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by altdatathrow 6y ago
Every intelligence agency in the US and numerous foreign intelligence agencies substantiated those claims.
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by altdatathrow 6y ago
> He's literally lying at this point and putting the democratic system of the US in jeopardy That was a true statement for the past 4 years.
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by altdatathrow 6y ago
Farming is easy money [1] [1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_pDTiFkXgEE
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by altdatathrow 6y ago
Transaction data is widely available and considered table stakes today.
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by altdatathrow 6y ago
It's not a business. It's a stale content marketing effort ran by one of the incumbents in the space who leveraged it as a means to promote themselves in front of their competitors.
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by altdatathrow 6y ago
You just reiterated it. Your view is that PHP is only used by non-educated simpletons and who are only capable of solving the most mundane of business problems. This sort of elitist attitude is really frustrating on a forum that's supp
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by altdatathrow 6y ago
Facebook ($750B), Slack ($15B), and Etsy ($15B) would beg to differ. But whatever, your arrogant, gatekeeping and elitist mentality is primarily a roadblock for your own career growth.
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by altdatathrow 6y ago
> somehow gets rid of the undeserved reputation That reputation is a competitive edge for companies and people who embrace PHP. They get shit done for the business and grow revenue while the rest of the tech community is rewriting basic
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by altdatathrow 6y ago
An action taken in October did not impact their disastrous third quarter financial results.
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by altdatathrow 6y ago
I prefer to hire generalists, though one problem I do run into is the generalists who aren't pragmatic, and they simply follow whatever is in-vogue at the moment. So you hire them and instead of them helping to drive the business, they
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by altdatathrow 6y ago
An unhealthy obsession with CI/CD is the usual culprit.
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by altdatathrow 6y ago
I know these are large numbers, but the 159 million economic impact payments cost $267 billion [1]. This article [2] gives a pretty good overview of the $4T spent in total so far [1] https://www.irs.gov/newsroom/159-mil
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by altdatathrow 6y ago
polls and votes don’t matter when one side controls faithless electors and the supreme court. none of these models are accounting for that black swan.
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by altdatathrow 6y ago
What you’ve described is a recipe for endless technical debt and a culture that focuses on playing with whatever new tool is popular on HN this week instead of growing revenue or improving profit margins.
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by altdatathrow 6y ago
So in an effort to thwart scraping of LinkedIn data, they're actively scraping the local browser of every single user.
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by altdatathrow 6y ago
That's called cache warming and high-volume sites have been utilizing that upon deploy for decades.
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by altdatathrow 6y ago
Because then your "static" site is supported by dynamic components and now suddenly we reach the obvious conclusion of "wait, why the hell did we re-engineer everything?" Generating static content and saving to a CDN is
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by altdatathrow 6y ago
Probably because there are numerous incumbents and an aggregated news feed isn't nearly as unique as their grid chart makes it out to be.
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by altdatathrow 6y ago
> this is less important and we can spend less time developing fancy ETL processes to make everything fit into one, conformant data model And that's precisely why modern data processes are inferior to 20 years ago. People reinvent t
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by altdatathrow 6y ago
> The biggest shift has been towards data lake (store everything) away from data cubes (store aggregates). I don't think this is any shift. The "store everything" has always existed in my experience, that's how the ag
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by altdatathrow 6y ago
That's not a comparable question. Peer-to-peer bandwidth requirements for a single user increases linearly with the number of participants while a client-server model is essentially flat regardless of the number of participants.
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by altdatathrow 6y ago
Don't you guys find the MS Teams "chat" interface an absolute mess? When I tried it a few months ago it felt like another ridiculous UI that wanted to emulate mobile phone messages for some reason with giant chat bubbles, ton
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by altdatathrow 6y ago
Earlier this year Stitchfix had around 8,000 employees and 115 data scientists, and operated at about $55k of revenue per employee. They are neither small nor particularly successful. [1] https://www.forbes.com/sites/st
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by altdatathrow 6y ago
There are so many tech jobs aggressively hiring, if someone feels slighted in their compensation, they only need to respond to recruiters or hit up a few of the 813 companies looking to hire on the latest [1] Who's Hiring? thread. [1]
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by altdatathrow 6y ago
Haha, I was not suggesting corporations should enjoy the same inherent rights as people but it’s still pretty bad. Amounts to corporate information theft sold to anyone willing to pay. There’s healthcare providers who sell patient data toda
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by altdatathrow 6y ago
Just wait until you find out all the trendy SaaS platforms your employer subscribes to are also having their corporate data sold.
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by altdatathrow 6y ago
Sprint and Verizon and T-Mobile do this too. Sprint sells your entire app usage too, as all their hardware runs on their proprietary versions of the given OS.
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by altdatathrow 6y ago
There are literally thousands upon thousands of companies hiring software engineers today.
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by altdatathrow 6y ago
> You're paying that $200K because otherwise there is no way you're getting the business off the ground This is a completely absurd comment and notion. There’s talented people all over the world who don’t need $200k salaries an
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by altdatathrow 6y ago
Definitely. But I don’t see the point of paying someone $200k to write a simple web app, even if it’s using react and kubernetes. VC has killed innovation and instead created a cyclical bullshit engine.

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