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by tryitnow 15y ago
Kaggle is pretty awesome and I hope to use it myself one day. The article makes a good point that a lot of the most interesting data sets just aren't that big. This is worth pointing out because I've noticed that there has been some confla
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by tryitnow 15y ago
That in itself is pretty disturbing. I am a native born US citizen, so I am not aware of things like this.
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by tryitnow 15y ago
You're comparing an incubator space for entrepreneurs to Arab households hiring Asian nannies? OK. Even the Microsoft comparison is not the same because Microsoft and the temps were not aligned with equity stakes. Living with other coders
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by tryitnow 15y ago
I support the idea behind this project. Having said that if I were a betting man, I would bet against its success. Then again, I probably would have bet against Google, Facebook, Apple, etc. That's why I am not a VC. However, just trying
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by tryitnow 15y ago
I can understand why your sensitive about this considering your wife has chosen her path, but I don't think the author was directing it at her or other women saying they made the wrong decision. He was making a simple point that the startup
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by tryitnow 15y ago
"The issue is money. Which nobody is proposing more of for our state universities." A few things. First of all, I'd say a pretty good proportion of the best programmers I know were self taught (i.e. didn't go to college or else majored in
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by tryitnow 15y ago
This doesn't even work in a lot of big companies. The "KPIs" many managers see reveal very little. They have often been massaged to present a rosier picture than the reality. Or they may present information that just isn't very actionabl
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by tryitnow 15y ago
The author makes the very good point that what people "want" changes over time. For example, in the 1960s only a small fraction of a given law school class was female. Now almost 50% of law school graduates in a given year are female. And
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by tryitnow 15y ago
Actually, I've met a lot of guys who are in high powered positions who have implied or stated explicitly they'd much rather spend more time at home. And these guys have told younger guys, mentees, to pretty much spend more time as dads and
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by tryitnow 15y ago
Throwing more money at "gifted" programs is like an emergency room taking care of someone with the sniffles while the guy with a gunshot wound bleeds to death. From an economic perspective it just doesn't seem like a valuable use of resourc
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by tryitnow 15y ago
The value proposition here is basically replacing cab drivers. This offers some really interesting challenges because there should be some sort of optimal routing algorithms that would allow a car to carry more than one passenger at a time.
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by tryitnow 15y ago
I am pretty much as anti-college as it gets, but this piece really doesn't lay out the best arguments for why our higher education system is failing us. This doesn't sound like an argument against college in general, it sounds like an argum
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by tryitnow 15y ago
It's because of their "Hotel California" strategy: you can check in but you can't check out. Seriously, once your company is using SAP, it's rarely going to be worth rejecting them. It will be more cost effective to just pull SAP data out
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by tryitnow 15y ago
Good idea, I'll check it out. one comment: "We thought about how most people meet. Generally, a person will see someone, be attracted to them..." That's not the first step. The first step is context, e.g. you're at a party thrown by a mut
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by tryitnow 15y ago
That's a good point. Interestingly, it also shows the weakness of the English language as a technique for expressing an idea. I think there's an unwritten condition in the question: "What is the single most influential [explicitly programm
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by tryitnow 15y ago
One option with engineering degrees is to do a co-op. My brother did this (at Va Tech) and not only got out with minimal debt but also left with a job at the company he co-oped for. This seems pretty common at Va Tech as other family memb
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by tryitnow 15y ago
I tried out the database class, but didn't follow through with it because I found myself just teaching myself through looking things up online anyways (i.e. W3C tutorials, free online textbooks, etc). I didn't find the class itself terribly
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by tryitnow 15y ago
I work in finance and I use SAP. Or more accurately, I try my best to delegate any SAP tasks to my co-workers because I swear I lose IQ points whenever I interact with SAP. Is it dull? It depends. For the TC crowd, yes, but that's because
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by tryitnow 15y ago
I think this "Developeronomics" article is a perfect example of what this other article was referring to: http://blogs.hbr.org/pallotta/2011/12/i-dont-understand-what... Honestly, I think there are some interesting ideas there but I am no
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by tryitnow 15y ago
I don't know what to make of this. I see no actual data (or even a link to it). I don't know if they corrected for other variables and having "python" on your LI profile is predictive or just correlative. I think I have actually lost know
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by tryitnow 15y ago
That's precisely right. Unfortunately, this is caused by managers so often rewarding "confidence" instead of competence. Fortunately, the way out of this is through greater use of data and analysis. I always find it amusing when an overc
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by tryitnow 15y ago
I've just glanced over it, but so far it seems to fill an identifiable niche: non-programmers who realize the importance of programming. It's really the right time for a book like this (for all the reasons the author enumerates). Everyday I
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by tryitnow 15y ago
In most organizations corporate politics and personality play a greater role than ability. This will change with the continuing revolution in data and the data driven decision making it makes possible. Eventually corporations that reward p
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by tryitnow 15y ago
I don't think the problem is "overpriced" programmers in the US or "bad" programmers in India. The problem may not even be programmers at all. My guess is that a big problem is "business people"(1) deciding to get their idea implemented on
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by tryitnow 15y ago
To clarify, there is an urban density limit on this conclusion: "Time to get to a station (walking, or drive plus park) kills the effectiveness of most personal rapid transit and light-rail systems until you have a population density of 500
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by tryitnow 15y ago
I think the answer to that would be: "Don't set up a seastead near where pirates have been hanging out" Now that can change, but piracy is usually related to failed states (hence Somalia). Seasteads would have to be built relatively close t
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by tryitnow 15y ago
Why would you be importing at exorbitant fees (relative to what an island nation would be paying anyways)? And why would they be embargoed by everyone? Not even Cuba is embargoed by everyone. Why would everyone embargo a seastead inhabite
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by tryitnow 15y ago
My guess is that the wealth the Seastead generated would be more of the bits/bytes kind (i.e. financial wealth, wealth represented in contracts). I can't imagine a bunch of libertarians sitting in their seastead with big warehouses full of
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by tryitnow 15y ago
1) Pilgrims. I would imagine moving to a foreign land full of potentially hostile natives is a bit riskier than living at sea. So that cost needs to be factored in. For certain purposes we already know that people are willing to pay a pr
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by tryitnow 15y ago
Yes, that's a good point. The advantage of seasteads is you can control the geography. Another advantage is that you don't have a large native citizen population that you have to deal with. For example, on Bermuda the big reinsurers have

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