Lyngbakr

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   by Lyngbakr 4y ago

   I totally agree with this, but my love of Lisps wasn't instantaneous. When it clicked though — which required some effort — and I could appreciate the elegance of the language, I didn't want to use anything else. Regarding Python,
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   Yahoo to slash 20% of its workforce(bbc.com)

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   by Lyngbakr 4y ago

   I only used Julia for a short time, but I didn't see the blazing fast speeds I was promised. I've seen the benchmarks, of course, on which the claims are founded, but the C-like speeds weren't obvious to me in everyday data s
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   by Lyngbakr 4y ago

   > You know, Pandas feels like Airflow, everyone keeps talking about its demise, but there it is everywhere … used by everyone. Wait — did I miss the memo? What's replacing Airflow?
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   by Lyngbakr 4y ago

   I think this is aligns with Simon Sinek's philosophy in The Infinite Game[0], which I really enjoyed reading. I totally agree with your point: business mindset is a choice. [0] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The
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   by Lyngbakr 4y ago

   It seems most people agree that Python's packaging isn't great, but, conversely, is there a language where most people agree that the approach to packaging is awesome? I mean, what's the gold standard to aspire to?
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   by Lyngbakr 4y ago

   We saw major improvements when we simply wrote full tables from a transactional database to parquet, but also, as you say, modelling the data appropriately produced significant improvements, too.
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   by Lyngbakr 4y ago

   This has been a game changer for us. When our analysts run queries on parquets using Arrow they are orders of magnitude faster than equivalent SQL queries on databases.
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   by Lyngbakr 4y ago

   Although I totally understand your point of view — one bitten, twice shy — it's unfortunate that all PhDs will no longer stand a chance with you because of one person. I've also heard from people who are hiring that having a PhD i
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    by Lyngbakr 4y ago

    This is an example of my worst nightmare realised. I stick with my current job, which is just an okay job (I'm neither happy nor unhappy), because I'm convinced I couldn't get another. Unlike the author, I have a uni educatio
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    by Lyngbakr 4y ago

    mlua looks amazing. Is that the go-to library for Lua bindings in Rust or are there still several options jostling for position?
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    by Lyngbakr 4y ago

    Weird? :) Surely all languages have their idiosyncrasies otherwise there'd be so very few to choose from? I mean, 1-based arrays can be found in several popular languages like R, Julia, & MATLAB. Taking the opposite perspective:
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    by Lyngbakr 4y ago

    In my experience, a standup bot in a Teams/Slack channel can often replace those. If there's a blocker or nuanced issue that would benefit from in-person discussion, then hopping on a call makes total sense. In contrast, having a
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    by Lyngbakr 4y ago

    But does monetization affect the content of blogs? I must admit that I really enjoyed the flavour of old school blogs where a person would just put some interesting ideas out there without ads, pop-ups asking for subscriptions, or product p
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    by Lyngbakr 4y ago

    This is a lesson that humans have borrowed to create an ingenious way of extracting garbage from rivers[0]. [0] https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2022/aug/05/incredib...
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    by Lyngbakr 4y ago

    But that runs the entire script/program rather than a single command, so it's not the same experience as a REPL, right?
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    by Lyngbakr 4y ago

    I'm getting stuck into Go at the moment and thoroughly enjoying it, but can it really fill the same niche as Python as the article suggests? (Sincere question.) Doesn't the absence of an out-of-the-box REPL hinder quick scripting?
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    by Lyngbakr 4y ago

    That's exactly why our Data Engineering team is also looking at Rust, but we're looking at Go, too. I have a hunch that Rust is going to be a harder sell to the broader team given its learning curve and that most of the team don&#
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    by Lyngbakr 4y ago

    I really like this concise consolidation of these ideas. In my opinion, both Deep Work and Essentialism — like so many books in that genre — could've been pamphlets. It Doesn't Have to be Crazy at Work was pretty jam-packed with d
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    by Lyngbakr 4y ago

    The numbers that really matter, though, are given later in the opening paragraph: > Twitter, which lost $221m in 2021, is now on track to lose $4bn a year, by one estimate. The challenge is turning those new engagement statistics into do
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    by Lyngbakr 4y ago

    I'm a data engineer who works in an R-centric engineering team, which is quite unusual. Our experience has been that R works well for our use cases and lets us work closely with our analysts and data scientists who are all R users. The
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    by Lyngbakr 4y ago

    I've also seen my fair share of garbage R code and I think Gordon Shotwell's comment that "There really are no production languages – only production engineers" speaks to this.[0] A big problem in the scientific communit
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    by Lyngbakr 4y ago

    I'm currently rebuilding my personal website with it and I'm really impressed. As with most RStudio products I've encountered over the years, I find it is intuitive, well documented, and quite powerful. I also think RStudio h