IndianAstronaut

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In One 1968 Presentation, This Inventor Shaped Modern Computing(smithsonianmag.com)
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by IndianAstronaut 10y ago
One of the VPs at my prevoous companies used to sit in on our quarterly hackathons and build something. Made him a fantastic and well regarded engineering manager.
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by IndianAstronaut 10y ago
I currently work under an MBA manager. It is very frustrating. Deadlines are unrealistic, micromanagement is the norm, and if things don't go according to their deadlines they threaten.
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by IndianAstronaut 10y ago
Any system where they control entry not just by a passing threshold but by raw numbers or on a curved exam scale is a monopolistic regime. They aren't just looking for people who can pass the test and meet qualifications but to keep a
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by IndianAstronaut 10y ago
As a data warehouse engineer, the one area I see the most over engineering is in analytics platforms. Data layers on top of data layers, complex ETL processes, complex front end code written in the hippest new JS library, etc. Really what y
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by IndianAstronaut 10y ago
The purity of it seems like it would allow for easier manufacturing in space. Thus you can build components, especially the larger bigs, without having to expensively send them up from the earth's surface.
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by IndianAstronaut 10y ago
Still having issues with AWS related packages not being fully ported. A lot of our workflows in Pandas broke. It operates quite differently in Python 3 for certain operations like typing data frames which messed up some of our ETL. Also, mo
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by IndianAstronaut 10y ago
It still is because the consequences of losing a job are far worse for an H1B candidate than others. Not to mention those stuck in green card processing limbo who are put in bad spots by employers that can shift them around and reset their
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by IndianAstronaut 10y ago
>Python 2 is slowly being EOL'd and if you're starting a brand new Django project there's no reason on earth you should choose Python 2 anymore. Except that there are still some critical packages that aren't on Python
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by IndianAstronaut 10y ago
Shiny is slowly expanding its dashboarding capabilities. I have rolled out dashboards with hundreds of thousands of rows which don't need any explicit pagination and can be used simultaneously by dozens of internal customers. All this
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by IndianAstronaut 10y ago
Where is this role?
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by IndianAstronaut 10y ago
>Companies which got strong technical leadership and software is a key component rather than add on (e.g. some banks) This is so crucial. I currently work at a bank and it is frustrating. The business side forces technical decisions on y
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by IndianAstronaut 10y ago
I just took 4 days off work. I got a text from my boss saying some of our ETL jobs failed and I had to take a look at them.
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by IndianAstronaut 10y ago
I am also intrigued by its Python interface. Haven't explored it much, but this syntax is much more intuitive than things like open scad.
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by IndianAstronaut 10y ago
Not to mention that in Rogue One, it was essentially a suicide mission against an existing government.
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by IndianAstronaut 10y ago
Starting a company involves so much marketing. SEO, SEM, etc. In the SEO domain, you need to pay a lot of attention to blogs and sites like Moz, rank tracking with services like getstat, make sure you aren't doing anything blackhat.
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by IndianAstronaut 10y ago
>Golang doesn't have the library or tooling maturity or breadth to make it a real competitor to Java in the enterprise space IMHO. This is why my company is being forced to scrap Go. It was good since it was easy to learn by devs, t
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by IndianAstronaut 10y ago
This equation was the first serious attempt to quantify the number of civilizations in our universe. As we explore Europa and others, we will get some serious data points to improve our understanding of the origin of life in the universe.
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by IndianAstronaut 10y ago
Not a telescope but here is a free, and good, textbook on Astronomy. https://openstax.org/subjects/science
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by IndianAstronaut 10y ago
Not to join a flame war, but R makes it pretty easy to test multiple models on a single dataset as well. I have also noticed it does better stats and missing data handling out of the box.
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by IndianAstronaut 10y ago
Someone who can build models and someone who can scale it are 2 different people and professions. Data scientist vs data engineer.
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by IndianAstronaut 10y ago
Andy Field is such a good and entertaining writer.
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by IndianAstronaut 10y ago
Titan may be a very good bet. It has an atmosphere so you aren't worrying if your water resources may boil away, or if a small tear in your suit hapens, you have more time to fix the situation.
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by IndianAstronaut 10y ago
Titan. It actually has a significant atmosphere, actually a bit thicker than Earth's. Abundant ice as well.
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by IndianAstronaut 10y ago
Does anyone here have experience in dealing with scaling? It seems like this is the biggest problem with Shiny. Since R is in general slow and single threaded, Shiny apps have a major limitation.
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by IndianAstronaut 10y ago
I used to have Clear internet. Sad that it failed. I had great wireless for a time and suddenly had to cancel becUse I just stopped getting signal.
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by IndianAstronaut 10y ago
If someone is the type of person that gets nervous in an interview, these are the people that really need to do good side projects.
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by IndianAstronaut 10y ago
I thought it was me. But now I see each job as a place where I grow my skills. I actively pick projects where I gain more technical skolls over those where I develop internal company knowledge.
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by IndianAstronaut 10y ago
Seems like unions benefit just the insiders and seniors. One reason why I am skeptical when people say unions built the middle class. Employer competition probably does more for that than unions.
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by IndianAstronaut 10y ago
What is up with this and the other lengthy post? Sounds like some marketing spiel. The company may he doing good things but this sounds disingenuous.

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