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by tiew9Vii 2y ago
Reluctantly worked on AU data projects for maybe the past decade. I don't classify myself as a data engineer, in fact I hate data engineering or data related work which is glorified ETL and SQL most of the time. They are the worst, bro
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by tiew9Vii 2y ago
https://www.racv.com.au/royalauto/transport/cars/australian-... Top 10 selling car models in 2023 Ford Ranger – 63,356 Toyota Hilux – 61,111 Isuzu Ute D-Max – 31,202 Toyota RAV4 – 29,627 MG ZS – 29,258 Tesla
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by tiew9Vii 2y ago
Some opinionated conventions around defining templated SQL queries in YAML files for ETL. Then it provides additional tooling around that, GUI’s, governance, everything your average large corporate asks for.
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by tiew9Vii 2y ago
I was a big fan of Grammarly, as dyslexic, so often write the wrong word then ten minutes later when re-reading spot i used the wrong word/spelling etc. It worked extremely well, as you say I think by using basic rules engines. I’ve ca
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by tiew9Vii 2y ago
> Java is turning into the Cobol of our generation Despite speed of Java evolution accelerating and Java being the best Java has ever been, I agree with this. Everything is Javascript or Python these days, Java is seen as old, boring, ha
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by tiew9Vii 2y ago
Cloud backed SQLLite looks like it might be good for this. Doesn’t support S3 though https://sqlite.org/cloudsqlite/doc/trunk/www/index.wiki
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by tiew9Vii 2y ago
The irony Everyone is playing lip service to global warming, energy efficiency, reducing emissions. At the same time data centers are being filled with power hungry graphic cards and hardware to predict if showing a customer an ad will get
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by tiew9Vii 2y ago
Immigration is exacerbating Australian housing problems. Australia also has an obsession with property speculation as a tax efficient investment with capital gains discounts and negative gearing. Property in Australia isn’t about owning a h
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by tiew9Vii 2y ago
Any recommended learning resources?
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by tiew9Vii 2y ago
A lambda lives for a relatively short period of time, ephemeral. It only handles a single request at a time but will live long enough to serve multiple requests. If another request comes in while one is in process a new lambda can spin up.
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by tiew9Vii 2y ago
> What I mean by "programming the machine" is doing technical tasks that relates to making the cloud work in the way you want. I take a different perspective. When using a cloud, i need to design my application to work within m
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by tiew9Vii 2y ago
You see this a lot. A new generation comes in to relearn all the old lessons. It’s also happening on the frontend “server side rendering is bad, it’s slow” to the latest frontend frameworks and thought leaders “you should be using SSR” (ser
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by tiew9Vii 2y ago
> Senior Java developers who could not import HashMap without looking it up > No IDE, specifically to test basic ability. We use a web-based shared editor, that has syntax highlighting, and auto-tabbing, but specifically no auto-compl
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by tiew9Vii 2y ago
From their docs: > Koheesio is a Python library that simplifies the development of data engineering pipelines. It provides a structured way I think this pretty much sums it up, "a structured way". It's looks to be a thin w
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by tiew9Vii 2y ago
From one of the original sources linked in this thread > LSG promised shorter indexing lag (i.e., time between when a record is written and its secondary index is created). Additionally, it would give us faster network latency because it
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by tiew9Vii 2y ago
UniSuper is a large financial organisation. It’s managing $100 billion plus in pension funds. I think because it’s an Australian company the reported news hasn’t been picked up more as nobody knows who they are. The wording of the official
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by tiew9Vii 2y ago
I’m not a McDonalds customer generally. I visited one at the weekend as was with some other people and it was a convenient stop on a road trip. Last time I went to a McDonald’s a long time ago it was a fast smooth experience. Walk up to cou
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by tiew9Vii 2y ago
To take them offline for ten days so using GCP fairly extensively, a large financial organisation with many customers. It has to be a non trivial spend, enough they’ll have an account manager and likely Google sponsored PR piece on the migr
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by tiew9Vii 2y ago
Yes, surprised this hasn't hit the top of Hacker News and instead gone un-noticed. If Google did delete the account, this is massive. Large financial pension fund with advertised $124 billion in funds under management so not some toy c
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by tiew9Vii 2y ago
I used to work their, albeit many years ago now. I found it a bit cult like/cliquey, a lot of people living/breathing Atlassian thinking they are saving the world "we put a rover on mars", "we're a hundred year
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by tiew9Vii 2y ago
I discovered “Developer Voices” recently https://youtube.com/@DeveloperVoices . It’s more a podcast style channel, with a different guest on each episode with experience in a different area of tech/computer science they
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by tiew9Vii 2y ago
It’s paid, and you need to sign up but it’s a non spammy non ad driven app I can recommend https://macrofactorapp.com You log what you eat and your weight. It then self adjusts your macro targets based on weekly progress. It has
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by tiew9Vii 3y ago
I watched a YouTube video testing the latest 8gb M3 yesterday. It struggled running teams in a video call, stuttering as was eating memory. I’d say there are a lot of users running multiple Electron and high memory apps without knowing they
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by tiew9Vii 3y ago
Australia's other problem is houses are not homes to live in, they are tax efficient investments. So you have a lack of properties pushing up rents/sale costs as people need a home to live in and will pay what they have to pay unt
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by tiew9Vii 3y ago
If you know web dev it’s not to bad. Pick your own http framework, Axum/Actix, pick your favourite template language/library. Not as simple as Rails/Django but shouldn’t be anything unexpected. Rust on Nails tries to give you
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by tiew9Vii 3y ago
The work around Rust and AWS Lambda integration makes it a joy to work with. Fast developer experience, fast and cheap runtime, when using rust in lambda it’s fast anyway. Like yourself I use Axum, and pretend AWS lambda doesn’t exist. By d
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by tiew9Vii 3y ago
Similar feelings. It goes against semantic web, the old css zen garden etc, with good markup I can style a page however I want. However using tailwind, it’s the get shit done tool. It is ugly, it goes against good web design and everything
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by tiew9Vii 3y ago
I don’t think the underlying reason has anything to do with the government pressure or local news. I think this has everything to do with a very powerful media company, let’s call them News Corp, successfully lobbying for a new income strea
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by tiew9Vii 3y ago
$160k AUD is the going rate for senior/principal roles in Australia. $200k AUD roles are rare in Australia. They do exist but hard to come by. Most $200k+ AUD devs I know will be working at Atlassian, Amazon, Goggle, not many options i
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by tiew9Vii 3y ago
> I could honestly see them being a net positive to road focus by overlaying speed and navigation on the user's field of vision so they don't have to glance at their dash speedometer or navigation device all the time. Heads up

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