jwilbs

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by jwilbs 7y ago
Conveniently, you ignored everything I wrote after the comma: “just because of the comparatively open press in Hong Kong + ubiquity of cell phones” Of course I remember Tienanmen. And I’m also aware of the Uyghur camps. It’s no surprise tha
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by jwilbs 7y ago
A few weeks ago, I never would have expected China to profess/commit violence openly, just because of the comparatively open press in Hong Kong + ubiquity of cell phones. After the triad attacks, and now this, I’m worried how far China
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USC pays UCSD $50M and apologizes for raiding its Alzheimer’s program(sandiegouniontribune.com)
3 points by jwilbs 7y ago|0 comments
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by jwilbs 7y ago
Nope! Just told me to reach out to a cardiologist if things didn’t get better, and suggested it’s probably anxiety. I suppose I can’t blame them given my age, but it makes me wonder how many cardiac deaths (#1 source of deaths in the US [1]
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by jwilbs 7y ago
I was on Medicaid just a few years ago. It was definitely a lifesend, but the network is very tiny and, as a result, scheduling visits with specialists (in my experience, so anecdotally) took about three months. I am very grateful I was not
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by jwilbs 7y ago
Two weeks, I had open heart surgery in my mid-20s in the US. My main takeaway is this: those of us who work in tech or companies with decent health insurance are extremely fortunate. In total (knock on wood that this doesn’t go up), I spent
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by jwilbs 7y ago
Google says the acceptance rate is 17%. Would love to see your source on 25% of non-Stanford alumni SV people being from USC. Anecdotally, I’ve met one.
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by jwilbs 7y ago
This. I’ve contributed code to popular libraries in both languages, and while I (overall) have a preference for python (mostly due to it being general purpose), I find R code unparalleled when it comes to raw data manipulation/analysis
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by jwilbs 7y ago
Thanks for the kind comment, I’m glad it was helpful. I recommend you check out explorabl.es - they have a ton of informative interactives, covering a wide range of disciplines. And thanks for the typo notification!
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Show HN: I made a 'scrollytelling' visual explanation for the Permutation Test(jwilber.me)
27 points by jwilbs 7y ago|3 comments
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by jwilbs 8y ago
At work: we finally updated our prod environment to accommodate a more recent version of Spark, so have been playing with rewriting some jobs in spark (now that I’m not limited to only using the RDD api). At home: trying to integrate D3 wi
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by jwilbs 8y ago
I find it very hard to believe any recruiter/interviewer would be turned off that my top 6 repos featured a mix of popular and unpopular, personal and forked repos. Limiting exposure of my open-source contributions to organizations add
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by jwilbs 8y ago
I’d love to hear the story behind that, haha. Were you paid to drive that? Were you just a huge Yahoo fan? An early employee?
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by jwilbs 8y ago
Is there any reason you decided to take loans instead of using the GI Bill? Genuinely curious.
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by jwilbs 8y ago
As someone from San Diego I find it insane that you think the city is “tending toward car-free living.” Even in 5-10 years when the trolley maybe hits the beach, how would you get to north county?. What if you’re in north park and you wor
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by jwilbs 8y ago
This genuinely made me chuckle. That said, if mistyping ‘git push’ is a common occurrence, why not just define an alias?
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by jwilbs 8y ago
In which the author restates his title thesis in every paragraph, without ever mentioning supporting evidence.
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by jwilbs 8y ago
I think this is a great point that, for some reason, I can’t recall ever seeing thoroughly addressed. (To be fair, I don’t work in the life sciences, so cmiiw). I definitely believe in evolution, but wonder if maybe something is missing, es
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by jwilbs 8y ago
Bookdown is super easy. Some oreilly books (eg R for Data Science) used it.
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by jwilbs 8y ago
Not trying to say misogyny in tech isn’t an issue, but I saw no “blatant” examples there? I honestly don’t understand the whole fuss over SO being (apparently) unwelcome, though I’ve had one negative experience: my answer was downvoted by a
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by jwilbs 8y ago
Big fan of your layout & color-scheme. Can I ask what you used to make that pixelated avatar of yourself?
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by jwilbs 8y ago
Great blog post; interesting, relevant, and to the point. Does anyone know of any other hubs for content creation that don’t keep such a steep % of $?
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by jwilbs 8y ago
Any fellow skaters may be interested in an interactive visual essay I recently made about music in skateboarding: https://pudding.cool/2018/06/skate-music/
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by jwilbs 8y ago
26. Tech: Scrollama (JavaScript library for scrollytelling).
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by jwilbs 8y ago
As someone who switched from sublime to vim after college (dev team was all sublime), I second the request for any benefits of vim over sublime (aside from being cooler). I’ve been wanting to relearn using it with fluency, but can’t justify
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by jwilbs 8y ago
It could be locality specific - which cafe was it?
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by jwilbs 8y ago
I find this comment odd. I spent many years in Oakland and saw plenty of Indians (a quick google search shows Oakland is 17% Asian). Not to mention there are at least three Indian restaurants within two blocks of 12th street/Oakland Ci
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by jwilbs 8y ago
Related: Awesome visual essay about using algorithms to generate (bad) cookie recipes https://pudding.cool/2018/05/cookies/
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by jwilbs 8y ago
I hope I’m not coming off brash but I am having difficulty wrapping my head around how someone with 10 years of dev experience can’t break minimum wage. What kind of dev do you do? Have you looked into freelance work? Do you set salary exp
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by jwilbs 8y ago
Fun Fun Function Swedish developer at Spotify (who studied film and theatre in uni) talks about (mostly) JavaScript stuff.

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