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   by jchendy 12y ago

   It's perhaps also worth noting that Beaker's Python evaluator is an IPython kernel. So anybody who's familiar with IPython can continue using their favorite %% magics, etc. Also, Beaker can import IPython notebooks, so it&#x2
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   by jchendy 12y ago

   > Nobody posts ice bucket challenge videos on Nextdoor, or kid pics, or game invites. :) I'm sure this is an exception, but I turned off email notifications when people started discussing how to insulate their apartments to protect
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   by jchendy 12y ago

   I hope that's not a new trend in domain names... "No dude, there's three dashes between the r and t, you're gonna get the _other_ other North"
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   by jchendy 12y ago

   Two Sigma - NYC - Front-end dev I lead the UX team at Two Sigma. Currently, we're three people with diverse backgrounds (engineering, HCI, humanities) who have come together to take on the challenge of making every interaction with Two
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   by jchendy 12y ago

   Can you ELI5 what would be the actual impact of a huge selloff of Microsoft shares?
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   by jchendy 12y ago

   Same thing happens if you drag the date selector past 2013.
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   by jchendy 12y ago

   Better is subjective. There are many people who will find Google's much easier to understand and use for simple needs.
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   by jchendy 12y ago

   The Mac one is definitely consistent with my experience. Took a while to memorize cmd-shift-4 for taking screenshots.
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   by jchendy 12y ago

   The concern seems to be that publishers aren't being treated equally. Supposedly Amazon is only applying these price and shipping delay penalties to publishers it doesn't like.
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    by jchendy 12y ago

    Are any serious websites using the new TLDs?
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    by jchendy 12y ago

    A dead simple way to remember where you parked your car and when you need to move it. Like this: http://jchendy.com/2014/04/10/dude.html
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    by jchendy 12y ago

    http://prepaid-phones.t-mobile.com/prepaid-plans Near the bottom there's a $30/month plan with 5gb LTE data, unlimited text, and 100 voice minutes.
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    by jchendy 12y ago

    "In countries using the metric system fuel economy is stated in kilometres per litre (km/L)" http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fuel_efficiency
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    by jchendy 13y ago

    This part is amusing: THE PARTIES 4. Plaintiff Tobias Frere-Jones is one of the world's leading and most recognized type designers, having designed over 800 fonts, in over 145 languages, that are widely used in newspapers, magazines, a
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    by jchendy 13y ago

    Sweet! I mocked up a pretty similar idea during a General Assembly class a couple months ago. Glad somebody with more motivation than me actually implemented this! http://jchendy.com/imdownfor/
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    by jchendy 13y ago

    For anybody who doesn't need this much detail, there's a great intro to this topic in the Web Dev course on Udacity: https://www.udacity.com/course/viewer#!/c-cs253/l-48666069/m...
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    by jchendy 13y ago

    Wow, that thing is nuts! I thought I had it bad with drums.
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    by jchendy 13y ago

    That's pretty interesting. Any idea why the dating sites can't target both men and women? > The "Sex" targeting parameter must be set to either "Men" or "Women" and cannot be both
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    by jchendy 13y ago

    > If you owe 0.0001% of Amazon, you have the right to 0.0001% of all future profit they make. That totally makes sense for stocks that pay dividends, but how do you claim your 0.0001% of profits for stocks that don't?
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    by jchendy 13y ago

    Isn't LinkedIn supposed to be for maintaining contact with people you've already met? So you should already have experienced the excitement of meeting the person before you see the boring generic message.
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    by jchendy 13y ago

    Two Sigma – New York City – Full time Two Sigma [1], an investment manager with the heart and soul of a tech company, has openings in many areas of technology. We have engineers working on everything from file systems to trading platforms t
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    by jchendy 13y ago

    LTO is an open standard: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linear_Tape_Open
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    by jchendy 13y ago

    This is not a new direction. UI design was scientifically-based long before the phrase UX was coined. Just a couple examples: -The CHI conference started in 1982, and the content has always been primarily scientific research on UI -This boo
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    by jchendy 13y ago

    Science can't tell us whether a design is superior. It can tell us that the design performed better in some specific test (such as a beauty rating), but leaping from that to blanket superiority is not science.
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    by jchendy 13y ago

    I'm in somewhat of the opposite situation. I feel like I've got a fairly good grasp of user research, workflow definition, feature prioritization, et cetera, et cetera, but I often struggle with translating that work into an actua
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    by jchendy 13y ago

    Pretty boring for me. 90% of my college classes were Java. Then I kept using Java at work until we started making web-based UIs and I needed to learn JavaScript.
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    by jchendy 13y ago

    Airports too. This is at JFK. http://www.yelp.com/biz_photos/jetblue-cibo-express-foodcour...
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    by jchendy 13y ago

    It completely depends on what area you're going into. Software engineering, systems, and AI students obviously need significant coding experience. HCI and theory (ie math), not as much.
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    by jchendy 13y ago

    Yeah, there's definitely a lot of good to be done with these techniques and technologies. Like these dudes: http://cusp.nyu.edu/
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    by jchendy 13y ago

    I expect most people would refresh after seeing the big word 'error' and not read any of the rest.