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by wgyn 10y ago
I think that just "networking" would be the wrong takeaway, though. The author[0] is pretty active on Twitter / the blogosphere and, even though I don't follow him personally, his writing has popped up on my feed a numbe
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by wgyn 10y ago
The Oroville Dam is really a crazy undertaking when you consider: 1) it primarily serves to move water all the way from north of Sacramento to San Joaquin Valley / Southern California, 2) despite generating some amount of electricity,
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Better exception messages(snoyman.com)
2 points by wgyn 10y ago|0 comments
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by wgyn 10y ago
Because it signals that Uber's employees and customers have more ability to impact the company (via it's bottom line) than a presidential policy or statement.
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by wgyn 10y ago
This is what I find so silly. Companies have all this information about you that is actually relevant to their customer support. They could get so much out of making e.g. the phone support system talk to their account system.
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by wgyn 10y ago
Don't forget finagle and scalding. At the company I work at, various of the above projects are integral to one system or another (though to be fair, there are quite a number of ex-Twitter folks floating around). I'm not a Scala ex
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by wgyn 10y ago
> My experience of ramping up in the Facebook codebase is probably pretty similar to what most new engineers here go through. I was consistently impressed by how well organized our code is, and how easy it was to find what you're lo
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Easily exploited Netgear router flaw discovered(computerworld.com)
16 points by wgyn 10y ago|2 comments
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I Was Never Jackie Chan, and I’m Not Jeremy Lin(nytimes.com)
2 points by wgyn 10y ago|0 comments
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by wgyn 10y ago
Brian Krebs pegged a company called XiongMai: https://krebsonsecurity.com/2016/10/hacked-cameras-dvrs-powe...
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by wgyn 10y ago
At the end of the article, Football Manager (an extremely souped-up version of FIFA's manager mode) is briefly mentioned as having influenced data analysts and scouting. I wish they had dug into it more. The connection between video ga
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by wgyn 10y ago
That's not quite true. E.g. Google's email spam models are trained without access to the raw text. In general the field of differential privacy is developing rather quickly.
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by wgyn 10y ago
Here's a simple illustration of why diversification is considered "good" in general. If you think of your portfolio as a weighted average of returns, the variance of the portfolio decreases as you add uncorrelated assets (i.e
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by wgyn 10y ago
I find it kind of strange that there's no mention of the university in Urbana/Champaign.