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   Make Your Software Job Easier with YADA(yadadata.com)

   1 points by varontron 10y ago|0 comments
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   YADA 8.3 with Quickstart Installer released(yadadata.com)

   3 points by varontron 10y ago|0 comments
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   by varontron 10y ago

   many corporations enable internal moves, and it can be easier to get a new job inside because you're onsite, and thus more easily recruitable, you meet people, you learn of opportunities before they're public, etc.; though obvious
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   by varontron 10y ago

   Google has its fingers in many many pies. Software, hardware, transportation, OS, media, mobile, biology, genetics, algos, etc. LinkedIn is a rolodex.
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   by varontron 10y ago

   There is distinction between the scenario you describe, and the goal of YADA, which is that with YADA we strive to make the first (or existing) system useful, and to keep the bar low, by favoring the indispensable skills like SQL; or, to si
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   by varontron 10y ago

   Thanks for taking the time to comment. You're basically rephrasing the hammer cliche, which is accurate. First though, as your first sentence indicates, you agree we still need hammers. Right now, YADA is a great tool for prototyping
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   by varontron 10y ago

   Thanks for taking the time to review and comment. YADA doesn't abstract any underlying system, it abstracts access to the underlying system. You can think of it as a pluggable web service that you slap on, say, a legacy warehouse, exce
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   by varontron 10y ago

   Thanks for taking the time to review and comment. ETL is a viable use case, one of the first in fact, dating back to 2011, in which we marshalled 100s of millions of RNASeq gene expression values and metadata into a dw. Regarding other ETL
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   by varontron 10y ago

   It started as a acronym (albeit a tired one) for yet another data abstraction, and it caught on.
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    by varontron 10y ago

    This is an excellent point–more accessible advanced documentation. YADA has tremendous flexibility, and if you actually read the readme, then you know, a lot of use cases. There's always a trade-off between appealing to both experts a
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    Why I Created YADA(yadadata.com)

    35 points by varontron 10y ago|36 comments