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by jfarmer 13y ago
This seems backwards. "Authenticity" and "identity" aren't monolithic. To steal from Walt Whitman, we all contain multitudes. What I express on IG is no more or less authentic than what I express here or on Quora
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by jfarmer 13y ago
I'm one of the co-founders of Dev Bootcamp, although I'm no longer involved day-to-day. What it means to "learn to program" is nebulous. As you pointed out, a person regurgitating things they've seen is able to &q
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by jfarmer 13y ago
I majored in mathematics at the University of Chicago and Spivak's Calculus was my first-year calculus textbook. It confirmed what I had long believed: what I was being taught in high school wasn't really mathematics. The book
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by jfarmer 13y ago
Forget about the Wikipedia article, which is trying to define algebra "in general." I know of no definition that encompasses all uses, both technical and colloquial and I'm not sure why we'd want one. A better question
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by jfarmer 13y ago
Hmm, I think this is a fine essay for people who have already internalized the notion of algebra per se , but it's not great for a student who has to yet to do so and is asking the titular question "What is algebra?" Here&#x
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by jfarmer 13y ago
Heh. I wanted to be truthful and didn't know off the top of my head what, say, the median time for a claim to be accepted was. I remember it being something like 2-5 months to get a response, so multiply that by the number of appeals (
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by jfarmer 13y ago
Getting social security disability is a small nightmare and can take months. The majority of initial claims (60%+) are rejected and you'll have to appeal. Which, you know, is no problem at all if you're actually so injured you ca
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by jfarmer 13y ago
If you use the same assumption in Evan's article you can calculate the median by multiplying the mean by ln(2), the natural logarithm of 2. I think Evan's writing this for a situation where your hands are tied WRT the data you&#x
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by jfarmer 13y ago
The claim is sexist and it would be stronger without the wealthy-looking bit, but when building a dating site it's definitely the women that will matter. I think the OP's point (by analogy) is knowing which side of the market is
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I think the header and main button could contrast more with the rest of the page, but otherwise think the current landing page is much better. And by "contrast" I don't necessarily mean color-wise. I'd be curious how yo
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by jfarmer 13y ago
Ok, well, here's how I'd approach it. There are three classes of companies: those that will ding you for your past, those that don't care about your past, and those that will embrace your past. One strategy is to try to hide
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by jfarmer 13y ago
It sounds like you've decided your rejection is fait accompli . I don't think that's the case, but I'm not here to convince you otherwise. Good luck!
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No, any settlement would almost certainly include a mutual non-disclosure agreement and mutual non-disparagement agreement. Complaining about it here makes it more difficult to get those, though, and any settlement in general. Moreover, th
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by jfarmer 13y ago
alias_method is faster than what he did before because he's replicating a bunch of internal logic at run-time, e.g., binding "self" to the correct thing. Somewhere deep in the bowels of the Ruby interpreter it's going t
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by jfarmer 13y ago
For what it's worth, I speak three languages (English, Japanese, and German) and play three instruments (trumpet, mandolin, and guitar). :) I don't know what a "learned skill" is, because to me both programming and mathe
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Why I Was Fired From a Tech Startup and What My Boss Had to Say About It(fdpod.com)
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Thanks! That's an invaluable addition to the conversation. For my purposes and for the purposes of the people building this site, I was taking "complete beginner" to mean "never played chess, ever." If you think ab
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As a beginner this was totally invisible to me and nevertheless it's critical to understanding why pinning and skewering are valuable: you can control your opponent's behavior from a distance. This is the curse of expertise. Expe
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by jfarmer 13y ago
Thanks! Keep in mind I'm really, really, really far from a "complete beginner" in many ways. I already understand the rules of chess. I've played maybe 50 games of chess in my life, although I've lost nearly every
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by jfarmer 13y ago
Ok, sorry, now I'm on the next lesson: http://chesscademy.com/exercises/skewer-the-shish-kebab This hint is silly. It talks as if I've already made a move, but I haven't made any moves. This is totally
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by jfarmer 13y ago
So, I know the basic rules of chess, but I'm terrible at the game because I've never practiced. This site looks neat! I also spent the last two years designing curriculum to teach folks how to program. I have some issues as a st
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by jfarmer 13y ago
You're misunderstanding @jacquesm. He's not saying people will care, he's saying that prima facie this move could only possibly make people care more. It'd be like giving a batter an extra swing. He'll probably
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by jfarmer 13y ago
Callback-oriented code is different. With by-the-book OOP code you're still executing one line at a time. You might be teleporting in space, which has its own problems, but your code still reflects the order of execution. With callba
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by jfarmer 13y ago
Hmm. I'm letting this rattle around my head. I'm going to avoid your mobile handset example both because you know more about the ins and outs than I do, but also because the OP mentioned that the one exception to his rule is App
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by jfarmer 13y ago
I actually disagree with the advice. Well, I'll walk that back: the advice is sound but too specific. I think it's more like, "Don't say things unless it's hard for your competitors to disagree." If your com
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He's most likely only talking about venture-backed startups or those startups that have the potential to be venture-backed but forego it for other reasons. These are obviously not "57 lessons for any business anywhere", espe
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His point is that these outcomes aren't inherent in the process of A/B testing, not that they aren't consequences of certain types of A/B testing.
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by jfarmer 13y ago
Most Kickstarter donations come in at the very beginning and very end of a campaign in an "inverted U" shape. If you're expecting the contributions to come in linearly, I'd recalibrate and plan accordingly.
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by jfarmer 13y ago
> Excuse me, but I am not one to simply say "thank you" when some of the suggestions therein don't make sense. You should. There's no downside, but there's plenty of downside to being brusque. You don't ne
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by jfarmer 13y ago
The metaphors Tagore is using are confusing, at least to me, but this is definitely in the realm of "Philosophy of Science." It's funny because I can't really spot a practical consequence of the difference in their mode

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