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by meritt 6y ago
I find it highly entertaining a two-year old company who was founded on the basis of helping slash cloud spending found so much waste in their own AWS spend. This is not an example of dogfooding, but an example of sheer incompetency and m
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by meritt 6y ago
hunter2 is one of the best: http://bash.org/?244321
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by meritt 6y ago
> I'd expect them to pay a stipend on top of my wage, equivalent to the amount of money they save by not having office space Holy sense of entitlement. No, that's not going to happen. That's not how any of this works. You
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by meritt 6y ago
This article is a blueprint for not only creating a massive amount of technical debt, but ensuring your startup's entire opex is spent on AWS.
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by meritt 6y ago
That makes no sense. You containerize both, or you containerize neither. I wager most people from both camps (for and against containers) would agree.
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by meritt 6y ago
Nice! Does that work alongside reading in via chunks and writing via row_groups? If I have a 500GB CSV will it work?
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by meritt 6y ago
The general approach I've used in other languages is if the mysql client API is implemented correctly [1], when it encounters a closed connection, will return a CR_SERVER_GONE_ERROR error to the calling code. You catch when this type o
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by meritt 6y ago
pandas + fastparquet fairly lightweight. but yes I would love to see a simple c++/golang binary that's just a simple csv2parq call.
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by meritt 6y ago
It's about 3-4x faster with the initial implementation: foreach(range(1,20) as $j) foreach(range(1,1000000) as $i) strval($i); Running on my low-end EC2 box: php7.3 py.php == 1.258s python2 py.py
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by meritt 6y ago
> How much of these is really still relevant All of it? A very small chunk of these slides are even about bash scripts. Most of it is about standard unix commands and pipe and redirection operators.
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by meritt 6y ago
Try opening a moderately large (even 2MB) .json file in VSCode, and then do the same in sublime. VSCode very quickly freezes because it cannot handle a file that size. Sublime not only opens it but syntax highlights immediately.
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by meritt 6y ago
https://steamspy.com/year/ 8,243 games were released on Steam in 2019 and 3,434 so far in 2020. Unless you approach indie development like a business and you have a concrete plan for gaining a following, your chances o
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by meritt 6y ago
I was referring to https://mail.edison.tech/ , but they compete with unroll.me (rakuten intelligence) in selling people's emails.
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by meritt 6y ago
Yeah, it's not just emails of course. You can do it with web traffic data. You can do it with credit card data. You can do it with geolocation data. You can do it with TV viewing data.
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by meritt 6y ago
> Ultimately, free is the culprit. No, it isn't. Consumer data being sold in a completely unregulated manner is the culprit. Paying for the product or service has nothing to do with whether or not your data is being sold.
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by meritt 6y ago
Correct. This "if the product is free, then you're the product!" thinking needs to go away. The reality is numerous companies sell your data today, regardless if you're paying for the service or not.
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by meritt 6y ago
Anonymization in the data reselling industry is often some form of md5(lower($email)). It's a joke. They even do that for extremely small search spaces like phone numbers. It's still provided at the individual user-level and even
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by meritt 6y ago
> Why is it amusing? Because Uber's market cap is indeed egregious, but not nearly as inflated as Tesla. So it's amusing when people like yourself rationally find issue with Uber, but cannot find any flaw in the valuation of Te
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by meritt 6y ago
> I've been staying away from Uber stock because they have a market cap of 50B Not defending Uber here in the slightest, but given your post history on Tesla, I find it amusing you think Uber's market cap is egregious
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by meritt 6y ago
Avoid being an early adopter of new technology despite everyone on HN raving about it. Instead focus on solving actual business needs that grow revenue or profit margins.
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by meritt 6y ago
It's already happening across social media, just with software a whole lot more advanced than this.
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by meritt 6y ago
Most people have no idea what an optimization fence is and opt for CTEs because they yield "cleaner" queries, despite nearly always killing performance. I've always found explicit temporary tables, where I can add indexes, ar
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by meritt 6y ago
> It's better to use windowing functions, I believe it should be faster than self-join. Your statement is making the assumption you have completely dense data and you can simply offset a number of rows to get the desired denominator
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by meritt 6y ago
> `is_uploaded_file` and `move_uploaded_file` are the band-aid It's not a band-aid. When a file is uploaded (see RFC 1867) via HTTP POST, PHP internally allocates a hash table that tracks which files on the filesystem have been uplo
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by meritt 6y ago
The point of this isn't asking how to apply boolean search operators, it's showing that the largest AI-focused companies in the world absolutely suck at NLP.
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by meritt 6y ago
Really? Maybe my local experience is an outlier but I've seen significantly more people cooking meals at home and exercising. The number of daily runners in my neighborhood has easily increased 10x. Are gluttony and sedentary lifestyle
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by meritt 6y ago
Uhh, wouldn't it be a lot easier for the restaurant owner to simply not partner with Grub/UberEats/Caviar/etc. Delivery cos can't charge a commission to the restaurant if you don't have an agreement with them.
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by meritt 6y ago
> So swagger is bad No, because in Swagger the first step is carefully designing exactly what the inputs and outputs are of each and every API call. Most GraphQL servers you simply point it at a database and it automatically makes your e
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by meritt 6y ago
I feel like this thread is tongue-in-cheek to make people realize that "run any query on the client side" is a terrible idea, and that's exactly what most GraphQL installations offer. As a penetration tester though I like Gra
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by meritt 6y ago
Microsoft owns Github. Microsoft owns VS Code. VS Code is superior to Atom. Do you need an official comment? It seems abundantly obvious to me. Nat is the CEO of GitHub, not Microsoft, and despite any promises made on a Reddit AMA a year ag

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