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by yid 12y ago
> Do you have any thoughts on how a junior engineer can improve their ability to write maintainable code? Think of your code like an essay. Write comments on the motivation for decisions you make, not just what the codes does. Think of
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by yid 12y ago
> DARPA grants is that they are haphazardly doled out for some real stupid projects. I think this is what a lot of people outside academia don't realize. DARPA brings up connotations of inventing Arpanet, but the reality (like VC in
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by yid 12y ago
> It appears that this filter can become "full", which is very different from a bloom filter. How is this different from a bloom filter?
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by yid 12y ago
While there's some truth in what you're saying, you sort of demonstrate a very common pitfall: > Tuning parameters is basically a gridsearch. You can bruteforce this. In goes some ranges of parameters, out come the best params
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by yid 12y ago
It's a tired trope in acquisition announcements.
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by yid 12y ago
It is, if you're also running on DigitalOcean. Intra-DC latencies.
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by yid 12y ago
> don't know how this is any different than Amazon RDS It runs on DigitalOcean, for one.
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by yid 12y ago
OP has a reasonable point, not sure what yours is. > Did your gorgeous 27" display cost more than $500? Actually, they're going for about $300 on NewEgg, and are currently on sale for $200 at Best Buy.
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by yid 12y ago
http://leafly.com http://weedmaps.com
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by yid 12y ago
I think that's the point. Apologizing sincerely seems to be a forgotten art.
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by yid 12y ago
> Facebook actually has 25 year-old "product managers"? Yup. Also: engineering managers of the same age. Edit: I don't work there. I happen to know someone who is 27 and a PM at Facebook, who has been there for 4 years (as
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by yid 12y ago
Except that the crawler now executes a lot of Javascript: http://googlewebmastercentral.blogspot.com/2014/05/understan...
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by yid 12y ago
> I want a reasonable rate and unlimited access to all of what the publication has to offer but I'm not going to pay $455/year for it. Would it help if you thought of the New York Times not as that disposable paper publication
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by yid 12y ago
Outsourced teams anywhere generally don't get much ownership of the product. What results is a bare minimum meet-the-specs effort, which is understandable but generally results in a crappy product. This is a reflection of the social an
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by yid 12y ago
> For using the tokens this way? Well they know everything about our usage of these tokens, and any analytics tool out there behave similarly, right? Yes, for using what are intended as per-user activity tokens for public scraping (which
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by yid 12y ago
> Since the data is public, we can use any of these tokens to access hashtags and account followers I'm fairly certain this isn't an intended use of the API. Kudos to you for posting your method here, but I wouldn't be sur
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by yid 12y ago
> No, the alternative is to go through a long rigmarole which may or may not approve the experiment and enforce conditions which may or may not themselves constitute severe biases of their own (knowing one is in an experiment, even if th
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by yid 12y ago
Pretty sure you're trolling, but just in case: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_antitrust_law
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by yid 12y ago
> Shameless plug for my product, ExpanDrive Please take this as a compliment, but I didn't realize you needed to "plug" ExpanDrive. I sort of assumed that it was produced by a large company. Anyway, thank you for a wonderf
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by yid 12y ago
> Also, stock is not included in the data. This is the big one. None of those numbers include equity, which can often be 40% or more of total compensation for engineers.
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by yid 12y ago
> For what Ng is doing, I doubt that flowers would work because there are far too many too different cases of flowers. Only if you see it as a supervised learning problem. An alternative is to find the nearest matches, after which you ca
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by yid 12y ago
> This is the first time I can recall someone getting this level of access to MMS services within operators (please correct me if I'm wrong). Would Mogreet qualify? I've used their MMS support for a side project more than a ye
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by yid 12y ago
> But you have to trust YC knows what they are doing, and the A+++ companies will be picked over before they hit second or third tier. If this were true, YC would be the size of Exxon. Picking A+++ companies is a heuristic.
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by yid 12y ago
Odd choice of name, when flywheel.com is owned by the "official" SF cab-hailing app.
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by yid 12y ago
The US is a tad larger and more politically/legally disparate than Spain; those factors alone make it much more challenging.
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by yid 12y ago
I seriously doubt if this is still true. Multicores have been common for more than a decade now. Edit: first Google hit to satisfy parent, since replying is disabled. Valve goes multicore [2006] http://techreport.com/review&
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by yid 12y ago
Government doesn't move at Silicon Valley's pace. The ability to cheaply track your income from all sources and bill you directly for your taxes is barely a few decades old.
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by yid 12y ago
I think we'd all like to hold on to the notion that business (and sales and competition) doesn't have to be done this way.
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by yid 12y ago
As sycthye alludes to, you should be looking at high-CBD strains for pain relief, not typically THC-heavy sativa strains.
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by yid 12y ago
I was in London recently and was astounded at how prevalent Citymapper has become there. So I'm now taking bets on who will acquire them: 1. Google --> unlikely, they have a large maps team already, and have recently gorged on Waze

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