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by jboggan 13y ago
Do you want to make yourself more valuable to future employers or do you want to build something for yourself?
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by jboggan 14y ago
I have a copy of this book which Amazon recommended to me for some wonderful reason. Makes a for great bathroom pondering.
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by jboggan 14y ago
Am I the only one who thinks it's funny that her name is Melissa? For non-geocoding-geeks: http://www.melissadata.com/geocoding/index.htm
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by jboggan 14y ago
A friend of mine used to work at PG&E in San Francisco. He told me that there is an ancient server in the basement running COBOL code that no one quite understood, upon which was a hand lettered note to never touch that machine for any
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by jboggan 14y ago
Factual is currently hiring engineers and data lovers of all levels in Palo Alto, Los Angeles, and Shanghai. Factual's vision is to be an awesome and affordable data provider that enables developers, startups, and big companies to focus on
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by jboggan 14y ago
Koyaanisqatsi.
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by jboggan 14y ago
I just want an app that actually makes me the person I appear to be on Facebook.
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by jboggan 14y ago
I only want this if Zuck's smiling face is at the bottom center of my phone, all the time. Still, does Facebook having more integration into every aspect of our digital experience really improve our quality of life? I feel like we are alre
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by jboggan 14y ago
'"Now, you listen to some of these so-called sports-medicine experts today--shit! It's just shtick. It's just something else to sell. Warming up," he scoffed, adjusting a red ascot fitted neatly into his jumpsuit, "warming up is the biggest
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by jboggan 14y ago
Factual is currently hiring engineers and data lovers of all levels in Palo Alto, Los Angeles, and Shanghai. Remote work is possible for exceptional candidates who are US citizens and living in the US - but our office culture is so great th
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by jboggan 14y ago
Funniest footnote I've ever read in a paper: "8. At the request of an anonymous referee, we perform a check on our nominal masculinity measure by examining the score for Bacon Magazine’s “Top 10 Stripper Names.” In theory, female exotic dan
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by jboggan 14y ago
That's too bad, I had actually set aside today to learn their API and integrate it into a project . . . nevermind. On a related note, check out the insane price action on the exchange rate overnight.
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by jboggan 14y ago
They aren't secure, at all. For example, most NCR ATMs can be physically opened with one of three keys that are easily available online. Many (especially at non-national banks) are running XP and only sporadically patched, if at all. Mos
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by jboggan 14y ago
Nice. Watching a couple of the fights unfold makes me see a perimeter strategy is very effective against a tank in the middle.
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by jboggan 14y ago
An informal competition has sprung up among the engineers at my company but we are mostly trying to hack it. Does anyone know what happens when you put a FitBit in a paint shaker?
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by jboggan 14y ago
Sprinkle liberally with salt and pepper, or Johnny Salt, or what have you; Turn a small camping grill to HIGH for a few minutes to get really freaking hot; Throw it on with a pat of butter on top with the lid closed; flip it once and put mo
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by jboggan 14y ago
"It doesn't have everything the body needs." - Mouse I'd be interested in the long term effects on cognition and mood. I already supplement my eating with mixes of protein powder and half n' half, this could be an interesting addition.
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by jboggan 14y ago
After living in Hungary I picked up on the fact that mother/son relationships are not what they are in the rest of the world and what we in the States would consider too close. I heard that it wasn't uncommon for married men to take their
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by jboggan 14y ago
We use a lot of Clojure here at Factual: http://www.factual.com/jobs/clojure I'm still in the process of learning from the Clojure gurus around here but I see that it has a lot to recommend it. I can already see increases in the clarity
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by jboggan 14y ago
If I were to give someone a Bitcoin loan, what interest rate should I charge? The massive uncertainty of that question is enough to discourage any such activity. I wouldn't make a Bitcoin loan with a one-week period.
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by jboggan 14y ago
The exciting thing about all of this is the fact that this or any other private space launch won't make the front page in a few years.
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by jboggan 14y ago
Factual is currently hiring engineers and data lovers of all levels in Palo Alto, Los Angeles, and Shanghai. Remote work is possible for exceptional candidates who are US citizens and living in the US - but our office culture is so great th
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MIT Technology Review: 50 Disruptive Companies in 2013(www2.technologyreview.com)
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Fitness SF Decided Not To Pay Their Invoice(fitnesssf.com)
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by jboggan 14y ago
Factual is currently hiring engineers and data lovers of all levels in Palo Alto, Los Angeles, and Shanghai. Remote work is possible for exceptional candidates who are US citizens and living in the US ('exceptional' meaning you are a great
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by jboggan 14y ago
I'm glad the step definitions are not in Clojure or a unified programming language. It makes it much easier to pull in data specialists, product managers, and other non-engineers to help build and maintain a data workflow while leaving the
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by jboggan 14y ago
I really wish that I had a tool like this back in grad school. I was doing bioinformatics work and merging, chopping, and processing various datasets over many months. When a new version of the underlying data came out it was not an easy
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by jboggan 14y ago
Factual is looking for paid interns for Summer 2013 in sunny Los Angeles! Factual's vision is to be an awesome and affordable data provider that enables developers, startups, and big companies to focus on innovation instead of data acquisit
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Snip.it acquired by Yahoo(blog.snip.it)
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by jboggan 14y ago
This is a good warning, especially to bright pupils coming straight out of undergraduate programs who are continuing upon the academic trajectory because "it is what smart kids do". I know I was definitely in that boat once upon a time, an

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