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by plam 5y ago
dupe https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29682051
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by plam 5y ago
dupe https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29682051
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by plam 5y ago
if you're interested in this, you might find this alternative interface useful -- https://hckrnews.com It keeps track of top links each day and you can scroll back in time. This has been helping me check HN less frequently
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by plam 12y ago
It seems one of the biggest business issues is site visitor perception. I have a couple questions please. What's your opt-rate rate so far out of the sites that have shown this option? do you have any real data regarding hidden cost to
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by plam 12y ago
email sent
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by plam 12y ago
That's a very real problem I totally forgot. We could do the same thing and have a small team of interns + mentor do maintenance mode work.... but not exactly exciting. I don't know. Any idea?
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by plam 12y ago
You can buy all sorts of Chinese phones (with dual SIM) directly from China online on sites like Aliexpress.com. The thing is, US uses weird 3G frequencies or something from the rest of the world. I bought my 3G MTK phone a year ago on Alie
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by plam 12y ago
do you have a few minute to chat in the next few weeks? drop me an email please paul@quantisan.com
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by plam 12y ago
yes, a large part of it is figuring out the problems and where are the lower hanging fruits and what resources are needed.
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by plam 12y ago
drop me an email please paul@quantisan.com I'd love to hear of your experience.
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by plam 12y ago
lots of great suggestions here! I'll reach out to local schools, bootcamps, etc. to get some feedback
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by plam 12y ago
what student would get is a tech mentor and a chance to solve real problem with a good cause. wouldn't that be a competitive selling point vs. a paid internship with perhaps a few thousand dollars? Perhaps I'm being naive / o
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by plam 12y ago
good question, I edited post to clarify.
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by plam 12y ago
not yet, but probably eventually. I'll start with just doing it for a project first to test out the model. I have a nonprofit on board with needs. I have connections with developers. I can find an intern. I can get most of it in place
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by plam 12y ago
that depends. to pay students I would need to source funding too. that is doable but does add another level of barrier to get things going. I'll probably start with finding unpaid to get a few batch going, gain momentum, then if all is
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Ask HN: Charity to pair tech mentors with interns to dive into non-profits
16 points by plam 12y ago|25 comments
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by plam 12y ago
I did a piece on using Clojure with Go recently. For me, it wasn't a switch but using them along side each other to tackle different problems more efficiently. Here's the link -- http://www.quantisan.com/simple-eas
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by plam 13y ago
Much of Clojure itself is written in Clojure. I would recommend going right to the source for idiomatic examples. https://github.com/clojure/clojure
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by plam 13y ago
I wrote some R scripts to perform historical data-driven asset allocation for long-only, low-load funds investment for the long term. This seem like a good time to put it here: https://github.com/Quantisan/touzi It scr
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by plam 13y ago
Regarding ground changes, we can look to current bullet-train rail systems. Nobody has ever died on a bullet train in Japan due to earthquakes. I saw on a documentary that Japan feed seismic sensor data into train control centers where any
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Government shutdown bars researchers from Antarctica and freezes climate science(eenews.net)
1 points by plam 13y ago|0 comments
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Prismatic's Engineering Practices on Clojure design choices and conventions(github.com)
1 points by plam 13y ago|0 comments
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by plam 13y ago
I share your disagreement with the piece. Not everyone needs or wants to be "fixed". It took me years to realise that the best I can do for others is not to listen for a solution to "help" them, but listen just to listen
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An Open Letter to David Cameron and the IOC(stephenfry.com)
4 points by plam 13y ago|2 comments
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Bradley Manning cleared of 'aiding the enemy' but guilty of most other charges(theguardian.com)
5 points by plam 13y ago|0 comments
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by plam 13y ago
SEEKING WORK - Remote for companies on US times; local in London negotiable Data consulting to make the most out of your data. I am a full-time data scientist actively involved in the big data scene in London and is a core committer on an o
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by plam 13y ago
my whole office use emacs for clojure dev but I use vim. I tried emacs for a few days on more than one occasions but simply couldn't bear the physical awkwardness of the key combos (I did remap ctrl to caps).
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What your nationality says about your ideal office space(hbr.org)
1 points by plam 13y ago|0 comments
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by plam 13y ago
do they?
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by plam 13y ago
I apologise for my naive misunderstanding of the Analytics metric. I've updated the post to point this out at the top of my post. Thanks for the explanation!

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