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by xb 9y ago
there was a team at my work evaluating Fuse, some very vocal fans, but they ended up going with React Native has anybody actually used Fuse for a real product? we could not find anyone to talk with about it and that was a deal breaker
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by xb 10y ago
I tried out Stitch Fix expecting to return everything, wiling to eat the $20 fee. I have to say I am surprised with how well they have done, I have ended up keeping a fair amount of the stuff. Most impressive is how they can find pants that
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by xb 10y ago
ChefSteps | Data Scientist, Data Engineer | Seattle | ONSITE | https://www.chefsteps.com/ ChefSteps is dedicated to putting the kitchen back in the heart of the home. We do that by getting people cooking, and we need your h
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by xb 10y ago
WebRTC seems like a really cool opportunity to rethink certain kinds of services. Video is an obvious candidate, I've also seen a bittorrent client that uses WebRTC. What are other interesting peer to peer applications that WebRTC coul
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by xb 10y ago
This may be true now, but Simple (the consumer online bank) is currently in the process of shutting down.
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by xb 10y ago
I also saw that triangle shaped plot and had the same thought. I read a great paper about this recently [0] with some of the same examples as the link in the parent, but going a little further in depth. I originally got on this topic when r
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Elastic Stack 5.0.0 Released(elastic.co)
2 points by xb 10y ago|0 comments
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by xb 11y ago
Hi, also would love an invite, thanks! (email in profile)
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ChefSteps announces Joule immersion circulator(wired.com)
2 points by xb 11y ago|0 comments
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by xb 11y ago
I was using Baobab in production at my last job and really enjoyed it, part of the reason it went so well was Christian Alfoni's blog posts and contributions to the project. I'm excited to check out cerebral!
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by xb 11y ago
Yet another list of helpful data science resources: https://github.com/okulbilisim/awesome-datascience Also, the most useful single piece of info I have found regarding machine learning: http://scikit-learn.
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by xb 11y ago
Boring has its place, and certainly can add a lot of value to a project. If everyones goals are aligned in creating a rock solid web site or app that never needs refactoring and has 100% legacy browser support, then boring is great. Some of
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by xb 11y ago
Location: Seattle Remote: Yes Willing to relocate: Possibly Technologies: Javascript, Node, React, AngularJS, D3, Python, Java, Visualization, Machine Learning, Cell Biology, Biotechnology Resume: http://resume.linkedinlabs.com&#
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by xb 11y ago
This is a good list of things to avoid when presenting. I'd like to add another that I've commonly seen: Don't give up control of the presentation until it is time for questions. Sometimes people will butt in with questions,
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by xb 11y ago
For those interested in a practical method to cook steak with a perfect char + medium rare inside (no lava required), check out immersion cooking (aka sous vide). You can cook a steak edge to edge to exactly your desired doneness, cool it d
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by xb 11y ago
This is great news. 99% invisible is an excellent podcast. I love seeing podcasting becoming more embraced as a legitimate form of media.
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Ask HN: What is the best off the shelf speech recognition solution
2 points by xb 11y ago|1 comments
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by xb 11y ago
Sitting in my fluorescent lit white walled office, about to pump out some code for the day, this article put a smile on my face and made me think about different options for life some time down the road aside from programming. The article w
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by xb 11y ago
This article does not actually address the cause and effect relationship between equity and employee motivation. From the title and introductory paragraph, it seems as though the author will talk about what actually motivates employees, and
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by xb 11y ago
This is really great news.
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by xb 11y ago
Very cool, and interesting to see the results. I immediately looked for a 'trends' feature to see how cities rank change over time, or maybe this could be plotted?
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by xb 11y ago
I am in Seattle, which does not have the thriving biotech scene of the bay area or Boston, but thankfully the cost of living is significantly lower than either. I had essentially zero chance of landing a biotech position, similarly because
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by xb 11y ago
I was a Life Sciences PhD student for 6 years and started a postdoc, but then jumped ship and became a software developer for a non-science company. My salary is more than 2x as high as what I was making as a postdoc, and 3x greater than wh
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by xb 11y ago
Wow, now having looked at the mockup images under the Redirection heading, this does really seem inevitable. Free might be a stretch, but I'd bet that we'll see these types of ads when using rideshare services in the very near fut
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by xb 11y ago
I've been watching and trying out different flux-like patterns, aided in part by this repo: https://github.com/voronianski/flux-comparison I've re-implemented the same project using vanilla flux, fluxxor, ref
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by xb 12y ago
Very cool, I've been looking around for something like this. I have a feeling i'll be using this frequently. Nice work!
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by xb 12y ago
The article talks about SPAs, but doesn't go so far as suggesting that an Ember or Angular app could be a separate project altogether from the rails app, requiring no integration with rails, using the back end only as a REST api and se
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by xb 12y ago
I have come to rely on firebase for a number of my projects, and I have mixed feelings when I see this news. This team does awesome work, though, and I'm glad that they seem to be highly valued. I hope they will improve integration wit
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by xb 12y ago
I can see that yeoman is one of the included tools, but I don't see what Rec Room adds on top of the capabilities of Yeoman. Couldn't this entire toolchain be encapsulated as a Yeoman generator?
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by xb 12y ago
Glorious, I can't wait to come up with a project to use this in.

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