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Jupyter + Spark. tableau if I'm feeling lazy for viz.

I honestly wouldn't have minded if they kept the same form-factor and aesthetic with the original N5 (the one I use and love right now), and just did an internal overhaul...similar…

Before I sleep, I download a set of podcasts for the commute the following day on Pocketcasts. Mine are usually about ML, Freakonomics, Startup School, and AI. But you go try whate…

I come from a very technical background--CS with Machine Learning, and I'm currently diving into the humanities and arts. I'm using Hackdesign as a primer into the arts and design …

I agree with the speed, quality, and market fit issue all driven by systems thinking. Diminishing happens when you don't hire well (this is from a startup's perspective). Having 10…

This was already posted a few days ago. It's all a matter of perspective though. People see the JFDI speed as piling on technical debt. Others see it as agile or lean. Personally, …

This was already posted a few days ago. It's all a matter of perspective though. People see the JFDI speed as piling on technical debt. Others see it as agile or lean. Personally, …

I use a Macbook Air and an iMac 5K at work. I keep these synced up heavily with cloud-based solutions like GDrive, Evernote, and VPN access to the hadoop clusters I work with. Conf…

For me it's based on how recent I put it in Pocket. I usually read uplifting and inspiration go-getter startup posts and articles on firstround or HN to get me going in the morning…

We use lucidchart and balsamiq at times to model ERDs using the crow's foot style. There are certain gems for Ruby on Rails dev that generate ERDs from the schema,.

There are configs within nginx that prevent this from happening. Also, I symlink only the publicfiles from a different directory into my /var/www/html folder.