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by toby 13y ago
Thanks for pointing that out, I actually have used Max/MSP and think it's awesome, it didn't even occur to me.
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by toby 13y ago
Exactly, I'd be curious to see something that gives business analysts the interactivity of something like Excel but has ways to avoid the rigid, interlinked-sheets with ridiculous formulas that seem to be inevitable in a large model.
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by toby 13y ago
Yeah, I probably used the wrong terms there. I was referring not to flowcharts, but the way Excel is used as a "see-it-as-you-go" functional language.
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by toby 13y ago
It's arguable that Excel is the most widely used "programming language" depending on your definition. If you've spent much time around certain business professionals, you'll see that they really push spreadsheets to
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by toby 13y ago
Play out the numbers (assumptions completely speculative): - How much more would this person make at a big company? ($50k?) - What's the time frame for success? (4 years vesting?) - What's the distribution of possible exits? (5% c
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by toby 13y ago
Just wanted to say thanks for the recommendation! I actually started writing the book because I felt that a lot of the existing textbooks were unnecessarily obtuse. The details are complicated but you can still get some interesting results
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How Google Sold Its Engineers on Management(hbr.org)
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Twitter lights and memory limits with the Arduino Yun(kiwitobes.com)
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by toby 13y ago
For what it's worth, I live in SF and know of several communities of people over 30 - people who are well-educated and could definitely afford to live in their own space - who choose to live together in big warehouse conversions. I&#x2
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The Diving Save(medium.com)
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by toby 13y ago
"Given that the software industry is already a horrible place to work" You say things like this a lot. I'm willing to accept that I may be naive, but do you think that those of us who have had primarily positive experiences (and I know a fe
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by toby 13y ago
Thanks! That's my book, appreciate you mentioning it.
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by toby 14y ago
Only rappers say "Frisco" any more, probably because it's easy to rhyme. The most common abbreviation I hear is simply "SF" for San Francisco itself. "East Bay" for Oakland, Alameda, Berkeley. etc. "The Peninsula" or "The Valley" for anywhe
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by toby 14y ago
Airplay doesn't really do this. The sound is often slightly out of sync but it's enough to be really irritating if you can hear two of them. The best solution I know of for perfectly synchronized wireless sound is Sonos (quite expensive, bu
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by toby 14y ago
I learned using this book, which I quite like: http://www.amazon.com/Beginning-Sous-Vide-Temperature-Techni... You do eventually realize that all the recipes are kind of the same. After that just Google for "sous vide <food> <
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by toby 14y ago
Congrats to Bradford! Prismatic really is great. Definitely one of the few sites I use several times a day.
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by toby 14y ago
Yes, absolutely. Many countries tax barter exchange. The IRS has a whole section on their site about it: http://www.irs.gov/Businesses/Small-Businesses-&-Self-Em...
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by toby 14y ago
Sales taxes in the US vary by state. Further, not all merchants will charge sales tax for either state when shipping between states -- this generally depends on whether the merchant is considered to have a business presence in the purchaser
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by toby 14y ago
Just wanted to say thanks for mentioning my book! I'm so happy that people are still getting value from it.
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by toby 14y ago
Thanks so much! Glad you enjoyed the book. I wanted to point out that Colin Evans and Jamie Taylor were also authors (and still work on the Knowledge Team at Google) and should get some credit.
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by toby 15y ago
Agreed, I think it's the first effort at article recommendations that's really worked for me. I think it's due to a pretty clever combination of social signal and machine learning.
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by toby 16y ago
I just found that 20 minutes ago and was so excited that I ordered an Emotiv right away. Great to see that you're an HN user, I'm looking forward to playing with the Python library.
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by toby 16y ago
Thanks! I'm the author of this book, and it always makes me so happy whenever I read a comment like this on HN :)
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by toby 16y ago
This seems like a false dichotomy, yet one that's argued all the time. The actual argument seems to be about the definition of the word "idea". Maybe the word "Titanic" is a bad idea for a movie. It's not even really an idea at all. The act
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by toby 16y ago
Thanks! I appreciate the support!
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by toby 16y ago
I'm pretty sure answering the question "what do you do?" in that manner indicates social ineptness. A physicist could instead say "I do physics research" and potentially entertain an "average" person with stories about departmental feuds or
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by toby 16y ago
I'm genuinely curious -- I've never been particularly concerned about privacy on the internet, and it seems like the author's main concern is better ad targeting (which I see as beneficial, although I may be in a minority). What are some ot
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by toby 16y ago
Am I the only one who found, when set at an angle using the apple case, that I can type at about 80% of my regular typing speed?
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by toby 17y ago
Totally agree with you -- I was just pointing out that the model in the article was never blind tested. It's not clear that it even works within its limited domain.
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by toby 17y ago
They still seem to have created a model that fit the outcomes. There's no cross-validation here (since there's only two data points). The real question is whether they can take this fitted model and apply it to future movies.

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