mistermcgruff

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Mailchimp launches new developer center(mailchimp.com)
1 points by mistermcgruff 6y ago|0 comments
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Why metrics plus accountability doesn’t equal success(qz.com)
1 points by mistermcgruff 6y ago|0 comments
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The Mythical Mythical Man-Month(smashingmagazine.com)
2 points by mistermcgruff 7y ago|0 comments
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by mistermcgruff 8y ago
Churchill also took a 2 hour nap daily. The man would change into his damn pajamas to do it. Night time sleep is not total sleep. Let's stop glorifying folks who supposedly need so little sleep...they may be getting it other ways.
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How MailChimp Grew(blog.drift.com)
1 points by mistermcgruff 10y ago|0 comments
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by mistermcgruff 10y ago
I wrote a technical book for Wiley. 12.5% royalties for paper sales. 25% for book. Negotiate the ebook rate. The main thing that surprised me (which shouldn't have) was the complete lack of marketing Wiley did. You write it, you find t
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Securing Puppet with Key Rotation(devs.mailchimp.com)
1 points by mistermcgruff 10y ago|0 comments
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Inactive Subscribers Are Still Valuable Customers(blog.mailchimp.com)
1 points by mistermcgruff 11y ago|0 comments
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by mistermcgruff 11y ago
Can it play "drugwars"? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Drugwars
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by mistermcgruff 11y ago
All I know is that I spent two years deep in abstract algebra and other proof-heavy classes, and it was some of the best training in rigor and thoughtfulness I've ever had. Wouldn't trade it for the world. But, then again, most re
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Powering MailChimp Pro Reporting(devs.mailchimp.com)
1 points by mistermcgruff 11y ago|0 comments
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Data is an Asset(john-foreman.com)
1 points by mistermcgruff 11y ago|0 comments
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by mistermcgruff 11y ago
I used to have a breadfruit tree in my yard in Tennessee. We would take the fruit as it fell and line it up in the street and watch cars run over them. Seeing them crushed was pretty satisfying (I was 9 years old at the time). Then one day
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Disney and the Meat Space Data Race(john-foreman.com)
1 points by mistermcgruff 12y ago|0 comments
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Whale hunting or scale hunting?(tinyletter.com)
1 points by mistermcgruff 12y ago|0 comments
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by mistermcgruff 12y ago
This has not improved. However, instead of using screen in a terminal to do a long create table query, I'll now just kick it off in pgAdmin and yank my ethernet. This causes the query to just hang out there indefinitely until it's
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by mistermcgruff 12y ago
Yeah. Autism is diagnosed by symptoms and the symptoms have changed over time. It used to be that an individual had to actively avoid social contact. Now they just need to be socially impaired even if they seek contact. As the symptoms have
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Surviving Data Science at the Speed of Hype(john-foreman.com)
224 points by mistermcgruff 12y ago|43 comments
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by mistermcgruff 12y ago
A semester of linear algebra (or just a willingness to Wikipedia a few things) plus Excel experience is all you need. That said, the book does require a lot of effort, because the techniques are worked through step by step. But once you lea
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by mistermcgruff 12y ago
If you've got a college semester of linear algebra under your belt (or equivalent) and are pretty good with Excel, then the book is a good fit. Even the algebra can be optional if you're willing to use wikipedia liberally. I don&#
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by mistermcgruff 12y ago
Hey, author here. It does sound kinda bigoted, doesn't it? Lemme clarify. I would really love for more people to learn this stuff. Truly. That's why I wrote a book to teach it to folks in Excel. What freaks me out a bit is that in
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The Making of MailChimp Snap(blog.mailchimp.com)
1 points by mistermcgruff 12y ago|0 comments
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Marketing Automation for Everyone(blog.mailchimp.com)
2 points by mistermcgruff 12y ago|0 comments
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We Sent Freddie to the Stratosphere(devs.mailchimp.com)
1 points by mistermcgruff 12y ago|0 comments
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by mistermcgruff 12y ago
I make Excel choke regularly. For example, copy-pasting a complicated vlookup down 1 million rows takes forever.
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Why Colocation?(devs.mailchimp.com)
4 points by mistermcgruff 12y ago|0 comments
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Why is Big Data Creepy? What Can We Do?(john-foreman.com)
1 points by mistermcgruff 12y ago|0 comments
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by mistermcgruff 12y ago
Sounds more like a classic optimization model (operations research) than like an AI model. Great case study though. I wonder why they used a GA and custom stuff instead of off the shelf software from gurobi or IBM OPL etc.
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Facebook's solution to big data's "content problem:" dumber users(john-foreman.com)
7 points by mistermcgruff 12y ago|2 comments
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by mistermcgruff 12y ago
Another way to get free internet in hotels is to tell them it was shitty internet when you check out. It always is shitty (just try watching a movie on it!). They always credit it back to me.

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