havermeyer

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by havermeyer 8y ago
If the Remembrance of Earth's Past trilogy taught me anything, it's that keeping a low profile is the safest choice :) Highly recommended if you are into sci-fi.
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by havermeyer 8y ago
This sounds like a terrible idea. You can provide a way for people to opt out of legacy behavior, but don't break them outright unless you want to lose your most faithful, long-term users.
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by havermeyer 8y ago
I'm biased (I work on the BigQuery team) but I'm always excited to see more public datasets made available in BigQuery: https://cloud.google.com/bigquery/public-data/ . It would be great to have governmen
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by havermeyer 8y ago
Thanks!
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by havermeyer 8y ago
Late reply, but which things is it missing for your needs? I work on the BigQuery team, so I can pass along any feedback that you have.
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by havermeyer 8y ago
One of the reasons that I like Twitter... It has a short section with "important" (by some metric) tweets since the last time that you viewed your feed, followed by tweets in chronological order. Facebook surely has the ability to
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by havermeyer 8y ago
Politicians play by a different set of rules: https://blog.twitter.com/official/en_us/topics/company/2018/... . From the blog: > Blocking a world leader from Twitter or removing their controversia
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by havermeyer 8y ago
From today's release notes ( https://cloud.google.com/bigquery/docs/release-notes#july_25... ): > BigQuery has achieved approximately 5x improvement in TPC-DS 10T power run geomean over the past 18 months. O
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by havermeyer 8y ago
Documentation, for anyone wanting to get started: https://cloud.google.com/bigquery/docs/bigqueryml-intro . (Disclosure: I'm on the BigQuery team)
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Google adds machine-learning capabilities to its BigQuery cloud data warehouse(geekwire.com)
18 points by havermeyer 8y ago|1 comments
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by havermeyer 9y ago
Android too :) It holds up really well considering its age. https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.atari.mobi...
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by havermeyer 9y ago
This is how CTEs work in BigQuery (using standard SQL), for example. There are advantages and disadvantages both ways, but the benefit of making CTEs behave like subqueries is that the query engine can push down filters into table scans.
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by havermeyer 10y ago
It should work fine either way. Using standard SQL in BigQuery, though, you can do: #standardSQL SELECT pop, repo_name, path FROM ( SELECT id, repo_name, path FROM `bigquery-public-data.github_repos.files` AS files
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by havermeyer 10y ago
It has the same basis as standard SQL in BigQuery: https://cloud.google.com/bigquery/docs/reference/standard-sq...