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by kkwteh 8y ago
It's not too much of a barrier since everyone speaks English in the office. Generally everyone gets along pretty well in the office, English and French speakers alike.
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by kkwteh 8y ago
Author here. My salary in Paris is definitely quite a bit lower than what it was in San Francisco, but I think the lower cost of health care, child care, education and housing largely make up for it. In particular, I feel much less exposed
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by kkwteh 8y ago
I'm the writer. I have no doubt that I wouldn't be treated as kindly if I weren't skilled and educated. However they do treat me pretty well here. In the US all of the immigration officials I have to interact with seem to b
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Why I Moved from San Francisco to Paris and joined Alan(medium.com)
12 points by kkwteh 8y ago|15 comments
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by kkwteh 8y ago
Antifragile has changed the way I've thought about many things. A couple key concepts in the book are like lenses that gave me entirely new ways of viewing the world. The Lindy effect: The strongest systems are usually the ones that ha
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by kkwteh 8y ago
Two hours reviewing one resumé is way too much. A few minutes should be plenty of time to decide whether or not to start the interview process with a candidate.
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by kkwteh 8y ago
At work, I use elements of bullet journaling but instead of using a paper journal I use my personal DM channel in Slack. This way I can quickly paste useful code / data into my journal and run searches efficiently.
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by kkwteh 8y ago
You can raise a lot of money at the beginning if the founders have the right connections and track record. Opendoor was able to raise a $10M Series A without a product. [0] [0] https://techcrunch.com/2014/07/07&#x2
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by kkwteh 8y ago
The NYTimes stated just above the anonymous opinion that they know who the official is, so I think it's safe to say that it wasn't written by Trump.
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by kkwteh 8y ago
Argentine Tango. Despite what you might think, it's a surprisingly technical activity. I meet a surprisingly high number of engineers and PhDs in the tango community. When I'm dancing, it puts me into a state of flow where I'
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Mapping cargo ship routes around the world(canadiangeographic.ca)
1 points by kkwteh 8y ago|0 comments
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by kkwteh 8y ago
Having the phrase "solar panel" in a property description may correlate with a 40% increase in "expected sale price" (the blog post doesn't say what they mean by this), but having solar panels in your home correlate
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by kkwteh 8y ago
Looks like an off by one error. I'm seeing this error as well for some of the fonts.
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by kkwteh 9y ago
I was the first data scientist hired at Opendoor. We have a strong team of data scientists, engineers, designers and operators. We're ready and excited to take on this challenge.
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by kkwteh 9y ago
This talk by Zach Hartwig from IAP 2017 "MIT's Pathway to Fusion Energy" is fantastic. Hartwig is an assistant professor in the Nuclear Science & Engineering department at MIT. He presents a straightforward overview of th
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How to keep your data scientists and engineers from killing each other(labs.opendoor.com)
3 points by kkwteh 10y ago|0 comments
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Using Postgres window functions to link data across many sources(labs.opendoor.com)
10 points by kkwteh 10y ago|0 comments
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Analytics the right way(labs.opendoor.com)
2 points by kkwteh 11y ago|0 comments
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Serving analytics the right way: Modern analytics at Opendoor(labs.opendoor.com)
6 points by kkwteh 11y ago|0 comments