While we're throwing out book recommendations, I'll mention one by William Poundstone, who's quoted in the article. Fortune's Formula: The Untold Story of the Scientific Betting System That Beat the Casinos and Wall…
> favoring foreigners over locals on the basis of being able to pay foreigners less only Hypothetically, if you were a Machiavellian hiring manager: You would also prefer a foreigner on a visa because they would have…
> perfectly legal Well, not necessarily. If your reflexes are good enough, and your brakes are good enough, and your tires are good enough, that you can safely stop a bike going 20mph on a wet downhill section, then…
I don't think it works that way. If you add logic that says: "here's group A, who we really want to target, and here's group B, the protected class we want to exclude. throw 10% of all impressions at group B so we're…
No, because the fact that I'm neither Chinese nor likely to read Chinese Daily News doesn't actually prevent me from seeing your ad. If you posted "Help Wanted" flyers in the middle of a college campus for a part-time…
My favorite resources are now all slightly dated; I haven't really kept up with the cutting edge as I've moved away from design and towards development. --- Web: A List Apart, especially the articles section -…
I'll throw in Brian Lonsdorf's "Professor Frisby's Mostly Adequate Guide to Functional Programming" https://drboolean.gitbooks.io/mostly-adequate-guide/content/ And the related video series on Egghead (which I think…
Same situation for me. I disable notifications for everything but direct messages. Sometimes I'll exit it entirely for an hour or two, but I don't want to look like I'm unavailable to help teammates.
I'm going to guess that you don't spend many hours 9-5 Monday through Friday at a beach or on a golf course. If you're in the right places, you'll definitely see people who value free time over money and prestige.
The fact that his response rate when from < 5% for "applying the right way" to 22% for "maybe you upset a hiring manager" suggests his new approach, in spite of your reservations, is better for cases where you don't…
Sarah Federman - http://sarah.codes/ Sarah Drasner - http://sarahdrasnerdesign.com/ Assume whoever looks at your portfolio is going to scroll from top to bottom first, get a first impression, then _maybe_ click through…
Because then you can curry/partially apply functions independent of your data. It's _not_ because it's convention everywhere else. (I realize that only really makes sense if you know why it makes sense, so this video…
But if you clicked through to that point and were served ads, they kind of already won. At least short term.
The most recent version of the course - http://www.cs.trinity.edu/About/The_Courses/cs2322/ They'll probably rewrite the CS department site eventually, but until then, it's a repository of all the information about J…
Just about. Same time in a year and a half?
The hardest part of J is revisiting old code and trying to figure out what you were thinking when you wrote it. The cognitive cost of writing the same program in J versus your current favorite functional language (let's…
I think you overestimate the difficulty. The Python programmers can probably step through R source code and figure out what's going on without too much trouble. The other statisticians probably already know and use R.…
I like it; it makes it easier to read in a web browser. But if you want a full copy: 1. DownThemAll to pull down all of the .pdf links, 2. pdftk to merge them all into one file
If you have a digital scale and some time to read supplement labels, even the measuring/mixing doesn't seem that bad. The whey protein and olive oil you can get anywhere. The maltodextrin means picking up a giant bag…
"Hey, This college sounds familiar." Dr. Lewis' book is listed on Amazon as having a publication date of October 30, 2012. [edit: The author himself will tell you; If you're already familiar with programming basics, and…
Two things: Which of these points do you take issue with, specifically?: [1]. Intelligent people are more likely to be homosexual., [2]. Humans are evolutionarily designed to reproduce heterosexually., or [3]. The…
Not to mention how relatively easy Macs and iThings are to use. This is subjective, but I think Apple's better than anyone at making computers that "non computer people" can figure out.
That would be cool. Video games are the only reason I even have a Windows partition.
Well, there goes my ability to trust Yelp reviews as impartial. But if I don't trust the reviews, Yelp effectively degrades into a complicated remix of Google Maps.
Yes it is. The SLA is 99.9% uptime until you do something against their terms of service, but even then you'll still have somebody call and complain to. Also, I'm not positive, but I'm pretty sure it's standard to set…
While we're throwing out book recommendations, I'll mention one by William Poundstone, who's quoted in the article. Fortune's Formula: The Untold Story of the Scientific Betting System That Beat the Casinos and Wall…
> favoring foreigners over locals on the basis of being able to pay foreigners less only Hypothetically, if you were a Machiavellian hiring manager: You would also prefer a foreigner on a visa because they would have…
> perfectly legal Well, not necessarily. If your reflexes are good enough, and your brakes are good enough, and your tires are good enough, that you can safely stop a bike going 20mph on a wet downhill section, then…
I don't think it works that way. If you add logic that says: "here's group A, who we really want to target, and here's group B, the protected class we want to exclude. throw 10% of all impressions at group B so we're…
No, because the fact that I'm neither Chinese nor likely to read Chinese Daily News doesn't actually prevent me from seeing your ad. If you posted "Help Wanted" flyers in the middle of a college campus for a part-time…
My favorite resources are now all slightly dated; I haven't really kept up with the cutting edge as I've moved away from design and towards development. --- Web: A List Apart, especially the articles section -…
I'll throw in Brian Lonsdorf's "Professor Frisby's Mostly Adequate Guide to Functional Programming" https://drboolean.gitbooks.io/mostly-adequate-guide/content/ And the related video series on Egghead (which I think…
Same situation for me. I disable notifications for everything but direct messages. Sometimes I'll exit it entirely for an hour or two, but I don't want to look like I'm unavailable to help teammates.
I'm going to guess that you don't spend many hours 9-5 Monday through Friday at a beach or on a golf course. If you're in the right places, you'll definitely see people who value free time over money and prestige.
The fact that his response rate when from < 5% for "applying the right way" to 22% for "maybe you upset a hiring manager" suggests his new approach, in spite of your reservations, is better for cases where you don't…
Sarah Federman - http://sarah.codes/ Sarah Drasner - http://sarahdrasnerdesign.com/ Assume whoever looks at your portfolio is going to scroll from top to bottom first, get a first impression, then _maybe_ click through…
Because then you can curry/partially apply functions independent of your data. It's _not_ because it's convention everywhere else. (I realize that only really makes sense if you know why it makes sense, so this video…
But if you clicked through to that point and were served ads, they kind of already won. At least short term.
The most recent version of the course - http://www.cs.trinity.edu/About/The_Courses/cs2322/ They'll probably rewrite the CS department site eventually, but until then, it's a repository of all the information about J…
Just about. Same time in a year and a half?
The hardest part of J is revisiting old code and trying to figure out what you were thinking when you wrote it. The cognitive cost of writing the same program in J versus your current favorite functional language (let's…
I think you overestimate the difficulty. The Python programmers can probably step through R source code and figure out what's going on without too much trouble. The other statisticians probably already know and use R.…
I like it; it makes it easier to read in a web browser. But if you want a full copy: 1. DownThemAll to pull down all of the .pdf links, 2. pdftk to merge them all into one file
If you have a digital scale and some time to read supplement labels, even the measuring/mixing doesn't seem that bad. The whey protein and olive oil you can get anywhere. The maltodextrin means picking up a giant bag…
"Hey, This college sounds familiar." Dr. Lewis' book is listed on Amazon as having a publication date of October 30, 2012. [edit: The author himself will tell you; If you're already familiar with programming basics, and…
Two things: Which of these points do you take issue with, specifically?: [1]. Intelligent people are more likely to be homosexual., [2]. Humans are evolutionarily designed to reproduce heterosexually., or [3]. The…
Not to mention how relatively easy Macs and iThings are to use. This is subjective, but I think Apple's better than anyone at making computers that "non computer people" can figure out.
That would be cool. Video games are the only reason I even have a Windows partition.
Well, there goes my ability to trust Yelp reviews as impartial. But if I don't trust the reviews, Yelp effectively degrades into a complicated remix of Google Maps.
Yes it is. The SLA is 99.9% uptime until you do something against their terms of service, but even then you'll still have somebody call and complain to. Also, I'm not positive, but I'm pretty sure it's standard to set…