higeorge13

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by higeorge13 8d ago
Anyone fearing that all this marketing BS and that race to AGI (?) will destroy the SaaS industry (and others?) and will also kill a few millions of jobs worldwide? I think the US has invested in an AI battle vs China and protect the curren
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by higeorge13 28d ago
We have it as well, but it almost never get respected and we still see those lengthy comments. Anyone seen better luck?
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by higeorge13 28d ago
Remote work is one of the things i would expect every country government to incentivise and promote. Countryside, villages, islands would revive, less traffic, pollution, less unnecessary company and personal costs, more happy people and fa
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by higeorge13 1mo ago
I think we haven't really seen the effects of tourism to places. - Before airbnb there was some balance in these places: people had regular professions (plumbers, builders, bakers, farmers, agriculture, fishing, hoteliers, etc) - After
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by higeorge13 1mo ago
That's true, but at least all these places were kept unharmed and less touristic before airbnb. Each island's tourism was almost limited around hotels and established rental houses before. Airbnb opened up the gates for that extra
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by higeorge13 1mo ago
It's not about xenophobia, more like fear that the greek landscape we know won't be like this in the future. But greeks are not xenophobic, i would say the opposite. They seem to just enjoy the free money from selling their proper
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by higeorge13 1mo ago
Same in Greece, the countryside and even the islands are dying or declining. Everyone is moving to Athens or nearby big cities. Even most greek islands have become huge only-summer resorts and a large airbnb, most of their villages are almo
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by higeorge13 2mo ago
You need to run them in review loops, this is the only way to reduce or eliminate these issues.
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by higeorge13 7mo ago
It’s also funny because we seem to trust and select doctors by google reviews and assume they have a valid diploma and license to consult us for our lives, but we have to grill some poor software engineer previously working in faang with an
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by higeorge13 8mo ago
I hope they won't chop gpt-4o-mini soon because it's fast and accurate for API usage.
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by higeorge13 11mo ago
Funny thing is that i had a negative experience helping someone who was laid off. I reached out, offered help, provided excellent reference for them, covid hit and hiring froze for that particular company, followed up a few times, ghosted,
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by higeorge13 1y ago
I understand this for a dry candidate pool. I have been there as a hiring manager, you need some signal with take home or live interviewing. But on the rare opportunity that you find someone who is willing to talk in details about a similar
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by higeorge13 1y ago
Why put the blame only on candidates? Interviewers are equally bad to interviewees. I have been to both sides of the table and can guarantee that 80% of interviewers would not be fit for my job or the process of hiring.
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by higeorge13 1y ago
Companies keep ignoring the historical interview point. I have been to a few occasions when companies needed the exact thing i built in the past (e.g. migration to clickhouse), but chose to put me into a random take home related to a differ
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by higeorge13 1y ago
I don’t trust vag for anything after the diesel scandal. I prefer any other brand than this.
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by higeorge13 1y ago
That's a typical modern SaaS issue that all departments have to keep building just to appear busy and "meet goals". Product managers to find the new shiny features, designers to design them or redesign the whole app, engineer
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by higeorge13 1y ago
I am not commenting on the interview effort-salary ratio, but the fact that credentials and experience mean nothing to the tech industry, also comparing to the rest of professions. I mean working in Google/Meta/Netflix, is like wo
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by higeorge13 1y ago
I trust they were really competent, but it's a bit depressing that these competent people will need to go through the leetcode rituals and 5-10 interviews to get a new job at Meta, Netflix, AWS or adjacent companies. That's actual
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by higeorge13 1y ago
Of course it's not right. Let's be honest, our profession is in the era where software engineer = factory worker, and the worst part is that we have been playing music chairs right for the last couple years. So yeah all these prof
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by higeorge13 1y ago
I checked pg_repack a while ago but some issues are a bit concerning to apply in production. Did you face any issues?
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by higeorge13 1y ago
Let’s hope ai hacks mailboxes and google meet, and eventually replace c suite and managers as well. We might get more ‘reasoned’ and deterministic engineering roadmaps or financial strategies by claude ceo/cto/cfo/vp/dir
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by higeorge13 1y ago
TBH the product team in whatsapp needs to find some way to be meaningful. What could justify being a head of product or product manager in a chat app? New emojis? Gif support? New backgrounds? No, let's just make whatsapp like instagra
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ChartMogul MCP server: Chat with your revenue data(chartmogul.com)
1 points by higeorge13 1y ago|0 comments
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Parquet on Iceberg Outperforms MergeTree(altinity.com)
1 points by higeorge13 1y ago|1 comments
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by higeorge13 1y ago
Author here, happy to discuss any of the points mentioned in the blog post.
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ChartMogul reduced Snowflake costs by 70%: a practical optimization guide(chartmogul.com)
3 points by higeorge13 1y ago|1 comments
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by higeorge13 1y ago
Do they have a status page?
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by higeorge13 1y ago
Congratz to neon team (i like what they built), but i don’t see the value or relation to databricks. I hope neon will continue as a standalone product, otherwise we lose a solid postgres provider from the market.
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by higeorge13 1y ago
This also matches my experience so far, but tbh top 10, group by, etc. queries are too easy. Llms produce terrible results on queries requiring multiple CTEs or complex tables. e.g. i still have not seen an llm able to calculate any stats o
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by higeorge13 1y ago
Could you test with clickhouse-local? It always works better for me.

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