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by fhoffa 8y ago
Selenium IDE was deprecated last year - maybe that? - https://seleniumhq.wordpress.com/2017/08/09/firefox-55-and-s... "The bad news: from Firefox 55 onwards, Selenium IDE will no longer work." Alter
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Google Cloud: Our first private trans-Atlantic subsea cable(blog.google)
4 points by fhoffa 8y ago|0 comments
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by fhoffa 8y ago
Previous discussion: When Stack Overflow introduced the trends tool (May 2017). - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14299731 What's new: # of questions is only half of the story - now you can also look at pageviews
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These are the real Stack Overflow trends: Use the pageviews(medium.com)
1 points by fhoffa 8y ago|1 comments
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by fhoffa 9y ago
Even easier: All Hacker News posts are ready to be analyzed in BigQuery. - https://medium.com/@hoffa/hacker-news-on-bigquery-now-with-d...
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by fhoffa 9y ago
Oh hi! I work for Google. I browse Hacker News in my free time - like now, from a plane. Conspiracy fodder: how smart (or not) would a team need to be to plan a "well-executed marketing play" for an enterprise database warehouse -
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by fhoffa 9y ago
There are thousands of websites mining cryptocoins. I recently posted a tweet that went viral in Brazil - it showed that one of their government sites was mining coins - and draining 360% of my notebook's CPU power: - https:/&#x2
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by fhoffa 9y ago
This is a huge deal for anyone working in this space: "Patent information accessibility is critical for examining new patents, informing public policy decisions, managing corporate investment in intellectual property, and promoting fut
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Google Patents Public Datasets: connecting public, paid, and private patent data(cloud.google.com)
2 points by fhoffa 9y ago|1 comments
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The top contributors to GitHub – 2017(medium.com)
14 points by fhoffa 9y ago|0 comments
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by fhoffa 9y ago
An authoring demo I wrote the day Data Studio went public: - https://medium.com/google-cloud/showing-off-the-new-free-goo... Feature wise Data Studio has improved a lot since that day, and will continue to do so. (but
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by fhoffa 9y ago
Metabase is great - and another open source dashboard solution I'm a big fan of: https://redash.io/ Data Studio has a different set of strengths: It's the quickest way I can get an interactive viz published with 0
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by fhoffa 9y ago
Play with a live interactive Data Studio dashboard - the most famous reddit accounts: - https://datastudio.google.com/org/aLzLLuH1QJC-2sBBmo7qdw/rep... (the story behind: https://medium.com/@hoffa&
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by fhoffa 9y ago
Specially interesting given other similar recent announcements, Google's per-second billing also covers: | "premium operating system images including Windows Server, Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL), and SUSE Enterprise Linux Serv
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Some coders like it hot – but most prefer colder climates(hackernoon.com)
2 points by fhoffa 9y ago|1 comments
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by fhoffa 9y ago
https://medium.com/google-cloud/a-day-in-the-life-of-a-devel... Not me or OP, but same team :)
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Counting uniques faster in BigQuery with HyperLogLog++(medium.com)
20 points by fhoffa 9y ago|0 comments
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by fhoffa 9y ago
The % is indeed a comparison to men. (Of all respondents interested in Rust, only 3% are women. Compare with R 12%, and Ruby 11%)
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by fhoffa 9y ago
True - but since I couldn't find that on time, I created my own ranking with the data I had on hand.
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by fhoffa 9y ago
Interesting guess! Let's see. What if I take all mentions of each language on HN's who's hiring threads, vs % of women interested in each language? There is correlation! Chart: - http://i.imgur.com/mcN6Ghz.png
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by fhoffa 9y ago
Data wise: According to the latest Stack Overflow survey, Rust is the language that women are the least interested in. Any thoughts on why? Row WantWorkLanguage responses perc_female 1 R 2477 11.87% 2 Ruby 3743 11.03% 3 Java
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How to use BeyondCorp to ditch VPN, improve security and go to the cloud(blog.google)
441 points by fhoffa 9y ago|155 comments
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by fhoffa 9y ago
You can measure it now: - http://www.gcping.com/ (From your browser to multiple Google zones)
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Finding Stack Overflow code snippets in GitHub projects(sbaltes.github.io)
4 points by fhoffa 9y ago|0 comments
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by fhoffa 9y ago
Networking is not necessary for a software engineering job. The two main factors are: - can you code in a whiteboard to pass the interview? - are there visas available to get you to work in your country of choice? I studied in Chile, and wo
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by fhoffa 10y ago
Since you asked about long term storage and occasional queries, have you considered offloading to the cloud? (Disclosure: I work for Google) With BigQuery you can: - Store as much relational data as you want ($20->$10 per terabyte per mo
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Quantifying the performance of the TPU, our first machine learning chip(cloudplatform.googleblog.com)
110 points by fhoffa 10y ago|27 comments
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DNA Sequencing of 1000 Cannabis Strains Publicly Available in Google BigQuery(medium.com)
14 points by fhoffa 10y ago|1 comments
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by fhoffa 10y ago
Facts: Hacker News gets a ton of articles posted from Medium, but very few of them get to the front page. Last time I measured there had been 4,108 posts from medium.com in 2017 (largest source of news for HN), but less than 3% of them got
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by fhoffa 10y ago
It's been one of my best investments (I live in SF, and work and live close to stations). I have my own bike which I use daily, but whenever I need a quick trip covered by the stations, it's the best. Also if for any reason I leav

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