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by albert_e 3y ago
Always knew this subconsciously but now I can put it into words. Traffic can warp spacetime.
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by albert_e 3y ago
Agreed. Usually there is a lot of course correction that happens when there are at least two people / two brains working on a problem and bouncing off ideas. Unfortunately that is completely missing in such interview scenarios. Hiring
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by albert_e 3y ago
I was thinking on the lines of Type 1 myself -- some reasons I can think of in hindsight: 1. I assumed that low-level code and performance optimization was not the ask (given it was a mere three hour programming challenge with a unfamiliar
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by albert_e 3y ago
I didnt know about this school of thought but came to this same realization after decades of beating myself up for not being productive all the waking hours. Now I am starting to let go -- of evenings, weeknd days, and even some work days.
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by albert_e 3y ago
Innovation > Execution + Creativity > Imagination > Memory > Storage + Retrieval > Re + Trieval
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by albert_e 3y ago
What can this do for Satellite imagery?
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by albert_e 3y ago
And some of these questions apply to more traditional video editing techniques also. If someone says "I am not a crook" and you edit out the "not", do you need to label it. What if it is done for parody. What if the edit
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by albert_e 3y ago
For teams using or considering Terraform as IaC, what are the implications if any?
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by albert_e 3y ago
Impressive. Can't help but feel like this is the stage in evolution that allows every minute data point about surgery and human interaction to be captured and modelled at scale ... so that eventually the human expert (surgeon) can be r
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by albert_e 3y ago
> describe the picture using vector graphics (coordinates) SVGs?
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by albert_e 3y ago
This is wonderful. I hope you are able to make this a full product. Suggestion: - import SVGs? - create custom shapes and groups and add them to a "library" so you can reuse them across projects?
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by albert_e 3y ago
Thanks! Is there a good primer to this terminology that clarifies these terms on various popular database and cloud platforms? It seems there is good potential for confusion unless we use the same terms consistently when discussing architec
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by albert_e 3y ago
Clickbait title / Listicle style headline ?
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by albert_e 3y ago
Yes I absolutely loved that. I wish Microsoft PowerPoint built some of that so we could use it for light weight animations and story telling.
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by albert_e 3y ago
Watching a Khan Academy video a second time ... is unlikely to help understanding a concept better? > Still others believe—incorrectly—that more time spent on a task produces better results Even more foundational skills like reading, wri
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by albert_e 3y ago
> Still others believe—incorrectly—that more time spent on a task produces better results, or that because practice is required to be a good athlete or musician, it’s also at the heart of intellectual growth. It isn’t. You can’t “reinfor
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by albert_e 3y ago
Yes and I also believe: Experienced Spark / Data Engineering teams would not assume S3 is readily useable as a filesystem. This [1] seems like a good guide on how to configure spark for working with Cloud object stores, while recognizi
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by albert_e 3y ago
A few typos: > I'll have to infer, assume and hypothesis. *hypothesize > No transactions, not indices, nearly no constraints *no indices --- Also I would be surprised if Snowflake documentation at this introductory level does not
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by albert_e 3y ago
*flavors *can be used *file system (Apologies for typos. The "noprocrast" setting sometimes locks us out of HN right after submitting a comment. And it is now too late, not editable)
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by albert_e 3y ago
*dime a dozen (Apologies for typos. The "noprocrast" setting sometimes locks us out of HN right after submitting a comment. And it is now too late, not editable)
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by albert_e 3y ago
If a customer makes an IT decision as big as running Hadoop or RDBMS with S3 as storage ... but does not consult at least a Associate level AWS Certified architect (who are doke a dozen) for at least one day worth of advice which is probabl
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by albert_e 3y ago
There is specifically block storage service (EBS) and falvirs of it like EBS multi-attach and EFS that can ne used if there is a need to port software/databases to the cloud with low level filesystem support. Why would we need to do it
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by albert_e 3y ago
Aha. That is an interesting issue indeed.
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by albert_e 3y ago
"presigned" URLs[1] are a pretty standard and recommended way of providing users access to upload/download content to Amazon S3 buckets without needing other forms of authentication like IAM credential pair, or STS token, etc
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by albert_e 3y ago
I was trying on both Chrome and Firefox on a Win10 laptop. I just tried via Chrome on Andoid with same result (well blank grey page instead of blank white page) I am accessing from Bangalore India , if that has anything to do with this.
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by albert_e 3y ago
HN hug of death? clicking create new gives me a blank white page
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by albert_e 3y ago
There is no one else supposed to be in the same room as the test taker - for obvious reasons that they should receive no help on the test in any way. Some households -- especially if you have small children, or live in a small house without
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India's biggest bank seeks 4 months from Supreme Court for SQL JOIN 22k records(twitter.com)
2 points by albert_e 3y ago|1 comments
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by albert_e 3y ago
Is AWS Workspaces and similar offerings on Azure a direct replacement for some of these VDI workloads
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by albert_e 3y ago
The biggest banks and brands in India as well as the government organizations do this type of poorly thought communications all day. The other day an email from the oldest and biggest bank of India landed in my inbox Truncated Subject line

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