sfpoet

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by sfpoet 6y ago
I was thinking the same thing. Perhaps it was a high dimensional fragment. Or a local who all of a sudden thought he was a guard from the Philippines. Given the Don Quixote story, I'm more inclined to believe that. We should try not to
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by sfpoet 6y ago
The right way to deal with new ideas is to treat them as a challenge to your imagination — not just to have lower standards, but to switch polarity entirely, from listing the reasons an idea won't work to trying to think of ways it co
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by sfpoet 6y ago
If those days go into all-nighters, you might have bipolar disorder. I went undiagnosed for years, and didn't believe it myself until I charted the moods with the help of roommates and a doctor. I began to notice being happy at inappro
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by sfpoet 6y ago
No, you are right on. It's really a bespoke to techstars_ solution for Google Cloud. When I think I web, I think HTML and HTTP and all the resources that can be accessed under those two. Note, the web can also be SFTP and a plethora of
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Decade Anniversary of deep-layered perceptrons trained by PGD on GPU(people.idsia.ch)
2 points by sfpoet 6y ago|0 comments
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by sfpoet 6y ago
How clear the writing!
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by sfpoet 6y ago
Where's the data for the 60 interviews? I feel that this piece is nothing more than link bait without that data. That data could be anonymized, too.
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by sfpoet 6y ago
"Like a skilled surfer, I wanted to learn to ride the high pressure waves that came with interviews." Yeah, bro, that's not surfing. Good surfers respect the big waves. No coder is going to respect a bad interviewer. But I tr
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by sfpoet 6y ago
I always had the feeling this was the case, so my strategy has been to gaslight the person interviewing me.
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by sfpoet 6y ago
I still get chills hearing about Cambodia and the Khmer Rouge. This article struck me in a different way: the farmers vs urbanites. I never saw it this way before.
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Understanding and writing a JPEG decoder in Python(yasoob.me)
263 points by sfpoet 6y ago|47 comments
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by sfpoet 6y ago
Scalability is always such a spur of the moment implementation at a startup. This seems to be cruft left over from that startup phase. Would a scalability audit have caught it? Tough to say as Slack came from that build fast and break thing
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by sfpoet 6y ago
Let me explain it another way. As a user, I often see the same ad 100s of times. Yes, 100s. On most ad software, you can set it so that the user sees it maybe 3 times. The fact that I see an ad 100s of times means that the ad market is inef
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by sfpoet 6y ago
If that were true, then why aren't frequencies capped for most campaigns run on-line?
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by sfpoet 6y ago
I didn't want to be rude and say, "least talented people." Here I'm equating least interested with least talented.
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by sfpoet 6y ago
I'm putting my money where my mouth is. No, not necessary; contingent. No, we shouldn't all lay out positions. Given how much hacker news has been gamed lately, this does belong here.
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by sfpoet 6y ago
Yeah, if recruiters are tagging the least interested in tech in my contacts, then I know it's a ship going down. Acqui-hire is their only way to replenish the talent pool, now.
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by sfpoet 6y ago
All I can do is imagine Jesse Eisenberg saying this. There are other channels you can push your spend through with decent ROI. Nobody's platform be it a personal blog or small app is without analytics anymore. Shorting Facebook: FB 210