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by gregw2 6y ago
TIL a fancy new term for a long-known phenomena: Apophenia: “the tendency to perceive a connection or meaningful pattern between unrelated or random things (such as objects or ideas)”
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by gregw2 6y ago
I ran across issues where files that we PUT in S3 were still not visible in Hive 6+ hours later. It only happened a few times out of hundreds of jobs per day for jobs running daily the last 2-3 years, but it was annoying to deal with when i
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by gregw2 6y ago
Is it just me or are the images and text contradictory? The text of this article says that the drink was, in reality, 62 grams of sugar and portrayed via the label as either 0 grams or 124 grams. However, the image of the nutritional label
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by gregw2 6y ago
It's often the law to publicize the winners names and the location the winning ticket is purchased; this helps the losers have confidence that the winners aren't insiders.
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by gregw2 6y ago
My guess-- rolling out stuff right before re:Invent each year so it can get announced publicly as "available!".
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by gregw2 6y ago
Google "never had to think about this (flouting the law) problem?" If by that you mean Google's OTA business, sure, but Google totally had to think about this problem in the context of their original core search engine busi
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by gregw2 6y ago
It's the man in the arena who counts, per Teddy Roosevelt. I really enjoyed your work on PiHex and haven't used any of your later more notable works. Loved it! But should you have done that the rest of your life? Who should you se
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by gregw2 6y ago
You can use Liquibase or Flyway and an automated deployment process to keep your SQL code in sync with non-SQL code (if needed.) For bonus points, you can make your stored procedures be callable by other stored procedures, create/tear
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by gregw2 6y ago
... or rather than dogfooding the tech, maybe they're testing if their pilots will talk about it overmuch or have the discretion to join the true "space corps"?
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by gregw2 6y ago
I thought the article had a very nice, succinct and clear explanation of bloom filters and wanted to say thanks to the author reading this thread. A year or two ago when bloom filters became a recurring popular topic on HN I read a long ill
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by gregw2 6y ago
mysql did get a couple nice columnar storage engines until Oracle killed the business
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by gregw2 7y ago
I've done multiple POS data integration products with retail sales and inventory data and have thought about the backend of this sort of app before. #2 is doable, the main problem is that every retailer has different systems. But it ca
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by gregw2 7y ago
even getting 20 r4.4xlarges in us-east1 in some AZs was a problem for our workloads a few months ago
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by gregw2 7y ago
I can vouch for this; I've worked in an office where I eventually correlated my wifi problems to someone in the next room using the microwave. (Once you recognized the issue, it was easy to confirm the correlation because you would hav
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by gregw2 7y ago
It's good wisdom but beware the counter-argument. Being liberal in what you accept causes your implementation to have to maintain a wide range of implicitly defined odd inputs in perpetuity and leads to a form of lock-in based on hand
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by gregw2 7y ago
I've used host files to reduce my news reading and found various browsers ignore the hosts file at timez... and Chrome is the worst.
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by gregw2 7y ago
What was the diameter of that first oil pipe? Drake clearly was repurposing a technology that already existed... what was the pipe's original purpose?
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by gregw2 7y ago
The U.S. investment banks skim the cream of the crop of students from top U.S. universities. It's sad how many of the best and brightest have gone into investment banking, but at the end of the day it does pay better so a lot go that r
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by gregw2 7y ago
I'm still not clear what I need to do to protect myself from a similar class of misconfiguration mistakes. "The first command, when executed, obtained security credentials for a role known as *-WAF-Role" says the affadav
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by gregw2 7y ago
So the apostles who lived with him for several years were also just "confused"?
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by gregw2 7y ago
Here's a nice USGS predictive graph of earthquake 6.7+ probability for California from 10 years ago, posted on HN a few years ago: https://pubs.usgs.gov/fs/2008/3027/fs2008-3027.pdf
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by gregw2 7y ago
How could Apple be a thteat with such a glorious Zune coming out in 2006?! Oh wait...
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by gregw2 7y ago
Didn't (postgres-compatible MPP) Amazon Redshift just add this also? Or is this more sophisticated?
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by gregw2 7y ago
Convince others.
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by gregw2 7y ago
agile lawmaking, eh?
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by gregw2 7y ago
Anyone here have a take on when to use Arima vs Holt Winters vs something like R's GLM for forecasting time series data which may have seasonal or day-of-week patterns? I've been on projects using all of them and I'm still no
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by gregw2 7y ago
If computer makers put the OS in ROM memory rather than RAM and had a well defined way of overlaying the two so the ROM state could seem to be modified by writes to RAM, you could get instant boot. Early PCs worked that way like the Commodo
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by gregw2 7y ago
+1 for mentioning This Perfect Day from the 60s. Stop the AI supercomputer!
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by gregw2 7y ago
The problem of rebranding that distorts perceptions of you nature in your initial favor is that unless you change to match the new name, you fail at your new mission/brand. Having been renamed from the Department of War to the Departme
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by gregw2 7y ago
I have cron jobs on my mac that update my hosts files (to block "addictive" sites in my case (not ads)). It doesn't really work. Browsers cache and use outside DNS servers despite the hosts files. Chrome and sometimes Safari

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