jlees

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by jlees 11y ago
Well, it was POKEs from Your Sinclair that got me into programming, so perhaps I have you to thank? Thanks!
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by jlees 11y ago
I used Part 1 of this tutorial as the basis for a lecture in a full stack web development class. Fantastic resource, and while my students praised the content for helping them figure the "why" as well as the "how", the p
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by jlees 11y ago
I also have found the recruiter email to have gotten a lot better recently. As an experiment (as my startup is hiring - I wanted to see what the candidate experience might be like these days), I expanded my LinkedIn profile to trigger as ma
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by jlees 11y ago
Since LinkedIn shut off their contacts APIs, folks have been looking for other ways to get at LinkedIn connections data. Export is an obvious solution - even though it requires some friction on the part of the end user, people are often wil
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by jlees 11y ago
Seconding the IPython Notebook. I've used matplotlib but also like Plot.ly for its prettier, more sharable charts. It's also not a huge amount of work to set up a JSON-Flask-D3 visualisation pipeline out of test data; that's
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by jlees 11y ago
Putting on my "Python teacher" hat for a moment (I also work at Nylas), our codebase is interesting for learning purposes because it's a fairly homogenous, 'live' product managed by a commercial engineering team. De
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by jlees 11y ago
For e.g. changing the format of a column that's easy enough but it's tricky to create that intermediate state at the migration level for every migration. One option is to deploy the migration code without restarting the running se
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by jlees 11y ago
Looks neat. I think there's definitely a difference in the requirements for a deploy method when you can control the underlying systems (internal servers) vs have to make it work with just about any weird config users throw at you (you
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by jlees 11y ago
To be fair, what didn't work for Nylas might well not be an issue for others. There's definitely more than one way to skin a cat, especially in the Python world.
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by jlees 11y ago
That seems like a neat tool. I wonder if you could combine it with the sandboxing that dh-virtualenv provides to get the best of both worlds?
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by jlees 11y ago
As an engineer recently rediscovering the pure, tactile, offline experience of creating art (not that I would go so far as to call what I have created so far 'art'), this piece couldn't have come at a better time. I really ap
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by jlees 11y ago
Nylas | https://nylas.com/ | San Francisco, CA (Mission) | Frontend (JS), Backend (Systems+Ops) _ _ _ | \ | | | | | \| |_ _| | __ _ ___ | . ` | | | | |/ _` / __| | |\ |
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by jlees 11y ago
We use dh-virtualenv and it's working out pretty well for us so far.
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by jlees 11y ago
EB2 'other' anecdote: I came to the US in 2009 on a H1B (job offer in October, granted in December) and filed for my green card almost immediately. I had my card within 18 months, most of which was PERM. I realise I was very for
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by jlees 11y ago
It depends on the community. For this one, it's a bunch of folks learning to code and getting coding jobs; I can imagine many of those ending up working at tech companies who might be great Slack customers, and evangelising because the
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by jlees 11y ago
Signia has also made some gaming investments and had a gaming focused EIR for a while.
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by jlees 11y ago
I agree, but it looks like there will be more projects coming. I teach a class aimed at exactly this "Codecademy chasm" and tend to use small, practical apps e.g. parsing San Francisco street sweeping data or getting the weather f
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by jlees 11y ago
I've definitely seen interviewers (both by reading other people's feedback, and in one rare case, being an interviewee) who expected a "correct" answer and wouldn't work with the candidate to get there if they didn&
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by jlees 11y ago
It depends how your interviewer is ranking/scoring you. One interviewer might be impressed with your ability to talk through and solve the problem from first principles, where another might ding you for not instantly knowing the answer
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by jlees 11y ago
> My grandparents and parents worked very hard to provide me with the environment to succeed. Success? Stopping another generation from going down the pit. This feels like the generalised version of the story in the BBC article, in a way
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by jlees 11y ago
Indeed - giving talks, supervising research students, etc. Having said that, I worked with a professor who had effectively taken the same route; his work was relevant in the eighties and hardly used since. My job was to try and reimplement
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by jlees 11y ago
This sounds like a lovely book. Can't say I'm a huge fan of the "maths for girls" angle, but anything that makes mathematics more accessible is great.
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by jlees 11y ago
Reminds me of MS's azure ML offering, among others. I would be loath to use a black-box service to plug and play like this, as I think understanding the right models to build and the outcomes you want to get are crucial parts of using
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by jlees 11y ago
Neat tool, though it's a little disconcerting to be able to easily find my application - not your fault, though, the data was already there!
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by jlees 11y ago
At a guess, you're using Windows and the author is using Mac? [1] (I'm also using Windows -- it's my gaming PC, don't judge! -- and having an equally difficult time.) [1] http://damieng.com/blog/2007
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by jlees 11y ago
> One of my standard statements is that the ability to do a job is not a guarantee to get the job - it is just the base requirement to even be considered. That's fair, but I think the issue is that some people with the ability to do
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by jlees 11y ago
Mailbait looks helpful for a project of mine, thank you for sharing! I used GenSpam [1] for my thesis on spam filtering, but it doesn't seem to be as comprehensive as others out there, plus using a corpus instead of 'live' em
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by jlees 11y ago
That's interesting, I had always thought the same as the poster you're replying to. It really shows the psychological/brand difference. I'm far more likely to go out and buy a 3D printer. Perhaps it's the word &quot
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by jlees 11y ago
I agree that it's likely the PvP rank. I could definitely see that taking a year or longer. Although plain old level 60 is still plausible - while it only took 11-15 days to level 60 if you knew what you were doing, a lot of us took lo
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by jlees 11y ago
I know of at least two engineers (and the usual caveats about anecdotal evidence apply here!) who got jobs in Silicon Valley after freelancing remotely for the same company, including a H1B sponsorship, something that's by no means gua

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