cjalmeida

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by cjalmeida 5y ago
Because it’s bad overall. It pushes for large monolithic corporations instead of specialized companies. Also, you do get to deduct expense when doing value adding business activities. Just incorporate. Likewise corporations can’t deduct (lo
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by cjalmeida 5y ago
What’s complex about *nix? All you need to understand are device files, POSIX permissions and ACLs, cgroups, tcp/udp sockets, nginx/haproxy, thread/process scheduling, (virtual) memory, PAM, dbus, syslog, pipes, unix sockets,
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by cjalmeida 5y ago
If that’s all you use k8s for, you don’t need it. Myself I need a to setup a bunch of other cloud services for day 2 operations. And I need to do it consistently across clouds. The kind of clients I serve won’t use my product as a SaaS due
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by cjalmeida 5y ago
Err, no. Look at most startups and tell me how many of them care if they’re serving optimized content over HTTP/2?
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by cjalmeida 5y ago
This x10. Each such setup is a unique snowflake of brittle Ansible/Bash scripts and unit files. Anything slightly different from the initial use case will break. Not to mention operations. K8s give you for free things that are a pain t
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by cjalmeida 5y ago
I’ve implemented some graph traversing algos in Julia and 100x faster than Python. Really in the same ballpark of C++, but much simpler code.
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by cjalmeida 5y ago
In a lot of cases they don’t just complete projects. They run entire departments.
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by cjalmeida 6y ago
It should, but until legislators act, it's legal. That's the issue will the law.
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by cjalmeida 6y ago
PySpark or Dask
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by cjalmeida 6y ago
Most of us here had an easy life. But for some born on the wrong neighborhood, gang violence and drug trafficking is part of daily life. A couple of bad decisions made as a teen and you’ll see yourself involved in violent events at a young
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by cjalmeida 7y ago
Nope. One can start easily with Airflow+Spark(ERM)+Presto+S3 and get about 80% what'd get from your run of the mill Oracle database. At a fraction of the price, without half the headache in procurement, licensing or performance tweakin
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by cjalmeida 7y ago
In my experience, that's easy to solve from an operations point of view and it just take a couple of easy to teach tricks to avoid it. However, the scaling limitations of traditional RDBMS are insurmountable when trying to do things li
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by cjalmeida 7y ago
S3 is flexible and scalable, but it is not cheap. I'd be hard pressed to run the numbers now, but at some point it's cheaper to just do storage yourself. But to be fair, you'll go on-premise due to the computing or bandwidth
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by cjalmeida 7y ago
Not being subject to vendor lock-in is huge in itself. You can save plenty of money if you have the scale to move out of S3. That’s important because you can usually trade CPU for storage by storing data in multiple formats, optimized for d
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by cjalmeida 7y ago
This is a course on APPLIED linear algebra.
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by cjalmeida 8y ago
Yes, but they're called ISO, ANSI, DIN, etc. standards
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by cjalmeida 8y ago
Also, everyone is weak at some point of their careers. Until they aren’t.
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by cjalmeida 8y ago
Oh, please. If your educated, English speaking, healthy, native born fellow can’t compete for jobs with an Honduran refugee that can barely spells his name; the problem might not be with the migrant to start with.
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by cjalmeida 8y ago
> If the shareholders are dispersed and can't coordinate themselves, they'll have less power and see more go to the next entity with power, probably the executives. Change shareholders to voters, executives to elected official,
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by cjalmeida 8y ago
There’s nothing in Python that prevents you from using any architectural pattern you can implement in Java. You know why you don’t have mature IoC frameworks in Python? Because you don’t need them! You can easily inject and mock attributes
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by cjalmeida 8y ago
People still hold very dearly the myth they can keep a decent job for a lifetime by becoming an expert in a legacy tech. The truth is you can find those, but it’s a lottery bet. Not only there are many people skilled on those technologies,
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by cjalmeida 8y ago
I would second this comment and add that proper change management is needed to ensure a smooth transition. As soon as the word is out, if you don’t have a plan and/or don’t communicate in the right way, your people will start sending
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by cjalmeida 8y ago
This is a non sequitur. You can, and should, leverage the flexibility of cloud computing without being too locked down to a single vendor. That’s one of the things tools like Terraform, Kubernetes or Mesos were designed for.
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by cjalmeida 8y ago
Density, cost, complexity.
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by cjalmeida 8y ago
Dude, the limitations are explicit on art 83, (2) When deciding whether to impose an administrative fine and deciding on the amount of the administrative fine in each individual case due regard shall be given to the following: the nature, g
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by cjalmeida 8y ago
IMO, the usefulness of things like CPY is being easy to read, without too much noise or boilerplate. (cout "hello") confuses the hell out of those with some C++ experience. It changes semantics if a known object for little gain (c
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by cjalmeida 8y ago
If you think of cpy as high level glue code for "pure" c++ functions, this might work. I don't like decisions like implicit << and >> for cin, cout. Too much magic for me.
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by cjalmeida 8y ago
>He or she might be; plenty get those kinds of jobs on their personal connections rather than their track records. I'm yet to see a stupid person as the CEO of a large corp. Sociopath maybe, but hardly stupid. Now an unpopular opini
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by cjalmeida 8y ago
Backfilling a CEO idea happens sometimes. And that's not bad per se. They still need to see if their idea holds water, and consultants have great presentation skills that the CEO can leverage trying to explain the idea to stakeholders.
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by cjalmeida 8y ago
If you think management is only common sense, then paying 500 bucks an hour for MBA grads is ridiculously. Using that logic, either the CEO is stupid, or the company employees are utterly incompetent and lacks common sense. Or, more likely,

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