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by blumkvist 11y ago
The state has other constituents besides the individual citizens. These laws have very sound reasoning and prevent very real and very big problems. Blindly running around, finding things to "disrupt" is not admirable. In fact, it&
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by blumkvist 11y ago
I'm very curious as to how much time did you spend thinking about this solution before proposing it to fix the extremely complex problem of distributing durables.
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by blumkvist 11y ago
Hey, forgive my ignorance, I'm the guy who uses this stuff, not the guy who builds it. My understanding was that, typically, the DW is where the data gets ETLed from various places and lives in a normalized environment. Then from that
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by blumkvist 11y ago
They don't care about the house you live in, they care about the zip code, so what you propose is irrelevant. A cpg brand says "tell me where do segments which buy from Retailer XY at location Z live?" and gets an answer. Tha
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by blumkvist 11y ago
The ones who know what they are doing are doing great, yeah.
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by blumkvist 11y ago
Ah, I see. I misread your comment then. I'm not familiar with SM's product, but there is a high chance they are incentivizing participation. edit: Yes, this seems to be the case: "You can install the Contribute Plug-in on an
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by blumkvist 11y ago
They don't track individual users the way you think they do.
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by blumkvist 11y ago
You can't see a connection between marketing research and browsing habits?
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by blumkvist 11y ago
You mean like the NYT and pretty much every magazine sells the product, but also has ads?
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by blumkvist 11y ago
Internet retail constitutes around 7% of total retail in the US. Of that, Amazon has around 25% for around 1,75% of total retail. Now, I would risk saying that if you are reading HN, you think that digital technology is absolutely everywher
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by blumkvist 11y ago
Because he is comparing apples to oranges and making conclusions.
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by blumkvist 11y ago
What a journalistic diarrhea. Google l.a. population: 3.884 million Google san francisco population: 837,442 also, hoards of javascript developers making 100k and more, so yeah...
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by blumkvist 11y ago
>you need to ensure you dont have your entire cluster sitting on one physical node Why is this the case? My understanding of containers is that they solve exactly this problem - restart, rescale only a fraction of the application (only a
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by blumkvist 11y ago
That very much depends on what you're doing. For front-enders, probably yes. There are other job functions though. UI is very tedious to get done and Kendo offers an easy way out, leaving you to do your main job, be it business intelli
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by blumkvist 11y ago
Cutting out middle men seems like a no brainer, but it doesn't work out in reality too well. See wholesalers. They just provide too many value added services, including pricing buffers (bundling).
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by blumkvist 11y ago
I thought bootstrap was a CSS framework and Kendo was a collection of jquery widgets?
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by blumkvist 11y ago
Certification, no. Practicalities - yes.
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by blumkvist 11y ago
What? How is this possible? Entry level web developer with a starting salary of $100k... and a guarantee... That looks like a straight up lie.
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by blumkvist 11y ago
Nobody stops you to do your own book keeping or management accounting/budgeting.
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by blumkvist 11y ago
And also you need the desktop product to publish to it. Tableau online is a cloud alternative to the on-premise online dashboarding, not for the desktop client.
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by blumkvist 11y ago
Microsoft's SQL Server Integration Services has a lot of adapters and transformations out of the box. The tooling is in visual studio, you can use c# or f#. Warning about f# - you will never want to touch other languages after you try
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by blumkvist 11y ago
I thought softlayer was high tier, managed service.
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by blumkvist 11y ago
The BI market is crowded af.
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by blumkvist 11y ago
Before or after the morning feed of the unicorns shall we do that, Dorothy?
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by blumkvist 11y ago
That's easier said than done. Or rather impossible to do with such disparity between regions and the level of globalization we have.
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by blumkvist 11y ago
Yeah I too doubt the cost savings, especially when you put the cost of switching back to MS office in 12-18 months.
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by blumkvist 11y ago
I've watched that video too and it is based on false premises. I work in an area that is at the forefront of automation and algorithms - marketing and I actually make those automation and algorithms happen. They will never ever replace
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by blumkvist 11y ago
Saying robots will replace humans' jobs is like saying in 1999 google will replace teachers.
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by blumkvist 11y ago
Did you mean the other way around?
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by blumkvist 11y ago
I opened the link just to read that...

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