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by raffi 16y ago
I really believe that hacking is a good way to get students excited about systems programming and working at the systems level. I also noticed a stack smashing lab. Good stuff.
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by raffi 16y ago
Dear [person whose name I don't know], You have a right to reject (and automatically request a new response) for any half-assed or incompetent responses. That said: I receive a lot of positive feedback on the service and in the instances wh
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by raffi 16y ago
Feedback Army will get you many responses without giving up anything more than a few dollars. http://www.feedbackarmy.com
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by raffi 16y ago
Yeah, I still use mine. http://jircii.dashnine.org/ :)
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by raffi 16y ago
I'm coming as well. Glad to see some DC love.
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by raffi 16y ago
Writing a good cover letter is like writing a good sales letter. Show the prospect that you know who they are, you have looked at the situation (you absolutely must convince them of this), and that you have the solution. I suggest reading a
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by raffi 16y ago
Yeah yeah. I hope it wasn't a technical acquisition, because then obviously this guy was a failure and no where near as cool as rockstar dot com bazillionaires like you. Following HN rules, if we were face to face, I would say this to you.
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by raffi 16y ago
http://www.feedbackarmy.com really surprised me. I came up with the idea from a HN user asking for a service like it. It was on the front page of delicious the week I launched it (it was a slow news week, given). Since then it's served as
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by raffi 16y ago
I find I have limited bandwidth for coding. In my last job, this capacity was completely used. I put my energy and my ideas into my job and absolutely nothing was left for building on the side. My current job is still technical, but I'm not
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by raffi 16y ago
I haven't had a chance to do more than skim the article yet, but if you get a chance, read Skunk Works by Ben Rich. The book is about the shop Kelly Johnson (the subject of the article) ran that gave us all kinds of great flying toys. It's
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by raffi 16y ago
I tried GetFriday and don't recommend hiring out to an agency like that. Recently I paid $25 for an ad on Craigslist and hired a marketing assistant to do tasks similar to the one you're describing. I'm still pretty early into my business r
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by raffi 16y ago
Have you seen: http://www-tsujii.is.s.u-tokyo.ac.jp/~tsuruoka/postagger/ It's a POS tagger whose output is extremely close (read: identical) to the Stanford POS tagger. It's also much faster. I was able to tag a corpus of 300K sentences w
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by raffi 16y ago
It's a little confusing but this looks like a front-end to Stanford's Part-of-Speech tagger. POS taggers do not group multi-word tokens. This would be the role of a chunker or a parser.
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by raffi 16y ago
#startups on Freenode. I use IRC for collaborating with my colleagues (we're a distributed company). EFNet. shameless plug: Check out jIRCii. http://jircii.dashnine.org . It runs on OS X, Windows, and Linux. It's (in my opinion) the perfec
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After the Deadline Bigram Corpus... Our Gift to You(blog.afterthedeadline.com)
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by raffi 16y ago
I learned regular expressions when writing the documentation for my Sleep programming language. They never made sense to me until I had to organize my thoughts on them in a logical way. I'm still quite happy with how that chapter turned out
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by raffi 16y ago
My style checker finds weasel words, passive voice, and repeated words (a lexical illusion). It also finds confused words as well (another lexical illusion). It's not integrated with LaTeX but it is available for Firefox, Google Chrome, and
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by raffi 16y ago
I don't know the answer because I haven't been in your situation (yet). I'm thinking of offering support for worker demographics and the scheme I described is how I plan to implement it. a. Do I know about the worker? Yes - go to c. b. surv
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by raffi 16y ago
I use it for http://www.feedbackarmy.com and other tasks. I recommend using an ExternalQuestion. This will let you host the worker form on your own site. I recommend using JavaScript and whatever you want server side to let the user know
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by raffi 16y ago
yes
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by raffi 16y ago
WordPress.com does latex and syntax highlighting. http://en.support.wordpress.com/latex/ http://en.support.wordpress.com/code/posting-source-code/
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by raffi 16y ago
I tried getfriday.com for a week and then let them go. I used my VA primarily for research tasks. One task I tried: find me a plain-text format wordlist of technology jargon. Specifically, I want a flat text file with each word on its own l
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by raffi 16y ago
Linguists call them real-word errors. They're very common in writing and spell checkers do nothing to protect against them. I work on a free browser extension called After the Deadline. It picks a lot of this stuff up. It didn't pick up thi
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by raffi 16y ago
I read a great article in the Harvard Business Review about what defines a profession. Their question: are managers a profession akin to Doctors and Lawyers? The author defined a professional as someone whose work you have to take on faith.
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by raffi 16y ago
Marketing is education. Answer the questions people have about your product in a concise and correct way and you'll have good copy.
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by raffi 16y ago
I like the end point about the question your resumé should answer: what did you do that someone else in the same job wouldn't have. That's a nice twist.
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by raffi 16y ago
How do you avoid taking it personally? I have a really hard time with it.
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by raffi 16y ago
I think of web development (SQL, JavaScript, your favorite VCS) as something you'd learn in a vocational setting or on your own. What the author is describing sounds like someone getting a degree in mechanical engineering just so they can c
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A More Secure AtD Experience for the Browser(blog.afterthedeadline.com)
1 points by raffi 16y ago|0 comments
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by raffi 16y ago
The Sleep Manual is a good source of examples, every function in the language has an example associated with it: http://sleep.dashnine.org/manual/ Another good place is the Sleep Snippets blog. I haven't updated it in a long time though:

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