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I want to work in batches, please let me(siavoshb.tumblr.com)
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by siavosh 15y ago
Same impression here. Love the out of focus background image. Great effect.
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by siavosh 15y ago
Thanks for sharing. I've recently dived in too, here's some resources I'm using: https://github.com/functional-koans/clojure-koans http://www.4clojure.com/ http://www.amazon.com/Joy-Clojure-Thinking-Way/dp/1935182641...
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by siavosh 15y ago
My concern with this has always been that you can never really have any time off if you're supporting a product, i.e. always having to check your email making sure customer questions are being answered and your servers aren't on fire.
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by siavosh 15y ago
I think this can be very true of theoretical research, but when I entered grad school I was pretty interested in the applied fields. My problem was I didn't have substantial industry experience to identify the labs that were doing real appl
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The case for books(siavoshb.tumblr.com)
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by siavosh 15y ago
I dropped out of a PhD program because I was disillusioned and never found a path of value to my group's work. After reading this I really wonder if what was missing was context and world experience. So much of what's wrong with a lot of ac
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by siavosh 15y ago
After a handful of side projects that never got the traction I was hoping for, I came upon Bret Victor's recent CUSEC talk on principle based inventing. Unless you're lucky enough to stumble on an idea that has instant traction, any path to
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Passion versus principle(siavoshb.tumblr.com)
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How do future employers look at this time of unemployment?
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by siavosh 15y ago
Excuse me if I'm totally off (I haven't actually used clojure, just evaluating it), but regarding the lacking libraries: isn't the fact that it runs in the JVM nullify this by having access to the rich java libraries?
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by siavosh 15y ago
What are people's experiences in writing such dense functional code in a production environment? What does maintainability/debug-ability/bringing other functional folks up to speed like?
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by siavosh 15y ago
I think the warning signs of a 'gold rush' are when ethics go out the window (most recent example is the mortgage industry). Capitalism is all about going where the money is but if the correct rules aren't in place and the culture isn't str
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by siavosh 15y ago
I get the same exact feeling. The frequency of lax startup ethics seems to be increasing by the count of HN articles reporting it. I left wall street for the same reason you mention. More and more we hear 'this time it's different', but fro
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Empathy versus sympathy in software(siavoshb.tumblr.com)
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by siavosh 15y ago
Can someone explain how stripe/square can get around the merchant account requirement?
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Man, that giant touchscreen is going to get dirty fast.
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by siavosh 15y ago
This is awesome, will play with it when I get a chance. As an aside, I've begun to think that email is/should become a platform for app development. Some sites are already using incoming email for active user engagement (posterous, idonethi
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by siavosh 15y ago
Hedge funds typically cater to two different types of clientele. In Bernie Maddof's case it was probably mostly private wealth management. The other is institutional money.
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by siavosh 15y ago
There's at least one big fallacy in this post: "This is a tiny fraction of the 1% fleecing the rest of the 1%." This is dangerously inaccurate. A significant portion of hedge fund assets are from institutions not wealthy individuals. This i
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by siavosh 15y ago
Does anyone know if fb face recognition can actually work for all 800 million users or does its tagging do something like nearest neighbor to your friends which I imagine is a simpler problem.
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by siavosh 15y ago
I hope you're right. But consider also the possibility that any advanced race may have also developed/discovered religion. And trying to predict what their god(s) will think of humans is a hopeless exercise.
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by siavosh 15y ago
http://www.docchats.com
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by siavosh 15y ago
This is sad, scary, and as far as I've seen an inherent part of any long running engineering project. As software developers, we have a hard time understanding the rationale of some of the code we wrote last week, let alone someone else's c
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by siavosh 15y ago
I think another great question is: Can you describe to me what my first day, week, month will look like? This helps to really crystalize what they see you doing and being responsible for from the get-go.
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WebFaction: app memory quota upgraded to 256MB for everyone(blog.webfaction.com)
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What are the best books on robust/secure/scalable web/services architecture?
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by siavosh 15y ago
I like the fact that he doesn't use almost any apps on his smart phone. I'm close to the conclusion that smart phones are becoming a curse. Not only did I see this at my family Thanksgiving (were most everyone was in the family room heads d
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by siavosh 15y ago
Yah, a good number of nuggets in here: "A vision is about inspiration, not opportunity — and inspiration comes from self-reflection."
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by siavosh 15y ago
Maybe they want to create an enterprise offering (like Yammer).

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