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by arafalov 6y ago
This makes sense, but specifically promotion tied bundle? Or was it just a shortcut for "did not get promoted" AND "did not get next stock grant"? I guess I am trying to understand whether this is causation or correlatio
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by arafalov 6y ago
- "joined the company after college in 2015" - "In high school, I spent time homeless and in foster care, and was often ostracized for being nerdy" - "What I found was a surrogate family" Many of us got burned
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by arafalov 6y ago
There is a bunch of sad things in the story. But, not being FAANG engineer, there is something technical/financial in there I did not understand. Specifically: "When I didn’t get a promotion, some of my stock grants ran out and so
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by arafalov 6y ago
Ha. Soviet magazines were more considering. They listed memory requirements well in advance, when I was learning racing games for my programmable calculator in late 1980s.
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by arafalov 6y ago
Apache Lucene can be as small as 5Mb, if you don't load what you don't need.
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by arafalov 6y ago
You can use embedded Lucene if you want great search but no UI/schema management and you are happy to code the integration. You can start with 3 jars (5Mb) in size and add additional jars as your needs expand (e.g. multilingual process
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by arafalov 6y ago
That is a good challenge, as I am sure their reasons were extremely technical. Twitter also uses Lucene and also in different ways. And I am not at Amazon or Twitter, so I just go by their public presentations, quite technical ones. But bas
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by arafalov 6y ago
Well, Solr and Lucene projects are right now in the process of splitting up (after joining for versions 3-8). And, you could have always used Lucene directly as an embedded search library. Amazon does, for example, for their customer facing
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by arafalov 6y ago
Nice introduction. A good ramp-up from basic splitting to ranking. It does need to be said that when Lucene had a set of features this small, it was also pretty tiny. And, if those are the needs, one could still download it and it will prob
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by arafalov 6y ago
The descriptions are behind the link, driven by the DOAP files each project maintain. But I agree, it would have been nice to have a version of this page with first para of the description inlined in the listing itself.
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by arafalov 6y ago
Yeah, we are seeing the same problem in Solr User Group discussions. That Tika integration will need to change to something else (with Standalone Tika). Of course, Drupal's Solr module already allows to provide separate Tika, but I gue
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by arafalov 6y ago
It is a VERY long list: https://projects.apache.org/projects.html
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by arafalov 6y ago
I used to work as a senior technical support for BEA Weblogic and had all sorts of crazy situations to debug remotely. Including one time when I had to get a person to edit a config file in Vim (which they never used before), on Unix (which
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by arafalov 7y ago
That's because that page explains how to turn the mode on and off, how to fine-tune it (e.g. different date formats) and how to index formats other than JSON. Elasticsearch does not support a good chunk of this, so no need to document.
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by arafalov 7y ago
> SS through ML is commonly a nasty, duct-taped work-flow that at best results in a system that looks more like a POC or DEMO than a proper production system, unless you work at Bing/Google that is (probably, but I have no hands-on
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by arafalov 7y ago
I found the book Political Savvy by DeLuca to be quite a good read on this topic. It is very analytical about the political games in a large organization.
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by arafalov 7y ago
For sure they would have high switching costs. They would be switching from an open-source (and free product) to which they contributed changes to a commercial product. License alone would be a serious discussion point. So, that's a fa
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by arafalov 7y ago
AFAIK, Reddit, Slack, Dice, Bloomberg, IBM, Apple all use Solr. Jira and Confluence use Lucene. Others use Elasticsearch and Fusion (commercial product on top of Solr). See, for example: https://www.activate-conf.com/more-e
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by arafalov 7y ago
You are definitely missing a lot. I don't think many of these would show up under "good podcasts": Sample, for example: * Re:Sound (curated aggregator of best episodes) * SpeakUp (storytelling and teaching storytelling interm
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by arafalov 7y ago
Audible has just started doing that, but only for Romance novels. A very specific subset of the market, including some "fun" filter options.
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by arafalov 7y ago
If you buy 2-year 24-credit subscription, your per-title cost drops to about that $9. And that means you can wait until 2-for-1 sales and have lots of credits to benefit from. Also, if you try to unsubscribe, they sometimes offer a much-red
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by arafalov 7y ago
They talked about it at a recent Solr conference Activate: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EQ336PTZfhU (Rebuilding Message Search at Slack - Josh Wills & John Gallagher, Slack )
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by arafalov 7y ago
Well, the pedantry can goo all the way down too! These two forms are a dialect (variation?) of English, mostly used in Southern USA. Also, if I remember my John McWhorter correctly: 1) "y'all" refers to a group majority (e.g.
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by arafalov 7y ago
I think you would find it difficult to conjugate _the translation_ as the conjugation tables/rules differ between the languages and the mapping is not one of one. For example, English only has 'you' but French has both singul
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by arafalov 7y ago
And the challenge with the current learning software is that they treat each one of these forms as a separate flashcard. So, you are learning surface/contextualized forms of the verb rather than understanding how to use the verb itself
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by arafalov 7y ago
<rant> The thing that annoys me about all of these attempts is failing to recognize the impact of irregular forms of the verbs. So - for French - all the different forms of the verb aller (go) are treated individually. I paid for Read
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by arafalov 7y ago
I like that meta-dataset. Actual source (newsletters) is at: https://tinyletter.com/data-is-plural I even used it itself as well as one of mentioned datasets (puppies! kittens!) to explain Apache Solr search engine features
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by arafalov 7y ago
Are you just listening to popular stuff or looking for podcasts about your more obscure interests? Or just randomly sampling? I like storytelling podcasts for example, so something like "Re:Sound" was great. It is compilation of t
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by arafalov 7y ago
Streisand effect is one of the variations.
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by arafalov 8y ago
I use it all the time. The easiest example is when I am developing something and am logged in as Admin into web interface and then want to check how it works as a non-logged-in user. Or as multiple sequential logins. Sometimes it is faster

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