cusack

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by cusack 6y ago
> I'm also sure to fail googlable technical questions so I was wondering how others might approach this. I would do the minimal amount of studying that's required to pass this hurdle, and then you'll probably be great at a
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by cusack 7y ago
Best regex intro I’ve read
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by cusack 8y ago
I See Satan Fall Like Lightning, by René Girard. Girard was a professor at Stanford and writes about the idea of 'mimetic desire'. His overarching idea is humans are fundamentally creatures of mimesis, and whether we realize it or
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by cusack 8y ago
A nuance I felt -- when you're an IC the 'I'm being productive' feedback loop is really quick and thus satisfying. You can come in the morning and have measurable problems you solved by the end of the day. As a manager,
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Crypto currencies in refugee camps(medium.com)
1 points by cusack 8y ago|0 comments
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by cusack 8y ago
Twitter DM in response to an engineering manager that tweeted ≈'we're hiring!'. Talking to the eng manager directly, rather than going through a typical recruiting channel, made the whole process a lot smoother I think
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by cusack 9y ago
Earnest | Engineering | San Francisco, CA | full-time | onsite | earnest.com Earnest is building the bank of the future. I'm the tech lead for our Servicing team, but we're hiring across pretty much all teams. Servicing team&#x27
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Category theory for everyone(medium.com)
2 points by cusack 9y ago|0 comments
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by cusack 9y ago
The price structure was slightly different then since he was all bought as one package, but still about the same cost overall. It is pricey, but a great ROI from both a base salary standpoint (you can pretty reasonably ask for a raise once
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by cusack 9y ago
Yeah i did it last November when the courses were structured to be done as a full-time program. They've restructured to make it compatible with having a full-time job simultaneously. I think they've still had students take all cou
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by cusack 9y ago
I did https://bradfieldcs.com after working as a IC for awhile and found it hugely valuable. I didn't have a CS undergrad and worked in Node, so skipped the majority the deeper fundamental studies around databases, networki
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by cusack 9y ago
Looking for smart people interested in solving hard problems. Stack is JavaScript/Node and Java, but flexible on background in those specific languages
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by cusack 9y ago
Would love to chat with anyone from SoundCloud interested in earnest.com. We're building the future of finance. I'm a tech lead for one of the teams, feel free to email directly: alex (dot) cusack (at) earnest (dot) com https:&#
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by cusack 10y ago
They sort of talked about this issue in their recent radar update https://www.tesla.com/blog/upgrading-autopilot-seeing-world-... They don't mention use of neural nets, but have a couple strategies for dealing wit
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by cusack 11y ago
Another in SF, heading southwest for several blocks from the intersection of Harrison/22nd in the Mission 2901 22nd St San Francisco CA
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21 Inc's Bitcoin Computer is not meant as a mining rig(medium.com)
6 points by cusack 11y ago|0 comments
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by cusack 11y ago
I don't think the mined bitcoin is meant to be thought of as a revenue source at all. I think the intention of the 21Inc machine is to have a computer that is automatically connected to the blockchain and can transact with others prog
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The Future of the Collegiate Campus(medium.com)
22 points by cusack 11y ago|2 comments
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by cusack 12y ago
I'd push back on the dog in a cage analogy. I think it could be argued that we've narrowed our communication mediums for purpose of effectiveness and efficiency. Also affordable ubiquity. I would argue it's more like limi