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by hblanks 17d ago
Location: SF Remote: OK Willing to relocate: No Technologies: go, python, postgres, ClickHouse, kafka, K8S, and various other things tied to high throughput backend systems. Also have an MSc in stats from LSHTM. Résumé/CV: https:&#x2F
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by hblanks 3y ago
To summarize something from a little over a year after I joined there: Cloudflare was building out a way to ship logs from its edge to a central point for customer analytics and serving logs to enterprise customers. As I understood it, the
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by hblanks 3y ago
I also think his thesis isn't to celebrate poverty but to consider that development (or modernity, globalization, pick a term) comes with its own problems. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Age_of_Anger , his book fro
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The Hard Count: A New Series on SaaS Billing(confidentialinterval.com)
2 points by hblanks 4y ago|0 comments
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by hblanks 6y ago
(Yes to the earlier post - had a similar experience with an early metrics system for Twilio in 2012-2013) The 1st issue is that ZMQ implementations generally have an IO thread handling all socket IO. REQ/REP patterns tend to work out j
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In fact Dan asked me three (interviewing at Optimizely)(confidentialinterval.com)
1 points by hblanks 6y ago|0 comments
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by hblanks 6y ago
Cf. William Deresiewicz's address to the cadets of West Point in 2009 ( https://theamericanscholar.org/solitude-and-leadership/ ). I think the most surprising insight is his commentary on Heart of Darkness as a no
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by hblanks 7y ago
You don't have to agree with her politics, but I think Peggy Noonan had the right answer on this one: it's a show and there's no good to be found in taking part. Just say no and hit send. > In February 2018 Nicholas Thomps
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by hblanks 8y ago
Or similarly toxic chloramine gas, when combined with cleaning agents containing ammonia, such as Mr. Clean.
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by hblanks 8y ago
I've not spent enough time on Pearl, but Migual Hernan and Jamie Robins have a free textbook on causal inference at https://www.hsph.harvard.edu/miguel-hernan/causal-inference-... ; parts of it were pretty useful
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by hblanks 8y ago
It'd be hard to understand without feeling it for yourself, but in actual instrument conditions (IMC), it's easy for your sense of balance to mislead you into thinking you're level, when in fact you're turning. There&#x2
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by hblanks 8y ago
Michel Foucault also wrote about this essay. His essay starts thus: > Today when a periodical asks its readers a question, it does so in order to collect opinions on some subject about which everyone has an opinion already; there is not
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by hblanks 9y ago
A couple things to consider: * Hour restrictions for passenger transport are significantly more stringent than for freight. * Southern Air's fleet consists 737s and 777s -- not small planes. * These plans have to fly over and into majo
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by hblanks 9y ago
We're using it internally, and also for a relatively small customer-facing analytics API, on the order of 10-30 nodes. It's been good so far. Good support from the maintainers, too.
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by hblanks 9y ago
If you haven't read it, you may find Hannah Arendt's Origins of Totalitarianism a worthwhile read. She offers a lot of analysis on the rise of a classless society, paired with a deep sort of aimlessness in state leadership. It d
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by hblanks 10y ago
Or the excerpt of the book printed in Harpers: http://harpers.org/archive/2016/08/the-origins-of-speech/
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by hblanks 10y ago
Macheath [Mac the Knife]: "If the poor are so powerful, then why do they need us?" Peachum [The Beggar King]: "Because they don't know that we need them." --Die Dreigroschenoper (1931 Film)
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by hblanks 10y ago
Correct. CTEs are pretty much a no-go, and you also can't do things like join between distributed and non-distributed tables. Your queries tend to break down into ones where you're hitting a small number of shards (such as when we
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by hblanks 10y ago
We've been running CitusDB for a couple years now at CloudFlare for serving aggregated analytics to customers (cf. https://blog.cloudflare.com/scaling-out-postgresql-for-cloud... ). It's a good product, and it was
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by hblanks 11y ago
http://harpers.org/archive/2015/09/the-neoliberal-arts/
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Film Forum – In the Shadow of Ebola(somatosphere.net)
1 points by hblanks 11y ago|0 comments
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by hblanks 11y ago
Maurice Blanchot, you are still waiting for us to catch up. "Un récit? Non, pas de récit, plus jamais."
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by hblanks 11y ago
This is all a bit reminiscent of Double Helix ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Helix_(database) ). The best part of using Helix was that the people doing data entry, and the people who worked closely with them, really cou
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by hblanks 11y ago
Who works with someone like this today?
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by hblanks 12y ago
What a pleasure this interview was to read. And plain spoken, too. Many here have complained that Derrida is hard to read, or worse, simply makes no sense. You may take a side in this, if you like. But I would encourage you to read some sho
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by hblanks 12y ago
These are the numbers in Sierra Leone from Les Roberts, WHO Foreign Medical Team Coordinator. Les is a long-time epidemiologist and sanitation engineer; he's served in dozens of outbreaks and conflict situations including both of the c
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Day 7: Brutal Triage – Freetown, Sierra Leone(pfmhcolumbia.wordpress.com)
19 points by hblanks 12y ago|8 comments
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by hblanks 12y ago
Golly. I thought this was going to be about a hospital ward in sub-saharan Africa, some abandoned corner of Asia, or even a VA hospital here in the US. I'm glad people care, but for me, these are first world problems compared to drug s
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by hblanks 12y ago
Lobste.rs, of course, toplists the original citation in place of Yann's response. I find it better reading.
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by hblanks 12y ago
Even Linux only started using VCS in 1998. It was only tarballs maintained by Linus and e-mailed patches before then. Rebel Code ( http://books.google.com/books/about/Rebel_Code.html?id=kIU1s... ) does a pretty good

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