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Hackerati | Coded & Crafted — Startup Office Hours Meetup

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Startup Office Hours Meetup. If you’d like to present your startup at a future event or host us at your venue. We hope you’ll join us at our upcoming events! May 13 — Ask Alexis / Neo. June 10 — Scaling a Startup with Gregor Hoffman of 1DocWay. Here are a few highlights from past events:. Currently SVP of Engineering at Viacom]. We met at a gorgeous Viacom event space, where John Pavley shared his experience from working with Apple, DoubleClick, Yahoo! Casting to the People. Startup: a mobile auditioning...

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Hackerati | Coded & Crafted — Agile Engineering

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It seems like everyone wants to be more agile these days. Scrum, Kanban, and other agile project methodologies are all the rage. These methodologies generally speak to how product and development teams collaborate to deliver functionality, but they don’t prescribe how engineering teams complete that work. In order to practice an agile project methodology, engineering teams also need to practice agile engineering. Many engineering teams have adopted Git Flow. With these application templates, you will be ...

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Hackerati | Coded & Crafted — Welcoming Jim Scott as COO

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Welcoming Jim Scott as COO. Bringing on Jim as COO is a big step forward in scaling The Hackerati. We’ve been around for almost three years, and most of our growth has been on the engineering side. Jim’s expertise in direct marketing will be pivotal in further expanding our clientele, which will in turn allow us to continue hiring brilliant, creative engineers. New York, NY 10014.

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Hackerati | Coded & Crafted — Node App Template

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Agile engineering is just as important to streamlined software delivery as agile project methodologies. Here’s an end-to-end, fully functioning (albeit trivial), automatically testable and deployable Node/Express project that represents only one point of view of what’s good and what works for a basic Web or micro-services application that supports an agile engineering workflow. This code is MIT licensed, so please use it, critique it, fork it, and help to improve it! Here’s the repo:. Staging: automatica...

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Sensemaking: 2012: My Year of Code

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Enter your email address:. Subscribe to this blog's feed. Laquo; Program above and beyond your actual ability by using FreeMind. A Brief Introduction to Urbit ». 2012: My Year of Code. 2012 was supposed to be code year. We were all supposed to learn to code en masse, become our own technical cofounders, and build a better digital future. Yet despite the fact that over 450,000 people, including Mayor Bloomberg, vowed to learn to code, we've so far seen a notable lack of success stories. Why I learned it.

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Hackerati | Coded & Crafted — Eigenstyle

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Principal Component Analysis and Fashion. Any set of images can be broken down with Principal Component Analysis. This has been done pretty successfully with faces. Here we’ll take a look at style. This eigendress is the first principal component, which accounts for the most variation among all the dresses. Broadly, it’s looking at light-colored dresses vs dark-colored dresses. The second component seems to look at short dresses vs long dresses. Reddish colors vs blueish colors. The data for the middle d...

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Sensemaking: November 2013

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Enter your email address:. Subscribe to this blog's feed. Laquo; September 2012. December 2013 ». 2012: My Year of Code. 2012 was supposed to be code year. We were all supposed to learn to code en masse, become our own technical cofounders, and build a better digital future. Yet despite the fact that over 450,000 people, including Mayor Bloomberg, vowed to learn to code, we've so far seen a notable lack of success stories. Why I learned it. Why I learned it when I did. How I learned it. Thanks to a combi...

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Hackerati | Coded & Crafted — NYC Tech Talks with The Hackerati

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NYC Tech Talks with The Hackerati. We hosted our first Startup Office Hours meetup almost two years ago as a means of supporting New York’s vast entrepreneurial community with insights into what it takes to build a successful startup. Our presenters included startup founders in areas like real estate, edtech, social media, brain/bio hacking, software consulting [guess who…]—and even tech veterans like John Pavley, current CTO of Viacom. We’ll be kicking things off with a presentation by Rob Marano.

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Hackerati | Coded & Crafted — The Alias of Your Dreams

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The Alias of Your Dreams. Become your favorite actor or your crush’s fantasy and send them a pic! Or get the first Beta release. And try it out for yourself! The app is built on a framework call openFrameworks. It’s a C framework designed for creative coding, so you can develop really awesome and visually intriguing apps, and with all of the addons available the possibilities are endless. The app is also based on our very own Grace Avery’s OS X app as featured in a previous blog post. Library to conduct ...