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by mattewong 4y ago
I wanted so much to use csvkit and all the features it had, but its horrendous performance made it unscalable and therefore the more I used it, the more technical debt I accumulated. This was one of the reasons I wrote zsv ( https:/&#x
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by mattewong 4y ago
FYI: https://github.com/BurntSushi/xsv is much faster than mlr (like an order of magnitude), and zsv ( https://github.com/liquidaty/zsv ) is even faster. But, neither support formulas. Disclaimer:
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by mattewong 4y ago
https://github.com/liquidaty/zsv
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by mattewong 4y ago
If you think it is not good for producers and consumers, you are not disagreeing with me as much as with economic theory. Personally, I think there are many distortions in practice that can lead to exceptions, but that in the bigger picture
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by mattewong 4y ago
Re car manufacturers using remote "unlock" pricing, I will admit to being horrified when I first heard about it. Unfortunately for my emotions, there is a strong argument to support this new pricing approach-- which might be BS in
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A Sign That Tuition Is Too High: Some Colleges Are Slashing It in Half(nytimes.com)
6 points by mattewong 4y ago|1 comments
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by mattewong 4y ago
Thank you for posting this. Is there any way to access a Xet dataset via a URL (assuming the dataset owner has opted to share in that manner) so that, for example, one could visit a web page that contains some embedded code (JS, WASM etc) w
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Writing-Focused Startups Draw Big Bucks(news.crunchbase.com)
2 points by mattewong 4y ago|1 comments
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by mattewong 4y ago
"For years, tech writers have been warning about how AI will eliminate the need for all kinds of human-staffed professions from truck driving to portfolio management. Turns out, the AI bots are really coming for us."
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by mattewong 4y ago
> One gets the sense that [the authors] think the consultants they write about are rotten apples, but [they are wrong] OK I paraphrased the rest of the sentence into the last 3 words but if you bothered to read to the end, you see that t
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An ode to software products over software services(world.hey.com)
4 points by mattewong 4y ago|0 comments
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by mattewong 4y ago
> to beat 99% of its long-short equity fund peers this year Titling an article on a fund's relative performance from a mere 11 months is a pretty amateur click-bait move. For obvious reasons, no fund would ever be legally allowed to
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Is it time to thin the unicorn herd?(pitchbook.com)
1 points by mattewong 4y ago|0 comments
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by mattewong 4y ago
Thank you, had not heard of him and found some useful info in various places including: https://usesthis.com/interviews/andreas.kling/
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by mattewong 4y ago
interesting, had no idea of those limitations / considerations in competitive programming
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by mattewong 4y ago
Great resource, thank you!
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by mattewong 4y ago
That's another one I hadn't seen before. thanks!
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by mattewong 4y ago
From what I gather, Zuckerberg used emacs, so unless that information is wrong, then he would not be a responsive answer to this question. Thanks anyway
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by mattewong 4y ago
Had not seen that before thank you!
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Ask HN: What modern “legendary” programmer prefers IDE other than Vim or Emacs?
8 points by mattewong 4y ago|25 comments
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by mattewong 4y ago
Many reasons it is true, including i) for anyone with the talent to do so, the "rational" thing to do, generally, is not to become an entrepreneur given the risk/reward/effort, and ii) if they are not contrarian, then th
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by mattewong 4y ago
Thank you, my bad. I thought I had read the guidelines but apparently missed that part. Apparently I can no longer change the title-- otherwise I would now-- but will to properly do so going forward.
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by mattewong 4y ago
Is it discouraged here to title the submission based on a statement within the linked article rather than its actual title? I ask in all seriousness-- I'm still kind of new to this site. The point that I think is worth emphasizing is n
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Big Data Is Dead(motherduck.com)
4 points by mattewong 4y ago|7 comments
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by mattewong 4y ago
> The fact is, ‘Big Data’ is dead [...] Cloud data vendors are focused on performance of 100TB queries, which is [...] irrelevant for the vast majority of users
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by mattewong 4y ago
>around 70% of our serious security bugs are memory safety problems Is there any information available to assess what portion of that 70% was, or could have been, identified through static code analysis, sanitizers and other memory-safet
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It’s not a data lake, it’s a peat bog(benn.substack.com)
2 points by mattewong 4y ago|0 comments
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by mattewong 4y ago
"The hubris is that PHBs and spreadsheet jockeys think they understand my job better than I do": where are you imagining these things from? Who ever said they understand YOUR job better than you? I think it's safe to say, the
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by mattewong 4y ago
imho these comments demonstrate an insane level of hubris that is difficult to find in any truly talented engineer
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by mattewong 4y ago
TL/DR: xsv is probably what you want, or maybe zsv and/or awk awk can do this super easily. Here's an example snippet that not only shards, but compresses your shards. ``` (NR - 1) % shard_size == 0 { # ready to start a new s

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