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by kgp7 6mo ago
I thought I was the only one who had this problem - so annoying, and the frequent Ui glitches when it asks you to choose an option .
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by kgp7 2y ago
I work with an engineer who is visually challenged and uses emacs with dictation to code. He is a pretty phenomenal engineer.
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by kgp7 2y ago
Presto is actively switching to use Velox as the backend ( https://github.com/prestodb/presto/tree/master/presto-native... ) . It is also being used extensively internally, again the paper describes thes
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by kgp7 2y ago
This isnt really true, Meta if anything has doubled down on Velox.
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by kgp7 2y ago
This is being actively used at Meta in Production across several engines ; the paper makes explicit references to this.
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by kgp7 3y ago
The fact that it's open for even commercial applications is going to ensure this spreads like wildfire.
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by kgp7 3y ago
My argument is not that 'I found interview easy and hence not so bad'. My argument is that in Lyfts case engineering hasnt been the problem with why its business is failing. > Then the question becomes what exactly are you payi
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by kgp7 3y ago
Its disingenuous to claim that these engineers werent delivering business value. James Gosling worked on Java at Sun and Sun failed, would you say that Gosling isnt a good engineer ? Engineering can only work in the bounds of the problems s
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by kgp7 3y ago
This seems to be a common trope at HN where the failure of a company must be because of their hiring practice. Your comment also implies that the current failure has been engineering. This couldnt be further from the truth, Lyft had some of
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by kgp7 9y ago
If you look at the waves in the water you can tell they are different.
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by kgp7 9y ago
> Contrary to popular perception, Infosys is a valued company in many respects including HR policies, growth, and frugal innovation. I am not aware of anything innovative that has come out of IT body shops, Do you have any examples of s
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by kgp7 9y ago
Apple | Cupertino, CA | Data Engineer |Full time | Onsite Apple is a technology company headquartered in Cupertino, California, that designs, develops, and sells consumer electronics, computer software, and online services. Apple's is
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by kgp7 9y ago
Apple | Cupertino, CA | Data Engineer |Full time | Onsite Apple is a technology company headquartered in Cupertino, California, that designs, develops, and sells consumer electronics, computer software, and online services. Apple's ■■■
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by kgp7 9y ago
Apple | Cupertino, CA | Data Engineer |Full time | Onsite Apple is a technology company headquartered in Cupertino, California, that designs, develops, and sells consumer electronics, computer software, and online services. Apple's ■■■
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by kgp7 10y ago
Apple | Cupertino, CA | Data Engineer |Full time | Onsite Apple is a technology company headquartered in Cupertino, California, that designs, develops, and sells consumer electronics, computer software, and online services. Apple's ■■■
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by kgp7 10y ago
> doesn’t end here. BigQuery has background processes that constantly look at all the stored data and check if it can be optimized even further. Perhaps initially data was loaded in small chunks, and without seeing all the data, some dec
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by kgp7 11y ago
This assumes that the H1B's filed by the outsourcing companies are engineers your startup would want to hire. Unfortunately thats not true, most good quality engineers are almost never employed by these outsourcing firms. The general n
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by kgp7 11y ago
> Apple Watch is just ~4% after a year The Apple Watch just went on sale this year.
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Jeff Bezos on Profit, Failure, Succession(uk.businessinsider.com)
1 points by kgp7 12y ago|0 comments
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Lanham Napier CEO of Rackspace is stepping down.(facebook.com)
3 points by kgp7 13y ago|0 comments
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by kgp7 13y ago
I am pretty sure nothing is streamed off of AWS - possibly Cloudfrount , but based on what I know of Netflix use L3 and Akamai heavily.
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by kgp7 13y ago
The Wii was sold at a profit. Also I believe they are still making a loss, since the component breakdown doesn't include costs of marketing/development etc.
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by kgp7 13y ago
The Standard and StandardPlus packages have the same configuration but the Plus package costs 15$ more. Am I missing something ?
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by kgp7 13y ago
They never seem to define what a Living room machine is ? I wouldn't consider a desktop be a living room machine.
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AWS launches Data Pipeline, EC2 instances for analytics(zdnet.com)
5 points by kgp7 14y ago|1 comments
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by kgp7 14y ago
I was rather hoping the keyboard would be included with the package. I think Microsoft can ill afford to charge so much for an accessory that is pretty much a USP for their tablets.
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by kgp7 14y ago
Really excited for the BufferBox and Plivio guys !
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Amazon the Omnivore(businessweek.com)
1 points by kgp7 15y ago|0 comments
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by kgp7 15y ago
There is an episode of QI : http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XCAg5_vHFmI where in they discuss about this , and also a brief interview with the mathematician involved.
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by kgp7 16y ago
Netflix doesnt stream off of Amazon and even if they do use cloudfront (which i highly doubt), they have other CDN's (Akamai,Limelight) off which they would stream traffic too. I do not see how it would be possible for Amazon to monitor tha

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