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BigQuery Tables for Apache Iceberg(cloud.google.com)
2 points by contol-m 2y ago|0 comments
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by contol-m 4y ago
[I work on BigQuery] BigQuery also supports in-place querying of datasets on GCS (or S3/Azure using Omni) via external/BigLake tables. https://cloud.google.com/bigquery/docs/query-cloud-storage-u...
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Unify data lakes and warehouses with BigLake(cloud.google.com)
1 points by contol-m 4y ago|0 comments
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by contol-m 4y ago
Currently the main benefit of BigLake over the current external tables is governance: you get row and column level security over cloud storage data. The governance is uniformly enforced across BigQuery and also the BigQuery storage API. The
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by contol-m 4y ago
I work on BigQuery. All of these are great points: just wanted to point out that BigQuery can federate into external data sources as well: e.g. files on cloud storage and BigTable. Relevant feature is BigLake: https://cloud.googl
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BigLake: Unifying data lakes and data warehouses across clouds(cloud.google.com)
2 points by contol-m 4y ago|0 comments
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by contol-m 5y ago
Former A9 employee here. A9 was not an acquisition - it was bootstrapped as a Bay Area subsidiary. Initially A9 focused on web search, then pivoted to doing product search for Amazon retail.
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by contol-m 6y ago
Could you explain further?
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by contol-m 7y ago
Lucene is a low level library which is internally used by ElasticSearch and Solr. Vespa is built from the ground up - it does not use Lucene.
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S3 Select(aws.amazon.com)
3 points by contol-m 8y ago|0 comments
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New Echo Devices(amazon.com)
1 points by contol-m 9y ago|0 comments
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Ambry: LinkedIn’s New Distributed Object Store(engineering.linkedin.com)
5 points by contol-m 10y ago|0 comments
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by contol-m 13y ago
They should really dispatched to fix the Google Drive Client program for Mac. It consistently maxes out a CPU even when there is no sync going on. I can consistently reproduce this issue on all Macs I own.
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Amazon to Cut E-Book Prices, Shaking Rivals(nytimes.com)
6 points by contol-m 14y ago|0 comments
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Amazon Simple Workflow - Cloud-Based Workflow Management(aws.typepad.com)
2 points by contol-m 15y ago|0 comments
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by contol-m 15y ago
The Android browser is not Chrome or Chrome-based.
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by contol-m 15y ago
Why do you say that has to be order of magnitude smaller? Other BigTable clones like HBase are atleast 100K lines of code, if not more.
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by contol-m 15y ago
> "He's single" but I'm guessing half of my readers can see why. New York based. What do you mean by that?
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by contol-m 16y ago
James Franco is very impressive as well. From his Wikipedia page http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Franco#Personal_life : Franco has been described as having "an unusually high metabolism for productivity...a superhuman ability to focus"
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by contol-m 16y ago
Actually Broadcast.com was a 5.7B deal, believe it or not.
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by contol-m 16y ago
I found Concrete Mathematics to be a bit dense and not very suited for self learners like me. Also it does not cover the basics like proofs, counting etc.
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by contol-m 16y ago
Can someone suggest a good book for learning Discrete Math? I have Rosen's book, but I did not like it much.
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by contol-m 16y ago
It's Khan.
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by contol-m 16y ago
InfraDNA http://infradna.com/about is the company Kohsuke founded to offer professional support for Hudson.
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by contol-m 16y ago
As far as I know, Netflix does not handle the actual streaming of bits - it is done by CDNs like Akamai or Limelight.
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by contol-m 16y ago
There is a lot more in his book, "The Practice of Programming" - http://cm.bell-labs.com/cm/cs/tpop/toc.html
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by contol-m 16y ago
Nope. Yahoo Messenger video chat works on a Mac as well.
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by contol-m 16y ago
I can relate to this - even though I probably got more rejections than offers from job interviews, I learned a lot from them. However, I wish companies would give some interview feedback to candidates they rejected. Companies don't do thi
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by contol-m 16y ago
I got my Nexus One just after they stopped selling it. (bought a new one off eBay) and couldn't be happier with it.
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by contol-m 16y ago
I'm wondering if the lawsuit has anything to do with Apple. Ellison and Jobs are best friends, as far as I know.

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