globba22

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by globba22 7y ago
Like a few other commenters have mentioned, I had a great time trying to work through these problems having seen them in ads on the Red Line in the mid to late 2000s. For me, these puzzles were what got me to change careers; at that point I
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Dumbo Startup Lab to shut down(technical.ly)
1 points by globba22 10y ago|0 comments
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by globba22 11y ago
the post office used humans for many years to train OCR models, e.g. zip code readers. I visited a postal routing facility once in the 90s and saw a long row of metal stationed by about 20 people, 10 to each side. Envelopes passed through o
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Google BigQuery Public Datasets(cloud.google.com)
2 points by globba22 11y ago|0 comments
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Benin City, the mighty medieval capital now lost without trace(theguardian.com)
118 points by globba22 11y ago|37 comments
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Insane transforming superyacht concept looks like a UFO(thenextweb.com)
2 points by globba22 11y ago|0 comments
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Psychologists Showed People a Traumatic Film Then Gave Them Laughing Gas(motherboard.vice.com)
1 points by globba22 11y ago|0 comments
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by globba22 11y ago
I've had a similar experience there
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by globba22 11y ago
I know a lot of great devs who think very highly of PP, but as for me, it doesn't work well at all. I just haven't had a great experience with it, though I remain open to trying it again.
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by globba22 11y ago
It depends on the type of candidate you hope to attract. If someone is applying for a lot of positions at once, an up front homework problem can be seen as unreasonable before even a basic semblance of role compatibility is established. Why
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Ask HN: Would you recommend hired.com or similar?
5 points by globba22 11y ago|9 comments
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by globba22 11y ago
When you refer to "PM" are referring to Project or Product Manager?
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by globba22 11y ago
Wise thinkers throughout history have been saying it too :)
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by globba22 11y ago
Don't do an internship: you already have years of professional experience doing similar work. In spite of what I call the so-called shortage for data scientists, getting a data science job is a pretty tough challenge. Read this post fo
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by globba22 11y ago
I am responding from the perspective that this is in the US. If you are in a different country the customs may be different. In my opinion, never, ever tell your manager or colleagues you are leaving until you are actually giving notice. It
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by globba22 11y ago
Thanks for the responses, folks. Based on tips here and other feedback I've gotten, I think it is worthwhile to discuss my side work if I think it's relevant to a potential role, but emphasize that it doesn't conflict with my
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Ask HN: How to discuss side-gig work on a job interview
4 points by globba22 11y ago|4 comments