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7,549karma·1,282submissions·January 21, 2016
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I would highly recommend posting on somewhere like codementor. They provide the platform but publish your work under creative commons so you remain the owner. I blogged for years, mainly for solidifyi…
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Most comments are already contrary to the article, but to add to the sentiment, my English professor memorably said, "Free writing is like going to the bathroom. Very important, but you don'…
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"Drive" by Dan Pink (or his Ted Talk if you want the short version) and/or "Flow: the psychology of optimal experience" by Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi (or any of his other publica…
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Someone sent me this article on IM. My (unedited) response: nothing worse than someone who both doesn't understand wtf he's talking about and is very critical either are ok on their own &g…
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I recently finished Drive and loved it,and I'm also working with a small team where we recently implemented OKRs. Now working through "Punished by Rewards", and also really enjoyed Andy…
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This is harsh. Any creator knows the feeling of pouring time and effort into something, the anticipation of showing it to people, the excitement of making people happy, the doubts of being judged and …
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"So Many" == "27 times in American legal decision" And half of these 27 'don’t engage with her work beyond the first line of Pride and Prejudice: "It is a truth universal…
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I did your test. Interesting idea. Feedback: I got "It looks like BeeLine didn’t improve your reading speed this time through." which I think needs another pass from your copy editors. Inter…
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Studies which divide people into two groups and do "$THING_WITH_LIKELY_POSITIVE_EFFECT" on one group and nothing on the other group are not very interesting or convincing IMO. Normally, un…
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I really hope that this improves the false-positive rate, as mentioned in another comment. We've been hurt badly as a startup breaking into the US market and getting many of our genuine charges b…
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I don't think the bootcamp boom is over. There is such a huge demand for coding and coding education that some people jumped into the space very quickly and found out that education and computer …
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I found this article really interesting and extremely well written. The excerpt below is a literary masterpiece.(other comments complain about paywall but on mobile I got "3 articles free" m…
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I've seen several people mentioning pair programming, which I haven't found useful (too much time wasted while one person is coding the "easy" parts, and not enough time for the mo…
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"Just", "Obviously", "Basically", "Essentially". Just remove these words from most prose. I essentially do this to my prose and when I'm editing others…
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I did a lot of work on authorship attribution for natural language. I found it was easy to get mind-blowing results on a single dataset - e.g. 99% accuracy for working out who wrote which emails in th…
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Really looking forward to using this. BeautifulSoup is great, but it's counterintuitive (I always need to refer to documentation even for very basic aspects that I've used dozens of times be…
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I was wondering about that, but even if I'd read it in 2012 I would have benefited more than when I finally found it. And seeing as this is hypothetical, why not "books I wish I had read if …
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The Righteous Mind: Why Good People are Divided by Politics and Religion by Jonathan Haidt It changed the way I think and most of my existing ideas.
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I did my master's thesis on authorship verification, which is exactly this problem (deciding if two texts are written by the same author). I experimented with clustering, SVMs, neural nets, etc f…
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yes we're based in South Africa so are pretty aware of this.. we group by larger areas for certain functionality, including 'EU' as guessed by someone in this thread.
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Off topic, but I spent a bunch of time on this domain recently as we used AF as an internal code for Africa and whoever set it up assumed we'd never have customers from Afghanistan. An assumption…
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I nearly added exactly this, and then didn't want to be that guy. Glad it's not only me..
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This might be a bit harsh, but the other comments point you in the right direction for general remote hiring and hiring developers in general, so specifically: * After I see the quality of your websit…
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My Comp Sci lecturer always said you could get a lot by coming to class 10 minutes early and reading the relevant material and leaving 5 minutes late to read it again. I tried this method for a third-…
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Probably Camino de Santiago or another multi-week walk.