jlees

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by jlees 15y ago
The boundary between recreational mathematics and computer science is flimsy at best; while Project Euler may not make you the world's best programmer, it'll get you well entrenched in some of the fundamental brain tricks in computer scienc
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by jlees 15y ago
Nuts? Some people who follow paleo style eating are definitely more... evangelist than others, but let's not tar all cavemen with the same brush. I don't eat grilled cheese, but I never thought it was particularly healthy before reading up
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by jlees 15y ago
To derail slightly, some of the comedy shows we ended up dealing with were "Party", "Hotel" and "Free". We didn't require that people used a specific hashtag for each show name (our audience wasn't savvy enough), but we wanted to make sure
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by jlees 15y ago
And anything using the same hashtag for other purposes (see House) is polluted. We ran into the same problem classifying comedy shows and eventually wrote a multi-tier relevancy matcher based on the hashtag, key indicators, sentiment and ti
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by jlees 15y ago
Submit your resume to the Chrome team, then you can fix all this stuff. :)
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by jlees 15y ago
Is there really much of interest in press releases, or were they just a handy corpus you had around? I started my PhD off looking at affect in scientific papers, and changed tack because there basically is none. Anyway, I guess I'm not clea
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by jlees 15y ago
You claim that context is not important, but surely in a domain-specific corpus such as HN comments you have to take domain, if not context, into account? For example, words that are generally positive may be only used in a snarky context i
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by jlees 15y ago
Yeah -- I think this shines when you're solving a problem that's so important, and unaddressed, that people are all over it when all you have is an email form.
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by jlees 15y ago
I've always got between one and four notebooks with me.
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by jlees 15y ago
I'm firmly behind the lean approach (though I don't think this article says anything new). However, I do often wonder how customers really feel when they hit a "Sign Up" link and are taken to an inexpertly crafted Wufoo form designed to har
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by jlees 15y ago
I don't agree that you need to automate from the beginning. I launched a site where I did everything manually behind the scenes and never needed to automate; figuring out the automation code would have been the trickiest, hardest part of th
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by jlees 15y ago
Google will eventually come for you. Or buy you. The trick is to be so good at what you do that it's easier for Google to fork out cash than engineering resources.
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by jlees 15y ago
Absolutely. I'm like edge17 in that the new books I have piled up call out to me like sirens, but I have a series of books that are absolutely "comfort reading" and help me out in times that aren't so great. I know their twists, turns and s
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by jlees 15y ago
When you're at the point where medication is a serious option, even the step "get up" is difficult enough -- sticking to your plan for a few months is nigh on impossible.
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by jlees 15y ago
I agree, though I would add "outside" here. Running or biking outside makes me feel awesome, running on a treadmill makes me feel even more that life is futile. I know we don't always have the choice or ability to do this, but it's great wh
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by jlees 15y ago
15. Just get out of the house! Seriously. The act of walking every morning to get a Starbucks and paper is what I credit with recovering from a sinkhole like this. I've a tendency to duvet and hope the world goes away. Of course, it's hard
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by jlees 15y ago
I was prescribed antidepressants on two occasions, and neither time did I enjoy the experience. I felt dulled; like I was living inside a padded chamber. Thoughts just didn't come. Sleep was all I craved. I felt "normal", rather than down,
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by jlees 15y ago
That's what early stage pre-incubators like Founder Labs are aiming at.
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by jlees 15y ago
There's also some deal in California with commuter tax benefits (I am nowhere near versant in this). That's why employees get free buses but contractors don't (as their company doesn't opt for the benefit, 'cause it costs money).
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by jlees 15y ago
there are areas (eg. meetings in cafes) where you don't have to swipe through a security door to get in. these are policed by physical security.
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by jlees 16y ago
It'd be pretty easy to build, especially if you use something like Python and NLTK. You could then extend to a "your mom" bot too. I'd actually be intrigued at how simple the algorithm could be and still be mostly on the mark, rather than
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How did you learn to program?(ilearnedtoprogram.com)
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by jlees 16y ago
Love the summary. A qualified yes such that if they agree, you're happy, and if they decline, you're still happy.
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by jlees 16y ago
I find it interesting that Adams mentions a MBA rounded out his entrepreneurial experience. From his descriptions of his business escapades in college, it seems like he was a well-rounded, experienced entrepreneur already. The only value fr
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by jlees 16y ago
At Google we call them product managers. (Aside: I think the original article does not understand that product managers aren't "managers" in the traditional sense of the word. Much of this discussion should be predicated on this fact!)
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by jlees 16y ago
Indeed. I can manually remove people (sure, it isn't as fun) but you have a real opportunity to add value here. The criteria I look at when I do one of my periodic follower purges: * Do I know them personally? * Do I follow them back? * Hav
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by jlees 16y ago
Another option is to have some social cost to making comments. The easiest way to do this is to force real names - look at e.g. Techcrunch (but there are other examples) to see the impact on comment quality. I can't see it working here, f
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by jlees 16y ago
Productivity on desktop machine, browsing on the tablet/laptop. Pinboard/ReadItLater anything that looks like a timesink and catch up when away from the desk.
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by jlees 16y ago
Look up the Informatics Olympiad. Some awesome theoretical puzzles: http://www.olympiad.org.uk/problems.html
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by jlees 16y ago
This is a fair point. I make a point of not asking "CS exam" questions, but I do expect candidates to be familiar with fairly common computer science concepts. (Not-an-Example: In my own interviews I was asked about things like O-notation,

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