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by besquared 8y ago
Ben Thompson explains the strategic bet they're making. Mostly from the words of the organizations themselves. https://stratechery.com/2018/the-experience-economy/
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by besquared 9y ago
They added contravariant functions in 2.6 using the compiler flag --strictFunctionTypes as described in this PR https://github.com/Microsoft/TypeScript/pull/18654
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by besquared 10y ago
Mode Analytics — San Francisco, CA | Full-time | On-Site Frontend Engineer, Backend Engineer, Sr. Software Engineer Mode is an analytics platform. We build an integrated toolchain that combines SQL, python notebooks, visualizations, and int
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by besquared 11y ago
Mode Analytics — San Francisco, CA | Full-time | On-Site Data Engineer, Backend Engineer, UI/Frontend Engineer Mode Analytics builds integrated productivity tools for analytics teams. Our product combines SQL, analysis, visualization,
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by besquared 11y ago
This is more likely to be the case from the transition from independent power generators to the electrical grid.
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by besquared 11y ago
Co-founder and CTO of Mode here. I'm not too concerned that visual exploration is going to replace SQL for ad-hoc data analysis or data modeling for business intelligence. I think proprietary viz platforms are strictly inferior to open
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Pg_shard – PostgreSQL extension to scale out real-time reads and writes(github.com)
216 points by besquared 12y ago|27 comments
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by besquared 12y ago
Similar to https://www.eazeup.com/
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by besquared 12y ago
A go implementation https://github.com/codahale/sskg
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by besquared 13y ago
The airport exists at and is allowed operated at the will of the government and citizens of France of which the cab drivers are merely a small part. No single union could ever claim the exclusive rights to transportation to and from the air
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by besquared 13y ago
Here it is with visual studio and intellij terms overlayed. http://www.google.com/trends/explore?hl=en-US#q=cloud%20ide%...
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by besquared 13y ago
That reply might be off topic for the article. I just think the headline isn't topical in any way. It saddens me.
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by besquared 13y ago
A ratio without a denominator is useless.
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by besquared 13y ago
Specialized hardware was always kind of a stopgap. Even now you can see networking companies facing the double threat of virtualized networking in software. Software is eating the world as Andreessen famously stated. As to the life span of
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by besquared 13y ago
You're everything that everyone hates in academia. Congratulations as I hear that self importance is one of the key ingredients to solving the biggest problems facing the world today.
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by besquared 13y ago
Full list of initial partners can be found at http://techcrunch.com/2013/04/18/facebook-launches-open-grap...
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by besquared 14y ago
At Yammer we used to have a phrase that analytics was "domain knowledge + counting". Lately we've moved to "analytics is workflow" which better captures the deep integration of data, analysis and business decisions that we have now. I still
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by besquared 14y ago
Nice job guys! Good to see Beatlab is alive and well.
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by besquared 14y ago
There's almost nothing more poison to an engineering organization than an engineer whose identity is tied to their code.
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by besquared 14y ago
Did you guys think about just building a normal website?
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by besquared 15y ago
Shameless plug, but if you want to work with big data you could just apply for this position at Yammer. DO IT! https://www.yammer.com/job_description?jvi=ogZcWfw7,Job
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by besquared 15y ago
Ahh I see it's in the extra small note at the bottom "I mean primarily the ability to face a network partition and continue providing write service to all clients transitively connected to a majority of servers." Probably should be a little
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by besquared 15y ago
What happens when you CAS the same key from two sides of a network partition and the partitions rejoin?
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by besquared 16y ago
"They wouldn't be spending all that time and money on events if they didn't work" false
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by besquared 16y ago
This is exactly why these are amazing. He took a group activism site that basically couldn't make anything and turned it into the fastest growing company in the history of the world. They turned down a $6 billion offer and paid for all thes
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by besquared 16y ago
If you have a data fetish then you should stop reading anything else on this page and email me personally at jferguson at yammer-inc dot com with your resume and tell me why you love it. Big data, we've got that. Social networking, we've go
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by besquared 16y ago
I was searching for the words and now I don't have to, thanks.
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by besquared 16y ago
I have no idea what this person is trying to say. Can anyone elaborate?
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by besquared 17y ago
Arbitrage supplies liquidity at all prices, including prices where most trades might not otherwise occur. Liquidity is required for businesses to systematically eliminate risk, therefore it is highly valued as a source of stability for most
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by besquared 17y ago
Proving once again just how many phone calls techcrunch makes before posting stories containing "facts" and opinions drawn from those "facts". If anyone here works for a startup in the bay area, you'll know the answer is generally absolutel

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