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by noahnoahnoah 2y ago
This already exists and is used in much of the US and extensively in Europe for airlines. Look up Controller Pilot Data Link Communications (CPDLC).
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by noahnoahnoah 6y ago
I wasn't quite a software engineer, but a data analyst/scientist/engineer/term-du-jour at a brand-ish name software company for ~8 years, so pretty close in terms of the day-to-day work and culture. 1) I'm a profess
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by noahnoahnoah 10y ago
I actually sort of did this (but I cut them w/ a CNC router rather than 3D printing them). https://imgur.com/a/fMy19 is the finished product; http://www.thingiverse.com/thing:1524543 are the files
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by noahnoahnoah 11y ago
Basecamp | REMOTE | INTERN Basecamp is hiring programming, design, marketing, operations, and data interns for summer 2016. Interns at Basecamp work on real projects and are mentored one-on-one by a member of our team who will guide you thr
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Basecamp 3 Will Change the Way You Think About Work – Again(wired.com)
2 points by noahnoahnoah 11y ago|0 comments
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Go at Basecamp(signalvnoise.com)
15 points by noahnoahnoah 11y ago|0 comments
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A mountain of salt for the Apple Watch satisfaction numbers(signalvnoise.com)
2 points by noahnoahnoah 11y ago|0 comments
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Big news for Highrise(signalvnoise.com)
21 points by noahnoahnoah 12y ago|3 comments
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by noahnoahnoah 14y ago
The next two parts will have more detail, but the short answer is "yes" to both a raw word list and a Bayesian filter in terms of techniques we've tried here. One of the simplifying things that makes the problem a little easier is that we d
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by noahnoahnoah 14y ago
A couple of weeks, probably, depending on how much I feel like working on it. It was designed to be modular and easily extracted, but still needs some cleanup work and has a few nasty bugs I'd like to fix first.
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by noahnoahnoah 14y ago
Briefly, probably not (everyone here at 37signals got treated to a 3000 word treatise on our statsd journey a few weeks ago). I did write up a few reasons at https://github.com/noahhl/batsd/blob/master/doc/why-not.md . In short: we as a co
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by noahnoahnoah 14y ago
Definitely. There's a teaser screenshot of Flyash (the big, reusable chunk of our dashboard) towards the bottom of http://37signals.com/svn/posts/3091-pssst-your-rails-applica... (that post also details some of the major emitter component
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by noahnoahnoah 14y ago
We don't use the same backend as Etsy's original implementation, but you should be able to take any script, etc. that emits statsd measurements for use with the original implementation and point it at Batsd. This means that the 50+ statsd c
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by noahnoahnoah 14y ago
(I work for 37signals and wrote batsd) This is really just one piece in a bigger set of things to track performance, usage, etc. You can think of it as: Emitters --> Statsd (or in this case, Batsd) --> dashboards, alerts, etc. We ha
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by noahnoahnoah 14y ago
(I work at 37signals, though not as a sysadmin or developer) Just to clarify - we do have a 24/7 on-call system administrator who is the first line of defense for when things go wrong. They're the ones who get phone calls when things do go
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by noahnoahnoah 14y ago
This is the second long-form piece about Caro and his new book I've seen this week (the other is in tomorrow's New York Times magazine - http://www.nytimes.com/2012/04/15/magazine/robert-caros-big-... ). Interesting how similar the facts t
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by noahnoahnoah 15y ago
(author of the original post) I'm not aware of anyone offering it as a service, and I don't know how well it would work. Since it's all UDP, there's risk of data loss. We experience essentially no loss within our network (less than one one-
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by noahnoahnoah 15y ago
Absolutely no offense taken, and I actually share your desire to avoid KoolAid drinking. Every post should be evaluated on it's merits, and while I can only speak for myself, I hope that things that I write only end up on the front page whe
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by noahnoahnoah 15y ago
(I'm the author of the original post, and obviously I work at 37signals, so feel free to take what I say with a grain of salt.) Why do posts make it to the front page? Because enough people upvote them, so there must be something that appea
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by noahnoahnoah 15y ago
Sure, small A/B testing will probably only get you to a local maxima. I've never understood why most people think A/B testing is just about changing the color of a button -- it's that, but it's so much more. It's about testing any idea, no
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On "data driven" journalism(blog.datarobots.com)
2 points by noahnoahnoah 15y ago|0 comments
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by noahnoahnoah 15y ago
(I work at 37signals) Our test logs in, causes some data to be fetched from the database, and renders a page which we then check against what it should return. We haven’t (to date) had either any false positives or false negatives (when it
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by noahnoahnoah 15y ago
I have a similar answer - I'm a data analyst at a company full of rubyists. I can (and do) use R for most of my analyses, but there's a cost in transparency -- I can't realistically ask someone to review my R code when they don't know the l
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The rhythms of 37signals(37signals.com)
2 points by noahnoahnoah 15y ago|0 comments
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by noahnoahnoah 15y ago
R -- http://groups.google.com/group/rrook/browse_thread/thread/33... (although detect isn't really the case, but run certainly is)
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API design for humans(37signals.com)
9 points by noahnoahnoah 15y ago|0 comments
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Determining A/B test sample size(37signals.com)
25 points by noahnoahnoah 15y ago|11 comments
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by noahnoahnoah 15y ago
This looks fantastic. From the short demo, nice UI for setting up charts, and the visualizations produced are quite nice as well. The only downside to something like this (and Graphite, etc.) is that you can only visualize data that you sto
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by noahnoahnoah 15y ago
This is exactly the problem. Despite spending what is in my many cases billions of dollars a year on IT and related underwriting systems, most of the major health insurers in the US still have some manual touch involved in their pricing, wh
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by noahnoahnoah 15y ago
This varies significantly from state-to-state, by insurer, and even by plan. In places that do price based on actually composition for family plans, there's rarely a particularly linear correlation between family size and rates. (Also, good

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