Wagthesam

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by Wagthesam 4y ago
I add aux lights similar to the two bottom configuration. This creates a triangle with the headlight and makes me more visible. The two lights to the side is excessive because it can confuse drivers with the turn signal lights. I would not
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by Wagthesam 4y ago
writing is one of the only ways I can think these days, along with talking to others and sounding out ideas.
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by Wagthesam 5y ago
I'm senior at a large bay area tech co. I used this service a few years ago and actually got great feedback and tips (11 offers during that search, almost 100% offer rate for onsite). I'm also on the recorded interviews list One o
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by Wagthesam 5y ago
That's exactly what I've done. I'm 32 and have years of exp in data engineering and data analysis. I wanted to pivot more to more eng. I did a lot of interviews with a lot of product eng offers, but ultimately went for infra,
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by Wagthesam 6y ago
This was one of the main reasons I left for the Bay area. I had a big network in Toronto but I felt like 5 years here I would be more talk than execution
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by Wagthesam 8y ago
Hi Peter. I have a uwaterloo math degree (pure math & stats double major). 3 years of exp as an eng. I heard about recent increased scrutiny for Tn and H1b for software engineering + math degree (comp systems analyst job designation). W
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How to Pass Technical Interviews(medium.com)
5 points by Wagthesam 8y ago|0 comments
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How to Pass Technical Interviews(medium.com)
3 points by Wagthesam 8y ago|0 comments
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by Wagthesam 9y ago
I’m here in Brazil (Recife) for Carnival and I’ve noticed a lack of retail in general. Way less food options, general stores than I expected
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Building Analytics at Wish(medium.com)
1 points by Wagthesam 9y ago|0 comments
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Building Analytics at Wish(medium.com)
5 points by Wagthesam 9y ago|0 comments
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Scaling Analytics at Wish(medium.com)
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by Wagthesam 10y ago
Very smart team, excited to see the Canadian ecosystem grow
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Analytics for Scale at 500px(sylvia.ng)
2 points by Wagthesam 10y ago|0 comments
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by Wagthesam 10y ago
The cement industry is a cartel. They will rally to crush new entrants
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by Wagthesam 10y ago
I worked at a company with a spam variable in the backend. 0 for eliminating most spam engagement actions like likes. 1 for letting all spam in. We didn't set it to 0. There's sometimes positive value in spam. Ex Instagram users g
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by Wagthesam 11y ago
Also to add. Logging too much should not be a problem if you are using it. Wish's hadoop log store is over 40tb compressed right now. And its worth every penny.
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by Wagthesam 11y ago
That is all there is. s3, one amazon instance for luigi which holds the mysql read replica, and amazon redshfit. There wasn't any heavy ETL in Luigi. Luigi mostly just extracted/dumped data. All the heavy lifting was in EMR
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by Wagthesam 11y ago
Author here I'll follow up and say that my first three months in SF/Bay area have been amazing. This is truly the capital of technology here. The level of talent and the one-ness of the community goes beyond anything that exists i
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by Wagthesam 11y ago
Its not a lot of data, but the biggest constraints to me were cost time to implementation. You could actually get an amazon memory intensive server and do it all in memory, but I didn't have those resources. ETL + a Redshift server in
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Lessons learned from building analytics at 500px(medium.com)
18 points by Wagthesam 11y ago|0 comments
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The Year I Lost Everything - recovering from a severe case of RSI(medium.com)
2 points by Wagthesam 12y ago|0 comments