Maro

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by Maro 8y ago
I think some people get lucky and can get away with living off being very deep in one language only, for long periods of time (like 10+ yrs). Eg. they are hardcore C++, and write compilers, or games, or find a good oppty at one of the big c
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by Maro 8y ago
These days, when I have a movie ticket for time T, I plan to arrive at T+20 minutes. That's when the ads are over, roughly when the trailers are playing.
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by Maro 8y ago
This is cool. I've lived in Budapest most of my life and I didn't know this.
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by Maro 8y ago
I'm not pro-plastic waste (obvously), but it'd be interesting to see a pro-con analysis. What is all this plastic use getting us, how could we replace it with sth else, and what would it cost. Also, based on the article 40% of the
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by Maro 8y ago
Airflow jobs in the backend.
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by Maro 8y ago
> We have no idea of the physics behind red shift "caused by the metric expansion of space". What do you mean we have no idea? Redshift is one of the few simple concepts in Astrophysics, whether it's doppler, cosmological
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by Maro 8y ago
I don't know about this case. But I know for a fact you can get fired for this without any public/PR issue, by internal triggers/investigation only.
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by Maro 8y ago
You are wrong. > In reality they have no incentive to police this kind of behaviour until they are called out on it. Access to personal information of users is "policed" internally, proactively, and you can get fired over it. I
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by Maro 8y ago
I'm a comp sci guy, my fiancee runs big (2,000 attendee) tech conferences [1]. Being her partner I have a reasonable amount of visibility into this world. Happy to chat with you. [1] https://craft-conf.com/
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by Maro 8y ago
Hi, I had a startup fail after we (I had 1 co-founder) invested ~4 years into it. Some thoughts: A startup failing is not a rational thing. At this time emotions (regret, fear, stress, depression) take over, it's a tough time to handle
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Tesla's Simultaneous Brilliance and Incompetence Revealed in Teardown of Model 3(forbes.com)
214 points by Maro 8y ago|180 comments
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by Maro 9y ago
I worked there in 2016-2017. I was a Data Engineer so I was pretty close to this. It was taken very seriously, to the point it was annoying (tables with PII get anonymized, which then means extra work, etc). Also, the sheer amount of effort
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by Maro 9y ago
If you mean day/night, that's the rotation of the Earth around its axis, not the rotation around the Sun.
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by Maro 9y ago
It's interesting nobody is asking why the crash attenuator was not replaced faster.
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by Maro 9y ago
It's not clear to me whether the "several visual and one audible hands-on" happened right before the crash (6-10 seconds), or the minutes before.
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by Maro 9y ago
"run emotional experiments on news feeds" > I believe this happened once, for the advancement of science. Personally, given that FB is the only place where such real social science can happen, I wish they'd do it much-much
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by Maro 9y ago
My understanding is FB is still going, it's just that Zuck is sending somebody else. FB is in a lot of countries, he can't go and personally talk to every parliament for PR purposes. He said he is happy to go to the US one. I&#x27
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by Maro 9y ago
Come on, are you serious? 2B people use it every month to keep in touch with their friends. I'm typing this in Dubai, and I use FB/Messenger daily to keep in touch with people in Budapest, London, Amsterdam, Berlin, etc. Disclaime
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by Maro 9y ago
As a former FB employee, I say "bullshit". I didn't go to FB because I thought it's unethical but "money". I went there because I wanted to work on a product that I and every one of my friends/family uses,
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by Maro 9y ago
In the last days, FB stock has lost ~15% of its value (from $185 to $160), that's like 2 Twitters.. Next earnings call will be early May probably.
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by Maro 9y ago
One of the best general Engineering books I've read is 'Design Paradigms'. It's an excellent book about the importance of understanding failures in Engineering. The author is Professor of Civil Engineering and a professo
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Building the Fetchr Data Science Infra on AWS with Presto and Airflow(bytepawn.com)
2 points by Maro 9y ago|0 comments
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by Maro 9y ago
Lockin could mean they use the service, or stronger, they use the service on the official UI (which may have ads). I think for Slack, the first type of lockin is enough (a paying user is a paying user, whether they use IRC or slack.com), wh
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by Maro 9y ago
I don't know the numbers, but if there's not a lot of users/companies using these alternative protocols, it makes sense not to support them. I'd do the same thing. The Facebook/Twitter analogy is flawed, because tho
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by Maro 9y ago
Facebook uses a custom graph database called TAO (nodes, edges, traverse them [1]) for storing (almost) all production data. Based on DBMS classes from the Uni days this is counterintuitive, but <scale>. In practice it just worked, an
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by Maro 9y ago
How I did mine with Github Pages and Pelican: http://bytepawn.com/how-to-make-a-blog-like-this.html
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by Maro 9y ago
Yes but if you want to use libs, and they don't do it this way, you're f--ked. This is one of the things I ran into.
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by Maro 9y ago
I've seen this before and it's terrible. Haskell's type system is terrible for this, ie. instead of plain vanilla operator overloading they have (^+^)... I once played around with a way to automatically track units when writi
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by Maro 9y ago
I don't agree with the basic premise of the article wrt job security. B&N does not owe you a job. Nobody does. You got to work at the same company for 20 years? You should be happy and gracious. All things come to an end. I'm
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by Maro 9y ago
Maybe they ran an A/B test :)

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