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by mslate 9y ago
Mind elaborating?
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I can echo a lot of these points. Out of curiosity--what have you fallen back to as a PaaS? What do you do now? Also, do you recall what couldn't be dockerized and had to be ran on bare-metal or VM? Performance-sensitive stuff, Mac OSX
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by mslate 9y ago
I avoid this problem entirely by keeping static content static--and hosted via CDN. The same approach goes for dynamic (database-backed content)--cache the ever-loving shit out of it.
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Upload the serialized model to S3/GS, configure the URL to be re-pulled--treat model versions like feature flags
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I would love to be judged by my references earlier in the interview process, however this is not meritocratic. In fact it's the opposite since it favors nepotism and disadvantages people from historically disadvantaged backgrounds. Thi
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Incredible--was everything written with C++? What was the process like for rolling a new release out to production trading?
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How much automated/acceptance/regression testing did you guys have? Would "releases" cause major brick-shitting (like the instance where Mr. L deployed a problematic release)?
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Does it get clicks? It is press
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Databases at the beginning: an interview with Bill Karwin of Square(theaccidentalengineer.com)
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Wow, sounds easy--almost as if it should be that way out of the box...
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Me and Harry Potter(thomastaylor-author.com)
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I worked on a small team to produce motion comicbooks for the web: https://reader.madefire.com/work/w-a52abd89424c4fddb4b040e1d...
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by mslate 9y ago
I overcame my fear of the camera and started interviewing friends of mine to try and broaden my personal network: https://theaccidentalengineer.com/ I'm about 40 interviews deep, and have accomplished most all that I i
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by mslate 9y ago
Get a job, hands down. Why pay to learn when you can get paid?
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Read the article, his channel is discussed prominently.
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Ask HN: Home-rolled Google Analytics tracking?
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Information Asymmetries and Paying It Forward(maxmautner.com)
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by mslate 9y ago
Yes, TF is merely a framework implementing convolutional neural nets, not a novel implementation of them. We chose TF over other convolutional neural net libraries because it was 1. Python and 2. heavily sponsored by Google.
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by mslate 9y ago
This was "ages" ago, pre 1.0 so ~2 years ago. TBH, I can't recall which model we used. We ran it in production for several months on a proprietary training dataset of 30k emails, re-training it once a week. I regret not follo
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We used it for a sales email classification problem--it significantly out-performed our conventional approaches (i.e. logistic regression + bag-of-words), but we were not PhDs and none of our job titles were "data scientist" so I
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We Will Outlast Your Employer(theaccidentalengineer.com)
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by mslate 9y ago
I am also curious about it as I've only recently become aware of Athena and Redshift Spectrum for querying data files on S3 w/o any ETL Cost control and query performance are big concerns with Athena, as I understand it Glue can h
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by mslate 9y ago
Tests help. Get color on what kind of mammoth of an existing codebase you'll be dealing with before accepting the offer. 99% of engineering jobs require working with existing codebases, which in turn have a huge impact on your on-the-j
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by mslate 9y ago
"If you want to see our source code then acquire us."
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by mslate 9y ago
Can you share about your use-case? I have a very similar transcription need--feel free to contact me at my email in profile
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Max and Ben Livestreaming MIT's Golang Distributed Systems Course #4(youtube.com)
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by mslate 9y ago
The Sony Pictures hack of 2014 caused a lot of companies to reflect on their data retention policies. Uber's special in that they set their retention policy to subvert criminal investigations, not to protect "trade secrets" I
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by mslate 9y ago
They cannot--coordinating enforcement is impossible for nation state actors, at least not yet.
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The Delray Misfits: https://www.youtube.com/user/DelDrew
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Read the article.

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