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topherjaynes

859 karma · joined October 27, 2009

CSO @petscreening. Formerly {@redventures @Olpaic,@Salesforce, @Google}, Married, father of two and living in Charlotte.
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topherjaynes··on Pixar's Scientific Method
had to search on google and come in that way.
topherjaynes··on Show HN: Retroospect – How was your work week?
Agree the slider needs some tweaks, or at least ticks. If I am in between two states do it affect things? Seems like I have to move pretty far over to move to the next "response."
topherjaynes··on Data Structures for Text Sequences (1998) [pdf]
I don't know if the first line of the abstract is the most ironic typo, or a joke.

'to' is out of sequence

"The data structure used ot maintain the sequence of characters is an important part of a text editor."

topherjaynes··on Revitalise your CV – Simple resume-editing tool
Amazing first step. I made my original CV in Indesign so updating became very easy, but changing layout was hard. Would love to see "widgets" you could move around the CV. Like a new education box to drag over or move around the page. Being able to control the layout is the hard part and you have the opportunity to make it really easy here!
topherjaynes··on Keurig 2.0 DRM Bypass
this is my suggestion for a great hack too! Less waste and a better cup of coffee as well!
topherjaynes··on Statistical Inference for Everyone
If you read the citation they're following the original source, which isn't the common usage either, but at least it doesn't seem as glaring now.

http://www.jstor.org/discover/10.2307/2683689?uid=2&uid=4&si...

topherjaynes··on Show HN: Paste a link to an article, get a minimal version to read
To show of the functionality for first time page landers you should pre-populate with a popular article url. I had to open a new tab and find an article to test. I almost didn't come back. Almost, but glad I did!
topherjaynes··on Product Hunt iOS App
phew, I thought I just didn't know my number and sent it to the wrong phone
topherjaynes··on Unix Recovery Legend (1986)
There is a great story in Ed catmull's new book creativity inc that tells how the handled the time when rm -rf ~/* was run on the Toy Story II servers, deleting 90% of the finished film weeks before the release. Not a problem till they realized the backup system failed. I won't spoil how it ended but they recovers (not technical solution) but shows how to handle random screw ups. The book is a great read in general as it showcase their techical achievement as well as how to manage a creative culture.
topherjaynes··on Radial NCAA Bracket in D3.js
Would also love Hover to show the name of the team. I don't know all the logos.
topherjaynes··on For Runner With M.S., No Pain While Racing, No Feeling at the Finish
That's a really great question. I know it's her coach saying this, ‘Coach, I don’t know how much time I have left, so I want to run fast — don’t hold back,’, but hoping it's the latter. Either way, made me feel fairly lazy about not getting out of bed and running this morning
topherjaynes··on Inspiring videos that made me a better designer
It's still on Netflix and well worth the watch. He's arguably the best Sushi maker in the world, but his desire to still practice and improve is amazing. I found the mentorship and training of his employees very interesting as well. His standards are so high that it takes 10 years to train. The passion of all the staff as well as himself to do the same repetitive task in the real inspiration to me.
topherjaynes··on Simpsons in CSS
So who's going to tackle the opening sequence of the Simpson's with pure CSS animations?
topherjaynes··on The Internet is for snacking
By asking the question it implies you don't think they should, but you neither give a reason why you think his post shouldn't be nor do you call into question anything in the post. I like the snacking analogy, especially as people how around more and more on sites.

Here are a few reasons people on this site are interesting in why cdixon has to say: http://cdixon.org/aboutme/

topherjaynes··on Tessel, a NodeJS-based microcontroller
Is there any information on when it's shipping? Read through the crowdfunding site a few times, but might have just glanced over it.
topherjaynes··on He got 1%, we can't hire him
Just curious if the HR manager took the psychometric evaluation?
topherjaynes··on Envelopes - Python email for humans
Nice wrapper, though it took me a while to get it to work. Tried with Google SMTP, but ended up throwing Sendgrid on a heroku app and hit that api.

Wondering if a debug mode would be helpful for the initial set up. See what requests are being sent/received to see what the possible errors are.

topherjaynes··on Inside Dropbox’s Urbanized San Francisco Offices
same thought, cool common areas, but where are the workspaces?
topherjaynes··on Ask HN: What happened to Steve Yegge after 'quitting'
yea that's why I threw the '' around quit. I don't think there was a misinterpretation at all. He did quit. He just wasn't specific to say that he was only quitting the so called cat projects and I'm just interested in how that's going. Did the study hall pay off and such.
topherjaynes··on Ask HN: What happened to Steve Yegge after 'quitting'
[video] http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vKmQW_Nkfk8 (13:50 is the Study Hall)
topherjaynes··on MailChimp threatens legal action against an open source side project
What a great paragraph: clean, logical and completely valid.

"Further, while your intentions appear good, those who download the UI file may not act so altruistically. For example, a nefarious downloader may use the file to set up a fake website to lure unsuspecting users to log in or to try to trade off their own service or product as part of our brand (5). We’ve seen both of these situations happen before, so they aren’t just products of our paranoid imagination."

topherjaynes··on Facts and myths about Python names and values
Ned always has fantastic articles, and the way this is lays out the mutable values name relationship, is it just lazy programming that has multiple names pointing to the same mutable value(s) or are their specific cases when that would make since to have list(a) list(b) point to the same value(s)?
topherjaynes··on Before I Die I Want To
You sure it wasn't inspired by Candi Chang? Not even a nod? http://candychang.com/before-i-die-in-nola/
topherjaynes··on Google Says It Can Predict Which Films Will Be Huge Box-Office Hits
Exactly, this would be a awesome predictions if it started earlier in the production, like at the kernel of the idea or even at the first draft of a script before it's even green lit. Studios have been trying to predict what will be hits since the early part of the 20th century and they still get it wrong. This just seems to draw a correlation to marketing of a movie or buzz to dollars spent at box office, which is the magic behind the studio industry.
topherjaynes··on IPython notebook to play with Citi Bike data
Right, it's literally just rolling out as it's in beta at the moment and opens full time in June for non-year members. It's going to be some interesting data as it's NYC's first bike share program. Looking forward to some cool visualizations!
topherjaynes··on The new Python Cookbook is out
Second the must have. I used it to get back into Python after a while. I was able to go through the rough cuts version on Safari Online and it's amazing. Poses a problem then gives you a straightforward, elegant solutions.
topherjaynes··on Why I left Heroku, and notes on my new AWS setup
Heroku App Error page. Clever way to show why he left Heroku? I'm sure my constant refreshing isn't helping.
topherjaynes··on Sleep: Everything You Need to Know
I was shocked by this omission too, just for the shear fact it's a depressant that's usually taken in high doses right before the sleep cycle. I'd be willing to bet, especially in college Alcohol has more effect than caffeine on you sleep schedule.
topherjaynes··on What's Actually Wrong with Yahoo's Purchase of Summly
I thought a good bit about the reflection of TL;DR. My Gut reaction was to think we're heading to an idiocracy, but it could be people just getting smarter. Trust me I love the virtues of deep reading, but think of all the knowledge you could gain if it was done well? There is an entire business about providing executive summaries on books, news, and other important bits of information that we're inundated with. While I would cringe at a TL;DR for The Brothers Karamazov, I think there is some merit to being able to get a lot of tidbits quickly from a lot of news source. Would be very interesting to compare Fox, NYTimes, and the Washington Post on their 'gist.'
topherjaynes··on Rigging the IPO game
When I read articles like this it's always centered around the bigger companies like Goldman and such, are there smaller companies who can handle taking an IPO public? I mean these guys are a business and need to make money, but feel like a smaller firm would be more transparent and willing to work with you and not for their other more well established clients.
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