ljw1001

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February 9, 2008 (18y ago)
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Tech lead/manager at Google. Methodology weenie, Code miner, Metrics fanboy.
  1. Hi, I want to create a Web app for data analysis that lets the user work with multiple movable, overlapping, resizable, and minimizable/maximizable windows. Each window would display a form a plot, a table, etc.…

  2. Hi, Looking for high-quality books/resources on online advertising from 4 different perspectives: 1. From the perspective of Web/mobile publishers/content-providers. I'm interested in AdSense as well as in the topic…

  3. Given that this is the last day to get a tax deduction (US) for 2019, I was wondering how many people follow the practice of 'effective altruism', i.e., giving to charities "that save or improve lives the most per…

  4. I need inspiration! What software inspires you? I'm talking about exciting, bizarre, inspirational; not necessarily successful. My tastes lean towards dev, or end-user facing tech, especially when it's focused on…

  5. I sent this reply to a Facebook recruiter. It's equally fitting for Twitter. If you care about democracy, you might send something similar: Thank you for reaching out, but for ethical reasons I have never worked for…

  6. Besides classification and regression, and the unsupervised methods for principle components, clustering and frequent item-sets, what tools are there in the ML toolkit and what kinds of problems are amenable to their…

  7. I work on an open source project with a small community. https://github.com/jtablesaw/tablesaw I want a place for our users to hold discussions, ask questions, etc, that aren't bug reports or feature requests. We'd be…

  8. I'm a long time HN reader. You are a story about a new? college - in california? We met about 3 years ago. You're kinda liberal-artsy: critical thinking and writing, but geeky, too, with skills in stats and systems…

  9. Looking back, it seems to me that there hasn't been a new, and important, paradigm in (general purpose) programming languages in the past 30+ years. Looking back, I think of the major paradigms as procedural (C,…

  10. At some point, StackOverflow is the place for user-to-user support, but with a small project, user questions would disappear in that vast ocean, I think. Github, sadly, has nothing for this. I have a modest project with…

  11. Why don't more programming languages support numeric literals written with comma separators (or periods for europe.

  12. It seems to me that journalists and activists could benefit from software that could help track networks, timelines, etc., and organize unstructured data the way an intelligence analyst would. Anything like that out…