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   Golang Generics Empower Concise API: HTML Table Extraction Case Study(nf-x.medium.com)

   5 points by alexott 4y ago|1 comments
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   by alexott 4y ago

   I read many technical books as ebooks (epub or pdf), but these are primarily about "current tech" that will most probably become obsolete in 2-3 years. But I buy real books for more fundamental technical areas, where the informati
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   by alexott 4y ago

   There was an earlier anecdote about Brezhnev on this topic…
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   by alexott 4y ago

   I use beorg on iOS, and orgzly on android
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   by alexott 4y ago

   In Germany you pay 25 cents for recyclable bottle or 15 for reusable bottle…
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   by alexott 4y ago

   Imho, the reason for it is that now we have much more sources of information. How tos were a concentrated pieces of information distributed with Linux distributions or via slow mediums… 20+ years ago I was involved 8th Russian translation o
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   by alexott 4y ago

   My official study was in the area of uranium enrichment. The situation in Soviet Union was always following - mostly Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan, Tajikistan mined the raw uranium and did first enrichment pass (I grew up in one of that areas), an
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   by alexott 4y ago

   At least author title and cover is kept - I’ve sent few books few days ago. There was a period when it didn’t handle them well when sent via email, but they fixed it few months ago
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   by alexott 4y ago

   I downloaded send to kindle this weekend trying to upload file bigger than 25mb tgat I can’t send by gmail. It didn’t accept ePub. I ended by using calibre to send it as email
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    by alexott 4y ago

    I met customers who put anything under that umbrella. And they want to use PaaS/SaaS products - like, you need to encrypt table names, or some unrelated data… Some companies just use that to protect their …
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    by alexott 4y ago

    I’m doing the same - if it works, why to do an upgrade?
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    by alexott 4y ago

    I’m using 10 years MacBook (not retina) as home computer - it has 16gb memory and 2tb ssd. And works quite good for web browsing, writing documents, even for some development (like patching Spark Redis connector, although it’s usually augme
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    by alexott 4y ago

    I can’t say that’s accurate. For my area it shows that Kassel is 3 hours away, although direct train goes in less than an hour, and even with intermediate stop, it’s slightly more than an hour. South of Germany isn’t connected at all, altho
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    by alexott 4y ago

    I also heavily used callgrind/cachegrind to tune critical paths in our high performance web proxy, we’re each micro/milliseconds counts… For example, in media type detection that is called multiple times per request (minimum twice
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    by alexott 4y ago

    Unfortunately yes. That was interesting system before git…
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    by alexott 4y ago

    Twitter may not be representative imho because of the short text. It should first come to a problem of reliable language detection, and Twitter is quite often wrong there
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    by alexott 4y ago

    Go worked quite well…
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    by alexott 4y ago

    What is the advantage over PlantUML, for example? Only syntax?
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    by alexott 4y ago

    Apple uses Delta: https://databricks.com/session_na20/patterns-and-operational... , similarly Disney+: https://databricks.com/p/webinar/unlock-the-potential-inside... , and hundreds other compa
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    by alexott 4y ago

    That's great stuff! We have exporter functionality in the Databricks Terraform provider [1] and a lot of customers started to use Terraform for existing Databricks resources because they don't need to re-implement everything manua
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    by alexott 4y ago

    You can also look onto this book (still in progress): https://www.manning.com/books/clojure-the-essential-referenc... - it tries to explain the standard library with examples, etc.
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    by alexott 4y ago

    You may also look to this project: https://github.com/nfx/slrp - rotating open proxy multiplexer
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    by alexott 4y ago

    DB is nightmare. I had so many cases of missing trains when they had 1 hour delay on 1.5h track, connecting trains no waiting even for 5 minutes, cancelling train in last minute, etc.
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    by alexott 4y ago

    Maybe for threat intel it wasn't very useful, but when I worked at McAfee 6-7 years ago, I've heavily used Twitter as a source of new sites for URL categorization (content-wise) - it was very useful to get trending stuff, etc., an
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    by alexott 4y ago

    It could be a good second step, imho…
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    by alexott 4y ago

    For short intro I would point to “Learning Spark, 2ed” - it was available for free from Databricks site (maybe still available, look via Google) - it gives intro into the Spark and Delta Lake. The “Data Analysis with Python and PySpark” is
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    by alexott 4y ago

    It became better
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    by alexott 4y ago

    No. Azure Databricks is a first class service - officially its a Microsoft product. With all UIs, diagnostic logging, encryption, consolidated billing, etc.
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    by alexott 4y ago

    https://delta.io/blog/2022-05-05-delta-lake-1-2-released/ - big part is open sourced and more is coming (see roadmap on GitHub: https://github.com/delta-io/delta/issues/920 )
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    by alexott 4y ago

    And some queries, like, max(col) could be answered without touching the data…