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by cosmie 8y ago
> all want them to do completely different things and none of them really understand those things It's the HR equivalent of deciding to rebuild your solidly performing website with some hot new v0.1 frontend javascript framework pur
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by cosmie 8y ago
There are a lot of use cases where they're still quite valuable. - Social sites tend to redirect outbound links to sanitize referral information. So you can get a bunch of traffic from Facebook, and have no idea if it's people vie
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by cosmie 8y ago
Pretty much. > it looks like the reason management got pissed was because android users didn't log back in after the bug logged them out Q4 of 2015 was the first time they reported[1] a negative figure for Monthly Active Users. They
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by cosmie 8y ago
Not quite TB's daily, but close. We were in B2B lead generation, and a lot of my ETL workloads involved heavy text normalization and standardization, then source layering to ultimately stitch together as complete and accurate of a reco
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by cosmie 8y ago
Being able to define an ETL workload within a simple script is not the same as your ETL system itself being a simple script. While I love both Spark and Dataflow, both of them are incredibly complex distributed systems with very high op
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by cosmie 8y ago
That looks like a nifty service, but we were an AWS shop and the bandwidth intensity of ETL would have made a GCP-hosted service cost prohibitive. That said, at least once a month I tried to convince our CTO to let me move our data workload
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by cosmie 8y ago
True, but there was at least an attempt before at cost containment, as they could directly capture that revenue and increase their profitability. Now there's both no incentive for cost containment measures beyond what's needed to
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by cosmie 8y ago
This is a point I don't see raised nearly often enough. If their profit potential is capped at a percentage of total revenue, they have absolutely no incentive to truly attempt to reign in costs. As out of control costs can be used as
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by cosmie 8y ago
> you probably don’t need an ETL, just a simple script. +1 > Unless you need multiple servers processing data through multiple steps and you need the auditing and process control I'll stress the "multiple servers" part.
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by cosmie 8y ago
I really like this! I bootstrapped the ETL and data pipeline infrastructure at my last company with a combination of Bash, Python, and Node scripts duct-taped together. Super fragile, but effective[3]. It wasn't until about 3 years in
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by cosmie 8y ago
SEEKING WORK | Nashville, TN, USA | Remote or local only Email: hn@gsdanalytics.com Who I am: A guy that's really useful to have around. If your business was a set of gears, my specialty would be the oil fitting between everything that
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by cosmie 8y ago
This is a really good crash course into operating a Redshift cluster. It has a few things missing, but overall covers most the things you'll run into on a day-to-day basis. After several years of operating a cluster, the two biggest he
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by cosmie 8y ago
> as they have a certain kind of computer With certain kind of software installed
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by cosmie 8y ago
> This is fundamentally a politically motivated suit. Let me start with saying I agree fully with this. But I don't necessarily agree with it being a broad attack on the idea of a class action settlement. [1] and [2] give decent bre
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by cosmie 8y ago
Even then, the interesting part doesn't even seem to be in this article. Read the WSJ article for more clarity[1]. The issue raised was that the "privacy non-profits" were 1) law schools that the plaintiff's attorneys we
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by cosmie 8y ago
As someone who has had to become fluent in Executive, Project Management, Bureaucratic Procurement, Software Development, and Operations (I consider each of those completely distinct languages), I can empathize. The best way I've found
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by cosmie 8y ago
One of my student jobs involved the 12am-4am shift in the library's 24-hour computer lab (essentially, be a theft deterrent and babysit the printers). Part of my training involved being told to call a central number to confirm if someo
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by cosmie 9y ago
It's less about over/under-performance and more with incentive alignment and political perception, and organizational maturity. It's really, really hard to get executive budgetary approval for a foundational data audit/c
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by cosmie 9y ago
The market tends to decouple from that logic in an appreciating market. My landlord bought the house I'm in about 10 years ago. His mortgage is a fixed monthly payment that's locked in from when my house was worth less than half i
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by cosmie 9y ago
Anecdotally[1] speaking, you're correct but you're missing the message. You're correct that no one should hire expensive data scientists for this. But what happens is that there's no marketing against these sorts of pr
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by cosmie 9y ago
> If a scientist offers subjects $10 for participating, the scientist must pay that $10 to anyone who declines the consent form. Any resources I can learn more about this? An acquaintance of mine runs a research group at a university, de
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by cosmie 9y ago
As someone else mentioned, you are fully able to submit federal tax returns directly to the IRS. The issue comes in with knowing which forms your situation warrants, which variants of those forms are most appropriate for your situation, whe
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by cosmie 9y ago
I think the durability of that tolerance was what the parent was pointing out. As in, it's potentially only useful as a bridge treatment once . If you decide to lapse your long term anti-depressant after several months and suddenly ne
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by cosmie 9y ago
In this case, the "may" part in there is relevant, and not just an attempt to add in ambiguity to defuse things. The Google Analytics property owner has to explicitly opt-in to allow Google to do this. And part of that opt in incl
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by cosmie 9y ago
At least in many cases, it's grounded in reality. For example, traveler's diarrhea[1] and hepatitis A[2] are fairly common for Westerns traveling. Hep A isn't a serious issue for locals, because of exposure from childhood - i
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by cosmie 9y ago
As Larrysalibra said, 6GB is basically just the threshold for where you go from paying per GB to it being unlimited. If you use 3GB, you'll be charged $30 for saga. If you use 6GB, you'll be charged $60 for data, and if you use 9G
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by cosmie 9y ago
Interesting! I've only been to Mexico and Brazil since getting T-Mobile, but in both those cases I didn't have any speed issues with whatever they capped me at. That said, I just looked and I can buy a 1GB international high speed
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by cosmie 9y ago
The ease with T Mobile is there too. I pay $50/month for my plan, and calls, text, and data effectively works seamlessly in ~160 countries. If I want faster data in some of those countries, I can pay $10 extra. Google Fi is $20/
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by cosmie 9y ago
I have T-Mobile's Simple Choice plan, and while I haven't flown too much internationally, the few times I have, my service has worked seamlessly. My plan includes 4G coverage in Mexico and Canada, and 2G coverage in 100+ other mar
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by cosmie 9y ago
Coupons are a fascinating business, with a lot of middlemen taking cuts. From the agency that creates the advertising campaign (and possibly books the media) to the media platforms that display the coupons (whether inserts in physical paper

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