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by pocket_cheese 4y ago
There are peer reviewed studies on this subject and they confirm that trans people are significantly more likely to experience housing insecurity.
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by pocket_cheese 4y ago
I've never had random people on the street threaten to beat my ass or make violent threats towards me before my transition, and now it happens a couple times a year. I also way to many trans friends that are homeless because their cons
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by pocket_cheese 4y ago
Non competes are becoming less and less enforceable in the US. I left my old company and wanted to start a competing business in a different vertical in the e-commerce space. What actually stopped me was the privacy and inventions and non d
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by pocket_cheese 4y ago
For an MVP I'm building, I'm using retool as the frontend, Flask hosted on appengine as the backend, cloud functions for async task execution, and a managed CloudSql postgres instance for the data layer. I suck at UI/UX desig
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by pocket_cheese 4y ago
If the average cost of those employees is 150k usd, then it's 1.8 billion. I imagine it's probably much higher than 150k depending on how many were US based engineers. If they make 55ish billion this year, I think it makes a prett
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by pocket_cheese 4y ago
I like to categorize jobs into 3 tiers. Tier 1: Outrageous comp and difficult interviews. Tier 2: Great comp and medium level difficulty interviews. Tier 3: Companies that pay at or below average for an engineer and sometimes don't e
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by pocket_cheese 4y ago
Web scraping. I love figuring out how to reverse engineer websites and defeat systems designed against web scrapers. It's also super interesting (concerning?) how much data websites leak. 4 out of the 5 bug bounties I've discovere
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by pocket_cheese 4y ago
There's companies like Paxos that are actually audited and have a token PAXG that is backed 1:1 with actual gold reserves. The tokens themselves actually have serial numbers that are linked to a physical gold bar.
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by pocket_cheese 4y ago
There's actually a spec for this, but only like 20% of companies follow it https://github.com/InteractiveAdvertisingBureau/USPrivacy/bl... There's also a requirement that you have to delete data from dow
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by pocket_cheese 4y ago
I dabble in adult content creation and could absolutely get fired for it. It's not exactly a vice though.
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by pocket_cheese 4y ago
I've had the pleasure of working with a world class infra team that managed our Airflow setup on Kubernetes and this made working with it a wonderful experience. At the same time, early in my career, I used Airflow with a team that did
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by pocket_cheese 4y ago
I don't trust big tech to regulate truth, but let's not dismiss misinformation with such broad strokes. There are deliberate attempts by politically and monetarily motivated groups to spread objectively false propaganda. FUD/
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by pocket_cheese 4y ago
A federated marketplace for scrapers is an idea I have thought considerably about. If you have time, I would love to chat to a) discuss being a paying user and b) to talk about the industry and see how we could submit some scrapers. Let me
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by pocket_cheese 5y ago
I have worked for FAANG without a diploma. While it is rare, you can definitely do it if you grind enough leet code :D
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by pocket_cheese 5y ago
I think he was talking about the clusters of machines used in big data. Both in processing (Spark) and storage (SAP HANA). These use cases can need TBs of ram.
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by pocket_cheese 5y ago
How dare you describe me so accurately. But all jokes aside, this is my current situation and so far I've been unsuccessful in finding motivation without subjecting myself to bone-crushing anxiety that comes with working with people I
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by pocket_cheese 5y ago
Scraping facebook has been one of my dreams. I remember taking a cursory crack at it and giving up after seeing how much of time, money and effort it would involve. The cost of storing the data alone would be cost prohibitive, even if you h
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by pocket_cheese 6y ago
There are a lot of terms they mentioned that aren't political though. Blocking terms like "Muslim Fashion" doesn't seem defensible. > actually appreciate it that YouTube seems to suppress ads that target political to
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by pocket_cheese 6y ago
Programming in isolation is simple to learn. Rudimentary understanding of control flow, syntax and how to use primitive data types are literally enough to write any program in the world. I feel like 80% of people could probably go from zero
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by pocket_cheese 6y ago
You are equating mean youtube comments to revenge porn. This is the whole "We should just ban cars" response when someone brings up gun control. >It should be impossible to comment referencing someone else without a signed wave
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by pocket_cheese 6y ago
Asking someone experiencing sexual trauma to 'let it be' is such a dismissive take. Being a victim of revenge porn means that you can be blackmailed at anytime. Most people do not want to be sexualized, and it's humiliating t
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by pocket_cheese 6y ago
As someone who has done a good bit of scraping, how a website is designed dictates how I scrape. If it's a static website that has consistently structured HTML and is easy to enumerate through all the webpages I'm looking for, the
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by pocket_cheese 6y ago
For anyone interested in how a database works underneath the hood, I could not recommend a better MOOC than Andy Pavlo's database courses. His intro to database course is so freaking good.
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by pocket_cheese 6y ago
>Why did you get into the field? What did you focus on at first? It was an accident. I needed to accomplish an admin task which required modifying a SQL query someone else wrote. I just fully dove into SQL mainly for reporting purposes a
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by pocket_cheese 6y ago
OMG yes! Andy Pavlo is such a good teacher. I watched his entire lecture series, and it really helped me prepare for an interview. I couldn't recommend his MOOC enough if you really want to know how a database works. I just wish that t
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by pocket_cheese 7y ago
As a person who scrapes sites (ethically), I think it's impossible or pretty damn near impossible to prevent a motivated actor from scraping your website. However, I've avoided scraping websites because their anti scraping measure
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by pocket_cheese 7y ago
One way I get around this is having an append only version of the main table, and then a "most current record" version of the table. My append only table will be a running record of all the data I've loaded unmodified. Then I
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I scraped and analysed 500k song lyrics (available for download) to learn NLP(popnalysis.com)
2 points by pocket_cheese 7y ago|1 comments