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by btmills 2y ago
The author shared the agreement at https://twitter.com/SciGuySpace/status/1817918826518065485
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by btmills 3y ago
> I find it frustrating that the eslint recommended presets don't document why they are recommended. That’s a good point. While this doesn’t address the root problem, I can share some context here as a former maintainer: browsing th
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by btmills 4y ago
For new projects, both at work or on the side, I like to imagine I have a “new stuff budget.” That forces me to spend it wisely. If I over-spend my new stuff budget, I take on debt, much like tech debt, that I’ll have to pay down later. I’l
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by btmills 4y ago
Drive Capital | Software Engineer, Data Scientist | Columbus, Ohio | ONSITE | Full-time Come build the platform that powers Drive Capital as we invest $2.2B in startups between the coasts in the US and Canada. We've partnered with more
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by btmills 4y ago
Drive Capital | Software Engineer, Data Scientist | Columbus, Ohio | ONSITE | Full-time Come build the platform that powers Drive Capital as we invest $2.2B in startups between the coasts in the US and Canada. We've partnered with more
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by btmills 4y ago
My employer, a venture investor, is looking for data scientists who understand finance. Our product uses Python, Django, and React like you mentioned. I don’t know much about being a Quant, so maybe we could help each other calibrate. My em
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Sponsoring dependencies: The next step in open source sustainability(humanwhocodes.com)
5 points by btmills 4y ago|0 comments
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by btmills 4y ago
Drive Capital | Software Engineer, Data Scientist | Columbus, Ohio | ONSITE | Full-time Come build the platform that powers Drive Capital as we invest $2.2B in startups between the coasts in the US and Canada. We've partnered with more
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by btmills 4y ago
Drive Capital | Software Engineer, Data Scientist | Columbus, Ohio | ONSITE | Full-time Come build the platform that powers Drive Capital as we invest $1B in startups between the coasts in the US and Canada. We've partnered with more t
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by btmills 4y ago
The Expanse series was a lot of fun to read, and now I'm catching up on the show.
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by btmills 4y ago
We typically invest at earlier stages, so I can't say firsthand what diligence looks like at series F. If you mean Fast, Gergely Orosz had a good writeup at https://newsletter.pragmaticengineer.com/p/the-scoop-fast
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by btmills 4y ago
We've built a platform that helps us run the firm and includes tools for our investors and portfolio companies. At a high level, there are proactive features we want to improve or build and plenty of analysis to help inform our decisio
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by btmills 4y ago
Thank you for showing this! My employer is actively hiring investors, and I’ll share this with the person heading that search. Relevant to the HN crowd, we’re also hiring data scientists and software engineers. It’s rare for a VC firm to ha
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by btmills 4y ago
I lead engineering at a VC firm, and while we do sometimes help in diligence, it’s a tiny portion of our time, <1%. Your second paragraph is spot on, and I hinted at a similar idea in a sibling to your comment. Especially at series A and
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by btmills 4y ago
As an engineer, I used to think the same. From vicarious experience, I’ve learned that software execution is far down the list of reasons startups don’t work. The wrong market, the wrong approach to the market, or the wrong team approaching
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by btmills 4y ago
Drive Capital | Software Engineer, Data Scientist | Columbus, Ohio | ONSITE | Full-time Come build the platform that powers Drive Capital as we invest $1B in startups between the coasts in the US and Canada. We've partnered with more t
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by btmills 7y ago
This book made me understand pointers. As I read it, I followed along building all the circuits in Logisim [1] from half-adders to latches to multiplexers all the way up to a full CPU. Many will probably recognize the author, Charles Petzol
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Unexpected Page Fault In Virtualized Environment Advisory(intel.com)
119 points by btmills 7y ago|43 comments
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by btmills 7y ago
Matt Levine at Bloomberg had an excellent explanation of the dynamics at play in his newsletter recently [1]. The bankers are incentivized to inflate the valuation in order to win the IPO mandate and all the fees that come with it. They the
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by btmills 7y ago
Try adding the `--module` flag [1]. JS now has two different grammars, script and module, and the `import` keyword is only allowed in module code. [1] https://bellard.org/quickjs/quickjs.html#qjs-interpreter
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Huawei Telecom Gear More Vulnerable to Hackers, Report Says(wsj.com)
8 points by btmills 7y ago|2 comments
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Brave Creators(brave.com)
2 points by btmills 9y ago|0 comments
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Senate votes to let ISPs sell your Web browsing history to advertisers(arstechnica.com)
15 points by btmills 9y ago|1 comments
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Change the base branch of a Pull Request(github.com)
28 points by btmills 10y ago|4 comments
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by btmills 10y ago
The major version bump indicates there are changes that could break some use cases. There's a partial changelog [0] in the v6 release pull request. [0] https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/6383#issue-15101
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by btmills 10y ago
The authors even included their PGP fingerprints at the bottom of the article and invited readers to contact them securely.
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React Native Scheduling(facebook.com)
2 points by btmills 11y ago|0 comments
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by btmills 11y ago
Snooze functionality became my most important feature after using Mailbox. I switched to Outlook several months ago because it supports snoozing and archiving with the same swipe gestures, and it allows me to add all of the mail accounts Ma
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Elon Musk's Sleight of Hand(medium.com)
8 points by btmills 11y ago|0 comments
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by btmills 11y ago
They did a StackShare blog post [0] and podcast in February talking about their stack, and it makes for a pretty good read. About Hadoop specifically, it doesn't show up on their StackShare page [1] anywhere. [0] http://stac

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