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by jdreaver 6y ago
I've always wondered if there is a business opportunity here: a company that monitors social media for all mentions of your business and pings you about it. Maybe this already exists?
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by jdreaver 6y ago
I have a BS and MS in mechanical engineering. I started working on simulation software, and now I work in edtech. This is an interesting thread, but my advice is to never take comments on the internet as any sort of representative sample. I
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by jdreaver 6y ago
I've been using org-mode for over a decade now. I'll be honest, if you aren't using Emacs regularly, I wouldn't recommend using it just for org-mode. I will say that org-mode was one of the things that got me into Emacs
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by jdreaver 6y ago
As someone with an infant and a toddler, working from home, this hits the nail on the head. I have been working remotely my whole career, and I love it, but working at home _with_ children there is about 5x harder.
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by jdreaver 7y ago
I just wanted to pop in and say Meltano looks awesome! Good luck with it.
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by jdreaver 7y ago
I was born in and still live in Glen Avon. Seeing this little town on HN is a surprise, to be sure. Feeling a few earthquakes a day has been an interesting experience. It has been going on for days now, and quite a few people are on edge. I
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by jdreaver 7y ago
That's not how I'm reading that quote at all. Saying Bayesian stats can solve real problems doesn't imply frequentist stats can't.
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by jdreaver 7y ago
Huge +1 to leveraging SQL as much as possible during ETL. We recently moved our data warehouse to Snowflake. Along the way, we adopted an ELT paradigm instead of ETL, where you load your raw data into the warehouse and then perform any tran
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by jdreaver 7y ago
Get over yourself. This is a well-written article in which the author lays out their thought process for optimizing a slow SQL query. The article certainly provides more value to someone who may not be an RDBMS expert than your comment does
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by jdreaver 7y ago
No one has mentioned it? Did you read the article? The article discusses exactly what you just said.
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by jdreaver 8y ago
For Aurora we are on a db.r4.8xlarge, which is ~$3340 per month for the instance alone. Aurora also charges for IOPS against storage, and we pay about $350 per month for those IOPS. Our DB is ~400 GB, so ~$40 per month for that as well. I a
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by jdreaver 8y ago
We just switched to Aurora Postgres, and I agree wholeheartedly. The main DB client is a web app with ~4000 txns/second, and we instantly got a ~30% performance boost. We also got much more consistent performance for our slower queries
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by jdreaver 8y ago
You either haven't read the book or you you misunderstand how much of the book is Austrian economics. Yes, modern Austrian economics is considered fringe. However, historically the foundational results of early Austrian economics has b
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by jdreaver 8y ago
You should read the paper :) Modular implicits are not the same as Scala implicit arguments. Gluon probably just chose the name "implicit arguments" because it corresponds better to their variation on modular implicits.
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by jdreaver 8y ago
> if it supports first class functions, passing around no arg functions is harder than it should be. Can you expand on that? How does no parens make it harder to pass around first class functions? In Gluon (and in Haskell, Purecsript, Id
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by jdreaver 8y ago
These symbols are part of the definition of the Applicative type class in Haskell http://hackage.haskell.org/package/base-4.11.1.0/docs/Contro...
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by jdreaver 8y ago
Gluon recently added implicit arguments with the latest release (see http://marwes.github.io/2018/06/19/gluon-0.8.html ). In spirit it is like modular implicits ( https://arxiv.org/pdf/1512
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by jdreaver 9y ago
It's a bit sickening how dismissive the author is to brush aside the impact of inflation on this plan. Inflation is a direct tax on the poor who are trying to save money. Great, let's give them jobs that are dependent on inflation
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by jdreaver 9y ago
I really hope AWS X-Ray gets on board with this. I just finished making a library to integrate X-Ray with our Haskell applications and then realized OpenTracing exists. I would love to be able to easily support more tracing backends.
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by jdreaver 9y ago
I can second the shellcheck recommendation. Shellcheck makes great recommendations, and every suggestion has a corresponding code you can google to get to a detailed explanation of why that is considered a warning or error. Hell, even if I
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by jdreaver 9y ago
You are reading into that way too much. The author is just saying the syntax is a lot different than languages you have probably used before.
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by jdreaver 10y ago
I have two coworkers that just had to get replacement keyboards for their System76 laptops. They have to replace them themselves as well.
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by jdreaver 10y ago
If you enjoyed this talk then I highly recommend you also go down the rabbit holes of Event Sourcing (see https://martinfowler.com/eaaDev/EventSourcing.html ) and CQRS. The idea of separating your writes from your reads
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by jdreaver 10y ago
My point is it's never the same. No two technological advances are the same. We should be celebrating the fact that labor-saving tech is freeing us from mundane jobs. The goods produced by those jobs will be cheaper for everyone. Tec
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by jdreaver 10y ago
> The free market still hasn't figured out a solution to that particular problem last I checked. Interesting, I think the entire industrial revolution is a very strong counter example to that statement. We repeatedly automated the m
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by jdreaver 10y ago
Writing compilers for fun is not relevant to HN? Get off your high horse, this project is really cool!
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by jdreaver 10y ago
> They don't tell you, at compile time, when you're building an invalid/unrepresentable SQL query. Sure they do, with a proper library. Haskell's persistent library does this very well.
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by jdreaver 10y ago
Hmm, this seems like a pretty big bug in connection draining. I feel like one instance per AZ is a pretty common scenario. Great article!
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by jdreaver 11y ago
I've found that whenever I start a small web project in a new language, I always look for the "Flask" of that language. I love using a framework that gives the bare essentials and nothing else. I don't use Rust, but your
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by jdreaver 11y ago
I think that contact page remembers the last repo you visited. I went to it in incognito mode and is wasn't there. That's a pretty neat feature!

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