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901.
by bsg75 11y ago
Cheaper and inferior. As with all things, you get the talent you pay for.
902.
by bsg75 11y ago
References are rarely if ever used anymore - fear of lawsuits if a glowing review from past employer is not provided. And don't be an ass. Search, find, depart immediately and politely.
903.
by bsg75 11y ago
Unless you find a new gig, and depart the day you accept it.
904.
by bsg75 11y ago
I hope that MS treats these acquisitions seriously. Sunrise is lagging a bit on the Mac dekstop - it still cannot connect to Exchange - and the mobile first craze is starting to look like desktop becoming a never reached second. Desktop and
905.
by bsg75 11y ago
Depends on what you want. R has arguably better coverage for packages that provide various statistical tools, but Python is arguably a better general purpose language.
906.
by bsg75 11y ago
> Is there a compelling lib or advantage of OCaml over F#? Maybe not for folks whose primary platform in Windows? The .NET stack is the primary advantage there, no? For those of us on Linux, IMO OCaml is the similar language with complet
907.
by bsg75 11y ago
"Office Code Pro is a customized version of Source Code Pro... The customizations were made specifically for text editors and coding environments, ..." Interesting, a customized version of a "Source Code" font enhanced f
908.
by bsg75 11y ago
Is the code quality from commanlinefu.com any better or worse on average compared to a source like StackOverflow?
909.
Ask HN: “Small window” character mode system monitor?
1 points by bsg75 11y ago|0 comments
910.
by bsg75 11y ago
What is "obsolete" on CentOS?
911.
by bsg75 11y ago
Nope - CentOS 7 + XFCE 4.12 seems to be enough for me. Its also convenient when workstation and servers are based on the same distribution.
912.
by bsg75 11y ago
Hopefully sarcasm, not narcissism.
913.
by bsg75 11y ago
> people becoming instantly rich & famous in tech Outliers, like lottery winners and "beating the house" Vegas. It happens, but very infrequently.
914.
by bsg75 11y ago
Celebrity worship. Musk is favored on HN, Jobs / Apple not as much. Both companies can be considered successful, but are not given similar critiques.
915.
by bsg75 11y ago
This should be a service.
916.
by bsg75 11y ago
> It's the cold calls that bug me. I never answer calls from numbers I don't know. I rarely listen to voice mails from the same. How often do important calls come from unknown numbers? In my case, never. If its a business thing
917.
by bsg75 11y ago
What is the upper limit you have hit with Spark?
918.
by bsg75 11y ago
> A lot of processing jobs can't use indexes (except for lookup tables) so a PostgreSQL 4TB db with a schema for OLTP workloads doesn't solve the issue. What are the cases where an RDBMS can't use indexes on fact tables?
919.
by bsg75 11y ago
This change does make SQL simpler for PostgreSQL.
920.
by bsg75 11y ago
For those not overly familiar with either, can you define how the comparison is on dissimilar things?
921.
Redash: Rethinking how data is queried, shared and visualized(github.com)
13 points by bsg75 11y ago|0 comments
922.
Apache Drill announces v1.0(blogs.apache.org)
14 points by bsg75 11y ago|5 comments
923.
by bsg75 11y ago
I am a Prime member and find this rather unpleasant - on Divergent, a DVD releases 9 months ago (viewed when signed out of my Amazon account): http://i.imgur.com/EqPn2Dw.png
924.
by bsg75 11y ago
> I think people bristling about long work hours are doing so because they haven't found something that makes them feel this way. Or they are not in a position where they stand to profit in proportion to the extra work. Extra time w
925.
by bsg75 11y ago
Crunch / cram in college is often a symptom of poor time management by students . Crunch time in business is a symptom of poor time management by management . True, the author does not provide empirical data, but anyone who has worke
926.
by bsg75 11y ago
That is a distinction that seemed to have eluded investors and employees alike.
927.
by bsg75 11y ago
> Mark, and others, have built one of the most valuable technology companies of all time. Clinkle? I am genuinely interested in the measure of value here. Multiple rounds of layoffs (and apparent mutiny), experienced management hires dep
928.
by bsg75 11y ago
With what successes, either personal or for the company? A couple years at FB does not a leader make.
929.
by bsg75 11y ago
http://www.businessinsider.com/inside-story-of-clinkle-2014-... > “It’s not the kid’s fault,” McCarthy said, defending his flustered boss. McCarthy sometimes took over for Duplan during the weekly all-hands meetings on F
930.
by bsg75 11y ago
I am not certain the problem you see is "American culture" but instead "business culture". Many if not most businesses exist primarily to generate a profit, focus on short term gains and "maximize shareholder value&

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