sure would be nice to have something better than a raster image of pages 2-231
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It could stand to reason that less reliable brands get discontinued. But there's an alternate explanation. If the only population of Saturns you're looking at is 5-10 years old, and the selection of Hondas your're looking at are 0-10 years old, the "average" Saturn requires more maintenance than the average Honda because on average, it's an older car.
She entered scattershot information from a frantic caller, and using a combination of keyboard shortcuts, foot pedals (yes, foot pedals), and stand-up-and-hand-signal-to-a-colleague-while-keying-a-mic, dispatched an ambulance within seconds. Way faster than the caller would ever realize.
You're not just replacing software/hardware, you've also got to make allowances for the humans in the system. Little things make huge differences in those situations, so throwing the old system out is painful. Evolving the current one (as davismwfl pointed out) is challenging for its own reasons.
Doesn't mean it isn't important. Just hard to do.
> Experiments and retrospective field studies each have advantages. The advantage of experiments is that they can more confidently infer cause and effect by isolating gender as the predictor variable. The advantage of retrospective field studies is that they tend to have higher ecological validity because they are conducted in real-world situations. In this paper, we use a retrospective field study as a first step to quantify the effect of gender bias in open source.
The research is presented in context, an important and valid context, too. At the end, they discuss potential explanations and never go so far as to say "And all of this is clearly because ______".
A controlled study would be a great followup, but I'd sure put stock in these compelling and well documented findings.
From the article:
> For gender-neutral profiles, we included GitHub users that used an identicon, that Michael’s tool could not infer a gender for, and that a mixed-culture panel of judges could not guess the gender for.
Not sure that's the right test... speed isn't what you're going for. For example, aluminum foil would very quickly conduct heat straight to the water opposite the flame, rather than distribute it broadly across the surface.
Because heat transfers fastest across the gradient where the temperature difference is greatest, foil would win the day even though it's a terrible cooking surface.
A heavy copper pan would evenly distribute the heat it's given to the sides and all over the bottom rather than straight to the bottom. That's kind of the point.
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What proportion had it at their founding or shortly after? Surely a well funded and successful company had the means and motivation to purchase their .com
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WHY WORK FOR US? Because the team is incredible. A-players on the tech, design, and business side. Tons of talent without blustery egos or corporate politics. Every day is a joy. Because we build a great product. Our design and engineering is head and shoulders better than our competitors and we work with the latest technologies. Because it’s the perfect time. We’ve got Fortune 500 clients, serious revenue, and investment, but we’re still small enough that we want you to own substantial parts of the product, technical organization and the business as a whole.
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Come work with me: john@knowledgehound.com
WHY WORK FOR US? Because the team is incredible. A-players on the tech, design, and business side. Tons of talent without blustery egos or corporate politics. Every day is a joy. Because we build a great product. Our design and engineering is head and shoulders better than our competitors and we work with the latest technologies. Because it’s the perfect time. We’ve got Fortune 500 clients, serious revenue, and investment, but we’re still small enough that we want you to own substantial parts of the product, technical organization and the business as a whole.
SKILLS
Expert with:
- At least one backend language, ideally PHP or Python
- At least one backend framework, ideally Django
- JavaScript and at least one JS framework, ideally AngularJS
- DevOps (automation tools, ideally AWS too)
- Version control
- Automated testing
- Experience using and tuning ElasticSearch
- Experience leading Agile/Scrum teams
john@knowledgehound.com
Deploy real-world code to production week one. Develop code and your skills. Spend some time in the sun, working in Boston and Cambridge.
WHAT WE DO: We build KnowledgeHound, a data search and exploration tool, on top of some fantastic technologies. We've got a real product, real revenue from Fortune 500 clients and real investment. We're looking to add some more interns & developers to that mix.
COME WORK FOR US IF:
- You believe that work doesn't need to be all consuming to be productive and fulfilling,
- You are committed to getting better at your craft every single day (tell me how you do it!),
- You want to get your hands dirty in a real code base (sorry, powerpoint doesn't count as work here),
- You thrive on flexibility not micromanagement and
- You've built something real (class or side projects or previous internships are great examples)
We are a collaborative team. We count on everyone to think critically, bring ideas for improvements and champion those ideas. In other words, "We do pay you to think." Be a part of designing our product and our business.
WHERE IS THIS PLACE? I'm currently our entire Boston office (there are another half a dozen of us at the home office in Chicago and one on the West coast). On that account, we don't have a permanent office here yet. I'm planning to spend the summer working from co-working spaces, coffee shops, home, and places in the sun. I like to alternate between working surrounded by great people and taking a full day somewhere quiet to knock out some "real work" (writing code). If that sounds better than the cube farm, email me (john@knowledgehound.com).
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====== What we do =========
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====== The team ===========
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I understand the concept, but discloses something you can't disclose. They can compel you to lie/not comment if asked, "Hey, Apple, did you get any of those National Security Letters".
Is there a clear cut loophole or is this something yet to be challenged?
As a rule of thumb, it should be fine if your goal is to learn the basics of SQL, and not-so-fine if you're looking to learn database administration.
I would not use it to learn how to alter tables, or even how to create and enforce a schema, as it doesn't do either quite like some of the other popular dbs out there.
The fact is, if it's harder to buy something, would-be buyers choose another route.
Imagine something of trivial value that was very arduous to obtain. Say, the scores to last weekend's football game are only available via sending the NFL 2 cents taped onto a postcard then getting a user account and password back in the mail. Yes, you could apply for an account and who cares about the 2 cents? But most people wouldn't and who could blame them? There'd certainly be a market for pirated 'score data'.
But, if you just put ads on your site (the NFL does), voila! You make the same amount of money and people are happy to use your service. Netflix, Hulu, iTunes Store and Spotify all get this. If you make it a pain to do something, you can't feign surprise when everyone goes around you.
Is it legal to circumvent something just because it's arduous? No. Is it ethical? Not completely, but downloading pirated football scores wouldn't keep me from running for office.
> The average compensation at the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency (OCC), the Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. (FDIC) and the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) exceeded $190,000 in 2012. The staff at the Federal Reserve is likely even better compensated, but the Fed refuses to release employee salaries.
Even more concerning, today there is little to no oversight of the rents the agencies can extract since the salaries aren't paid with tax dollars. Rather, they're paid using fees charged to the regulated institutions.
> You might think high-paying jobs at these agencies require special skills. Not so. At the OCC, secretaries make on average $79,182 per annum. Motor vehicle operators (the agency's limo drivers) at the FDIC earn $82,130. Human resources management trainees at the CFPB make $110,759 a year.
> Salary premiums are especially large for easy-to-fill jobs that require no specialized, hard-to-hire skills.
Almost always, the divide is right along the profit center/cost center line. In finance, traders are revered and engineers are their support staff. In the Air Force, pilots run the show all the way up the chain of command and engineers -- as critical to mission success as they may be -- are support. That's okay. Those jobs can be even more rewarding than working in "tech".
Remember, the same reason you might choose to work as an engineer in $awesome_field is why your ops/admin/qa team came to your company.
I turn raw data into answers for your business. If you have the data, great. If not, I'll instrument your business to collect that data.
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* Real-time high-frequency trading dashboards that make six-figure returns. This included building and deploying a distributed system for processing hundreds of data streams in dozens of ways.
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* Used AI to find the few hundred relevant records among hundreds of thousands when working with research physicians at a Boston area hospital.
* More projects and details at http://datademystified.com/
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>Federal regulations prohibit U.S. businesses from offering services to countries subject to economic sanctions -- a list that includes Cuba, Iran, Syria and Sudan
On this message board, I can imagine that "U.S. businesses" includes a substantial number of us. You're all blocking those IPs, right?
The State Dept. set a dangerous precedent when it didn't immediately respond to edX and Coursera with an "Of course a web application filled with educational content doesn't constitute doing business with the enemy."
It leaves those of us without a legal team in a real pinch.
A few things to think about: -What if students try to access once from a blacklisted IP? Is their account now blacklisted? -Does Coursera need to comb its logs for past accesses from those countries? -What if a student mentioned their home country on the message board? -What if the person claims to be an American working in Sudan?
Some faculty have chosen to release MOOCs under creative commons and other similarly permissive licenses, but those are few and far between.
edX is, however, working on opening its doors to anyone who wants to learn:
> Tena Herlihy, edX’s general counsel, said the company has since last May worked with the U.S. State Department and the Treasury Department’s Office of Foreign Assets Control, and has so far applied for and received company-specific licenses for its MOOCs to enroll students in Cuba and Iran (a third license, for Sudan, is still in the works).
source: http://www.insidehighered.com/news/2014/01/28/state-dept-blo...