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721.
by avip 7y ago
It’s a very good data exploration tool. Likely the best out there. But don’t sleep on aws QuickSight
722.
by avip 7y ago
The most astonishing part of your comment is that you remember Epilady :)
723.
USA lags behind EU, Brazil and China in banning harmful pesticides(m.phys.org)
63 points by avip 7y ago|2 comments
724.
by avip 7y ago
And on the best of days - involves deleting code.
725.
by avip 7y ago
I’ve been envisioning a tinder-for-bots app. It could use tinder’s existing bot population (50%? 90%?). It’ll have a “I am not a human” recaptcha on sign up. It’ll feature influential celebs s.a Siri, kortana, Alexa and Tai. I only need to
726.
by avip 7y ago
Happiness is overrated.
727.
by avip 7y ago
And what is good, Phaedrus, and what is not good — need we ask anyone to tell us these things? Yes Socrates, let's consult the mob.
728.
by avip 7y ago
Fried (-man) is a common East-European Jewish surname, from the German "peace". A moment of useless Genealogy...
729.
by avip 7y ago
That's troce true, thoughtful, and taught me 3 new words as a by-product.
730.
by avip 7y ago
You will definitely not use S3 in a pipeline if latency is an issue.
731.
by avip 7y ago
Really curious how these things make it to HN frontpage?
732.
by avip 7y ago
Sounds more like AZ issue than SQS/rabbit?
733.
by avip 7y ago
>you need to put that data somewhere else and pass a pointer to it in the actual SQS message I was under the impression that's the industry standard - you drop the payload in some redis-like storage and pass keys in messages.
734.
by avip 7y ago
ex.: Can't see why you were downvoted?
735.
by avip 7y ago
Github?
736.
by avip 7y ago
2 must have Churchill quotes: Men occasionally stumble over the truth, but most of them pick themselves up and hurry off as if nothing ever happened A lie gets halfway around the world before the truth has a chance to get its pants on (
737.
by avip 7y ago
The Trillion-trees campaign claims it'll offset at least 10 years of anthropogenic emissions . So to a zero approximation, I need to plant 1000 trees to offset my lifetime's carbon footprint. Without too much math, looking at my
738.
by avip 7y ago
There are so many startups in that space. Smart grid management, drones to support wind turbines maintenance, robots that clean solar panels (yes, that is a thing https://www.ecoppia.com/ ), water leakage alerts using smart
739.
Teva agrees to $85M settlement in opioid public nuisance case(oklahoman.com)
2 points by avip 7y ago|0 comments
740.
by avip 7y ago
For the record, only England and Wales "have gone mad". Scotland and Northern Ireland voted solid stay .
741.
by avip 7y ago
prev. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14148145
742.
by avip 7y ago
I think the actual power of political leaders is overstated. In many countries, the political system seems de-facto paralyzed, ineffective, and incapable of pushing the drastic changes required.
743.
by avip 7y ago
Well trello covers your second point (see .json suffix)
744.
by avip 7y ago
Sign-up driven development hits again.
745.
by avip 7y ago
Who would not expect a music streaming app to collect data on the music customers listen to? I completely expect spotify, youtube, and any other streaming app to do the same? How else could you provide discovery to customers?
746.
by avip 7y ago
Add: - Gulf war (unexpected school vacation) - The most amazing volcanic winter ever
747.
by avip 7y ago
I recently had a recruiter questioning my application for a "senior developer" role as "You seem to have no background in software". I told her I have "a background" of well over 10 years as a developer, and co
748.
by avip 7y ago
I have no idea what that means but had to upvote because it was so unexpected.
749.
by avip 7y ago
My biggest challenge, not discussed here at all, is how to force my wife into taking financial decisions. Numerous times I’ve tried to walk her through our finances, trying to make our life choices and trade offs more explicit. Yes we could
750.
by avip 7y ago
Slightly off, but the whole "business value" in IT resumes is proper a US thing. Cross the border and you're good with just mentioning what you did, sans the (often imaginary) "impact".

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