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by indogooner 8y ago
Have you tried Zoom?[1] Seems much better than Skype for business meetings. [1] https://zoom.us/
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by indogooner 8y ago
I don't know if you are referring to Amazon bar raisers but most of them are Dev Managers who don't write code on day-to-day basis. And this is a common problem where they don't understand the technical depth of the problem a
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A century on, why are we forgetting the deaths of 100M?(theguardian.com)
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by indogooner 8y ago
Thanks. I checked the quotas. They seem to have increased to 200 per table. Last time I checked (last year) they were pretty limiting. I like the MERGE statement though. Hope it comes out of Beta soon. The pricing is for full scan so it is
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by indogooner 8y ago
Yes but BigQuery provides read/write libraries. So you can use Spark or Apache Beam to read the data into your cluster and then process it using your framework of choice - XGBoost/SparkML etc. The predictions can then be written b
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by indogooner 8y ago
How does BigQuery support updates? IIRC in BigQuery you have to overwrite whole partitions. At least in Hive you can have secondary partitions to mitigate this.
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by indogooner 8y ago
Interesting that you say this. In my experience EC2 instances have been major part of bill. Can't comment on Snapchat scaling with just 2 guys but I have seen people trip up with managed services as well for eg. DynamoDB ( https:&#x2F
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by indogooner 8y ago
Totally agree. The expectation should be clear from the beginning. Programming while important(actually an essential tool) is only a small part of CS curriculum. A little bit of discrete math, algorithms and overview of computer architectur
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The Vatican is both the 4th roundest and 2nd most rectangular country(bigthink.com)
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by indogooner 8y ago
IMHO for basic income to succeed esp the supplemental 1k type ine should have more options of partial work. For instance I would like to work only 3 days a week and building something useful or contributing to a social cause rest of the we
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Summer weather is getting 'stuck' due to Arctic warming(theguardian.com)
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by indogooner 8y ago
Like other I would say start with a problem which interests you. To mimic the real world try to have extraction from variety of data sources (rdbms, NoSQL, files (different formats csv/json), APIs (salesforce)). Once you have different
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More Bridges will Collapse(theatlantic.com)
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by indogooner 8y ago
Agree with your points but we do need terms for various type of edge computing in our vocabulary to avoid another nebulous concept. How do you communicate with your peers - network-compute/point-compute?
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Biphasic and polyphasic sleep(en.wikipedia.org)
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by indogooner 8y ago
Visibility of benefits depends on how your engineering organization is structured. Once you have a lot of teams working with monoliths becomes very painful. Having independently deployable unit starts making more sense then. Each service ow
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India adopts 'world's strongest' net neutrality norms(bbc.com)
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by indogooner 8y ago
Yeah they should say "change the world in a small way" unless they are building something like Wikipedia or even Project Gutenberg.
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by indogooner 8y ago
Right. It would be more instructive to see what percentage of old entrepreneurs are first-timers.
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Sherlock Holmes: examining the evidence – in charts(theguardian.com)
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How to REALLY Avoid Living a Life of Quiet Desperation(artofmanliness.com)
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by indogooner 8y ago
My takeaway : "You probably want to be able to feed your children (if you have any), you probably don’t want to be driven into poverty, and you probably feel that your economic security is at least as important as your boss’s ability t
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What You Can't Say on Facebook(theatlantic.com)
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Last of newsies(mobile.nytimes.com)
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by indogooner 9y ago
Interesting view. IMHO your approach also maximizes 'productivity' as the output of your approach is a 'product' which has high utility to you but may not have same utility to others. If the utility it generates for you
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by indogooner 9y ago
Having a masters will definitely unlock more opportunities for you (both academia and industry) but there are other ways of achieving it. You can take courses online and see how you like the courses (don't have to go full throttle jus
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by indogooner 9y ago
> Without the ability to lock system A It can be done using watermarking. Let us take the database example. Assume we have a timestamp column in database A. The column can be used for syncing records to other storage system. Typical imp
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Scientific computing with N-dimensional arrays(github.com)
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by indogooner 9y ago
You are pointing out foods low in calories(which is good) but as per the link I quoted they may not be that nutritious.
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by indogooner 9y ago
This is difficult to follow in daily life although not impossible. Given that food is becoming less nutritious as per [1] taking less food will mean less nutrition which can affect general well-being. Figuring out foods high in nutrients, l

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