ktaylor

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by ktaylor 7y ago
Questions such as pseudocode a "(sorting, binary search, etc)" algorithm on the whiteboard are BS questions used to haze interviewees and make the interviewer feel like the big man on campus. Almost no working programmer ever impl
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by ktaylor 7y ago
My understanding is he looks for phrases people are increasingly searching for such as "BHP Free Sippy Cup" and then buys a domain such as bhp-free-sippy-cups.com. On the site, he just displays affiliate links to various vendor pr
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by ktaylor 7y ago
A friend of mine runs a 1 person business. Well, technically, he does have an assistant who does his office admin and books. My friend has steady gross revenues of $6M a year. When I first met him about 8 years ago he was 26 and living at h
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by ktaylor 7y ago
Joplin just released support for Vim keybindings. But, it also has a button you can press to edit a note in your favorite editor, such as Vim.
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by ktaylor 7y ago
Here is how I read and annotate scientific articles and books: http://www.founderscholar.com/how-to-read-doctoral-student/
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by ktaylor 7y ago
Racket is a great language that needs more recognition. Thanks for posting your experiences.
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by ktaylor 7y ago
This is a good interpretation of the event as I understand it. Culturally, it would be a good move to grant all employees before x date a token number of units so they felt validated. $1k worth of units to a few dozen employees is a roundin
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by ktaylor 7y ago
Maybe read the Twitter thread and then comment.
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by ktaylor 7y ago
This is a 19th century view of the workplace. Don't work for employers who ascribe to this workforce philosophy.
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by ktaylor 7y ago
Assuming people will create great works while living off a sustenance-level basic income is a bit of a stretch. And, it seems to ignore the extreme level of work, commitment, and persistence it takes to write books, publish science, etc. Th
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by ktaylor 7y ago
This is very true. I've traveled the ICW from Moorehead City, NC to Dinner Key, Miami. Derelict boats bring a very bad reputation to the cruising community and have real repercussions. Also, this boat is very unlikely to pass a coast g
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by ktaylor 7y ago
Far from a homemade boat. The Bristol 27 is a seaworthy craft. But this sailor apparently doesn't know how to use a sponge and paint brush to maintain her. These are normally quite pretty boats.
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by ktaylor 7y ago
I bought a $700 chair on Amazon and returned it after a week. Then I found this and it has been great for the past 3 years: https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B0049UCECE/ref=ppx_yo_dt_b... It is $200, sturdy a
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by ktaylor 7y ago
There's no excuse for keeping his boat in that state of disarray. I've lived aboard a sailboat with my family in the Bahamas and met a lot of full time liveaboards. The only boats I ever saw that were kept like that were the derel
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by ktaylor 7y ago
I hate IOS. I don't understand why people try to turn a consumer device into a serious developer workstation.
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by ktaylor 8y ago
I'm in social sciences but have a developer background. I am trying to expose more people to reproducible research methods. They are not very receptive. The version-control-by-folder approach is well entrenched.
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by ktaylor 8y ago
I believe the most important element of successful remote work as a FT employee (not a contractor) is to not be forgotten. When working on a team or working in management, so many decisions are decided outside of meetings. As a remote emplo
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by ktaylor 8y ago
There's a guy named Ken Auer who took the life-work integration message to heart. He established a craftsmanship studio in his house. In large part, it was to integrate work, family, personal into one. https://www.rolemodels
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by ktaylor 8y ago
My friend (PhD in Physics) runs a small hedge fund in Chicago. A team of about 6 traders and quants. They have been doing all their fairly sophisticated quantitative models in Fortran for the past 15 years. He is currently learning R, thoug
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Version control in academia
1 points by ktaylor 8y ago|2 comments
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by ktaylor 8y ago
This is built on the old Harpo Studios (Oprah) location in Chicago. Nicely done. But, you can class up the headquarters but you're still selling burgers at the end of the day.
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Surface Pro with Linux
2 points by ktaylor 8y ago|1 comments
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by ktaylor 9y ago
set -o vi
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How I schedule my time as a doctoral student and CTO(medium.com)
1 points by ktaylor 9y ago|0 comments
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3 Powerful Time Management Principles for Makers and Thinkers(medium.com)
1 points by ktaylor 9y ago|0 comments
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Die-Hard Entrepreneurs Refuse to Quit(founderscholar.com)
4 points by ktaylor 9y ago|0 comments
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How to Spot the Nightmare Clients Who Can Kill Your Business(founderscholar.com)
1 points by ktaylor 9y ago|0 comments
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by ktaylor 9y ago
Economics is endlessly fascinating, IMO. Mixed with history and does it get any better? TFP.
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First Day of My Business Doctorate(founderscholar.com)
1 points by ktaylor 9y ago|0 comments
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118 most recommended business books(founderscholar.com)
1 points by ktaylor 9y ago|0 comments

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