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synotic

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About synotic

product at signal sciences. formerly product/eng at etsy.

signalsciences.com thommeret.com instagram.com/vthommeret

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    Works for me on 12.1.1 on iPad Pro with FaceID.

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    Comment #17981878

    Since you're looking for feedback: 1. Seeing a list of people associated with a product is kind of useful, but I specifically want to know what their role was / what they did, vs. …

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    Comment #11487283

    Check out Lytro Cinema: http://techcrunch.com/2016/04/11/lytro-cinema-is-giving-film... https://www.lytro.com/cinema

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    Comment #10920108

    Andrew Ng's popular Machine Learning course goes over most of the topics in the slides: https://www.coursera.org/learn/machine-learning Linear and logistic regression, gradient des…

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    Comment #10798479

    In a similar vein, there's a really great talk by Eric Mazur, Physics professor at Harvard about peer instruction — https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WwslBPj8GgI He goes into why he …

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    Comment #7112769

    I learned the most with VimGolf ( http://vimgolf.com/ ). It's also pretty fun.

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    Comment #5773329

    Better, original article: http://allthingsd.com/20130523/draw-something-from-this-yaho... A video of Tom Parsey talking about Yahoo! and design: http://vimeo.com/61682055

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    Comment #4995432

    If you register your site with Facebook, you can get that information on Facebook's end: https://developers.facebook.com/docs/opengraphprotocol/ under "Domain Insights."

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    I think it depends on what you're trying to achieve. For example if you're trying to pull off the iPhone in one year with 5 guys, it makes sense to spend time finding the best guys…

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    I don't know the details, but to your and latchkey's point, I think the reason they support these SDKs (in addition to their generic Graph API) is that they're consumers of those S…

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    I think this might be overly optimistic. Really smart people can also have really large egos and no patience for common courtesy. When they're sure of something, they have no probl…

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    Comment #2546942

    Aren't bubbles bad?

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    Comment #2403089

    I didn't vote you down, but people are probably considering the difference between design and aesthetics/taste. Design should be a solution to a problem. In this case, the problem …

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    Comment #2376081

    I think one of the key words here that the OP didn't use was "for." I.e. he never said "I live for the present." Rather, I think the word he was going for (correct me if I'm wrong)…

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    Comment #2261209

    Always thought Firewire was a pretty good name.

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    Comment #2239984

    It depends on who you're working for (how top-down or bottom-up the company is) and how autonomous you are. Doing things cheaply and quickly, even in a web startup is shortsighted.…

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    Comment #2229362

    Depends whether you're innovating in the frontend or the backend. The user interface for the iPhone was completely designed before any of the frontend was coded. There's a great co…

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    Comment #2214926

    I can :)... Your resume usually serves two different audiences — the screener, and the person interviewing you. You should optimize for both audiences, and possibly work on breakin…

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    Comment #2142096

    In addition to my normal commit and mailing filters, I set up one filter called "Non-direct" that's effectively "something that's not addressed directly to me and doesn't fall unde…

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