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Fear makes one only weaker
Yesterday morning I received a call from one business partner complaining about two german students not satisfied with the internship position at another business partner…
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The lean method
I knew there was something wrong with the management and how we do things at Yabroad, but it was difficult for me to convince other people…
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Raspberry Pi as a toy web server
1. Tell my router to route certain traffic to the Raspberry Pi. For example, I route HTTP and SSH traffic to one of my Pi’s.…
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What’s important for a start-up
A friend of mine is considering to set up a startup company , here are the things I think are important for startup. Usually when…
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NumPy’s ndarray indexing
In NumPy a new kind of array is provided: n-dimensional array or ndarray. It’s usually fixed-sized and accepts items of the same type and size. For…
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Statistics of insurance sold on Taobao.com on Valentine’s Day
On Feb. 14th Taobao launched a campaign to sell insurance products, which promises 7% yearly interest rate. The sales data is public, so I wrote…
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Statistic analysis of 20 Million Hotel Reservations
I did a statistic analysis of the recently leaked 20 million hotel reservation records and here’re some preliminary results.
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MapReduce in MongoDB
http://docs.mongodb.org/manual/core/map-reduce/ http://docs.mongodb.org/manual/reference/command/mapReduce/ [crayon-63dc3464259d8489124940/] The MapReduce code I used to analyze the 20 million hotel reservation records: [crayon-63dc3464259e1821331182/]
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The Last Battle: Long-term vs. Short-term Gains
During yesterday’s meeting the boss mentioned that our unpaid salary and bonus will be paid, when we have enough money, maybe in April when we…
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The Last Battle: My Fear
The day we reach an agreement to cut off employees was not a difficult day for me, as I always knew there would be a…