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by jmngomes 9y ago
Here's a helpful link to understand their success: https://blog.fivetran.com/warehouse-benchmark-dce9f4c529c1 Essentially, their product is (at least) on par with major competitors like Google and AWS, no small feat fo
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by jmngomes 9y ago
Also curious about this, and would add OpenTSDB to that list.
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by jmngomes 9y ago
>> two vCPUs (not one) Two Intel Avoton cores, quite inferior to the Xeons that power Hetzner's vCPU. (assuming they are in stock) I wrote this in detail on another reply, but Scaleway's "customer support" forums w
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by jmngomes 9y ago
Me neither. I upvoted it.
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Scaleway's "customer support" forums will give you a good grasp of what you're in for if you buy their service. I'll quote a different customer's opinion (on those forums) that summarizes my experience using th
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by jmngomes 9y ago
Thank you, that wasn't clear from my previous interactions. It would be great to have an EOL warning at least a few months before a service line is discontinued, just to provide enough time for customers to move critical/productio
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by jmngomes 9y ago
I was just speaking with their customer support about this and it appears (if I understood correctly) that this offering will be replacing the current CX line, which has a lot of SSD space at a competitive price (unlike the new offering). S
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Hence my use of the word "eventually". "It's very basic but you can use the model as a benchmark" is actually the pitch you get from AWS.
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Similar to Amazon's ML: https://aws.amazon.com/aml/details/ Eventually useful for building a very basic model to serve as a benchmark for a real model.
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'a Lockheed vice president a “digital transformation” arising from recent computing capabilities and design tools had made hypersonic development possible.' The "digital transformation" part alone gives this up as vaporw
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I didn't cite any because - correct me if I'm wrong - the issue of how bad posture affects the human skeleton is a solved problem, i.e. it's basic common knowledge that can easily be found online or discussed with a medical d
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by jmngomes 9y ago
There are widely available sources and studies on the subject of how bad posture is destructive to the human skeleton...
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by jmngomes 9y ago
One thing that has always impressed me: how did Spotify obtain licenses for such a massive, international catalog of popular (and often, rare) music. Can anyone shed some light, e.g. who led this effort, what made it possible?
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Kotlin and Android(developer.android.com)
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Buffer's new remote-first salary formula and calculator(open.buffer.com)
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My point was that gender equality is far from a solved problem in Europe (unlike the previous post claimed in "just like nearly every country in Europe 100 years ago."). To me, what actually sounds ridiculous is to dismiss the pro
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by jmngomes 9y ago
>> Saudi Arabia viewed cleaning as women's work, sure, just like nearly every country in Europe 100 years ago. Gender equality is still a big problem in Europe, actually: https://www.oecd.org/inequality.htm#gender
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Apache OpenWhisk – a serverless, open source cloud platform(openwhisk.apache.org)
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Because the knowledge required to fix, update or port these programs is almost completely owned by the programmers that developed them, who are in the process of retiring or are unwilling to share knowledge for (justified) fear of losing th
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A programmer wrote scripts to secretly automate a lot of his job(github.com)
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Well, it's an embeddable comment system that doesn't track its users, unlike major "players" like Disqus or Facebook. If you're struggling to grasp the importance of plug-ins for commentators, there's a good ex
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by jmngomes 9y ago
Actually, their work seems to be focused on dispelling the common disbelief in these kind of applications for technology. From the abstract: "Additionally, given that companies and governments are increasingly using computer vision alg
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by jmngomes 9y ago
https://www.vpsbenchmarks.com has benchmarks on the leading cloud providers.
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Why do you think that people raising ethical concerns about business practices is not constructive?
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Probably because scraping by search engines is a transaction that benefits both sides, as search engines bring traffic to the content's source. "it's naughty for anyone else to do it" if that everyone are companies tha
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Cisco Survey: Close to Three-Fourths of IoT Projects Are Failing(newsroom.cisco.com)
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VALCRI – Visual Analytics for CRiminal Intelligence(springwise.com)
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by jmngomes 9y ago
It looks simple to me: that remark was not professional, it's something you'd say to a friend, ideally one with whom you share a relationship close enough to allow for remarks like that one. If you stick to professional interactio
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France fines Facebook over 'targeted advertising'(dw.com)
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Almost 10 percent of Dublin workers are software developers(irishtechnews.ie)
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