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Credit Suisse to Layoff 6500(money.cnn.com)
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by wjossey 10y ago
I was a Sr. Director at Tapjoy, a mobile ad-tech company based out of San Francisco. I had been a part of a sister company based in Boston, Viximo, that was acquired by Tapjoy in 2012. We became their Boston engineering office, and I worked
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I would say I'm neither a night person nor a morning person. I'm an "8 hours a night person". So, for me, when I go to sleep ends up being the hard proxy for when I wake up. The last two weeks I've been trying to wa
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Yeah. Sorry to tell you, but nearly every app you have installed, even if they don't have active advertisements in the app, likely has attribution software installed in their app which they used for any user acquisition. This data is t
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Unrelated to my comment above, I do include a daily walk as part of my morning ritual. I've always found that this time is great for either purposeful thought (pretend to have a conversation with yourself in your own head about a probl
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by wjossey 10y ago
Perhaps coding at home isn't the most effective way for you to grow and learn something new, at least not at this moment. I've found that I bounce between coding at home, learning a new hobby, exercising more, building out a non t
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by wjossey 10y ago
One would need to know the size of the record. This is an exercise you'll often do if you're doing capacity analysis / growth analysis for planning (or in conjunction with FP&A). 1,000,000 4kb records takes up, as you&#x2
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by wjossey 10y ago
Spark has a number of features and constructs that can make it very powerful to work with, even on "small" data sets. Big data isn't just measured by size, it's also measured by computational complexity. 80,000,000 rows
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by wjossey 10y ago
Best of luck Matt- I miss hearing you on the TWiT network, but I'm truly proud and inspired by the work you're doing. Continue to lead, and others will follow.
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Dentsu CEO resigns after overworked employee commits suicide(money.cnn.com)
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This is something I've also experienced during my travels to Europe, in particular in Paris. I will say I've found this to be a "feature", not a "bug". In addition, it's uncommon for the check to be presen
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Overall, I'd like to see more transparency from companies as to the "why" for these recommendations. I doubt we will see that happen without legislation, as I'm sure FB and Google would never want to present to end users
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Sasas I've got some thoughts that are probably easier done via a back and forth outside of HN. Hit me up on twitter if you use it: @dustywes
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As someone who spent the past 4.5 years in ad tech, this isn't all that surprising. There are a number of ways they likely tagged them as being likely "connected" and thus the suggestion. 1. The individual visited the doctors
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by wjossey 10y ago
Really depends on the role of the server. We didn't tend to have "monster" servers that were gigantic and served multiple purposes. We had "flavors" that matched workflow needs and were sizes to make sure we could m
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by wjossey 10y ago
I haven't been in a situation where we had geographic redundancy and that small an SLA, and a commercial gear requirement. Ive got a couple of ideas, but most of them likely violate one of your requirements. The best advice I can give
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Life was plenty interesting at 1,000 (although we were plenty larger when you added in non user facing servers). :)
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As someone who has worked at high scale (1,000+ load balanced servers), this is a nice "primer" I'd share with a new(er) engineer, or someone who has not worked in a horizontally scaled environment. A few things I'll poi
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by wjossey 10y ago
Anyone have a tl;dr?
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I'd love some information on this topic. As someone who lives in Los Angeles, I understand why we have such a bad pollution problem (although far better than it once was). In our case, geography plays as much a part in the haze as anyt
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Amid smoggy days in London, growing calls to clean up Europe’s toxic air(washingtonpost.com)
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I was running an experiment on Facebook using their advertising platform over the past few weeks, and I used the phrase "reputable news source" in the description. I started to get a lot of comments that the only reputable news so
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by wjossey 10y ago
> You know a WHOLE LOT of people would rather make 500k a year than 300k even if it means their employees are damn near homeless and malnourished. See: any biz with min wage employees in the US. Nah, sorry. That's just over the top
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by wjossey 10y ago
+1 wrt to the twit conversations. Leo & Steve Gibson on Security Now have regularly spoken about wosign, and it's the primary reason why my antenna immediately perked up when I saw the headline. As a general note, the content on th
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tl;dr Finland is going to selecting 2,000 unemployed individuals, at random, and offering them cash without strings. Current unemployment schemes, they believe, hold back individuals from finding part time work / any work because the b
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by wjossey 10y ago
Happy to hear about the JDBC addition. I had missed that. Thank you VGT!
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I'd highly recommend anyone who hasn't played with BigQuery yet to take a few moments to give it a shot. I was highly skeptical at first when my old company moved to it, but now I've come to love it as a platform. What I love
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by wjossey 10y ago
Tech, in general, has this broader issue, and it ends up driving high-quality candidates out of our field. I'd like tech to be a "big tent", so that we can solve a wide diversity of problems. That can only be accomplished thr
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Because we should be cheering for Gitlab, and Github, and any other major competitor in the space to perform well and be stable (and independent, ideally). Competition & long term stability means that they can focus on the features tha
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I hope this is a temporary blip on the radar for Github, and that they return to profitability very quickly. Github should be a pillar platform in our community for the next decade, and the only way for them to become that is via profitabil

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