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by swengw 3y ago
$23 a night, basically a discounted hostel bed
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by swengw 5y ago
MIT - you'll meet way more people that will challenge/inspire you.
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IFixit: AirPods Max Teardown(ifixit.com)
3 points by swengw 6y ago|1 comments
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by swengw 6y ago
does it still look bad if you use a log scale?
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by swengw 7y ago
Scalyr is great, but I'm not sure if it's any cheaper. https://www.scalyr.com/
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by swengw 9y ago
If you assume a driver’s wage is at least the Seattle minimum wage of $15 per hour, add nominal fulfillment and delivery costs of $5 per order (the contractor’s fuel, car etc.) and nominal sales and marketing and general administration cos
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by swengw 9y ago
Opendoor | Software engineers, data scientists | San Francisco, CA | ONSITE, FULL-TIME At Opendoor, we’re on a mission to make it simple to buy and sell homes. The traditional process is broken, with an average home taking over 90 days to s
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by swengw 9y ago
Opendoor | Software engineers, data scientists | San Francisco, CA | ONSITE, FULL-TIME At Opendoor, we’re on a mission to make it simple to buy and sell homes. The traditional process is broken, with an average home taking over 90 days to s
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by swengw 9y ago
Tim Cook says he's never read a bill of materials that was anywhere close to accurate. I believe it- the last time I got an iPhone replaced, I asked what they were doing with the old unit and the person said they were probably going to
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by swengw 10y ago
If you want to try generating music yourself using machine learning, check out Magenta: https://magenta.tensorflow.org/welcome-to-magenta
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by swengw 10y ago
Most recommended: - Ted Chiang - Stories of Your Life and Others. - Lawrence Weschler - Seeing is Forgetting the Name of the Thing One Sees. A quality biography of Robert Irwin based on interviews over decades, and helps you learn to apprec
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by swengw 10y ago
Seems similar, since the average startup temporarily employs people and results in nothing (although over a longer period of time).
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by swengw 12y ago
It's interesting how a bunch of subtle tweaks to a restaurant's menu can increase spending: http://www.menucoverdepot.com/resource-center/articles/resta...
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by swengw 12y ago
This brings back fond memories of the Nokia 5310 XpressMusic [1] that I used for two years. The battery lasted a week, and using T9 on that phone was the fastest I've ever typed on a mobile device. It's nice to know that the 215 e
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by swengw 12y ago
This brings back fond memories of the Nokia 5310 XpressMusic [1] that I used for two years. The battery lasted a week, and using T9 on that phone was the fastest I've ever typed on a mobile device. It's nice to know that the 215 e
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by swengw 12y ago
This brings back fond memories of the Nokia 5310 XpressMusic [1] that I used for two years. The battery lasted a week, and using T9 on that phone was the fastest I've ever typed on a mobile device. It's nice to know that the 215 e
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by swengw 12y ago
This brings back fond memories of the Nokia 5310 XpressMusic [1] that I used for two years. The battery lasted a week, and using T9 on that phone was the fastest I've ever typed on a mobile device. It's nice to know that the 215 e
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by swengw 12y ago
There are rough corners, but there's also room for improvement: "Now Herman Miller, the firm that, however unintentionally, started the shift to cubicles, is trying to reshape the office yet again. The “Living Office” is a new att
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by swengw 13y ago
If you're interested in doing this yourself, the book associated with Python's Natural Language Toolkit has a pretty good introduction to identifying gender in the chapter on text classification [1]. [1] http://nltk.org
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by swengw 13y ago
It doesn't address the real gender discrimination issues, but having gender-balanced HR departments could have helped Kim O'Grady. Currently, if you include your photo in your resume, being a beautiful (rather than average-looking