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by beckingz 4y ago
One of our engineers had to make 2 contributions to the Bitnami Helm chart for airflow for some reason.
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by beckingz 4y ago
The chair I'm sitting in cost me $20 at an estate sale a few houses down from where my parents live, because the wife died and the husband wanted to move to florida. I do not look forward to the day my parents die because we have a his
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by beckingz 4y ago
This is good advice. Sometimes fixing things requires not fixing them yourself before getting people to agree that it's a problem
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by beckingz 4y ago
Bigquery alone is the reason I recommend GCP. That said, both AWS and GCP have some real rough edges.
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by beckingz 4y ago
Running Airflow on Kubernetes has been one of the most painful data engineering challenges I've worked on.
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Caribou Financial Now an Auto Refinance Unicorn(finance.yahoo.com)
2 points by beckingz 4y ago|0 comments
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by beckingz 4y ago
It's amazing how hard it is to stay up to date in the data space, so it will be interesting to see how this course has been updated.
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by beckingz 4y ago
Yes. This is why we're seeing a bunch of whining about a labor shortage, because people can now choose to be paid a little more fairly.
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by beckingz 4y ago
Core is SQL + Python (or Java/Scala for the actual Engineering part). Most of the data warehouse work is data transformation and scheduling, so Apache Airflow and writing DAGs in python is a large part. For some of the larger streaming
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by beckingz 4y ago
It's plumbing, but you're also expected to know where the water came from, the exact specifications of the treatment plant that cleaned it, exactly what is in the water down to the parts per billion, and have ideas for what kind o
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by beckingz 4y ago
I was going to come here and post that I dislike method chaining because it is harder to read... And then I read TFA and realize that I actually dislike people writing poorly formatted method chaining pandas code. The examples in the post a
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by beckingz 4y ago
Suffer mostly. Joke aside, data engineers do a wide variety of engineering work related to data. Often that's around data warehousing and business intelligence, sometimes it's work on big data streaming or storage systems, or buil
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by beckingz 4y ago
"It’s thrilling to be extremely polite to rude strangers." This is a powerful one. Simultaneously virtuous and incredibly petty.
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by beckingz 5y ago
This is why I posted the comment! Got burned last year and had such a low-pain experience this year that I felt the need to share this option.
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by beckingz 5y ago
Huh. That's weird. At least the paid accounts are cheaper than H&R block's gotcha upsells!
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by beckingz 5y ago
This is actually a good point. We should be fighting against the standardization of the industry because it allows more competition for wages. On the other hand, damn near every company seems to only want to hire 'senior' develope
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by beckingz 5y ago
1 point per ticket so you can see the jira metrics and try to break down tickets enough that everyone feels they have enough information to get started and understand why the work is valuable. That's enough.
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by beckingz 5y ago
The IRS currently receives almost all the information needed to do taxes for most people. There are not technical reasons why they could not share their calculations with you and give you the option of accepting them or doing them yourself
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by beckingz 5y ago
Taxes? Yes. No reason that most people shouldn't have the government do their taxes for them.
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by beckingz 5y ago
Going to give a +1 for FreeTaxUSA. Significantly cheaper than H&R Block and a user interface that is just as good. The large tax companies are engaging in regulatory capture and ought to be sidelined in favor of a healthy society.
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by beckingz 5y ago
Fastmail allows you to crate unlimited email aliases that forward to your main domain. I'm a happy customer.
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by beckingz 5y ago
Yeah. Companies can purchase information from the credit bureaus and use it to target direct mail. Providing your SSN helps them match you, because it would be SO SO BAD if they accidentally opted out someone against their will.
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Opt out of credit bureau offers(optoutprescreen.com)
1 points by beckingz 5y ago|0 comments
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by beckingz 5y ago
What individual action can we take to get the regulators to fix this?
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by beckingz 5y ago
They're actually good. Though the size and risk of a project do materially matter. If chrome ships a bug, that'll cause an impact on billions of people potentially, where as the typical software bug will impact a few hundred or do
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by beckingz 5y ago
The example given is a single negative interaction in a slack community, which does not seem to support a rule that 33% of people want to see your idea fail.
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by beckingz 5y ago
Corporations will never love you. No matter how much they say they do, they never will. Individuals within the company will intend to do good, but they will be required to do more than just good things. Take care of yourself.
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by beckingz 5y ago
Spiders using electric charge, bacteria eating electric charge; the future is now and advanced biotechnology exists in nature. This is worrying in an inspiring way.
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by beckingz 5y ago
> What is the moral of the story? > I have no idea. Sometimes successful software just grows.
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by beckingz 5y ago
At a job back in school for a German Historical Institute in the US, I started rinsing dishes and my manager said "You don't need to pre-wash, it's a German Dishwasher"

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