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by bxji 4y ago
There was a third ruling in November 2022 for the case, so I wouldn’t say hiQ won. Based on a quick scan, the ruling ended up being that hiQ did violate TOS but that no action ended up being taken for either side. https://www.nat
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by bxji 4y ago
Your description of always feeling hungry after keeping it off is rather worrying to me, since I’m getting close to my target weight after a 1 year+ journey of diet and exercise. I do remember reading before that the fat cells that get crea
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by bxji 5y ago
Kinesis has a 60-day money back guarantee if you buy from them, minus the cost of shipping. These are also sold on Amazon, which has a really good return policy so you can return the item with no hassle if you don’t end up liking it. Of cou
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by bxji 5y ago
I’m still a little confused on what dbt does after reading the article. Is it like Trino that generates materialized views as output, with built-in version control and other features?
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by bxji 5y ago
Scale is certainly a part of it. I work in one of the data platform teams at a social media company. Between our 3 HDFS clusters, we're storing more than an exabyte of data. At our scale, we have to tune our workloads carefully to make
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by bxji 5y ago
Funny enough, the model for the cover photo was actually a professor of computer science at my university (recently retired, I believe). I'm a bit surprised that this pocket guide is well-known in the mushroom hunting community.
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by bxji 6y ago
We hire entry level SREs (new grads) as well. The job listing might have been closed already for this year, though. I also saw a couple junior SRE listings (as in not new grad but not senior level either). Disclaimer: work for LinkedIn
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by bxji 6y ago
The goal of these work visas is to hire someone with specialized skills to do work when the company can't find someone with the necessary skills locally. From a quick skim through the DoJ briefing, the argument which the DoJ makes is t
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by bxji 6y ago
Correct me if I’m wrong, but Facebook hires people under a generic role (Software Engineer) and then has them choose the team they will join after a “bootcamp” session. So they are not preallocated to a team to fulfill a specific need, and
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by bxji 6y ago
> If you care more about latency than consistency you have an 'eventually consistent' system, where a write will eventually propagate, but a read might get stale data. Not just stale data, you can also have states which never a
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by bxji 6y ago
So that's where Gilfoyle got the name Anton from...