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by macobo 4y ago
In practice product requirements can get in the way of technically ideal solutions. One example of this is that analytics products allow users to pass in and analyze arbitrary number of user properties to do analysis on - more than even a c
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Scaling product analytics built on ClickHouse(posthog.com)
64 points by macobo 4y ago|12 comments
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by macobo 6y ago
> I'm convinced the only people who have good things to say about using linux (or BSD for that matter, been there done that, no thanks) on a laptop are the kind of people who keep their "laptops" on the same desk, plugged
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by macobo 6y ago
Examples, suggestions?
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by macobo 6y ago
Why take 60% of the rating space up by negative ratings? It seems like what you really care about is degrees of goodness. An alternative approach: 1 - I disliked it. 2 - It's OK 3 - This is good 4 - This is great 5 - This is a must-rea
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by macobo 6y ago
https://fishshell.com/ for sure Just having sensible defaults on a shell works wonders on my day-to-day productivity. Add a couple of aliases for productivity and off you go. abbr --add s "git status" abbr -
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by macobo 7y ago
In europe, https://eagronom.com/ is taking an interesting approach - rather than throw all existing farming practices out with the bathwater, try to build on top of them and modernize to achieve sustainable farming.
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by macobo 8y ago
This smells a lot like meteor. Would love to see an actual semi-large app built with this approach.
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by macobo 9y ago
How so? The code still documents what is happening, the commits however lay out the whys. The point is that these two are separate questions, and that trying to use comments as a crutch to join the two religiously is a headache. It's i
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by macobo 9y ago
There's an infinite amount of detail that's impossible to capture in a comment and which invariably changes over time and doesn't hold in the future. For my team, the solution has been writing longer commit messages detailing
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by macobo 9y ago
You need a queue in front of your database irregardless of write latency. Otherwise you tie your availability to database availability as downtime (even for upgrades) is often unavoidable and network problems are common. Dan gave a pretty g
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by macobo 9y ago
Note that working remotely takes some getting used to just as with working at an office. Yes, you can dump someone into unfamiliar conditions and draw conclusions from that, but that's just confirming your prior assumptions without act
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A list of established remote tech companies(github.com)
2 points by macobo 10y ago|0 comments
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by macobo 10y ago
But you just said this: > I've looked at large articles I contributed to a few years ago and they are now disasters. Examples would be welcome.
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by macobo 10y ago
Would you mind elaborating on what sort of remote positions yelp offers. Here's a few common ones: - It's okay to work from home a few/most days of the week. - Anywhere, same working hours for everyone - Flexible working hour
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by macobo 10y ago
Remote work is an option. :)
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by macobo 10y ago
Regarding a), a sharded postgresql (i.e. with citus data) can easily accomodate that workflow with just a tiny bit of extra overhead. Re c) this strongly depends on the usecase, I've seen companies use a) to avoid split-brain problems
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by macobo 10y ago
You can always reach out to companies yourself. I graduated from a second-tier university in a small eastern-european university and did find internship opportunities in SV so I can assert with confidence: your options are what you make of
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by macobo 10y ago
Please keep in mind I was responding only to the original comment, which I quoted in its full glory. It had nothing to do with what you assert above, just a mistaken assertion that US is keeping (now was implicit in what you said) nukes in
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by macobo 10y ago
Original comment was: > And the US isn’t putting nukes into Estonia? Honest question: Where is this coming from? I'd hate to call this war-mongering and spreading misinformation, but this is a great way to polarize a conversation in
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by macobo 10y ago
You're missing a cultural reference. http://www.thelittleprince.com/work/the-story/
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by macobo 10y ago
This is great, I can see myself using this. However, this suffers from being a SPA: - URLs are not persistent, meaning if I cannot bookmark searches I care about. - Outbound links are buttons for some reason instead of anchor tags. This mea
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10 years of e-voting in Estonia [pdf](skytte.ut.ee)
1 points by macobo 10y ago|0 comments
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by macobo 11y ago
Note that the project is quite new and has a really active dev base - if you use those features, feel free to submit a PR (or add an issue) and it's pretty sure to get accepted.
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by macobo 11y ago
De-identification has its limits and information can still be learned even from anonymized datasets. An alternative to this is something like Sharemind [1][2] where sound cryptography is used to make secure multi-party computation possible.
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There is a button(blog.jaibot.com)
2 points by macobo 11y ago|0 comments
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by macobo 11y ago
Out of curiosity, have you looked at Sikuli [1]? [1]: http://www.sikuli.org/
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by macobo 11y ago
A good intro is `Competitive Programming` by Steven Halim [1]. It covers the types tasks typically used in these kinds of competitions, with over 1000 categorized problems. I came away with a through understanding of the intuition behind ma
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Quantum-Immune alternative to RSA(guardtime.com)
1 points by macobo 11y ago|0 comments
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by macobo 11y ago
This is a genuinely scary scenario. Have there been precedents of profiteering by hiding _something_ invisible to the end-user but with an ulterior purpose into normal consumer electronics?

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