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Lending Club Loan Analysis: Making Money with Logistic Regression(drjasondavis.com)
1 points by mcfunley 15y ago|0 comments
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Why you shouldn’t believe the theory behind Groupon’s business model(slate.com)
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by mcfunley 15y ago
Classy move
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by mcfunley 15y ago
It's not even April 1st in my time zone yet and I'm already bored to tears with this stuff.
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by mcfunley 15y ago
The app prompts you to give it a five star review at various points. It presents you with a button that says "rate this app five stars" or something along those lines. I haven't pressed it so I couldn't tell you what process comes after tha
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Where's _why?(slate.com)
12 points by mcfunley 15y ago|0 comments
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by mcfunley 15y ago
I can't read this kind of thing without wondering who these ML experts are that feel personally fulfilled putting their skills to work for 4000% APR payday loans. ML skills are in demand in a lot of industries that aren't directly or openly
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by mcfunley 15y ago
Rape jokes at the top of the site for the crap you're trying to sell. You come across as a thoroughly repellent person who deserves to fail miserably.
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by mcfunley 15y ago
Once you are in the business of accepting payments from some people and dispensing them to others, you are playing an entirely different game from a regulatory standpoint.
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by mcfunley 15y ago
Exactly. People who think programming is boring these days have completely lost their grip on what is important.
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by mcfunley 15y ago
And we replaced sixteen extremely beefy postgres slaves with four commodity solr boxes with plenty of headroom to spare. (Of course we now have more than four solr slaves.)
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by mcfunley 15y ago
And the results were god-awful
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by mcfunley 15y ago
Well, before Etsy switched to Solr we were using postgres tsearch2, and by the end of that search response times were in the 90 second range. And at the time replication wasn't part of postgres so we had a hacked up buggy in-house replicato
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Turbocharging Solr Index Replication with BitTorrent(codeascraft.etsy.com)
70 points by mcfunley 15y ago|13 comments
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A Note on Bravery(jimmywales.com)
3 points by mcfunley 15y ago|0 comments
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by mcfunley 15y ago
Yes.
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Translation Memory(codeascraft.etsy.com)
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Why is Enterprise Tech so Far Behind Consumer Tech?(cdixon.org)
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Multilingual User-generated Content and SEO(codeascraft.etsy.com)
1 points by mcfunley 15y ago|0 comments
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Dispatch Author Responds to the Scala Email(code.technically.us)
61 points by mcfunley 15y ago|10 comments
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Supreme Court of Assholedom: The People vs. Steve Jobs(rollingstone.com)
1 points by mcfunley 15y ago|0 comments
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Engineering Social Commerce(codeascraft.etsy.com)
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Bad Timing(dadhacker.com)
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Your ORM Sucks(omniti.com)
2 points by mcfunley 15y ago|1 comments
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Killing the Abraham(caterina.net)
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by mcfunley 15y ago
I used code search just yesterday. Super lame.
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by mcfunley 15y ago
We have been passing a douchey-looking book called "How to Make it in Software" around work as a joke for the last few days. On page 79 there is a picture of RMS sitting in a chair, mouth agape, in bare feet, with both hands on his dick.
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Scaling Etsy: What Went Wrong, What Went Right (presentation slides)(slideshare.net)
2 points by mcfunley 15y ago|0 comments
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by mcfunley 15y ago
I think you could argue that using postgres and using logic-heavy stored procedures was positive technical debt, in the sense that it was the approach that one of the founders was familiar with. (Note that I'm definitely not saying that I t
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by mcfunley 15y ago
Ross's talk is significantly more deferential in tone than the Arstechnica writeup may suggest.

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