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by kyllo 7y ago
Those python ports of dplyr and ggplot2 are cool, but the problem is that they're abandoned.
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by kyllo 7y ago
Thanks for the link, this is a good formal description of the one main problem I'm seeing with this type of architecture (undeclared consumers) as well as several others I hadn't thought of.
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by kyllo 7y ago
Right, like no Analysis & Reporting Services on Linux means if you're using it for BI, you're probably still running it on Windows.
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by kyllo 7y ago
Hosting SQL Server has been another common use case for Windows Server for a long time, though it can run on Linux too now.
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by kyllo 7y ago
Mostly because it's generally recognized that inheritance was a bad idea. "Prefer composition and interfaces over inheritance" and such. Also because mutable object state is problematic--it makes a large system harder to reas
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by kyllo 7y ago
Yeah, my first two questions were: "Why don't you get the data from the upstream team's API? Have you discussed this design with them?" It also happened to me once before--a production system took a dependency on one of
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by kyllo 7y ago
Security and privacy risk are also good things to consider, thanks. Our data lake does have processes and protections in place for this (GDPR tagging and deleting, retention policies, security groups for access control) but just because my
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Is it bad for prod systems to integrate via a data lake?
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by kyllo 7y ago
I interviewed someone who worked in the IT department at one of the largest manufacturers of commercial vehicles, and a mainframe / COBOL shop. He described their development process. It involved printing out your source code, hole-pun
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by kyllo 7y ago
I had never heard of queueing theory until I read about it in a supply chain management textbook, and would have appreciated being at least aware of its existence much earlier than that. This is light, but it's a great way to introduce
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by kyllo 7y ago
"enforce the verifications across the code" is the point. I've worked with a ton of Python code that looks like this: def foo(bar): # do stuff return baz(bar) What does `foo()` return? I have to go re
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by kyllo 7y ago
You sound smart, but I don't want to have to be that smart when I'm refactoring code. I want the compiler to do as much thinking for me as possible. I want to be able to change it in one place and have type errors to remind me of
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by kyllo 7y ago
Speaking of TS, here is a good argument for static typing: >Change a front-end React prop, then follow static type errors through the statically typed API, into the backend, all the way down into the database where they force a change in
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by kyllo 7y ago
How would you compare/contrast Retool with Microsoft PowerApps? https://powerapps.microsoft.com/en-us/ (Microsoft employee here, but I don't actively use or work on the PowerApps product myself)
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by kyllo 7y ago
Java and Go today are much better to work with than Java was in, say, the early 2000s, but to realize the productivity boost of a dynamic language within a statically typechecked language, you need type inference and a REPL. You still don&#
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by kyllo 7y ago
core.typed never really caught on though, what seems more popular is Schema which focuses on annotating and validating the structure of lists and maps: https://github.com/plumatic/schema
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by kyllo 7y ago
Groovy is one language that is dynamic but also has an optional statically typechecked compilation mode.
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by kyllo 7y ago
That's debatable, I'm American and would take an offer of a "steak dinner" to literally mean steak. Even presupposing you're correct that it's generally understood by Americans as an idiom, assuming that non-Am
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by kyllo 7y ago
Pork is probably even less popular than beef among Indians. At least a lot of the Muslims eat beef, but they don't eat pork. A majority of the Hindus, Buddhists, and Sikhs eat neither. For real, any corporation employing a significant
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by kyllo 7y ago
Only about one-quarter of Indians eat beef, so it's not at all safe to assume that any random group of Indians you encounter will be majority beef-eaters.
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by kyllo 7y ago
Ah you're right, I guess I was thinking of Transatlantic, which is a shorter voyage with smaller vessels.
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by kyllo 7y ago
Something that blew my mind was learning that (depending on oil prices of course), a container ship can burn through up to a quarter million dollars worth of fuel on a single transpacific voyage.
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by kyllo 7y ago
Sure, but building a data center in a metropolis can be a lot more expensive than building it in a rural area because of other factors like higher land values, taxes, energy costs, etc. The ocean freight for Shenzhen to Lagos probably costs
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by kyllo 7y ago
Container ships have internet via satellite today but they use it only when absolutely necessary because it's very slow and expensive. If and when the cost and bandwidth of satellite internet fall to within parameters that make it comp
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by kyllo 7y ago
Logistics infrastructure is one major cost factor. To get a data center up and running requires moving large quantities of heavy, high-value, and relatively fragile equipment through ocean ports and over roads and/or railroads. In regi
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by kyllo 7y ago
For the last 6 months or so I've been tracking my time with org-mode in Emacs, and I typically get about 4-5 hours of productive time a day. The rest is taken up by meetings, e-mails, chat, coffee breaks, and task switching overhead. T
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by kyllo 7y ago
There are varying degrees of skill and competence in business analytics just like there are in software development.
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by kyllo 7y ago
To put a finer point on it, they'll pay a lot of money for tools that require less-skilled labor to operate. They will gladly spend a lot of money on Tableau to avoid paying the salary premium to have "those who program" buil
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by kyllo 7y ago
The fixation on the nuclear family and its supposed decline, is transparently reactionary ideology. The term "nuclear family" was first used in 1947 and didn't even become the most common form of household until the 1960s or
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by kyllo 7y ago
That's a base salary of $136,750 plus stock and bonus. It's a middle-class salary given the high cost of living in the region[1] and the competition for talent. It's also not at all out of line with what investment banks and

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