casual racism, even among students at GaTech. 3. Frequent extremest christian advertising, like preachers out
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by ghc 13y ago
I've stayed in Chattanooga. I'll stick with my $3600 rent, thanks. Tennessee is a very different place from the north, and if you're from New England like me, you might find the culture shock very unpleasant. Even when I lived in Atlanta th
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by ghc 13y ago
I should start wiping my history. A lot of passwords I typed in while focused on the wrong terminal came up in my top 100.
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Ask HN: What's the right way to do email-based customer development?
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by ghc 13y ago
This is a great development. I'm proud of my alma mater for doing this, and I think Georgia Tech is just the right institution to pull it off (in partnership with Udacity, of course).
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by ghc 14y ago
It's actually poor quality because it's at max zoom on a Galaxy Nexus. It was an Italian wedding party with raucous singing by the men and I wanted to stay a respectful distance. This happened at about 5PM as I went in search of someplace o
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by ghc 14y ago
For me this will be the enduring image of the manhunt: http://i.imgur.com/lV7CMQA.jpg Even if there's a manhunt, shelter in place order, and an officer with an assault rifle on every corner, life will go on.
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by ghc 14y ago
Gun violence is a very uncommon thing in Boston or Cambridge...it's big news here every time it happens. Now outside the city, in the areas where poor people live, it's a different story...but MIT and Harvard are located in some of the weal

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