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by WoahNoun 6y ago
Yea, when I do use R, I end up almost always doing the data manipulations in sqldf (creates a sqlite db on the fly). But I do love doing vectorized operations in pandas/numpy. Writing a quick function then calling it against an entire
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by WoahNoun 6y ago
It's likely all/mostly custom. Quip is saleforce's Word/Docs competitor. (It's pretty good, tbh.)
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by WoahNoun 6y ago
I use between rows for rolling averages all the time. SUM() OVER (PARTITION BY columns ORDER BY day ROWS BETWEEN 6 PRECEDING AND CURRENT ROW) gives you a trailing week total.
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by WoahNoun 6y ago
I use self-joins and windows constantly. It's way easier to have our massive redshift cluster do those calculations in parallel than to try and do it in python on a VM
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by WoahNoun 6y ago
Recession protection for the actual manufacturers. Dealers have financing costs in keeping inventory for test drives and show floor demos. Dealers generally have short-term financing per car that can destroy them in interest and fees when c
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by WoahNoun 7y ago
He's also written about AWS infrastructure (and electricity infrastructure in general) on his blog. Fascinating stuff. https://perspectives.mvdirona.com/2017/04/how-many-data-cent... https://perspe
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by WoahNoun 7y ago
Wow white nationalism apologism on HN. At least it's being downvoted quickly.
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by WoahNoun 7y ago
The entire article is about top down resource allocation to build society. That can't be accomplished by any single person, organization or state. Yours is a hopelessly cynical response that I hope you will reflect a little deeper on.
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by WoahNoun 7y ago
>I really wish journalists would actually look into the legal arguments and comment intelligently That's what the opinion page is for. I absolutely do not want newspaper journalists making commentary on legal briefs.
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by WoahNoun 7y ago
It's about how to get data out once you've already compromised the machine. You control the blinking of the LED to match match the data you want to capture out.
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by WoahNoun 7y ago
There is no evidence the program was successful because the administration gutted the IG and oversight. All we know is that a lot of tax payer money was given out with no accountability. I hope the Democrats don't give out another blan
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by WoahNoun 7y ago
This is similar to the thin-line animation / thick-line animation art style in cartoons. The push for efficiency and a quick turn-around has turned towards more simplistic art styles, for better or worse.
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by WoahNoun 7y ago
My current biggest problem with FaceID is that it doesn't work when I'm wearing a mask. Which is pretty much anytime I'm outside right now. Never had an issue with glasses though.
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by WoahNoun 7y ago
This was posted a couple hours ago and fell off the front page. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22866284
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by WoahNoun 7y ago
They can't find enough engineers at the rates they currently pay. The realistic take is probably somewhere in between.
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by WoahNoun 7y ago
The author of this article is a philosopher promoting a book and not a scientist.
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by WoahNoun 7y ago
>in Seattle, we're already seeing some minor effects: No one can find any toilet paper. The only report on this I could find was one costco. And the costco's around seattle are already basically mad chaos even during normal tim
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by WoahNoun 7y ago
Nah that's when you leave the company and leave some intern to clean it up so they can develop their own sense of hubris over your bad decisions. And the cycle repeats.
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by WoahNoun 7y ago
Accounting software, payroll software, financial planning software, supply chain management/inventory, health insurance/401k/benefits/PTO software, JIRA/Ticketing, knowledge management (sharepoint/internal wiki
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by WoahNoun 7y ago
You can pick a industrial vertical and find analogues though. Aerospace, automative, chemical, materials, biosciences. And even within a company each departments like finance, marketing, supply chain, etc have their own specialized software
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by WoahNoun 7y ago
Google has consistently been terrible at large corporate deal making. It's the same reason I have no faith in Google Cloud as a future product. Their tech may be interesting, but they can't court and maintain strong relationships
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by WoahNoun 7y ago
All of the examples in there involve the government. What does a "sweetheart deal" between two private companies mean?
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by WoahNoun 7y ago
>Amazon, for example, has been hoisting a giant middle finger to MBA dogma for years with their overinvestment This is not a great way to think of Amazon. Amazon is basically a VC that only funds internal "start-ups" and "
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by WoahNoun 7y ago
>If I found out my competitors made sweetheart deals with hardware manufacturers so that their software worked better on their hardware than my software does, I'd be pissed. As long as they aren't actively sabotaging your softw
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by WoahNoun 7y ago
I like to work with two columns of windows and the shortcuts to move and tab windows around are easier/more convenient with one monitor versus two. I can easily swap between all of my open windows and snap the two I need side to side.
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by WoahNoun 7y ago
This assumes that your eyesight is good enough to view that much text density at once. In my experience, I just end up zooming in a lot and upping the font size. Now, an ultrawide. That was truly a game changer in productivity for me.
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by WoahNoun 7y ago
Entirely dependent on the team and hiring manager. And the technical requirements of the role you want to move into versus your prior role. If you want to move from working on gmail to working on the android kernel, I imagine there's g
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by WoahNoun 7y ago
Lots of networking over coffee. You don't just blindly apply on the internal job board. You talk to people you know in other parts of the company, you schedule meetings with managers with open roles. You reflect on what you actually wa
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by WoahNoun 7y ago
They stole IP from western companies so they could reach the bleeding edge and then spent billions on R&D research to get ahead. Without the decades of IP theft, the R&D achievements never happen. No western company should trust the
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by WoahNoun 7y ago
You think every brain cell is replaced every few months? Please delete this comment and read a biology textbook.

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