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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 an…

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 o…

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…

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…

This may be true now, but Simple (the consumer online bank) is currently in the process of shutting down.

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 li…

Hi, also would love an invite, thanks! (email in profile)

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 ex…

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 lea…

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 ha…

Location: Seattle Remote: Yes Willing to relocate: Possibly Technologies: Javascript, Node, React, AngularJS, D3, Python, Java, Visualization, Machine Learning, Cell Biology, Biote…

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. S…

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 st…

This is great news. 99% invisible is an excellent podcast. I love seeing podcasting becoming more embraced as a legitimate form of media.

I am interested in transcribing audio files to text. I don't need 100% accuracy, but the more accurate the better. I have googled around a bit but haven't found anything that worke…

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 s…

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 a…

This is really great news.

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?

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 z…

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 hi…