calderwoodra

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by calderwoodra 2y ago
On the flip side, if you're waiting for society to change for your problem to be solved, you'll be waiting for a long time.
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by calderwoodra 2y ago
> The big takeaway I got is that it was a mistake to let corporations set up electronic money What's stopping the US govt from building a solution and competing for market share? If they can do it cheaper and better, it would gain a
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Hadrius (YC W23) is hiring engineers looking to grow into future founders(ycombinator.com)
1 points by calderwoodra 2y ago
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Hadrius (YC W23) Is Hiring Founding Engineers in NYC(ycombinator.com)
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by calderwoodra 2y ago
Even worse.. 2FA is mandatory on Twilio products, so either install authy or don't use Twilio - no exceptions.
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Hadrius (YC W23) is hiring engineers looking to grow into future founders(ycombinator.com)
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by calderwoodra 2y ago
Totally agree - LLMs remove the tedium of writing boilerplate code, which is often a better practice than abstracted code. But it takes years to experience to know what that's the case.
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by calderwoodra 2y ago
This, as well as system prompts could help you a bunch.
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by calderwoodra 2y ago
Find a few good tools, understand why they're good, use them extensively and pick up others when needed (i.e. when you switch jobs or face a new problem). It's really not that hard...
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by calderwoodra 2y ago
Are you mixing .rs and .js(x)/.ts(x) files in the same project? Jetbrains doesn't support multiple languages in any version of their IDE well AFAIK. I daily drive PyCharm and Webstorm in parallel.
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by calderwoodra 2y ago
I'm not sure you're right here. I used to work with the hipmunk founders and I recall them mentioning that the comparison/flight search is actually pretty computationally expensive. Even Google flights takes special considera
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Show HN: Tag dependabot PRs with 'major-version-bump' label(gist.github.com)
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by calderwoodra 2y ago
You're just wrong, at least w.r.t. Google. Folks who are good and destined for senior in 4 years do not wait for a good manager/team/project - they seek them out and take their career into their own hands.
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by calderwoodra 2y ago
There's no risk for senior engineers. Senior engineers have all the power in the current job market. Either you're seeing mid-level or lower RTO or there's another reason.
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by calderwoodra 2y ago
Athena is probably my best bet tbh, especially if I can do a few clicks and just get smaller files. Processing smaller files is a no brainer / pretty easy and could be outsourced to lambda.
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by calderwoodra 2y ago
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40301549
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by calderwoodra 2y ago
Took your advice and tried DuckDB. Here's what I've got so far: ``` def _get_duck_db_arrow_results(s3_key): con = duckdb.connect(config={'threads': 1, 'memory_limit': '1GB'}) con.install_ext
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by calderwoodra 2y ago
I've spent many many hours trying these suggestions, didn't have much luck. iter_batches loads the whole file (or some very large amount of it) into memory.
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by calderwoodra 2y ago
I've been struggeling with a tough parquet problem for a few months now. I have a 15gb parquet file in a s3 bucket and I need to "unzip" and extract every row from the file to write into my database. The contents of the file
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by calderwoodra 3y ago
There's not enough details here to say what she did right and you did wrong, but it generally comes down to her idea probably solved a problem customers were willing to pay a lot for today and your idea didn't. If her idea was &qu
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by calderwoodra 3y ago
The results confirm my biases, so probably too good to be true?
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by calderwoodra 3y ago
It might, she just sees a lot of tech workers given the area and she's the "get to know you" kind of dentist so she's not just guessing who has what career.
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by calderwoodra 3y ago
My wife is a dentist in the bay area - she can tell which patients work in tech based on how ground down their teeth are.
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by calderwoodra 3y ago
Yep, that's because it wouldn't be economical for the company to have a sales team and require a demo call if the contract is anything less.
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by calderwoodra 3y ago
The minimums exists as a roadblock to scammers and fraud right? YouTube and many other platforms have minimums too. I believe YouTube's is $100.
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by calderwoodra 3y ago
This aptly describes why I keep playing exponential growth games on my phone.
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by calderwoodra 3y ago
Yes, if safety and livelihood are on the line, get the data and be sure. But most companies have to implement purchase flows, marketing sites, software onboarding, etc. Examples like this are where folks are more likely to cherry pick data
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by calderwoodra 3y ago
I'd love to ask anyone who's worked on present day Instagram/Facebook what the long term effects of data driven decision making is. My understanding is that it's been a toss up. I think PG has a tweet a while back like &
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by calderwoodra 3y ago
The world needs a git alternative. Anyone who has used mercurial at Google or Facebook knows the tooling could be much better. As soon as you have 2-3 people committing to the same repo daily, git falls apart fast. The biggest difficulties
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by calderwoodra 3y ago
Surprisingly, Chipotle is it's own layer of hell with it comes to auth. Every time I need to sign-in, I need to reset my password.

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