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by voberoi 12y ago
NYC -- Harry's (www.harrys.com) is hiring full-stack engineers and data engineers. We're a high-growth company with a small engineering team (11 of us) across our web platform and data engineering teams. We've grown our busin
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by voberoi 12y ago
NYC -- Harry's (www.harrys.com) is hiring full-stack engineers and data engineers. We're a high-growth company with a small engineering team (11 of us) across our web platform and data engineering teams. We've grown our busin
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by voberoi 13y ago
Harry's ( http://www.harrys.com ). Fulltime or Intern. New York City. A bit about us: We built Harry’s with one simple belief: everyone deserves a great shave at a fair price. As such, we seek to provide our own brand of exce
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by voberoi 13y ago
Harry's ( http://www.harrys.com ). Fulltime or Intern. New York City. A bit about us: We built Harry’s with one simple belief: everyone deserves a great shave at a fair price. As such, we seek to provide our own brand of exceptional shaving
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A blog dedicated to adapting baking recipes for high altitudes(hummingbirdhigh.blogspot.com)
1 points by voberoi 15y ago|0 comments
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Diablo II postmortem by one of the creators(gamasutra.com)
14 points by voberoi 15y ago|1 comments
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by voberoi 16y ago
I agree, that's a pretty naive statement to make unless you can: a) Make a believable case for there being 10 million people who would be willing to pay for your product. b) Make a believable plan for how you're going to reach those 10 mill
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by voberoi 16y ago
Any publicly accessible repository containing code you've written (e.g. your Github repos), products or websites you've built and exposed to users, technical papers you've published, and technical talks you've given.
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Cycling Cadence and Bicycle Gearing(kenkifer.com)
72 points by voberoi 16y ago|21 comments
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by voberoi 17y ago
... a super handy dandy resource for programmers new to R.
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R for Programmers(heather.cs.ucdavis.edu)
59 points by voberoi 17y ago|22 comments
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by voberoi 17y ago
There is: http://hadoop.apache.org/common/docs/r0.17.2/hdfs_user_guide...
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by voberoi 17y ago
Take a look at blktrace on Linux. It logs all block I/O layer activity from when an I/O request is sent to the disk to when it's serviced. It also outputs which sectors on the disk were written to service the request. People have written a
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by voberoi 17y ago
Meebo's hiring all sorts of engineers: server-side, front-end, ops, data geeks. Check out the openings here: http://www.meebo.com/jobs/openings/
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by voberoi 17y ago
This is insane. I took his class on Automata and Complexity Theory (cs154.stanford.edu) two years ago, and I have friends who came out of the final exam for the class only a few hours ago. I remember really enjoying this class, despite not
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A Collection of Interesting Systems Papers with Great Ideas(stanford.edu)
17 points by voberoi 17y ago|2 comments
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by voberoi 17y ago
While a speed boost is great and all, don't you have the added concern of making sure your blocks don't wear out on an SSD? Because log structured file systems commit metadata and data in large sequential writes to the hard drive, they have
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by voberoi 17y ago
I didn't, and I'm graduating with a BS in CS from Stanford in a few weeks. We have an introductory stats requirement, but I found that the stats class I took my sophomore year for my (dropped) economics major was far more enlightening than
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by voberoi 17y ago
I think this article is great once you get past the rant-iness of it. He makes a bunch of valid points and it's true: a lot people actually don't take these pretty crucial details into account when they're dealing with statistics. It's ki
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by voberoi 17y ago
Their report (linked to from the post) goes into greater detail: http://developer.yahoo.com/blogs/hadoop/Yahoo2009.pdf I'd love to know why the 500 GB and 100 TB sorts ran at about half the speed of the other two (~0.5 TB/min as opposed t
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Hadoop sorts a petabyte in 16.25 hours and a terabyte in 62 seconds(developer.yahoo.net)
36 points by voberoi 17y ago|16 comments
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by voberoi 17y ago
If you've got the time, I highly recommend taking CS107 at Stanford (for free): http://see.stanford.edu/see/courseinfo.aspx?coll=2d712634-2b... . I became incredibly comfortable with C -- memory management, handling pointers, having a ve
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by voberoi 17y ago
I use last.fm recommendations + http://seeqpod.com
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by voberoi 18y ago
I suggest checking out the first video here: http://www.cloudera.com/hadoop-training-basic . It's a little more than 20 minutes long, and the lecturer talks about the problems that MapReduce and HDFS (Hadoop Distributed File System) are de
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by voberoi 18y ago
The Little Handbook of Statistical Practice: http://www.tufts.edu/~gdallal/LHSP.HTM It's the best stats resource I've come across, particularly for the stats behind split testing and multivariate testing. I've used it as a reference while
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by voberoi 18y ago
mattobrien's explanation was awesome. A lot about the current crisis was demystified for me in an episode of This American Life: http://www.thisamericanlife.org/Radio_Episode.aspx?episode=3... I'd recommend this to anyone who's looking fo