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by jfarmer 8y ago
Hey HN, I'm Jesse and run engineering at Strive ( https://www.strive.co ). I've been a long-time HN user (joined Marched, 2008) and joined Strive about 6 months ago to help people get a fair shot a great career. We focus
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The Ideal (Data-Driven) Sales Interview [PDF in Viewer](strive.co)
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by jfarmer 8y ago
Strive Talent | Full-stack Engineer + Front-end product engineer | FULL-TIME ONSITE | San Francisco, CA | https://www.strivetalent.com/ Hey HN! I'm Jesse, the head of engineering at Strive Talent. My email is jesse@str
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by jfarmer 8y ago
Strive Talent | Full-stack Engineer + Front-end product engineer | FULL-TIME ONSITE | San Francisco, CA | https://www.strivetalent.com/ Hey HN! I'm Jesse, the head of engineering at Strive Talent. My email is jesse@str
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by jfarmer 8y ago
Strive Talent | Full-stack Engineer + Front-end product engineer | FULL-TIME ONSITE | San Francisco, CA | https://www.strivetalent.com/ Hey HN! I'm Jesse, the head of engineering at Strive Talent. My email is jesse@s
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by jfarmer 9y ago
I co-founded Dev Bootcamp and disagree with most of his tweetstorm, for what that’s worth.
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by jfarmer 9y ago
Write down what it means for the Cartesian product of some collection of sets to be nonemtpy. You'll see that it's exactly identical to saying there's a choice function on that collection of sets.
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by jfarmer 9y ago
Hi! Thanks for the nice words. :)
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by jfarmer 9y ago
It's a Facebook project.
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by jfarmer 10y ago
> So student associations shouldn't be allowed to not allow certain people into their meetings if they're found to be abusive? I went to UChicago. The letter doesn't say that anyone can say anything to anyone else. Presu
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by jfarmer 10y ago
> What is your motivation for defending the status quo? I imagine his goal was to highlight the actual claims made by the paper you linked. This is obviously and understandably personal to you, but it's not intellectually honest to
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by jfarmer 10y ago
Er, that should read the first section of the third book, namely the same book/section quoted at the start of the short story.
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by jfarmer 10y ago
The "power" of a short story rests in its ability to imply interesting things that your imagination can play around with. When you read the original story of Theseus and the Minotaur do you ask yourself the same question? Is the
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by jfarmer 10y ago
Riders receive ratings, too.
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by jfarmer 11y ago
Yay!
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by jfarmer 11y ago
I can't tell if you're being sincere, but your attitude is common enough among well-meaning STEM types that I'll assume you are. There never was nor will there ever be a cut-and-dried, scientifically-precise definition of &qu
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by jfarmer 11y ago
This is like those folks who say that Arabs can't be anti-semitic because Arabic is a Semitic language and the Arabic people are a Semitic people. Or that some people are anti-semitic because of their hostility towards Arabs. At best,
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by jfarmer 11y ago
> a functor is generally something which defines the operator which lets you treat it as a callable In mathematics, those things are just called "functions". :P
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by jfarmer 11y ago
Never go full E17.
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by jfarmer 11y ago
Speaking from experience, the people suggesting such things aren't thinking that way.
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by jfarmer 11y ago
Sounds like they're a bunch of dude-nerds who want to handle every problem as if it were a technical problem. Their "process" seems tantamount to separating the two sides and telling them to sit down and shut up. That's
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by jfarmer 11y ago
No, it follows directly from the fact that the positive integers are well-ordered, i.e., any set of positive integers has a least element. And in case one is tempted to think that well-ordering and divisibility are somehow equivalent, consi
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by jfarmer 11y ago
As near as I can tell, this proof would work in any well-ordered integral domain D where D's field of fractions would the role of the rationals. The analogue of the standard proof would require that D also be a unique factorization do
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by jfarmer 11y ago
No, it follows directly from the fact that the positive integers are well-ordered, i.e., any set of positive integers has a least element. And in case one is tempted to think that well-ordering and divisibility are somehow equivalent, consi
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by jfarmer 11y ago
By "doesn't use divisibility" I assume the author means that the point of contradiction doesn't rest on the "divisibility properties" of the integer, not that division is never used. In particular, this proof
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by jfarmer 11y ago
You're confused about de facto vs. de jure . It's a common thing to be ignorant about, but maybe in the future don't be all "No, no, you're exactly wrong !" before double-checking.
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by jfarmer 11y ago
> since you know those groups are seeing the same thing and should be performing identically That's not how A/B testing works. 95% confidence means you should expect a 5% false positive rate, i.e., you should expect the differ
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by jfarmer 11y ago
There are definitely properties of numbers that are more easily stated in one base vs. another, but I don't see how an automata would matter. Any automata that can process strings in one base can be converted into an automata that can
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by jfarmer 11y ago
You might enjoy Karl Polanyi's The Great Transformation if you haven't read it. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Great_Transformation_(book...
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by jfarmer 11y ago
Without sharing the specific example, I don't know what to say. The Wikipedia page on the Ulam spiral is consistent with every representation/exposition I've seen and doesn't depend on the base we choose for the labels.

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