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by beckingz 5y ago
For typical datasets (~95% of companies have medium data on the order of gigabyte), you are 100% correct that the data modeling / formatting is the biggest challenge. Having well modeled data that matches the business domain is a massi
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by beckingz 5y ago
Data Build Tool makes it easier to get data analysts involved, which helps bring more analytics code into version control. This is a really really good thing given that most data analysts are not software engineers and rightfully prioritize
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by beckingz 5y ago
One of the best experiences of my career was working with an Indian offshore team. 80% of the time they would have a full day's iteration ready for review overnight. It was magical, except when we were imprecise in which case a full ni
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by beckingz 5y ago
Given how easy it is to lose a job if the demand for work dries up, it seems rational to switch to selling work on your own terms. At least while the market is good.
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by beckingz 5y ago
Silicon photonics (microchip lasers and particle accelerators) is an active area of research that has had some promising improvements lately. Research like this is likely to result in a laser miniaturization breakthrough like that of MEMs s
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by beckingz 5y ago
That makes sense. Wasteful to have the backlog be misordered.
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by beckingz 5y ago
What is backlog inversion?
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by beckingz 5y ago
That's pretty good. How many times were they able to predict the same downturn?
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by beckingz 5y ago
This nearly bricked one of my laptops because it changed the local password login to use the microsoft account.
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by beckingz 5y ago
Don't. Get the stakeholders who use a BI tool to defend the investment.
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by beckingz 5y ago
Interested to try this out one day! My Data Engineering team has spent weeks building API integrations this year, so this would be valuable.
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by beckingz 5y ago
Bootstrapping!
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by beckingz 5y ago
Looks cool. Looks like there might be a typo in the pricing. Surprised to see the storage go from 5 to 5 to 50 to 5 gb.
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Ask HN: Do your teams start sprints on the same day?
2 points by beckingz 5y ago|0 comments
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by beckingz 5y ago
Sometimes rushing to solutions is the fastest way to understand questions. Sometimes it isn't.
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You setup a read-replica so that the production database isn't hit by analytical queries. And then ingest that read-replica to a column store data warehouse so that you don't have to think about reliability until someone starts ye
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by beckingz 5y ago
Probably something like ~30% of the total value of the contract goes into sales on average depending on the size.
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Ask HN: What are the best 'self organized' teams you have seen?
9 points by beckingz 5y ago|4 comments
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by beckingz 5y ago
Materialized views are persistent tables that are typically updated when the underlying data is updated. Typically.
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by beckingz 5y ago
Not sure about how that would work with the PG query planner either, but a batch for rarely changing data and rapid changing data is basically the Lambda data architecture, so probably a good call!
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by beckingz 5y ago
This comment made my day. Users not knowing what they want but knowing that they want it is a useful phrase.
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by beckingz 5y ago
I guess it is a better developer experience to not need the software to work...
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by beckingz 5y ago
The Survey cited in Peopleware says that it is a 10x difference between the best and the worst performers. The best performers were something like 2.5x the average performer, as measured by time to complete a specific coding task in the 70s
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by beckingz 5y ago
fastmail! The aliases are great.
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by beckingz 5y ago
Yup. Avoiding the overhead of heavy project management practices is also great. Of course, it becomes less great when you start getting dependencies between teams and 2 week sprint delays mean that it takes months to get something cycled th
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by beckingz 5y ago
Gratification in the form of working software provides business value. Sooner is better, for some values of working software. This insight that replanning is easier with agile methods is pretty key.
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by beckingz 5y ago
What is a good example of capricious thrashing? Is that just alternating working on tasks without ever finishing anything (normal thrashing) more of the time?
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by beckingz 5y ago
What gets measured gets done, which is awkward when the important things are hard to measure and don't get measured. "data-informed" is preferable to data-driven, but requires more thought unfortunately.
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by beckingz 5y ago
That is really sad to hear. It was a really cool project to see!
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by beckingz 5y ago
I prefer reading.

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