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oh ea spouse... was at tiburon when that hit the fan... what a time to be at ea... mess from all directions...

everyone is replaceable. this is a business. you own them nothing. you've already done your due diligence and they knew you were going to leave. they will survive without you and your fellow co-worker will forgive you. i've been in this position before and i always stayed till the end of the project so i didn't screw over my co-workers, then i bailed. you've done more than is required of you already. a lot of people would give their two weeks and run. the project sounds like a mess. it not going to get any better with you staying around for a little bit more.

i don't understand all these time tracking apps to the seconds/minutes. as a consultant/freelancer don't you value your time and skills more than on the minute at the desk working? how do you incorporate thinking about problems when your taking a shower or sleeping or the many other times you are not at your computer or desk without a timer and thinking. i find these can be some of the most valuable times there are for solving tough problems.

ever since i started charging day rates, life has been so much easier. i set a minimum of 1/2 a day increments. 10x easier to manage, and it stops the client from looking at you as a cost center that they are loosing hourly on. it also stops the micromanagement of your time. estimating work is hard enough, tagging hourly on stuff makes it even harder. a day then can be as many hours are you like it to be. weather you end up working 12 hours or 4 is up to you and how well you get the work done. if the client is willing the pay the day rate for the problems you are fixing, the hourly time you spend no longer matters.

i was quite put off by it. i feel like the teaching technique is pretty poor and the focus in on all the wrong things. mainly the tech gets in the way for learning. i don't want to figure out how to learn numpy when i'm trying to learn how to understand deep learning, that in itself is hard enough. i quite after a week (i did the stanford course first and this was going to be my second).

i would recommend the coursera course by andrew ng. i had an amazing time. the code stays out of your way and he walks you through the algorithms and explains the theory very well.

i just started the fast.ai by jeremy howard, and literally have been blown away but the course. it is AMAZING! by lesson 3 i'm able to build cnn models and score on top 20% in kaggle competitions. not bad for a complete novice. HIGHLY RECOMMENDED.

once im done with the fast.ai course i may look back around to google's deep learning course. i think it may be easier for more experienced users to digest its info.

https://www.coursera.org/learn/machine-learning

http://course.fast.ai/

Edit: added fast.ai link

thats bizarre... it works fine for me... both locally and on the deployed site.

http://res.cloudinary.com/markdown2pdf/raw/upload/fl_attachm...

maybe its your browser... i'll do some more testing. thanks for the info!

do you have an example of the markdown file? i've run it on dozens of markdown files without an issue... thanks.

does it? what makes you think that? its run on flask using libraries. there is no commercial service running in the background... not sure what you mean.

SEEKING WORK - Boulder, Co / Remote

a master generalist. proficient in a dozen languages. worked in a dozen environments. deliver code with a significantly higher half-life than your average engineer. know how to architecture gardens that last years and can be passed off to juniors to maintain and extend with ease. code so clean you can eat off it (or so i'm told). over a decade of experience. offer retainer services for repeat clients i jive with and who are doing interesting and fun stuff. high attention to detail. strong design sense. extremely organized. excellent communication skills. put down that phone and gimme a holler. can jump from embedded low level c programming to python to scala; from web programming to games to mobile. a natural project manager, love efficiency and squashing annoying and bad processes. wear the hats needed to get the job done. extraordinarily good at researching. take the philosophy of einstein, never memorize what you can look up.

cheers.

SEEKING WORK

Location: Boulder, Colorado

Remote: Yes

Technologies: C, C++, C#, Obj-C, Java, Scala, Python, Mel, SQL, Lua, Bash, Ruby, Javascript, PHP

Résumé/CV: https://www.linkedin.com/in/moiz-merchant-ab53b91

a decade of experience working in several industries on several platforms... a true generalist with experience working in over a dozen languages in production over the last ten years... ability to pickup technology with ease.

most recently working with scala and play.

Location: Boulder, Colorado

Remote: Yes

Willing to relocate: No

Technologies: C, C++, C#, Obj-C, Java, Scala, Python, Mel, SQL, Lua, Bash, Ruby, Javascript, PHP

Résumé/CV: https://www.linkedin.com/in/moiz-merchant-ab53b91

Email: papaver at gmail dot com

a decade of experience working in several industries on several platforms... a true generalist with experience working in over a dozen languages in production over the last ten years... ability to pickup technology with ease.

most recently working with scala and play.

Location: Boulder, Colorado

Remote: Yes

Willing to relocate: No

Technologies: C, C++, C#, Obj-C, Java, Scala, OpenGL, Maya, Mel, SQL, Lua, Bash, Python, Ruby, Javascript, PHP, React, AngularJS, Play, Akka, Postgres, Redis

Résumé/CV: https://www.linkedin.com/in/moiz-merchant-ab53b91

Email: papaver at gmail dot com

a decade of experience working in several industries and several platforms... games, movies, mobile, web, xbox, ps3, android, ios, macosx, linux, windows.

Talenthouse | Fullstacker | West Hollywood, CA (REMOTE or ONSITE) | Fulltime | $120k

https://www.talenthouse.com/collaborate/all

Seeking a senior engineer capable of jiving well with a tiny and nimble team. We take pride in the code we write and take care of our posse. The main office is in West Hollywood but most of the tech team works remotely. Slack, Hangouts, Trello, GitHub, and Hackpad help keep the team communications current, emails are rare between the engineering team. We believe in transparency which leads to a culture of trust, which in turn leads to a lot more flexibility than most other companies.

Our development tower consists of play/slick/postgres/redis/react/angular glued together using scala/html/javascript/less. It's not necessary you know any of the tech or languages, though definitely helpful. An eagerness to learn new technology and having strong problem solving skills mixed with a little tenacity and grit will take you a long way.

Our platform enables artist all over the world to receive exposure through marketing channels they may have never dreamed possible. We work with both brands and popular artists to bring creative briefs to our community. Several artists have experienced life changing opportunities through our work.

I've been working at Talenthouse for just a little over a year. Having worked at a dozen companies before this and as a freelancer, its my favorite so far. The team I get to work with is top notch. Individual needs are met all the while still delivering the required technology to push the company another step forward. I picked up the technology on the way and can say its been an amazing experience working with scala, definitely my favorite language now (out of the 13 others I’ve used in production over the last decade).

Give us a ping at jobs@talenthouse.com to open up a conversion, mention the hacker news post. Cheers.

i've found attitude is sometimes different when "testing the waters" vs "looking for the next gig". this can lead to your situation in certain instances.

i would say i felt similar lackluster when i interviewed (engineering position) there a few years ago. probably one of the worst interviews i've had, completely mechanical. literally all human emotion removed from it. the interview consisted of purely how well one did on the 5 sessions of solving problems. not a single session even bothered to take into account personality. the last interviewer explained they did't want to introduce any sort of bias hence the reasoning for the robotic interviews.

was pretty sad. i love search/gmail/maps but there isn't much coming out of google thats pushing the envelope these days for me.

once again the story of david and goliath... infinite growth is not sustainable...

"Most ambitions are either achieved or abandoned; either way, they belong to the past. The future, instead of the ladder toward the goals of life, flattens out into a perpetual present. Money, status, all the vanities the preacher of Ecclesiastes described, hold so little interest: a chasing after wind, indeed."

indeed... so perfect... great piece, thanks for sharing...

thanks for the article, very enlightening.

I've known him for a couple years and we have hung out regularly. I'm quite sure he is alright because of his regular posts on facebook. I've attempted to contact his business partner as well with no avail. I've seen him pull this sort of radio silence with other people when he did't want to deal with a problem.

its called homography... fairly strait forward to code...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Homography_(computer_vision)

"design patterns are spoonfeed material for brainless programmers incapable of independent thought, who will be resolved to producing code as mediocre as the design patterns they use to create it." - christer ericson

hah, congrats bob, awesome to see your book released. how random running into this on hacker news, been almost a decade. glad your enjoying google! will never forget the days of ZOD!!

happiness is not obtained by achievement, its acquired by consciousness and awareness. read way of the peaceful warrior by dan millman if you get a chance. stumbling upon happiness is another great book, good to know how your mind works, allows you to be aware of why you think the way you do and act accordingly. if your bad at socializing, practice, its gets easier, just like coding.

live a little, sounds like your already burnt out. pick up some hobbies, learn new things. inspiration comes from strange places.

oh, and there is no need for self deprecation. everyone's got issues... accept them, work on bettering the ones that bother you the most.

your code is shite... ever head of commenting?

any one know how this differs from livemocha.com?

maybe not eat street but what about order ahead? found 3 in 10 minutes with a seperate .net domain, 2 ranked #1 over the resturants .com domain with google places pointing to it. poor form order ahead. do the restaurants know your 'takeout' site ranks ahead of them on google and the google places points to your site? is this something they agreed to?

Tarascos Mexican Restaurant

Lemon Poppy Kitchen

La Luna Negra

seems a little sketch to me to be creating external domains which would be competing with the main website. like having bar pintxo's menu on a .org with google places linked to it and being ranked #1 on google. i don't see many restaurant owners agreeing to that. its one thing to have the menu under a subdomain its quite another to be competing for the same traffic. seriously?

the point of art (code) should not be for recognition. create for the sake of taking the journey of creation, its much more fulfilling, and let others enjoy or not the creation. many famous artists were dead long before they were recognized for their brilliance.

meh.

i prefer using old school moleskin and pencil to journal with. why does everything have to be about content aggregation? seems silly to duplicate the data in yet another application. nothing like making time to sit down and write ones thoughts down and exercise the brain in remembering the sequences of the past.

"I find myself abstaining from studying advanced topics in programming and computer science, and instead sticking to this comfort zone of what I know."

that pretty much sums up why you may not enjoy work anymore. i've been doing the exact same thing for the last 8 years, research on google, find an example that gets me close, manipulate it to my desire to get the results im looking for. this is not a bad thing, and is also an art.

i find one can get a rush through learning, it seems you get the same when you delve into certain subjects. i usually get bored with working at a company after a couple of years. mostly due to the repetition that ensues when one is comfortable with their environment. i've worked in 5 different industries using 13 different languages in the last 8 years.

you always have a choice on how to solve the problem. implement it the easy way you know how, or do extra research and find a more optimal solution. i code in a manner that excites me. this usually leads to better code as well as learning new techniques in the process. i do a lot of language research and slowly work my way to the most advanced techniques a language has to offer. i learned about pythons named tuples the other day, iterator tool's groupby and chain. i use these new constructs when i can.

if you make learning part of the job, it stays enjoyable longer. i also make an effort to learn other things outside of tech at home. learn to skate, play the guitar, learn a new language.

don't get burned out on coding.

hmmm, not impressed by your 'help'. i contacted you a couple of months ago and only received the initial default response to push over my resume and info and never got a reply once i sent it over. pretty poor way to communicate and start a business.

pretty sad to here this from opera. i've been an avid opera user for the last 10 years. i haven't seen as much innovation in any other browser like ive seen in opera. from mouse gestures to tab grouping to the closed tabs list to a million other features that were first in opera and slowly migrated to all the other browsers. sure websites sometimes didn't render properly and no one ever cared to properly support it, but still they were always on the cutting edge feature wise.

although this doesn't change my stance on using opera, i hope this results in a ousting of the current ceo.

like the porno for pyros song goes, "cursed to be born beautiful, poor and female, there's none that suffered more." there are definitely advantages to be born beautiful but there are also several disadvantages. its too bad the article didn't dwell on the negative effects as well.