rdeboo

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by rdeboo 3mo ago
Does "financial gravity" imply that noble missions are generally less profitable? Is there a way to align that (maybe by governments structuring the market with taxes / regulations)? Is that realistic?
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Removable batteries in smartphones will be mandatory in the EU starting in 2027(ecopv-eu.com)
573 points by rdeboo 5mo ago|535 comments
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by rdeboo 2y ago
Such a site exists since many years ( https://www.blendle.com ), I don't think it has taken off hugely. People don't want to pay for content.
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by rdeboo 2y ago
I work as a Data Engineer and in my country Azure is pretty big, and as a consequence their Data Factory service has become a common choice for enterprises. It's a GUI based ETL tool, architects prefer it since it is a managed cloud se
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by rdeboo 5y ago
I think the comparison was Snowflake vs Databricks SQL. Databricks SQL is a PaaS service just like Snowflake. Also, it uses their Photon engine, which is a proprietary engine written in C++. It is not Spark.
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by rdeboo 5y ago
It's definitely a long term thing. Some guys from my university founded a company around foldable containers in 2008 ( https://4foldcontainers.com/ ). It's still not common.
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by rdeboo 5y ago
I've had this experience in Germany and it turned out that the waitress gets a cut of the turnover, at least for drinks. So they have an incentive to keep the glasses full. I'm not sure if this is common in Germany.
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by rdeboo 7y ago
You must be jeroen
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by rdeboo 7y ago
I started reading "The Master and Margarita" this year after seeing this title pop up on HN so often. I could not finish it, I found it rather boring. I'm curious, am I the only one? What does everyone find so great about thi
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by rdeboo 7y ago
My girlfriend works as a GP. One of her colleagues was on a visit and had to call an ambulance. She was able to do so by reaching out to the police via Facebook.. (not sure how the address was communicated and what the privacy impact is of
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by rdeboo 8y ago
"Boreout" is an established term, it's kind of the inverse of a burnout. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boreout
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by rdeboo 8y ago
Perhaps this essay by Paul Graham? https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8753526
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by rdeboo 8y ago
How is it more secure? Do you read the entire source code to search for backdoors?
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by rdeboo 9y ago
Outboard motors for boats work like this. If you hit a rock with the propellor, a piece of plastic in the drive train breaks. This prevents the propellor or some other part of the motor from serious damage.
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by rdeboo 9y ago
I don't have data but my gut feeling says that the numbers of Bank Tellers has peaked. In my country (Netherlands) a lot of small branches of banks have closed. The general trend is towards self-service / online. Anecdotically, I
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by rdeboo 9y ago
Actually a couple of people mention the GFW in this page. Good to see that people are aware of the work being done.
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by rdeboo 9y ago
This absolutely happens. Fisher boats will turn off AIS routinely. The nonprofit Global Fishing Watch is doing research to analyse AIS signals, and determine if illegal fishing happens in protected areas. See http://globalfishing
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by rdeboo 9y ago
I subscribed at https://acloud.guru/ for the solution architect course. Price is quite low (I think 20-30 euro) for which you get 20 hours of excellent video material. After each section there is a practice where you build
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by rdeboo 9y ago
AFAIK it is not multitenant, you get your own machines. They spin up the VMs with either open source Spark or the Databricks runtime - you get to choose the distribution and version before spinning up the cluster. If you have enough workloa
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by rdeboo 9y ago
The startup time of a HDInsight cluster is quite long; it's not really suited for ad hoc clusters (which are really easy to spin up quickly in Databricks).
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Help radiologists detect lung cancer earlier(concepttoclinic.drivendata.org)
2 points by rdeboo 9y ago|0 comments
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by rdeboo 9y ago
It's fairly common (at least in Europe) for people to have two sets of wheels, on with summer tires and one with winter tires.
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by rdeboo 9y ago
It's good that their data science team keeps tabs on these important matters.
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by rdeboo 9y ago
I'd try to apply as Data Engineer, you'll be close to the data science work and can more easily pivot into there if you want.
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Dutch grocery delivery startup Picnic raises 100M euro series B round(thenextweb.com)
3 points by rdeboo 9y ago|0 comments
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by rdeboo 10y ago
My circumstances required me to; I worked as a software engineer for a startup without system administrators. So I just solved any issue I encountered while deploying / running production. Ansible is great; easy to learn and powerful.
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Wildlife conservationist warns of poachers hacking wildlife tags(yahoo.com)
2 points by rdeboo 10y ago|0 comments
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by rdeboo 10y ago
Thanks, I'll look it up!
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by rdeboo 10y ago
I set myself a goal to read 20 books; I succeeded. Here's the ones I recommend most: Kim Zetter - Countdown to Zero (on Stuxnet virus and how it was smuggled into the nuclear facility; very interesting) Gary Kasparov - Winter is Coming
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by rdeboo 10y ago
SEEKING WORK Location: Rotterdam, The Netherlands Remote: Yes Willing to relocate: No Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/rolanddeboo The last 3 years I have worked for startups. This means I've worn all kind of

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