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In redshift, I control the size of nodes. That means I can brute force my way through an expensive operation by increasing the memory capacity of the nodes. In BigQuery, you play by the rules or you’re out. It forces you to think in map reduce, because there really is nothing else under the hood.

Also, you get immediate parallelisation across O(n) nodes. Again; not in redshift.

These are crucially different to regular DBs. They’re both semantically sql, nobody denies that, but they describe different underlying models.

E.g.: in BigQuery, you can’t sort your entire column, even if you do other stuff afterwards. That makes sense in a map reduce system, but not in a “normal” DB.
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One interesting factoid I know is that 50% of Americans represent 2% of the income in America.

More like 15%: https://www.statista.com/statistics/203247/shares-of-househo...
I've been working mostly remote for the last five years in three different organizations. I can't say that it's harmed my career.

In the first one, all my peers were remote and we established close and lasting relationships that remain beneficial to this day.

In the second, corporate HQ was local, but my manager wasn't, so I rarely went to the office. It was the nature of the place not to have good relationships - seriously dysfunctional. Remote or not was the same, and I preferred to save the commute time and not soil my karma.

In my current gig, my hiring manager was remote but left, so I've been visiting the office every week or so to have a better relationship with my local new boss. I work in a large team, but everyone I deal with is remote (sales for a very large company) so those are the important and long-term valuable contacts.
No woman better fucking touch me unless I invite them to.
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So cool to see this posted here... I coded that, so if you have any bugs or questions, let me know!!! Hope you guys like it! Thought of posting it on Show HN but forgot about it! Thanks for the share!
Ouch, counting is hard. Edited. Thanks!
If you're making 7 figures (i.e. >$1M/year) you can afford to save $0.5M/year. After ten years or so you can retire. I think that counts as being able to "afford" (an average of) 30 days off/year.
The thing is, this money being parked from overseas isn't even benefitting the local economies. It just props up property values for a select few homeowners.

The people buying these houses are just leaving them empty. There has been some private investigation of some of the homes being bought and built in BelAir right now. One home was found to be owned by a Nigerian politician through multiple layers of shell companies.

This politician has no business owning an $80 million home.

If we simply cut out the corrupt and stolen money flooding into these markets I think we would find it is making for a large chunk of it.
no. i’ve mentored order, and been mentored by younger.
Are you saying there is not an upward trend in sports salaries? They have been skyrocketing for decades and decades.
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The 80/20 thing is not that... It's 80% of the outcomes are from 20% of the causes. Originally seen from 20% of the population holds 80% of the land in Italy.

In software you could say 80% of the bug reports come from 20% of the bugs.
Doesn't mention what I find the coolest part of AVX-512: the conflict detection instructions. Finally a way to vectorize loops with indirect loads!
Networking. Work with and impress people who know people, then ask for an introduction if need be. My experience has been that "volunteering" (working for free, if you prefer) has helped me make connections I wouldn't otherwise have the skills/experience/connections to get through conventional means.

Granted, I've actively avoided California, so YMMV.
It's a gimmick, and gimped when it comes to what you really want to do. E.g. each integration "thing" is superficial and you can't script most of it. You're locked into their crappy UI and "endpoint" data.

You're better off renting a entire VPS and creating code that polls all your data sources and create your own task pipeline.
There's definitely a lot of speculation. But much of it before the last 6 months was philosophically driven. I wouldn't say the vast majority is just waiting to cash out. A popular bitcoin meme is that once the price is high enough, you won't have to. (Because it will then itself be the currency that everyone uses and cashes out from other currencies into.)
I recently discovered ClickHouse[1], Yandex's recently open sourced BigQuery equivalent (someone on HN pointed me to it!).

If you're looking for a OLAP database running on your own infrastructure, make sure to give it a try.

[1]: https://clickhouse.yandex/
I know, right? Like you, I prefer the articles telling me how to charge $20k/week as a junior developer fresh out of school with no experience.

Sadly, it seems that the world we live in requires us to work for the things we want.

You can spend your energy coming up with reasons why the guy who worked his way up from nothing shouldn't go around giving you step by step instructions on how to do the same. Or you can get started toward doing something similar.
I just started a Telegram group up recently for people casually interested in altcoins/trading. Welcome to anyone - https://t.me/tradetradetrade
If you're interested in this topic I recommend you read Nomadland by Jessica Bruder.
Completely agreed. I haven't seen many cases where the banks are holding funds up due to AML/KYC, so I was 100% focused on exchanges.

You're absolutely correct - when dealing with actual financial institutions just have a Real Lawyer(tm) do that for you or you're very likely to have a bad time.
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Not to be too defensive here, but one of my goals with Indie Hackers is to collect enough knowledge and stories that you can easily filter through to find examples of the type of approach that best works for you. Because you're right — not everyone is suited to spending 5 years building up an audience, etc. There are other ways.

Always happy to take suggestions on how I can improve the site to help with this, and also suggestions for different founders I should reach out to to come do an interview.

A big initiative of mine for 2018 is to vastly expand the number of interviews on the site (currently at ~250), and to add a better tagging system to help you find what's relevant.
People still charge only $100/hour? standard Professional Services tech consulting rate is $250
I could imagine that if I made a lot of money with this software and subscribed to FOSS philosophy, I would feel good about setting it free.
I see someone has changed "CA" to "California" in the submission title. Thanks!
> This is the the real cost of allowing (particularly foreign) capital to be parked in real estate in the developed world.

It's amazing to me that people don't recognize this as xenophobia when other forms ("Mexicans are taking our jobs!", "Migrants don't have the same values!") are so readily called out.

High housing prices are a self inflicted problem. When you mix supply restrictions with tax breaks explicitly designed to keep people from moving, you end up pricing people out. Not surprising.
I would love to go get some good roti and kopi susu but I have left Asia SE a month ago for good.

I have pretty much enjoyed the food but it just isn't the kind of diet that you would recommend to anyone for health and and loosing weight.

Penang is a little better then KL because of more food diversity there and some really nice Indian, vegetarian restaurants. And the climate is also better then KL so there is more people jogging along the waterfront. But still it isn't a good city for biking.
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Loved this. It raised a question, though: how do your clients hold you accountable to your rates? How do you demonstrate $10K in a week was worth their while?
I’m not sure what this has to do with his racial identity; I feel the same way about his behavior regardless.
Well as a postgres/sybase dba, there are several management features I miss in postgres.

For one, when there is no space left for wals, your instance juste crashes. In sybase/mssql your processes would just be suspended untill you add some disk space.

Also, spreading your databases on several disks is way easier. On postrgres adding tablespaces makes pg_basebackup lose functionality.

Those are some several limitations that the developper might not see, but they impact availlability.

Also, reclaiming unused space online can be tedious, and failover from one instance to another is not easy. You have to use 3rd party tools such as repman to do so.

All of thoses missing features have caused several outages and should be addresses in my opinion to be able to meet the needs of the most demanding workloads.

Still, I view postgres as the best solution for most business cases.
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i Series (System/38, AS/400) is very interesting to learn about, even today.
"Inside the AS/400" book by Frank G. Soltis is good, "AS/400: Designed for the Cloud" video (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0dTZVyRDnds) is inspiring, and "Laughing Boardroom" commercials series aren't bad either.
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Generals always fight the last war.
Yet the U.S. is at risk right now, simply for supporting South Korea militarily in both past and present.

Alliances are double-edged swords. I'm curious, what would be your perspective if the U.S. decided that South Korea was no longer worth defending and pulled it's troops back to Guam and Okinawa?
Ten years ago I made an attempt to get a homeless person off the street and made a movie about it:

http://graceofgodmovie.com/

My main subject had a masters degree in psychology.
There's this notion of affinity fraud, where con men approach victims from the same group (ethnic group, church, school alumni, etc.), and via this connection immediately get a trust bonus that's then exploited.

On one hand, I'm inclined to say: Beware investing with friends of friends. On the other hand, the best investment opportunities often are not public, but only available to a select circle. I think that's one reason affinity fraud so often works.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Affinity_fraud
It is, though it was desgin not degsin.

"desgin assets such as color palette and images to be used".

Under 1.3. Also in your reference.
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I recall an episode about Lady Boys in Thailand, where at the end Shane signs off by essentially says he’s going to have sex with a male prostitute.

That seemed more “wrong crowd” than just “edgy” to me.
There are plenty of reasons to take a steady job over running a business, even a very lucrative business. I’ve done both; no stressing over Christmas on whether a check will arrive soon enough in January or February to pay for my tax assessment in March has non-zero value to it. Paternity leave was pretty nice. I get to devote a supermajority of my professional efforts to work rather than devoting 10% to business administration and 20% to sales/marketing.

Consultants with relatively high rates are not unicorns, any more than lawyers or doctors with high rates are. This is not just repeatable, this is a fairly reasonable career path, much like “work at AppAmaGooBookSoft” is a lucrative but well-trod career path. (Which, btw, have in-the-door offers for mid-career professionals which are reasonably competitive with running a full-time consultancy at $30k/week.)
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I totally agree with you, but then again, if software doesn't solve a people problem, it's bad software. This is what you learn in your engineering career.

Cryptocurrencies are technically amazing, and yet they fall short of actually solving any problem.
I'll be facing this soon as well, at least they've got RV's. After getting back from my third open house for the week, with double digit atendees, I think the bay area just isn't for me. A perfect credit score and a job making double the median wage is not enough to land a 1 bedroom apartment apparently. I'll probably end up sleeping on someones couch for a few months to finish my work contract, and get out of this hellscape for somewhere people can actually live.
Unsure why you're bringing race into this, but the article was about Vice not about Murs so it makes sense that they focus on the former more than the latter (even though both are bad, of course)
It could also be that you are too overworked to cook or that you are so illiquid that you cannot afford needed repairs.
> how to apply document-oriented approach in the world of relational databases

I've increasingly found that the number of situations where this is actually a good idea are quite, quite rare.
Depends on how high up the ladder the management is you're talking to.

Your line manager may be interested in a technical issue / improvement and understand its value without further explanation -- for instance, we're using a brute force algorithm that takes exponential time to foo the bar in the Baz module. It's got test coverage and the problem has a known logarithmic solution, so we could rewrite that in a week to be more efficient, and still be confident it's accurate.

Your department head may be willing to consider fixing a problem that affects efficiency or security or expected timelines -- we've identified the likely cause of at least one class of those outage events you've raised concerns about. If you want to fix it immediately, we would have to push back delivery of the Quux feature by a week while we rewrite a portion of the Baz application, but other risks are minimal.

The C-suite is mostly interested in problems/solutions framed as "how does this save us money" or "how does this make us money" -- we intend to invest a week in technical maintenance work that will allow us to save 25% of our monthly hosting costs by scaling back hardware requirements, and reduce the frequency of outage events that we have to pay out for on under our SLAs by 75%. That would cost $10,000 in developer time and delay our product schedule by a small though measurable amount, but I estimate it would save us an average of $48,000/year in costs.
I managed to successfully complete the (a) flow, but it was considered not enough, due to the different IP, and minor inaccuracy with the creation date.

I later managed to successfully complete the (b) flow due to the SMS.

I believe Google isn't using a binary definition of success, but a confidence interval of how sure they are you are the actual owner - if they are reasonably sure you are the owner, less questions need to be solved, if they are reasonable sure you are not, they cancel the flow before you even have a chance, and if they're unsure, they ask you more questions.

On my first attempt, I got over a dozen questions to validate myself, later on, I got told "sorry, we don't believe you" after already one question.
> The group takes its name from the showtune "Proud of Your Boy," a song introduced in the 2011 stage-show version of Disney's Aladdin

If not for the references, I’d be _sure_ that this was a parody/Wikipedia prank. Bizarre.
That's a different reaction. In 2002, people still remembered what happened but were unable to say it out loud due to fear (hence the facial expressions).

In 2017, the people old enough to be grad students truly don't know about it because the Party has successfully erased it from public discord within the mainland.
So if a older techie would redo his undergrad degree- he would reenter the workforce?
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And even that is tame compared to their earlier stuff. Its weird how they flipped from underground rocknroll to liberal party line. Or is it.
And they would know because they were there... oh wait, they were far away but they always have fingers in every unrest in the world.
> Also, the lack of namespacing. In Rust, the enum variants are scoped to the name of the sum type. But in ML you will often see people using explicit prefixes like in C, to provide your own namespacing. (At least, I saw this in the early implementations of the Rust compiler itself in OCaml.)

Well then that was badly written OCaml code. Instead of prefixing, you should use the (fantastic) OCaml module system. Also, OCaml has type-based disambiguation support for records and variants.

Speaking of lack of names, OCaml supports "inline records" nowadays:

type foo =
| Bar of { this : int ; that : float }
| Baz of baz
I think an important note is that this sort of work is a lot of sales and not a lot of programming. You have to hustle and know how to sell a narrative and have the credentials/data to back it up. You make money through scaling, which means selling a lot of clients the same solutions which might be easy for marketing but for other niches it can be difficult because it can take non-trivial effort to adapt an arbitrary software product to a given strategy/solution or require certain organizational culture shifts for meaningful success. Also clients don't want to share and generally want 100% of your time so work/life balance and 'scaling' to many clients can be difficult.
You've been hoodwinked by clickbait media. North Korea won't strike Silicon Valley or New York, ever. If you want to worry about that, you might as well worry about China or Russia striking New York: after all, there's a chance Putin will be alive after nuclear war, but there's zero chance Kim Jong Un will be alive after nuking America.

But you can't sell prospect of a nuclear war against China, because people have iPhones made in China, so they know it's absurd: why would China want a nuclear war? A threat has to be believable to sell to people. So we talk about North Korea. Nobody in the US has bought anything from North Korea: they are a dark, evil, and mysterious people, and it's easy to believe they can be also suicidal.

(Yes, the North Korean regime is evil: they're so evil that they make China look like boy scouts. But they aren't suicidal.)
The problem here is that you are applying all the worst examples of a group to the majority of the group. None of these things are widely representative of the actual population of people we're talking about. They're just the things that make you angriest.

The other problem is that plenty of people (millennial or otherwise) are trying to fix the systemic problems, and others are actively moving to oppose us. It's like there's a house on fire, and I run to the neighbors and am like "help! this house is on fire!" and the neighbors respond with "stop crying and put it out yourself you hippie". It's not even my house! And the neighbors are too busy getting angry at the gall of me for asking for help putting out this house to realize that the fire's starting to spread to their house too.
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You don't need to cook in order to eat well.

Salads are a thing.
We did the same after realizing what was going on.
Small companies rarely take consultants of any sort at any decent rate.
This is a classic river delta problem. Look at the Nile delta. Just can't build long-term on low ground.

Objections from the right can be answered with this:

Therefore everyone who hears these words of mine and puts them into practice is like a wise man who built his house on the rock. The rain came down, the streams rose, and the winds blew and beat against that house; yet it did not fall, because it had its foundation on the rock. But everyone who hears these words of mine and does not put them into practice is like a foolish man who built his house on sand. The rain came down, the streams rose, and the winds blew and beat against that house, and it fell with a great crash.

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I understand your sentiment but there's more going on here. It seems to be a Pentagon PR push.

Some of people involved with Tom are legitimate.
The way it reads it sounds reasonable, but ultimately it seems more targeted at aspiring consultants who were already pretty entrepreneurial minded than at the general programmer crowd. Apart from doing things 'right' (proper rates, selling yourself, networking and so on, we've all read that on HN), I think it surely requires a much different mindset towards work than what your average developer might have. I can't imagine getting into the grandstanding mindset (not meant in a negative way) required to sell myself as a consultant really, and I'd also first have to adjust to quantifying everything I do in terms of money.

But definitely good for all the people who can do it and use the corporate structure of the world for their benefit. Pretty cool. I could see myself get the required competence to consult some time in the future (though not yet), but I doubt I'd ever get the character for it.
You need to do the dishes when done. I am familiar with people who are saving money in order to have the sewer lateral fixed.
Perhaps that's indicative not of a problem with the measure but rather of a) a disconnect between our society's self-perception and its reality and/or b) a problem with our economic system, the opportunities available in it, and the saving/spending norms it propagates?
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This isn't how to do self-driving. It's how to do road-following. There's a big difference.
As I understand it, Unity is crazy gargantuan huge, and C# basically came along for the ride. Many extremely popular recent games were made in Unity, including Cuphead, Kerbal Space Program, Cities Skylines, Firewatch, Monument Valley, Ori and the Blind Forest, Superhot, and more.
Found this while I was trying to learn how to import data from an API into Google Docs:

https://github.com/bradjasper/CryptocurrencySpreadsheetUtils
I used to think that way about how one automation, but I kind of got into it, and now, I realize how fastidious it was to turn off all the lights and adjust the thermostat when I leave home. Or get out of bed and adjust the thermostat or back up to turn off that light in the kitchen.

It doesn't likely save me tons of time, but I feel like it lowers my stress levels by letting me just sit and relax or work or read for longer periods of time uninterrupted.
Which one is best in your opinion?
:<

I will look to see if it can be done by selenium or something similar.
I think the reason people dislike foreign capital specifically is when the houses come just a piggybank and remain empty. It is bad enough when capital (local or foreign) drives up home prices, but it feels worse when the homes sit empty. Note, this affects everyone because people get knocked down the ladder incrementally.
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I moved to a self-hosted Huginn instance instead for the very same reasons... (and the fact that it doesn't allow for any granular control)
> I managed to successfully complete the (a) flow, but it was considered not enough, due to the different IP, and minor inaccuracy with the creation date.

That's exactly what I mean though. You didn't answer their questions correctly. It wasn't just due to your location/IP; you put in the wrong date. (It's quite funny/ironic that you are also answering my questions incorrectly and yet insisting otherwise. While I sympathize with you for the actual problem, it doesn't help anyone sympathize when they see facts being twisted!)
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