pagefruit

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by pagefruit 15y ago
One thing I'm curious about is: at a larger software company like Google, Facebook, Twitter, Amazon, Microsoft, how much of a raise do you typically get every year? Also, does Google's 10% across-the-board raise last year not apply to new h
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by pagefruit 15y ago
According to the blog post ( http://blog.trello.com/launch/ ), "It’s free. (We might charge something for premium features in the future). You can make one board or 100."
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by pagefruit 15y ago
Yelp's filtering algorithm is terrible. Purely anecdotal, but: I've tried writing reviews on Yelp several times. When I first started reviewing and my reviews were getting filtered out, I'd think "OK, maybe I just need to continue reviewing
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by pagefruit 15y ago
One awesome and pretty understandable blog post of his is a layman's introduction to Quantum Mechanics, using Tomb Raider as an analogy: http://terrytao.wordpress.com/2007/02/26/quantum-mechanics-a...
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by pagefruit 15y ago
Another funny one (also by a familiar name, though perhaps not as much in contest math circles) is Manjul Bhargava's: http://www.math.princeton.edu/graduate/generals/bhargava_man... In this case, the funniness is for the totally opposite
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by pagefruit 15y ago
It's even worse when they don't even read your resume until they enter the room.
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by pagefruit 15y ago
It'd be awesome if Google+ also tried to suggest ways of organizing your friends into circles (similar to how Gmail suggests people to add to emails). In general, I think the Circles dataset will be really interesting, as I don't think anyb
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Organizing the Sarah Palin Emails using Machine Learning(blog.echen.me)
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by pagefruit 15y ago
Wasn't AdGrok just acquired by Twitter? (Did he move to FB before the acquisition?)
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by pagefruit 15y ago
^Typo: from the link, it's $26,000 (!), not $26.
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by pagefruit 15y ago
Just curious, how has your experience been getting jobs as a dropout? I dropped out of college a couple years ago as well, but found that a lot people wouldn't even talk to me simply because I didn't have a degree (or stopped talking once I
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by pagefruit 15y ago
Awesome, awesome response, thanks! I've tried to understand the ad ecosystem many times before, but never got it until reading this now.
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by pagefruit 15y ago
Would anyone mind explaining what the difference between all these ad companies is? In my mind, ad companies are kind of like finance companies, in that they all have the same goals (beating the stock market/displaying optimal ads), and dif
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by pagefruit 15y ago
Is it really true that Hadoop > MapReduce? I was under the impression (as a limited outsider) that Hadoop is still trying to catch up to MapReduce. Also, I've heard from a Google friend that MapReduce is no longer the production-level t
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by pagefruit 16y ago
The graphs look great (and actually useful). Does anyone know what they're using to make them?