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by hintymad 3y ago
Any insights on how effective the CEO and the executives were? I'm very curious how successful executives from big companies like Amazon function in a startup.
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by hintymad 3y ago
In that case I'll have to log in to each account, find the right place to download data, download them, and import them to my tax system. I'd rather have a turn-key solution. And I definitely have no interest of writing a program
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by hintymad 3y ago
Will this system integrate with all the banks, exchanges, registered businesses, and etc? I find that 90% of the time spent on tax filing is gathering data. Turbotax does offer some integration, but the experience was not necessarily smooth
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by hintymad 3y ago
This reminds me of the hay days of Bolt. For ever new hire, their managers and directors and VPs and what not would post something effusive and congratulatory. It's kinda comical and tiring.
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by hintymad 3y ago
Yeah, Maryland must offer courses on system building, just like dozens of excellent US universities. I suspect that skills of system design come with experience, and not every student can master the basics in schools. Indeed, not every stud
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Why a Computer Science Degree Isn't Enough(levelup.gitconnected.com)
3 points by hintymad 3y ago|5 comments
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by hintymad 3y ago
Sometimes I find such articles not convincing. Of course good universities prepare students for building complex systems. CMU's 15-721 is a fabulous course to show students how to build a database end-to-end. MIT's 6.172 gave stud
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by hintymad 3y ago
My personal experience is that it's still as hard as before to get qualified engineers. I saw so many candidates who are really just box-drawing warriors or glorified coordinators who couldn't make coherent technical decisions. &q
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by hintymad 3y ago
I'll assume that OpenAI does not offer $1 of service for less than $1, at least not after certain scale of economy. If that assumption is true, then OpenAI goes back to the core of the valley: building insanely great product that solve
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by hintymad 3y ago
Amazing. And thanks for clarification
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by hintymad 3y ago
Does Google Cloud Spanner use the Spanner database per the 2013 paper? Or does Google simply use the brand and implement a cheaper and more performant db under the hood? I suspect it is the latter because most companies do not need global c
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by hintymad 3y ago
> was that one of the increasingly common "management consulting" / investor- & revenue-focused type of gaming executives My read of this debacle is that the Unity CEO did not pay attention to details. It's as if
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by hintymad 3y ago
> I think most of these questions are first and most importantly _hardware_, _money_ and _physics_ questions. Actually, money (more accurately, cost) is a constraint instead of a resource. S3 is known for its low cost, and S3 can easily
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by hintymad 3y ago
I wish there are authoritative books or papers on how to build object stores like S3 or software-defined storage in general. It looks object stores in public clouds have been so successful that few companies or research groups have been wor
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by hintymad 3y ago
"A new scientific truth does not triumph by convincing its opponents and making them see the light, but rather because its opponents eventually die, and a new generation grows up that is familiar with it" -- Max Planck
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by hintymad 3y ago
Teams big companies are already distributed across time zones, effectively forcing their employees working remotely. It's quite common for an org to have office in NYC, in Bay Area, in a tech hub in Europe, and in an Indian city. Meeti
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by hintymad 3y ago
I personally enjoy RTO, but I don't buy the reason of RTO, as cited by many companies, being that employees would slack off when working from home. I mean, isn't the art of managing output is to set the right OKRs or KPIs or whate
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by hintymad 3y ago
A $5000 price tag with $600 annual fee would mean oh my god, why am I still using whiteboard now? Apparently jamboard is not that good yet.
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by hintymad 3y ago
It cost Lockheed $3.5M, or about $37M today to build the prototype. It was actually under budget.
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by hintymad 3y ago
> Of course, AWS claims that AWS personnel doesn’t have direct access to customer data, but by being closed-source, that statement is just a function of trust. I'm not sure if this is a strong enough argument. Given the state of mat
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by hintymad 3y ago
What happens to the mantra that "database as a queue is harmful"[1]? Of course Amazon teams internally use DynamoDB for all kinds of queues, which implies that we get to do a lot of things easily if we get a super robust storage s
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by hintymad 3y ago
We should really give it to Meta for their tenacity. While Google canceled its projects left and right, including Google Podcasts to celebrate their 25-year birthday and Google Glass, Meta perseveres and pushes the state-of-the-art.
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by hintymad 3y ago
He's not wrong. Lockheed used to build U2 prototype that could fucking fly from ground up in 150 days with like 20 people? Now companies will build a 200-person team to build damn UI. Of course, I'm exaggerating, but that's t
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by hintymad 3y ago
Now I wonder how many those parents are willing to be in debt for kids' academic tutoring. It says a lot about American parents.
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Kids’ competitive activities lead to debt for parents(lendingtree.com)
37 points by hintymad 3y ago|50 comments
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by hintymad 3y ago
Is Unity's CEO a product guy? It appears that the CEO does not give a shit to the product, or details of pricing policy in this particular case. If so, I could never understand how a tech company would get someone who wouldn't pay
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by hintymad 3y ago
In my particular example, the cardinality of the instances (i.e., the number of of unit instance count in a query's time range) should not even matter. I was summing a counter over all the instances, and VictoriaMetrics should just add
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by hintymad 3y ago
This is puzzling. I'm not sure how VictoriaMetrics solved the cardinality problem? When running an aggregate query that sums up some counters for a single metric over the dimension of instances in a time window of larger than a few hou
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by hintymad 3y ago
Great news for companies like ClickHouse, Trino, Elasticsearch, StarRocks, Imply, and etc. If Splunk can make it 28B, some of those companies should make it too, and most likely more by eating Splunk's market.
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by hintymad 3y ago
Yeah, my comment was a half-hearted joke. That said, the idea should work though: ask the candidate of fundamentals in their line of work, and see if the candidate can have coherent understanding of the landscape and can dive into critical

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