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by yachtman 6y ago
It is similar to an article I read a while back saying we need "data engineers" not "data scientists". I think its generally true. Why my company, while it can do data science consulting, is choosing to focus on data
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by yachtman 6y ago
Sure thing. I won't here as that would be violating TOS for site
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by yachtman 6y ago
Whoa, sorry I think you added more emotional personal attack meaning to major fail than I intended. I major fail all the time, it's part of life and getting better.
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by yachtman 6y ago
No they do this because horizontal scalability is more general. Once you cross the threshold of what your meganode can handle you have to rewrite your code from the bottom up
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by yachtman 6y ago
The only way to do this is to build an integration that makes the switch DEAD SIMPLE. If it involves someone being highly motivated to switch over themselves without any help its not going to gain steam.
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by yachtman 6y ago
Disadvantage of retina screens, I didn't even realize. Thanks for pointing out, i'll fix.
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by yachtman 6y ago
You might enjoy this blog post I wrote: http://kyleprifogle.com/churn-based-programming/
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by yachtman 6y ago
Was SparkSQL ever intended to replace hive? My impression was that it was supposed to supplement spark for times it was convenient. I kind of suspected at one point they got caught up in the SQL hadoop race, but I always felt like it was
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by yachtman 6y ago
A company I worked at embraced nix. Beforehand I was a big docker fan and had few issues with it (yes there were occasionally caching issues and damn it docker figure out the issue with hyperkit on mac os, but largely its a productive tool
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by yachtman 6y ago
Estimates for anything sufficiently complex are pure fantasy. They just serve to place an engineer in a bargaining conundrum and makes them implicitly decrease the scope for the 1000's+ decisions they will need to make during the cour
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by yachtman 6y ago
No one post any fork bombs...
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by yachtman 6y ago
I don't think that's how you define a bug. I think technically you could argue its a "logical error", however that assumes that you know the intent of the creator of bash was specifically to not allow this behavior whic
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by yachtman 6y ago
Firefox is now objectively better than Chrome in every way. I would recommend switching moral reasons aside. Chrome's memory management is abysmal. I now get the same shudder when I see someone with chrome on their machine that I
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by yachtman 6y ago
I thought the general consensus was that the way that the craft was accelerating far outpaced any known tech by a large margin. I was hoping some aeronautics HNers could chime in with their 2 cents.
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Since the UFO footage is mainstream, lets see what our best theories are(cnn.com)
6 points by yachtman 6y ago|5 comments
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by yachtman 6y ago
Can you explain in your own words for elixir where the balance between "joy" (productivity, flow, whatever you want to call it) and what you call "rethinking the way you write code". As another example of a functional o
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by yachtman 6y ago
I think AWS was having issues yesterday and today as well. Do you think someone is targeting cloud providers?
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by yachtman 6y ago
I thought this at first too but downdetector sorts all the problem sites to the top which makes it look like the internet is melting when you first look at it. It actually seems reasonable for this many sites to be having issues at any on
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by yachtman 6y ago
I wonder how companies like github decide to determine this when outages are geospecific. Do they not report until an outage is affecting 50% of a geographic region before its reported as a partial outage?
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by yachtman 7y ago
> Consumers don't care about energy. Therefore lets make it illegal not to care?? You need to think more pragmatically.
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by yachtman 7y ago
I worked with Paul at a previous job and really enjoyed it. Such a great mind and passion for functional programming. Would love to work with him again (maybe in a different context).
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by yachtman 7y ago
All these kinds of HN comments share the same flaw, in failing to recognize that the primary obsession of hacker news is in discussing the flaws of things posted on hacker news.
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by yachtman 7y ago
I would need additional proof that gears were designed with many of these mathematical considerations in mind and didn't just arise out of trial and error by the machinists
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by yachtman 7y ago
The problem underlying is fundamentally a bargaining and expectations issue. Sorry for the plug but you should check out my post about time estimates: http://kyleprifogle.com/dear-startup/
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Churn Based Programming(kyleprifogle.com)
2 points by yachtman 7y ago|0 comments
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Embracing Churn Based Programming(kyleprifogle.com)
3 points by yachtman 7y ago|0 comments
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by yachtman 7y ago
I dont see why journals can't publish more negative results. In math for example, its a big deal if someone disproves a hypothesis of someone famous.
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by yachtman 7y ago
> can we not do this thing with the whole left side of the screen being one static image? It's really distracting. Agreed, ive been meaning to rework this
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by yachtman 7y ago
The original title was closer to what you are alluding to here. Idk why but hacker news changed it to say "We"
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We are clueless about how long things should take(kyleprifogle.com)
465 points by yachtman 7y ago|247 comments

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