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by alexallain 3y ago
Hey I know something about this! I just mailed my organization's RRF-1 a couple of days ago. The author of this post seems to be confused. My organization is on the same fiscal year as OpenAI, and our RRF-1 had to be mailed by Novemb
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by alexallain 4y ago
I'm the co-founder and CTO at U.S. Digital Response ( https://usdigitalresponse.org/ ) - we're a non-partisan non-profit that started 2 years ago to help state and local governments and non-profits around the US add
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by alexallain 7y ago
I think my favorite insight from this post is that the difference between founders and others is the bias to action to go after an idea that seems like a good one, and take it where it may go.
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How They Built That, or, 14 Lessons from How I Built This(medium.com)
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by alexallain 7y ago
(original author here) I got inspired to write this post after helping contribute a few chapters to The Holloway Guide to Technical Interviewing and Recruiting, which is in early access and has a more material that might be interesting+rele
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Lessons from 500 interviews: the interviewer skills ladder for growing companies(medium.com)
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How to remember what you read(medium.com)
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What it feels like to deposit a gold bar into your experience piggy bank(medium.com)
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Ten More Minutes(medium.com)
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by alexallain 8y ago
I wouldn't say that it felt like I was thinking really hard in times I wasn't writing. It's a bit like the technique of putting down a crossword for a little while when you get stuck - you might not be thinking much about the
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by alexallain 8y ago
I've been using a technique similar to what I described in the original post to teach myself Haskell, and your comment 100% resonates with me. In the case of learning a new language, just getting a piece of code to run and testing it o
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Ten minutes a day(medium.com)
355 points by alexallain 8y ago|49 comments
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by alexallain 13y ago
Thank you, I'm glad you like it :)
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by alexallain 15y ago
It's worth noting that you are better off tax-wise saving one dollar than earning the same dollar. I didn't expect it to impact your argument that much, but given that the 2010 income tax rate in Israel is 44% for anyone making over ~90K/yr
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by alexallain 15y ago
On the topic of food...it's interesting that Tabasco is specifically mentioned. I'm originally from Louisiana, and my family and I prefer Crystal hot sauce; we think it has more flavor.
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by alexallain 15y ago
Did you mean to compute the cost/user? If so, that comes out to a little over 13c/month. Still, that comes to $1.60/year, meaning that a user would start to cost money right around the end of the 6th year of usage (assuming hosting costs do
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by alexallain 15y ago
Years ago when I had to download Real Player for one reason or another, they wanted me to register my email with them. Not wanting to give them my email, I put in a rather snarky bogus email. This was the result: http://i.imgur.com/3tIav.j