francamps

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by francamps 9y ago
Source?
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by francamps 9y ago
Spotify? Edit: you did say 'almost'.
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by francamps 9y ago
That is all true. I really love Berlin and I consider it as much an option as Barcelona, or better. The amount of culture and stimulating things happening is incredible, plus the most liberal city and the most interesting tech scene in Euro
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by francamps 9y ago
Hello. Barcelona native here, lived and worked for years in the NY tech scene and now I am in London, although I go back to Barcelona often, and I'm seriously considering moving back. (I don't know the situation in Madrid well eno
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by francamps 9y ago
If you're into political action, live in London and are proficient in THREE.js or WebGL, well, we could definitely use your help here -> www.forensic-architecture.org/jobs-internships/
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by francamps 9y ago
That was also one of my favorite moments of the day when I worked in NYC, lunch at Washington Square, listening to whatever jazz band was playing and watching people. A thousand times better than Union Square :)
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by francamps 10y ago
> In the longer-term, I'd like to explore match making between data visualization people who would like to get into machine learning and machine learning researchers publishing papers. As a data viz person, I would be absolutely thr
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by francamps 10y ago
I agree, and I think the misleading headline is aligned with traditional resistance to consider BI as a serious economic policy. In fact, what seems to be a common story in the article is that giving money directly in a way that is sustaine
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by francamps 10y ago
There is a solution that can help you get here, and it worked for me: unfollow everyone and everything. By unfollowing everyone except a handful of boring sites that barely ever publish anything, my newsfeed has become very boring and I rar
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by francamps 10y ago
Thanks a lot for your advice, this is great. Former academics / PhDs are good pool of people with wonderful skills (I didn't finish my own PhD, but I know the environment). Some PhDs might hopefully also be more attuned to the soc
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by francamps 10y ago
Thank you! We are paying a liveable wage for London and are pretty flexible on many fronts, and the satisfaction and passion for the work we do covers the rest of it (at least for me). I am confident there are people who find the combinatio
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by francamps 10y ago
Thanks a lot, these are really great suggestions to look into. I think 1 (the flex schedule part at least) and 3 are already there, but I hadn't thought about highlighting them as properties of the job that people might be interested
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by francamps 10y ago
> But please strike that sentence about not wanting to pay a market rate. I don't think I said or implied that, but if I did I wasn't accurate. Given the funding, grant-based model we have, we can't really pay for-profit t
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Ask HN: What would make you want to work for a non-profit as an engineer?
24 points by francamps 10y ago|37 comments