Tashtego

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by Tashtego 5y ago
If this work is interesting, we're hiring on this team as well! More specifically to this post, we are hiring an ML engineer to join this team- https://warnermediacareers.com/global/en/job/181319BR/S
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by Tashtego 11y ago
Spotify - ONSITE - NY and Boston We are hiring machine learning and data engineers in our NY and Boston offices. You will take on complex problems using some of the most diverse data sets available -- user behaviors, acoustical analysis, cu
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by Tashtego 11y ago
Spotify - ONSITE - NY and Boston We are hiring machine learning and data engineers in our NY and Boston offices. You will take on complex problems using some of the most diverse data sets available -- user behaviors, acoustical analysis, cu
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by Tashtego 13y ago
One thing I don't see anyone in these comments taking into account- this is music that, for various sampling law / licensing reasons, they have never been able to sell or stream online. They seem to be giving it away because they&
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by Tashtego 14y ago
Thanks- that works!
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by Tashtego 14y ago
Great article but I can't get his advice for using Sublime Text as the editor to work. \e will open a new file, but saving/quitting doesn't ever run the query.
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by Tashtego 14y ago
I would add "practice what you preach" to this. Everyone hates the junior developer who says "ugh, this code sucks, it doesn't even have tests." Everyone loves the junior developer who says "ugh, that code didn't even have tests, so I found
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by Tashtego 14y ago
Anecdotally, I have certainly found that although the cost in time may not vary as much as this table would indicate, the cost in stress ramps up even faster. Fixing a bug in production is usually a highly stressful endeavor for all involve
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by Tashtego 14y ago
If you like this, you'll love Kate Ascher's The Works: Anatomy of a City ( http://www.amazon.com/The-Works-Anatomy-Kate-Ascher/dp/01431... ). It's slightly out of date (but much more up to date than the OP!). And if you like that, you'll RE
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by Tashtego 14y ago
... for the first sale. But if TW doesn't have a monopoly, I doubt they'd get the second sale after that experience.
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by Tashtego 14y ago
I really wish there was a transcript or video. The better the presentation, the less useful the slide deck is on its own.
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by Tashtego 14y ago
I have also found screen sharing to be way too slow for remote pairing. A good bit of our development is in Visual Studio, though, and I haven't found a good way to remotely share an editor session other than screen share. For our Python/Ru
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by Tashtego 14y ago
"I'm not young enough to know everything" Having recently started mentoring/managing the first really junior engineer on our team (self-taught, <1 year programming experience), boy does this ring true. Luckily I'm of the temperament to
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by Tashtego 14y ago
The debate over corporate APIs is not new. That's not Dave's point. A lot of people are just starting to think of Twitter in the same light, though, and that is definitely new.
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by Tashtego 14y ago
Excellent!
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by Tashtego 14y ago
Love the idea, but my first thought was "man, I have to rate everything I've watched/read/played AGAIN???" I really wish there was better interchange/exchange of this sort of data, because it's sad that my first impression of your app is so
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by Tashtego 14y ago
Looks like a good overview of Clojure and functional programming. Anyone have a review?
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by Tashtego 14y ago
Razor, not Razer. Templates, not fancy gaming accessories.
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by Tashtego 14y ago
SEEKING FREELANCER - (Remote) Web UI Designer/Engineer We're looking for someone with solid HTML/JS chops and experience with designing UIs, esp. for customizing products. We're building a new customization system for www.frecklebox.com and
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by Tashtego 15y ago
I recently had to deal with this when shopping for a shipping system to replace our ugly old Filemaker plugin. "Call us for a quote", having to wait through two weeks of sales cycle to get an API doc that should've just been on the web site
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by Tashtego 15y ago
Welcome to the world of JavaScript. This response is NaN.
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by Tashtego 15y ago
I thought the last sentence of the NYT article was priceless- currently, the only way anyone is bringing D&D material to the table on an iPad is if they steal it, because Wizards still doesn't sell any core digital content (magazine a
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by Tashtego 15y ago
Agreed- I've had days where there's been a fire I've had to put out at 8 AM, and I work in PJ's, no shower, etc- if I don't take a shower and change clothes when things calm down, I'm much less productive. I think the best part of the artic
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D&D Fifth Edition is coming, players asked to guide remake(nytimes.com)
8 points by Tashtego 15y ago|3 comments
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by Tashtego 15y ago
Santa Clara, CA Progressive Solutions (www.printhq.com and www.frecklebox.com) FULLTIME Software Engineer We are solving hard problems in the worlds of manufacturing, e-commerce, and mass customization. Can you help? We need an on-site prog
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by Tashtego 15y ago
This post demonstrated a sense of humility ("I probably don't know how to solve your problem") and empathy ("I recognize that your problem is not the same as my problem") that are often sorely lacking in the community of software geeks talk
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by Tashtego 15y ago
I have a set of these running along the back of my desk, and pointed towards the back wall: http://www.ikea.com/us/en/catalog/products/50119351/ I pretty much leave them on 24/7. It's a nice amount of backlight for my monitor in the day a
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by Tashtego 15y ago
Isn't the job of a spokesperson to figure out how to effectively communicate the "valid points" of a movement so that people are not distracted by "the poor social graces" of their source? Stallman's ideas don't make him a poor spokesperson
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by Tashtego 15y ago
"iPod (etc.) was a design win and a business win, but Jobs just helped hire good people." That's like saying the iPod developers just helped write code, or the iPod designers just helped design. Hiring good people is huge.
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by Tashtego 15y ago
For a history of logical vs human decision making, see Spock v. Kirk

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