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by manish_gill 3y ago
What's wrong with trying to get rich? Please explain.
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by manish_gill 3y ago
Amsterdam cultivated a reputation for its drug tourism. Why was that ever allowed to happen? It seems like you're angry about all the tourism - a problem a lot of other cities would love to have. The sad answer is that everyone _left_
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by manish_gill 3y ago
Why is this company always on HN frontpage - ironically for their bad services? Normally, poor service from a provider isn't grounds for such attention - but seems like Fly.io has not done anything great. They still continue to get lov
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by manish_gill 3y ago
Some old posts (including one that made it top of HN once upon a time!) here: https://parallelthoughts.xyz/
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by manish_gill 3y ago
Seems like a very similar use-case like Zookeeper - use it for distributed coordination / consistency etc and build your actual database on top of it.
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by manish_gill 3y ago
You assume that I haven't traveled the entire country. I have. I've been to many places that you describe and have friends in those cities. Student towns are sort of a bubble, they don't count. The rest of Germany as you put
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by manish_gill 3y ago
Not really. Everything she described - the feeling of being unwelcome, comments about your language skills (even when you're learning and trying), being stared at, the utterly ridiculous bureaucracy - all of these experiences are tru
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by manish_gill 4y ago
On the question of roasted vs not: I believe they simply need to be _dry_. Typically this can be achieved by either soaking the individual spices out in the heat, or a partial roast.
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by manish_gill 4y ago
Great idea! I would use it without a second thought if this could take my notes and push them into the my Daily Obsidian note, along with timestamps. :D
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by manish_gill 4y ago
I'm also based in Berlin. Do you mind if I ask what companies are you talking to?
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by manish_gill 4y ago
I love HN. Getting a dentist recommendation in the city I live in from a fellow hacker is something that can only happen here. PS: sent you a message. Would love to get more info :D
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by manish_gill 4y ago
This is timely. I've been to a Dentist in India who's suggested that I get a complicated procedure done, and I figured that since I'm living in Berlin right now, I might as well do it here - I've yet to make a Dental app
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by manish_gill 4y ago
It was more of an observation by looking at most production systems, reading tons of docs, talking to a LOT of people who built the legacy - the stuff that's on your phone and in your car right now - and building a few modern systems o
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by manish_gill 4y ago
I have worked in a Maps company - with the core business model being literally - building maps and adding traffic services. The sort of thing that's provided as the Graph 101 example. I can assure you, nobody used any Graph database to
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by manish_gill 4y ago
Thanks. Her German is A2 already. The problem is that companies here expect professional C1-C2 level, which will take some time. And yeah, great idea re: jobs for Dutch companies. Will definitely check that out!
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by manish_gill 4y ago
Since this thread is the most relevant - my partner has been struggling for a long time to get going into the field as a Data Analyst/BI analyst doing SQL, Tableau, Excel and (beginner) Python/Pandas. She has been hunting for jun
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by manish_gill 4y ago
Living here for 3 years, I think I can “appreciate” that.
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by manish_gill 4y ago
I’m writing this from a German train (Regional Bahn, not even the ICE), and it does have air conditioning. Not too crowded, smooth journey for the past 2 hours. I’ve travelled all across Europe, and German trains aren’t what I would call “l
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by manish_gill 4y ago
What tool was used to create the visuals?
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by manish_gill 4y ago
Something I've been asking for a long time as well. Java/JVM are great, but it would be great to see _some_ diversity in the Big Data ecosystem when it comes to implementations. :)
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by manish_gill 4y ago
Delta metadata based min/max statistics, Parquet row groups and min/max in-file, combined with the right combination of bucketing and sorting, allowed us to actually ignore all partitioning and drastically improve performance on P
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by manish_gill 4y ago
I actually recently suffered (am still suffering from?) a burning caused by the combination - super high stress combined with absolutely no progress, "busywork" and literally a feeling like a plumber whose job is to "support&
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by manish_gill 4y ago
Unfortunately I don't have numbers on hand. We approximated our Postgres would ingest around 1 TB over the course of a year, later I think? I could be wildly wrong. It's been more than 5 years but from what I remember, it definite
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by manish_gill 4y ago
One of my previous employers was using SQLite as a large distributed database - they had their own custom sharding strategy, but essentially the idea was to shard A accounts * B tables * C num_of_days with a .db file for every shard. When I
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by manish_gill 5y ago
http://www.jemarch.net/poke
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by manish_gill 5y ago
Being a bad haggler, I typically just always say Yes to the first price I'm asked to pay. I wonder how this changes across different countries. I know in India, there's a lot of flexibility in negotiation/haggling prices. But
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by manish_gill 5y ago
Relevant Book: https://www.databass.dev/
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by manish_gill 5y ago
Care to elaborate?
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by manish_gill 5y ago
https://www.livemint.com/Leisure/3u2QUPuXBEFPaBQXU2R8mJ/When... I'll edit this with more links later, it's 3am in my TZ atm.
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by manish_gill 5y ago
Yeah, as a Sikh from Delhi, I can confirm that you've read the fairy tale version. Caste is ever present in Sikhism.

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