mojoe

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   by mojoe 10y ago

   Pandas is certainly excellent -- be aware of it's NA type promotion behavior before you start designing data analysis programs, however. I learned this the hard way: http://pandas.pydata.org/pandas-docs/stable&#x2F
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   by mojoe 10y ago

   He said 'password requirements' not 'passwords.' I'm assuming he meant the nonsense wherein "you must have a number, lower and upppercase letter, symbol, and a demon-summoning pentagram in your password."
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   by mojoe 10y ago

   ~12 billion inflation-adjusted, but your point stands.
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   by mojoe 10y ago

   He mentions that 80+% of his assets are now in startups. Having that much money tied up in assets that have no scheduled exit events seems like a pretty strong argument by itself.
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   by mojoe 10y ago

   Over the course of the last four months I've been posting about my progress on a new science fiction magazine, and this community has provided fantastic feedback: Pre-release comments: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?
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   Show HN: The Second Issue of Compelling Science Fiction(compellingsciencefiction.com)

   18 points by mojoe 10y ago|3 comments
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   by mojoe 10y ago

   Articles like this are ridiculous, because essentially all they say is "guess what, there are some smart people in X group!" There are smart/hard-working/passionate/etc. people in nearly every group. The question
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   by mojoe 10y ago

   Sources? I'd be curious to see sample sizes and if this was true for 100% of study participants.
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   by mojoe 10y ago

   When you say categorically that "Productivity DOES decline because any work that requires concentration is substantially more difficult to perform," you're assuming that the majority of people have a harder time concentrating
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    by mojoe 10y ago

    I'm part of a development team that resides in an 'open office.' One member of my team has told me that he likes the open plan so much that he'd quit if forced into an office/cube situation. Most others at my office
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    Today's Inventors Need to Read More Science Fiction (2013)(theatlantic.com)

    2 points by mojoe 10y ago|0 comments
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    by mojoe 10y ago

    Thank you, that's definitely on our list -- it will probably not get done for a while, but eventually it will get done!
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    by mojoe 10y ago

    I really appreciate the kind words! Google analytics can only tell me how many people are reading -- feedback like yours is the only way that I can tell how much real impact the magazine is creating. Right now there's just the one emai
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    by mojoe 10y ago

    I've posted about my science fiction magazine side project here before, and you all have given me great feedback: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11469135 I just started a blog for the magazine, to keep readers in
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    Show HN: Future Plans for Compelling Science Fiction(compellingsciencefiction.com)

    6 points by mojoe 10y ago|6 comments
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    by mojoe 11y ago

    I'll email you one this evening, no charge, just send me your email address (joe@compellingsciencefiction.com)
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    by mojoe 11y ago

    Thanks for the feedback! Mean and Clean was very controversial before publication -- two advisors disliked it and two really loved it.
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    by mojoe 11y ago

    Thanks for pointing this out! There are a lot of small issues we need to address (favicons, title tags, better typography, etc).
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    by mojoe 11y ago

    Interestingly, planting 1 trillion trees all at once would decrease the albedo of the earth ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Albedo ), increasing warming in the short term. I wonder how long the trees would have to exist
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    by mojoe 11y ago

    I appreciate the suggestion! I'll be changing the styles this evening.
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    by mojoe 11y ago

    Thanks for the kind words! I appreciate your help evaluating stories.
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    by mojoe 11y ago

    Not right now, but I'll be looking in to it down the road.
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    by mojoe 11y ago

    Unfortunately Amazon has discontinued "Kindle Publishing for Newspapers & Magazines Beta". A lot of the small magazines that signed up through that program were grandfathered in. I've sent a query about other ways to get
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    by mojoe 11y ago

    Thanks! I had not considered encouraging authors to post their experiences, I will look into it. We are also working on our social media presence. We have a Twitter account (@CompellingSF) but no Facebook presence yet. We're mostly rel
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    by mojoe 11y ago

    feel free to email me with your thoughts at joe@compellingsciencefiction.com!
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    by mojoe 11y ago

    I'm passionate about supporting content like this, so I'll be paying for it as long as I can!
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    by mojoe 11y ago

    Thanks for pointing that out -- there are many optimizations that we need to do.
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    by mojoe 11y ago

    This is a great idea, and we're currently working on a system that will accomplish this.
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    by mojoe 11y ago

    Awesome! We also have plans to record podcasts down the road. I'm glad text-to-speech worked well.
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    by mojoe 11y ago

    Thanks for the feedback! We hired a professional copy editor, but we will work harder in this area going forward.