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by teej 6y ago
... you’re aware of the adage “the house always wins” right?
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by teej 6y ago
Yes, but the other Bay Area counties have chosen to shut down way in advance of that.
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by teej 6y ago
How many billionaires (paper or cash) has YC produced?
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by teej 6y ago
This is exactly how the flash games scene was for a long time.
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by teej 6y ago
I remember going over to a friends place who owned a Mac in order to play Warcraft 2 network games.
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by teej 6y ago
McDonalds hasn’t used beef tallow in their fries for 20+ years. [edit] this seems disputed. The ingredients list includes “natural beef flavor” which it says is wheat and milk derivatives. To clarify: old school McD fries were fried in beef
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by teej 6y ago
I knew I’d get something wrong, thanks for the correction.
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by teej 6y ago
I'm going to try my best to explain these in an intuitive way. Statistics has lots of terms with names that are arbitrary and confusing. To set the context, we are trying to use data to help us test a hypothesis. An example might be: &
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by teej 6y ago
They revert when it wears off.
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by teej 6y ago
It's insane to me that the only thing standing between me and having my life ruined is some minimum wage cell phone store employee. Text message based 2FA needs to die.
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by teej 6y ago
Making some shitcoin or Pokémon-on-the-blockchain? Yes. ETH smart contracts? No. I’m bearish on crypto but ETH smart contracts seem really interesting.
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by teej 6y ago
You could make a case that the primary purpose of the internet is to download porn.
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by teej 6y ago
The book Discovering Prices by this year’s Nobel laureate is really fascinating. The very first chapter opens up to explain the boundless political, mathematical, and computational complexity involved with the FCC Broadcast Incentive Auct
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by teej 6y ago
It’s not a new phenomenon so much as it has emerged as an important shift from the status quo 20 years ago. What’s changed in the last 10 years are the access patterns. There’s increased demand to have arbitrary query access over the raw da
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by teej 6y ago
The biggest shift has been towards data lake (store everything) away from data cubes (store aggregates). This makes it orders of magnitude easier to diagnose, debug, and assert the correctness of data. So these trends aren’t in a vacuum, th
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by teej 6y ago
UNLOGGED tables is new to me, thanks for sharing.
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The table needed to never be visible as empty, so truncate wasn't a short term option.
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by teej 6y ago
This seems neat! Last year I helped a friend diagnose an issue they had with Postgres. A database table with a scheduled full DELETE/INSERT had slowed to the point of failure. It turns out, having slightly less IO than needed led the a
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by teej 6y ago
> “As of 2013, NIST-F1 has an uncertainty of ..., which means that it would take 100 years for the clock to be off by a second” This didn’t sound right to me. The clock being off 100ms every 10 years sounds terrible. This must be a typo
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by teej 6y ago
The end state is you DIY. Segment isn’t doing anything secret/magic, it’s just well executed and super convenient. The “how” question has changed every 3 years in the last 10 that I’ve done data work. That trend is driven primarily by
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by teej 6y ago
Segment (and any other SaaS that wants to own the event firehose) has pricing issues as the customer scales. As a customer you are charged on data volume[0], but your data grows at the rate = (Users x Engagement X Features X Data Sources).
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by teej 6y ago
Don’t need to draw the line. For better or worse, California has already passed prop 65. This is just suing for the law to be enforced.
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by teej 6y ago
DRY is about code you write, not the code artifacts you ship to the client.
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by teej 6y ago
You’ve got it right. This “seed” is a seed in the sense of a random number generator. It only controls generating the world, however, it does not control the behavior of NPCs.
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by teej 6y ago
Here’s chess in Redshift http://www.michaelburge.us/2017/09/10/injecting-shellcode-to...
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by teej 6y ago
I’ve heard this as a rumor, yes.
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by teej 6y ago
Citation(s) needed
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by teej 6y ago
> my work was "utterly and completely useless I can never understand the arrogance of folks who would say something like this
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by teej 6y ago
No amount of technology can fix a dysfunctional org. A large amount of the work of BI is getting data into the right shape in order to ask questions about it. - What’s level on average do new players drop off? - How are sales of the new ski
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by teej 6y ago
A few comments based on lots and lots of experience: - Wide tables in columnar DBs can make some analytics queries easier to write and sometimes more performant. - Wide tables can come at high storage cost and make other queries less perfor

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