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by somurzakov 6y ago
1. remdesivir is not a cure for COVID and not as valuable to the rest of the world. We need vaccine 2. there is plenty of generic remdesivir in India
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by somurzakov 6y ago
problem is not in teachers. Problem is parents. Yeah parents. Good parents with good parenting skills raise good kids. Bad parents/single parents - it is much harder to raise kids and give them good education. if you want reforms - you
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by somurzakov 6y ago
if US bans H-1Bs these jobs wont go to americans, these jobs will just be offshored. Large american enterprises already have gigantic offices outside US to manage IT/midoffice/backoffice or have relationships with contractor firm
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by somurzakov 6y ago
+1. if somebody needs my attention - look at my calendar and send me a calendar invite with zoom link attached and if I accept it - you can get some attention. your urgent is not my urgent, it is your poor planning. unless it is live produc
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by somurzakov 6y ago
in cases like this, i just reply "sup" and switch back to my main window, until sender formulates his/her question
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by somurzakov 6y ago
there are a lot more things that make APIs "robust". described is only a tip of the iceberg - data/type checks due to de/serialization. Your API may be perfect in terms of type correctness and structure, and contain SQL
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by somurzakov 6y ago
internet scale email, calendar, password manager, OpenID auth provider, VPN, browser + integrated search via DDG = everybody's dream
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by somurzakov 6y ago
same logic as in MSFT+IE. MSFT lost that lawsuit as far as I remember, despite there being alternative desktop OSs based on linux. Apple+Appstore is actually a repeat of MSFT+IE monopoly and should be broken up as such
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by somurzakov 6y ago
the obvious solution would be to breakup monopoly - force Apple to divest AppStore as a separate company and allow Apple to accept third-party appstores
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by somurzakov 6y ago
cron+perl on a shared hosting is a lambda from 90s, cheap, fast, and it just works
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by somurzakov 6y ago
if that's the case, then only a team lead / most senior dev should have prod secrets. and I would prefer to be very low tech in terms of secrets management. definitely not passing secrets in ENV (cause any process can access ENV a
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by somurzakov 6y ago
rule #1: never give developers production secrets. That way they wont be able to misuse them or push them to the repo. From my experience devs only care whether their software works, security is often an afterthought. rule #2: its not only
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by somurzakov 6y ago
this. PHP just gets shit done. newbies might add few sql injections here and there, so you gotta hand them some code convention/code review/frameworks, but PHP just gets stuff done fast and with extremely low overhead
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by somurzakov 6y ago
is there a way to unsubscribe from junk mail in my physical mailbox owned by USPS ?
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by somurzakov 6y ago
can I ask a question about your #2. It seems you do ELT with spark/sql doing the T part after loading. Is your loading part high performance or do people even care whether it is fast or not? In my experience, when I extract and load d
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by somurzakov 6y ago
i dont really understand concept of SPoF. My windows servers have never really failed me. In case machine reboots in the middle of your batch - Task scheduler can restart your job. In case the job fails, it can retry after a certain interva
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by somurzakov 6y ago
Windows Task Scheduler, it is way more powerful and robust than many people think
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by somurzakov 6y ago
couple questions re airflow from a guy coming from Informatica/SSIS world: 1. Does airflow have native (read high speed) connectors to destination databases (oracle, mysql, mssql) ? 2. How the typical ETL in Airflow compares to one in
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by somurzakov 6y ago
small businesses should use SaaS
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by somurzakov 6y ago
if you are flipping burgers, sure, you are expected to work continiously every hour. but for salaried people - it doesnt make sense, sometimes you just need to sit on a problem for some time to solve it, or just sit and think about it. Sala
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by somurzakov 6y ago
same as insurance companies (like Blue Cross Blue Shield), or asset managers (Vanguard) are nonprofits, yet still manage to make a nice profit for people involved. When your income crosses certain threshold, it makes sense to spend hundreds
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by somurzakov 6y ago
whats gonna happen is that companies will get rid of some real estate and convert existing office space into "agile" workspace - where anyone can come in with laptop and work. But it will be so packed, that most people will opt fo
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by somurzakov 6y ago
yeah, that's why in an average on-prem setup you usually would have firewalls, DMZs, IDS/IPS and all the good stuff - and people have been doing on-prem security for decades and accumulated an enormous wealth of knowledge and prac
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by somurzakov 6y ago
because cloud security (and cloud configuration in general) is hard. people check in sensitive stuff to github repos all the time, misconfigure IAM policies just so that it works (capitalone). It is a new and ever changing field, there are
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by somurzakov 6y ago
if it is in the cloud, it will be eventually hacked
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by somurzakov 6y ago
can anybody explain what is the purpose of static typing in a dynamic language ? It's not like you get benefit of compilation like java/C#. Why is PHP trying to become java so hard, if there is already java and .NET ?
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by somurzakov 6y ago
as long as it works well on out of sample data at deployment time, it is okay. Until some major data drift happens, but you would notoce it anyways
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by somurzakov 7y ago
find a customer for your side project. even if it is one customer, even if she is a friend of yours. getting a feedback from your early customer will be more than enough to keep you motivated
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by somurzakov 7y ago
they would lose the ownership of their companies in this case. it will be up to new owners - to wait things out - or to sell-off the equipment and licenses to somebody else
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by somurzakov 7y ago
apex costco - $1.49

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