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by genericpseudo 10y ago
Sadly, regrettably, insufficient. You've just, finally, made good on the original terms; you haven't dealt with the insults thrown at Maciej's character. I would hope that you would have realized that was necessary too. >
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by genericpseudo 10y ago
The central tension alluded to here is "database people" vs "big data people". Which is a real dichotomy – as a "big data person" I've got a lot of leverage out of going "c'mon, we don't nee
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by genericpseudo 11y ago
Best programme of the last ten years, I reckon. About the most honest, too.
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by genericpseudo 11y ago
Ice, Ice Baby
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by genericpseudo 11y ago
My thing was crystallography. We do have the odd characteristic habit.
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by genericpseudo 11y ago
Cummingtonite. (There is a long tradition, among earth scientists, of geological dirty puns.)
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by genericpseudo 11y ago
Would be a stomp for the computer; they don't have to respect G-forces.
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by genericpseudo 11y ago
At work we use it for log aggregation (specifically application-health telemetry from a mobile application). Very useful in debugging.
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by genericpseudo 11y ago
The ELK stack is really fancy next generation "tail -f | grep" in a web browser. Which is awesome and really important, but a very different problem from "tell me how many users have used my app for three or more days in a
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by genericpseudo 11y ago
The low-price contender is Periscope (periscopedata.com).
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by genericpseudo 11y ago
You don't understand how not evil they are until you've had to try and do it yourself. Sales is really, really, really hard.
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by genericpseudo 11y ago
Google are a company whose core organizing principle is using statistical methods over obscene amounts of data. Apple is a company whose core organizing principle is selling desirable consumer products with class-leading design through the
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by genericpseudo 11y ago
The problem with journalism is everyone wants it but hardly anyone will pay for it unless it directly helps them in some way. So Bloomberg and the FT (trade press) have a business model, the BBC has the license fee so doesn't need
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by genericpseudo 11y ago
http://jauntvr.com/ http://vrse.com/ http://nextvr.com/ https://www.felixandpaul.com and several others.
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by genericpseudo 11y ago
IPython notebook with all the workings here: https://github.com/BuzzFeedNews/2016-01-tennis-betting-analy... Bravo, BuzzFeed.
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by genericpseudo 11y ago
British English word for "boss", traditionally in blue-collar jobs (building sites, factories, that kind of thing) but used informally everywhere.
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by genericpseudo 11y ago
I disagree, sort of, a little bit. If I'm writing a shell pipeline for data analysis, I rewrite it as a Makefile. Make is a great tool for this sort of thing. (Use whatever works as long as it's a single command to reproducibly re
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by genericpseudo 11y ago
It means the business has positive free cash flow; it takes in more money than it spends in a year (i.e. it's not going bankrupt), but the paper value of assets it owns (largely intangible goodwill from acquisitions) is written down, m
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by genericpseudo 11y ago
There was already a service where you could mail AWS removable hard disks and have them load it into S3 for you. https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/send-us-that-data/
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by genericpseudo 11y ago
So let's say, hypothetically, you run an online store and you want to do some analytics over a proportion of your customer base. The Amazon solution here, with the stuff they've launched today is; a) use Kinesis Firehose to take a
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by genericpseudo 11y ago
FanDuel is a Scottish company.