urlwolf

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by urlwolf 13y ago
We do it because we want it to exist. Getting past troubles in programming is much easier if you have people around, go for lunch, etc... who are pretty advanced. You are right that it's challenging to make it sustainable as a business
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by urlwolf 13y ago
Agreed, I've seen production R code, and it just works. Rstudio does some seriously good debugging tooling, and the testing frameworks are there. I do hear people calling R a toy language, but they are the ones that don't know muc
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by urlwolf 13y ago
WOw! sorry about that! could you give more details about your setup? I tested it under chromium 31, and chrome canary 36.0. Anything helps.
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by urlwolf 13y ago
It's failure in a controlled manner. They know the task is a scorpion, ie, demanding enough for the mentor to not be bored. It could even come out of the Mentor's own daily practice. Did you read about a 10-year-old who was compla
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by urlwolf 13y ago
There are people who think that there's elegance in R's design. Remember that is as old as C (if not more!), but it still feels like a modern language (warts and all). You don't compare C to say clojure for language features,
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by urlwolf 13y ago
Author here, happy to follow up. We wrote the Meerkat manifesto after our experience Hacker Retreat batch 01. The meerkat method should be more effective than the (few) alternatives we tried. If you hear from people having success doing som
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Meerkat manifesto suggests mentor-learner pairs speed up learning of tech stacks(datascienceretreat.com)
37 points by urlwolf 13y ago|8 comments
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R: the good parts(hackerretreat.com)
157 points by urlwolf 13y ago|50 comments
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The Genius and Tragedy of Patrick McKenzie(sebastianmarshall.com)
2 points by urlwolf 13y ago|1 comments
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by urlwolf 13y ago
Sorry to be negative; Sam Altman is a great guy and had plenty of valuable insight before, but his take here is infantile at best. When people accuse PG of speaking in very authoritative terms, it doesn't bother me. It's a writing
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One sentence and six charts to explain why Comcast is buying Time Warner(qz.com)
1 points by urlwolf 13y ago|0 comments
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by urlwolf 13y ago
I still wonder whether you want to use django (if you start from scratch) if what you need is a rest API on the server. Many simpler ways to achieve this?
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Shiny Application Layout Guide (R web apps)(github.com)
1 points by urlwolf 13y ago|0 comments
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2013- the year of ups and downs for the MOOCs (changinghighereducation.com)
1 points by urlwolf 13y ago|0 comments
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A Roundup of Conference Wrapup Posts and Transparency Reports(blog.tito.io)
1 points by urlwolf 13y ago|0 comments
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by urlwolf 13y ago
Best multiplatform notetaker: wiznote. http://wiz.cn/index.html Yes, it's a chinese product, so the servers will be in China. Hopefully the NSA has a bit of a harder time, and the local gov. doesn't have that many
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by urlwolf 13y ago
Agreed. The online material is outstanding. What worries me is how many people went through it and still feel their data science skills are lacking (90% of people I talked to). 'Yes, I took the Andrew Ng course; it's great, I feel
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Some data points on how startups rock Berlin(pawel.ch)
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Hands On With Jolla’s First Phone(techcrunch.com)
2 points by urlwolf 13y ago|0 comments
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Hacker Retreat Berlin taking applications for Batch 02(hackerretreat.com)
8 points by urlwolf 13y ago|0 comments
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by urlwolf 13y ago
... and I think it's safe to say, none of them is remotely close to Ycombinator in value delivered to startups.
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On gitology(jordi.inversethought.com)
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by urlwolf 13y ago
The best thing about Berlin: There's no industry to speak of, so people need to get creative. Most of my friends have 'invented' jobs. This pushes people to create, to do with their time something they would never consider on
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by urlwolf 13y ago
Great job. Still a bit laggy compared to a real unix terminal, but that's probably because of the lack of fork(). Nothing you could have done...
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How Academia Resembles a Drug Gang(alexandreafonso.wordpress.com)
4 points by urlwolf 13y ago|0 comments
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by urlwolf 13y ago
Totally unrelated, but I'd like to quote something you wrote on the 'academia vs industry' thread. Could you please contact me? (email in my user profile)? Thanks! (this would only work if marvin is monitoring his comments;
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Why Berlin should not look up to the Valley(thirdwaveberlin.com)
80 points by urlwolf 13y ago|94 comments
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This Alkaline African Lake Turns Animals into Stone(blogs.smithsonianmag.com)
1 points by urlwolf 13y ago|0 comments
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by urlwolf 13y ago
I'll contact you. But if you want to skip the first step, just reply to the update, and tell me: - What tech you'd like to work during the retreat (or book to go through, or project to work on). - Do you have a github/bitbuck
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by urlwolf 13y ago
Thanks, will contact him.

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