iblaine

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by iblaine 4y ago
A full history of DE should include some original low code tools (Cognos, Informatica, SSIS). To some extent, the failure of these tools to adopt to the evolution of the DE role has lead to our modern data stack.
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by iblaine 4y ago
In my experience, 27" monitors on top of each other will hurt your neck and/or eyes, and side by side is more comfortable.
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by iblaine 4y ago
I used github copilot for a week, got some good laughs, then never used it again. Working at a publicly traded healthcare company, it worries me that my IDE has the technical ability to snoop on my code. More than anything else, github co
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by iblaine 5y ago
http://www.iblaine.com * hosted on github * Uses a Jekyll template * minimal content, a few blog posts, projects, links to social media I've always wanted to host a unix terminal as my personal site but every gadget, featur
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by iblaine 5y ago
I had 4 monitors going w/Plugable products. I've since gone down to 2 and I would recommend Plugable to anyone looking for dual monitors on a mac.
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by iblaine 5y ago
I also have a Plugable Thunderbolt 3 Dock, currently powering two displays
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by iblaine 5y ago
One Medical | Remote or San Francisco, CA or Austin, TX | Full-time | https://www.onemedical.com/careers/ At One Medical, we are passionate about revolutionizing the healthcare industry by offering a new approach to pr
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by iblaine 5y ago
The syntax seems similar to Apache Pig. Both are declarative and primarily built to be a procedural form of SQL.
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by iblaine 5y ago
I'm losing count of all the metadata management systems being open sourced. First there was Wherehows out of LinkedIn [1]. Then there was Amundsen out of Lyft, which is now stemma.io [2]. Then there was Marquez out of WeWork [3]. N
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by iblaine 5y ago
Organizing data is a problem everyone wants to solve until they figure out the cost. It's much easier for organizations to throw data over the fence and let data engineers fend for themselves than it is to get buy-in from the top to o
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by iblaine 5y ago
Reminds me of MySpace renaming itself to My_____.
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by iblaine 5y ago
Reminds me of a situation where I worked at an affiliate network that tracked ads and commissions. Adsense was relatively new back then and I figured out how to match impressions to clicks to AdWords keywords to sales. You could approxima
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by iblaine 5y ago
>we’re seeking to allow eligible customers to earn interest on select assets on Coinbase, starting with 4% APY on USD Coin (USDC) My uneducated view of the Howie test is an investment qualifies as a security if you invest, do nothing, an
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by iblaine 5y ago
Valid point, that was some hand wavy analysis on my part. Here's a new graph [1] showing the frequency with a denominator. "remote" seems to show up in every post these days, could be something like "no remote" th
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by iblaine 5y ago
Here's a related graph [1] supporting this conclusion, that remote work has recently increased. This graph shows the frequency of "remote" in HN Who's Hiring posts over time. [1] https://iblaine.github.io&#x2
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by iblaine 5y ago
I can see this being useful for virtual sys design interviews. Having to rely on Lucicharts, Miro or Google Drawing for virtual system design interviews is usually a challenge. People have to search for icons, name them, draw associations
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by iblaine 5y ago
> the writing of said logic becomes the responsibility of the team who owns that particular domain Thanks, that much makes sense. I'm still not buying into the idea of a Data Mesh, mostly because pushing costly requirements upstrea
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by iblaine 5y ago
My understanding of a Data Mesh is it's an approach to turn data into a product, much like you would create an API to interface with a service. A Data Mesh is additional business logic to make data easier to understand, at the cost of
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by iblaine 5y ago
We evolved our guidelines for data modeling to something that closely resembles Kimball, but it's not Kimball. Some of our ETLs were created by people that were not familiar with Kimball. We went about defining new data modeling guid
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by iblaine 5y ago
I'm a bit opinionated on data modelling, so a couple points. 1. "OLAP Cubes" arguably belong to Microsoft and refer to SQL Server cubes that require MDX queries. It's a solution given to us by Microsoft that comes with
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by iblaine 5y ago
One Medical | Remote or San Francisco, CA or Austin, TX | Full-time | https://www.onemedical.com/careers/ At One Medical, we are passionate about revolutionizing the healthcare industry by offering a new approach to pr
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by iblaine 5y ago
Reddit seems destined to follow in Digg's footsteps. The negative feedback on the reddit redesign and the reddit app has been building for years, and they continue to push it. The motivation is puzzling. Are executives knowingly pus
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by iblaine 5y ago
> Every time I come back to those parts of the program, I am happy I made the effort to add a comment – they have been very helpful! Exactly. Rarely hear someone say there are too many comments in this code! And feel free to not stop a
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by iblaine 5y ago
I was a Cloudera client in 2015. I've since moved to company where we did on prem (thousands of nodes) then another AWS shop. Each case was an example of a superior solution to Cloudera. Cloudera's market seems to be shrinking
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by iblaine 5y ago
One Medical | Remote or San Francisco, CA or Austin, TX | Full-time | https://www.onemedical.com/careers/ At One Medical, we are passionate about revolutionizing the healthcare industry by offering a new approach to pr
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by iblaine 5y ago
LinkedIn influences are an upgrade over LinkedIn Groups, such that groups are overrun with spam from recruiters. Which is to say LinkedIn Influences are not as bad as some alternatives.
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by iblaine 5y ago
One Medical | Remote or San Francisco, CA or Austin, TX | Full-time | https://www.onemedical.com/careers/ At One Medical, we are passionate about revolutionizing the healthcare industry by offering a new approach to pr
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by iblaine 5y ago
Anyone else still seeing consistency problems w/S3 & EMR? The latest AWS re:Invent made it sound like this would be fixed but as of yesterday I was still using emrfs to correct S3 consistency problems.
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by iblaine 6y ago
"Best practices for writing SQL queries in metabase" should be the title here. 10 or so years ago when SQL Server, Oracle & MySQL dominated the industry, you could talk about SQL optimization with the expectation that all advi
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by iblaine 6y ago
One Medical | San Francisco, CA or Austin, TX | Full-time | https://www.onemedical.com/careers/ At One Medical, we are passionate about revolutionizing the healthcare industry by offering a new approach to primary care

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