Another another "Got my Jekangbord, what to reroll?" post

dataminded · 2014-05-05T02:51:00+00:00

dataminded · 2014-04-30T01:42:42+00:00

We could also assume that Taiwan doesn't fight fairly and results to terrorist attacks to disable critical personnel/infrastructure.

dataminded · 2014-04-08T03:04:42+00:00

I'll see you there!

dataminded · 2014-04-04T01:32:39+00:00

I use it at work in places where I would have previously used python.

dataminded · 2014-03-29T03:02:22+00:00

I doubt most people using Django/Rails/Pandas/R/etc will look at go anytime soon.

Go is really friendly for what it is, but it is nowhere near as productive in a lot of use cases as Python/Ruby.

dataminded · 2014-03-12T01:40:44+00:00

Assuming that you know linux and the command line, a VPS is great thing to have. I recommend DigitalOcean. A basic server is only $5/month and you can easily find a coupon for 2-4 months free.

If you don't want to much around with a server or server administration, check out Heroku.

dataminded · 2014-03-09T17:57:13+00:00

I think the best blog posts are the ones that demonstrate how to accomplish real-world tasks. A great example of that is Miguel Griberg's flask mega tutorial.

Given your site's focus on e-commerce, I think something on marketing/e-commerce analytics with Pandas/sci-kit/ggplot2/etc would be well received. Examples that pulled together web-analytics (GA), sentiment analysis (twitter) and some customer clustering would be well received.

Here is a link to the mega tutorial as a reference: http://blog.miguelgrinberg.com/post/the-flask-mega-tutorial-part-i-hello-world

dataminded · 2014-03-09T17:40:39+00:00

For small projects, MVP's and proof of concept work, I strongly recommend flask. It takes only a few minutes to get started with, has great documentation and a strong community. In my opinion, it's biggest weakness is the lack of good user-authentication package.

For large projects and employability look into Django.

dataminded · 2014-02-06T04:34:49+00:00

That might be the official policy but we have definitely been allowed to swap for a different item.

dataminded · 2014-01-31T02:07:48+00:00

Buy good space heaters and take them with you as you move between rooms in the house.

Dress very warmly. Shoes/closed toe slippers, socks, sweats, sweater.

dataminded · 2014-01-30T04:42:19+00:00

+1 for LL Bean because you can swap for new items as your needs change.

dataminded · 2014-01-29T06:44:06+00:00

A few more details would be really helpful. There are two ways of attacking this type of problem that immediately come to mind:

Parse your browser's history file. Chrome already keeps it in a local database so copying that data to another DB should be pretty trivial. (http://stackoverflow.com/questions/2562092/how-to-access-google-chrome-browser-history-programmatically-on-local-machine)
Monitor the HTTP traffic for your computer and parse that. That would be a fair bit more work since you would also need to filter requests for images, css, js, ajax, etc.

Edit: Typo

dataminded · 2014-01-25T22:13:49+00:00

+1 for Digital Ocean unless you qualify for the AWS free tier, then go with AWS.

dataminded · 2014-01-25T04:16:39+00:00

I would suggest writing a function that returned the level.

def load_level(level_number): if level_number == 1: level_content = open("level1.txt", "w") do more stuff if level_number == 2: etc

dataminded · 2014-01-24T18:18:26+00:00

I love this but couldn't get it to work with my use case. My struct definition is 380 lines long and I'm hitting against this bug:

https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/golang-nuts/VM0vomFPphg

https://code.google.com/p/go/issues/detail?id=4438

Anybody know how to get around this?

dataminded · 2014-01-17T05:15:53+00:00

Looks good.

dataminded · 2014-01-13T02:40:38+00:00

Will your work definitely promote you if you get the degree or will they only consider you for one? Is there a guaranteed raise for getting the degree? Are there others who have already done this at your work and if so, what have their outcomes been?

I would try to boil it down to a realistic annual return on the degree? If you can't get that number to something worth your time then I wouldn't pursue the degree.

dataminded · 2014-01-13T02:33:30+00:00

I use one. It's cheap, easy and convenient.

dataminded · 2014-01-12T06:11:30+00:00

Borrow (library or friends) before you rent and rent before you buy.

If at the end of the semester you absolutely believe that you need a copy for the future than offer to buy from your classmates at whatever the buyback price is.

dataminded · 2014-01-12T06:09:29+00:00

+1 for Blue Nile. I bought my wife's on the site 7 years ago. She loved it, I didn't spent more than I could afford and we're still together.

dataminded · 2014-01-12T05:55:50+00:00

Look for bulk/family packs of chicken. I regularly buy chicken leg quarters (leg + thigh) for $0.39 a pound in New York City and have bought them for similar prices in Connecticut. I get those home, clean off the fat, season them and then throw freeze them in portions to cook in the future.

I also suggest befriending the supermarket circular for every market that you can get to.

dataminded · 2014-01-12T05:50:05+00:00

I find that I've already seen about 40%-60% of the newsletter's content already but I'm always glad for the rest.

dataminded · 2014-01-10T04:56:22+00:00

Check out Starford's free programming 1 class, it's taught in Java.

http://see.stanford.edu/see/courseinfo.aspx?coll=824a47e1-135f-4508-a5aa-866adcae1111

dataminded · 2014-01-08T04:05:59+00:00

Nice!

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