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by johnloeber 3y ago
It's called Dowsing and there's no evidence that it works. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dowsing
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Approaches to Software Engineering That Worked for Me(loeber.substack.com)
4 points by johnloeber 3y ago|0 comments
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by johnloeber 6y ago
1. 25% equity for 200k EUR (=800k valuation) is a bad deal. This is the hottest ever seed-stage funding environment, even in Europe. People are raising at 5m+ valuations on a slide deck alone. If you were to raise from professional venture
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by johnloeber 6y ago
No they don't. Taxi drivers are exploited end-to-end. There's a reason why the medallions eclipsed a million dollars in price. The drivers have to lease their cars on a daily basis, and start at around $160 leasing fee in the hole
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by johnloeber 6y ago
It makes no sense from a risk diversification POV to spend your life savings (pre-)seeding your startup.
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by johnloeber 7y ago
In what sense are you “launching” today? In the news, you raised a 45m Series B recently. According to LinkedIn, you’ve been at it for 18 months already. So what’s new?
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by johnloeber 8y ago
In Chrome and Firefox, you can turn off video autoplay at the browser level. It’s a config option.
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by johnloeber 9y ago
On this topic, I witnessed the "Bicycle of Education" just earlier today, which had me thoroughly impressed. https://twitter.com/research_tim/status/737757291437527040
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by johnloeber 9y ago
The term "arrow" is from category theory, not graph theory.
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by johnloeber 10y ago
Thanks for this perspective. I didn't know about this.
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by johnloeber 10y ago
I'm surprised to see the omission of top machine learning engineers from this article, who are currently priced in the $1m-5m range. Facebook has placed such offers to industry experts, as well as to the world's strongest PhD stud
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by johnloeber 10y ago
> In the prior 17 years of professional experience, I have never needed to write a graph traversal algorithm. I don't get this. I'm in my early 20s and have professionally implemented graph traversal algorithms at least five t
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by johnloeber 10y ago
Shameless plug: I have written a similar tool to also archive all of your tweets, with a delete option. It's a little more fully featured. https://github.com/Datamine/Archive-Tweets
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by johnloeber 10y ago
I suspect this might be a candidate for PCA, or a similarly driven approach.
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Show HN: A Module for Profiling Python Functions in Production(github.com)
2 points by johnloeber 10y ago|0 comments
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by johnloeber 10y ago
Let's talk when you've saved 6 million lives, thanks
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by johnloeber 10y ago
Oh wow. This is an incredibly well-crafted piece of music. That vocal arrangement is insane!
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by johnloeber 10y ago
Great stuff. The lack of surface and volume plotting was one of my perpetual gripes with matplotlib.
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by johnloeber 10y ago
To be clear: it's not just hard, it is explicitly wrong . A more correct measure is a much simpler one: the aggregate product of all these companies over the GDP. Note that this aggregate product is of course a component of the GDP, s
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by johnloeber 10y ago
Correct me if I'm wrong, but this is just a proposal that has to get ratified by the House of Congress, right? It's noteworthy that Zoe Lofgren, the sponsor of this bill, has attempted to pass similar bills before, which were not
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by johnloeber 10y ago
> What's the worst thing a monopolist can do? Charge unfairly large prices. It's not so much about Rockefeller being a monopolist as it is about him being a private citizen with truly enormous economic power, while being zealou
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by johnloeber 10y ago
Yes, exactly. Rockefeller constructed a mental framework for himself, by which he could rationalize away just about any action.
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by johnloeber 10y ago
He was distrustful of doctors for the course of his life, and subscribed to herbal/folk medicines. The reason why he funded so much medical science is mostly that Frederick T. Gates, the manager of his philanthropic affairs, managed to
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by johnloeber 10y ago
I tried to show that Rockefeller was essentially a zealot: unwilling to ever admit to any nuance, and impossible to bring off his course. It's good that his actions were constructive, but they very easily could have been destructive (e
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Notes on John D. Rockefeller(johnloeber.com)
82 points by johnloeber 10y ago|50 comments
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by johnloeber 10y ago
Fun! Needs tab-complete.
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by johnloeber 10y ago
I agree. I went to a circus once, as a child, in 1999. I found it to be a mostly disturbing and garish experience featuring tired and exploited performers, humans as well as animals.
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by johnloeber 10y ago
I don't know which the cities are, but I'd guess they're among the wealthiest ones. Maybe you'll find this useful: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_U.S._metropolitan_area...
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by johnloeber 10y ago
As a young hipster developer, I agree with you 100%. Modern startups have generally been taking an approach that is totally dismissive of long-tail risks such as this one. I think it is extremely unfortunate that financial incentives are cu
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by johnloeber 10y ago
I guess I'll be the first to deliver negative feedback. Technically, it's well-designed. It's a fine-looking product that is easy and compelling to use. The key-point summary is a good feature. That's all granted. Howeve

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