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7,550karma·1,282submissions·January 21, 2016
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Amazing! We also wanted to do analytics to analyse and allocate some people's time better and use this to autoschedule work based on a pretty complicated internal system. Will take a look!
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oh nice! Long time fan of your work and I people get us confused sometimes because PacktPub chose the title 'Flask by Example' for a book I wrote with them which is too similar to your blog …
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wow this is by Miguel Grinberg who is the author of some of the best Flask tutorials and books around. Nice to see Twilio is attracting such high quality writers for their blog
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We built something like this internally and it was more tricky than we expected. Calendars are hard as are Google's different authentication methods and APIs, especially for service accounts at a…
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Not this tool but I use jrnl.sh with a similar work flow. Some days more than others - basically a quick brain dump when it feels like I run out of cache. Works great for me, especially with iTerm2 wh…
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"orientate" is listed in most dictionaries. Merriam Webster has a nice post about it [0] [0] https://www.merriam-webster.com/words-at-play/orient-or-orie... …
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> This is all working fine Are there any specific reasons that you think Postgres won't be able to scale? I don't have personal experience solving the problem you're describing but i…
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Thanks, makes sense!
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Does this do anything that jrnl.sh can't do?
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I got a 2 month gig lecturing basic CS after finishing my degree. It was a pretty transformative experience - the first two lectures were among the worst experiences of my life! Panic in front of 200 …
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I see more and more people moving to Slack communities for the QA that they used to post on SO. This is sad - slack is a closed protocol and is not searchable. Answers are only available to a subset o…
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Similarity should be taken as validation, not a negative thing at all.
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I'm in Zurich, moved recently from South Africa - also in the startup space, currently working remotely, also from home. Would love to grab a coffee sometime if you're keen - your website in…
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Medium is awful and should be boycotted.
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Jrnl.sh has a basic but pretty powerful tagging system. Any word that starts with @ is a tag and you can filter tags using and/or. Doesn't really do the visualisation but should be easy to b…
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The title implies that this is an education _platform_ - I was expecting something like Edx. I also don't understand the "product-agnostic" part. Isn't k8s a product? This looks li…
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> The company was facing rising costs on insurance and background checks for drivers. I would count this as as part of safety, so if they realised that's where there costs were and added a fee…
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Look up "authorship attribution" if you're interested in the identification part. There's quite a bit of research into identifying people by their unique habits. Some claim that th…
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If a random strategy is better than whatever the non-random strategy was then intuitively in most cases the inverse of the non-random strategy is better than the random strategy. I am currently readin…
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Similarly, I see web developers manually or automatically updating the (c) 2019 in the footer of Web pages. My understanding is that you want to claim an _older_ copyright date rather than a newer one…
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I use iTerm2 global hotkey + jrnl for this. From any window I can hit ctrl+f to being up half a terminal and drop either a one-line message into a specific journal (jrnl - work "used x to do y&qu…
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This isn't really from 1998 is it? The references (golang, gladwell) are definitely more modern - unless he did a substantial revision.
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I put together a tech focused version here [0] but it's still pretty small. Can I add you to the list? Happy to share how much you pay and more details about application process? [0] https:/…
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Would this only be used for services l/sites that run on Google Cloud? Or does the entire Internet benefit directly
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Did you have very specific hypotheses to test before doing analysis of the dump? Sentences like "Websites with feature x rank y percent better" are pretty meaningless if they're just pa…
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> In an IPO, SEC rules typically restrict shareholders from selling shares until six months after the offering. A direct offering makes it much easier for employees and early investors to cash out …
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I think it's written for other writers. To help communicate the pain and process. It's easy to feel like it's "just you" and everyone else just shits perfect chapters, one per…
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I strongly support "adverts" like this and I wish that all companies spent a far higher portion of their marketing budget on creating content like this rather than on targeted advertising. T…
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Exactly this is already a major problem in South Africa.
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I really enjoyed Tim Harford's books "The Undercover Economist" and "The Undercover Economist Strikes Back". Maybe they are too far in the "popular economics" catego…