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The Guy Who Invented Those Annoying Password Rules Now Regrets Wasting Your Time(gizmodo.com)
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by kfk 7y ago
Here you go: https://casea1euro.it/case-a-1-euro-in-sardegna-a-15-minuti-... You buy the house for 1 euro but then you have to fix it. So I guess you have to invest few thousands.
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by kfk 7y ago
The idea is sound. There are a lot of amazing places in Italy where I am from. Some of these towns sell houses for few thousands. Just think about it. No traffic. No over-crowded restaurants. Your own property. Sun. Sea side. I think this i
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by kfk 7y ago
Most companies don’t even have an up to date security model for this types of things. IOT very likely requires very flexible but strict row level security on ALL applications. Security should probably be on the data layer but that’s easy to
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by kfk 7y ago
Python, Redshift, Tableau. But if you are starting from scratch I’d suggest to focus on the etl piece with python and send pdf reports generated with latex. Too many people get distracted by the fancy reporting stuff and don’t do the 2 thin
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by kfk 7y ago
This is crazy, so we are seriously adding 8 times the number of satellites without having a clear understanding of the impact this would be on things like... being able to see soon enough asteroids coming towards Earth? I don't get it.
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by kfk 7y ago
Do you have a personal contact? You seem to also be interested in similar things as me. By the way if you are ok with a bit of custom code you can do a lot of what airflow/prefect do with dask.delayed
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by kfk 7y ago
Yes for things that are easy to isolate like dashboards and pdf reports buying solutions is good. But for things that need orchestration of various tools open source tends to work better for me.
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by kfk 7y ago
Yes. Well the trick is using Dask with a @retry decorator. You can listen for changes on api's and sql tables easily with a while loop. Scheduling is easy, triggering, retrying and notifying are the harder parts.
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by kfk 7y ago
I do this with my team with github issues. They get a daily reminder of issues older than 5 days. We are not getting more done, but we are more aware of what needs to be done and close issues that are just a nice to have. Accountability wor
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by kfk 7y ago
We use anaconda just as a python distribution on Windows. I think if you want a real data analytics setup which works well on all individual platforms then it's best to just build a docker-compose file. I was given a Dataiku presentati
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by kfk 7y ago
Just wanted to say few random things here. I have been moving my team of 8 analysts from Alteryx to Python/Jupyter for data analytics and preparation. While things have been a bit rough we are happy with how easy is to use those tools.
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by kfk 7y ago
Well let me rant a bit. I have been living in Germany 9 years. My gut feeling is that here if technology is not about diesel engines then it is considered more of a problem than a resource. Something to be worried about in a world that is g
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by kfk 7y ago
I think by lake they mean s3 and similar alternatives (like hdf is for hadoop). This is not crazy as processing s3 files is quite easy. What you say is true but the problem is that no analyst deals only with one db, they have to deal with a
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by kfk 7y ago
By the way prefect is mostly a wrapper around dask.delayed
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by kfk 7y ago
Well I get it and I use aws too, but how are we supposed to fund new software then? Seems like aws will commoditize everything. Also aws is not necessarily offering the best solution either. In the analytics space they push stuff like Glue
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by kfk 7y ago
The author’s writing is engaging but he doesn’t really offer any solutions. Apparently AWS is amazing and open source software businesses are not treating their customers well enough, not sure how this is useful to open source companies try
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by kfk 7y ago
Since we are on this topic, any good libraries to create diagrams? I have lots of python functions which one day would love to make available into an visual programming tool diagram type.
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by kfk 7y ago
Thanks for your reply. Open source is great but most of the time you need to put together a solution which requires the orchestration of multiple open source libraries and solutions. For instance, with analytics you need Python, Pandas, Das
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by kfk 7y ago
I am also taking a look at this problem from an analytics point of view (python, pandas, jupyter, dask, etc). My thinking so far is that it would make a lot of sense to offer 1:1 support but also services around a reference architecture mad
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by kfk 7y ago
The appeal of the cloud is less IT politics which in big company is a serious problem. Business Units can sidestep IT and go “self service” and spare a lot of pain and time in dealing with IT. I don’t think any serious manager going into th
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by kfk 7y ago
This is missing the point. End users are clueless about what they need in a software solution. Take a sales pipeline, it's made of sales opportunities. Easy, right? Try to get 50 sales managers across various countries to agree on what
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by kfk 7y ago
I work mostly in Python for data analytics but I like to play with front end from time to time. So I tried elm. I loved learning about the elm architecture and the concepts of a ml type of language. But the community and the principles of i
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by kfk 7y ago
Yes as long as they have a problem they care about and you can show you solved similar issues in the past they will most likely say yes. Also in the software industry people read quite a lot so they love the idea of a carefully drafted docu
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by kfk 7y ago
Here is something nobody mentions that seems to work. Do assessments. You charge $2k for a 2-3 days assessment. If you have relevant experience this is a very cheap and appealing offer to a company looking to improve xyz practice. During th
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by kfk 7y ago
Yes it is. You are maybe not considering the challenge of putting all those accommodations across the globe in one place. Accommodation providers don’t care about how they fill up their rooms as long as they get filled. Booking, contrary to
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by kfk 7y ago
I agree on the premise: yes eventually every analysis needs to become an app. Also let me add: no, dashboards are not going to cut it, they don't offer enough interactivity. I also love that the app here is a script and hence can be ve
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by kfk 7y ago
Random facts from living 3 months there on why this could be a high potential country: * 10% income tax (second lowest in EU), 5% dividend tax * Very low costs of living (rent is 300-400 eur for a flat in Sofia) * Relatively easy to start c
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by kfk 7y ago
Up to net 4000-5000 from what I have heard. Rent is 300-400 eur in the city center. Dinner is 15 euros, lunch 5-8 euros. A decent apartment is 100-150k.
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Hey this is great. It might not be super polished but the book titles I have found so far are amazing. It might just be we like the same things but I am totally on board if this stays small and we have a bunch of great contributions to stac

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