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by six2seven 5y ago
Sadly, on contrary, I avoid amazon in UK as much as possible. I just had too many adventures. This includes being sent e.g. a fake product in a box of dimensions resembling the ordered expensive one (at least the refund is instant). Or long
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by six2seven 6y ago
Hey, keep in mind that we are living now in a bit extraordinary times. Your boss is also human as you. He may have more important things in his mind at the moment rather than you doing your work (and seems you are doing your job well). Duri
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by six2seven 6y ago
Although this article [1] compares Airflow to Prefect it outlines pretty interestingly limitations of Airflow. I would be also curious to hear more about alternative and mature open-source solutions to Airflow. [1] https://medium
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by six2seven 6y ago
The thing Atlassian had going for them is that we could get our non-technical people to use their stuff, understand it, and even customize it themselves to meet their needs. This. Although personally I have never been a big fan of c
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by six2seven 6y ago
Also wanted to write about Phabricator / Phacility as it looks really neat. Does anyone have a first hand experience working with it comparing to standard Atlassian stack?
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by six2seven 6y ago
I'm afraid that what has happened is something unfortunately quite normal in UK and it's a part of the general work culture. That is, everyone is just doing part of their job and following the protocol, but nothing more. Something
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by six2seven 6y ago
Similarly in Spain. In large cities like Madrid or Barcelona these guys are owning properties, running both small and large businesses and very often avoiding taxes (try to ask in one of small venues for a bill and be sure then to check it)
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by six2seven 6y ago
> every pharma company has a decent bunch of PhDs building machine learning models for a variety of reasons. Those models aren't as headline catching but rather they improve certain unglamorous business processes by X%. Taken as a w
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by six2seven 6y ago
Also see: Apache Superset [0] -- this one looks really like a fully fledged data exploration and visualisation suite, being a possible free and open source alternative to Microsoft Power BI [1]. Using the official / own image can be al
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by six2seven 6y ago
Try to connect with the creative side of self, try to connect with the internal kid that used to love programming, try to connect with the 'creator' part of self. And at the beginning just do it for yourself, from pure curiosity,
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by six2seven 6y ago
> The other big challenge I never resolved was how you'd account for e.g. using 1/4 cup of flour out of a bigger volume. Or taken to its extreme, cooking oil. How do you know how much your 'splash' is? You can't
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by six2seven 6y ago
This is exactly what I needed and was thinking about building a similar app. But to be really useful and automated, there's a bit long way I'm afraid. The biggest deal breaker is the time spend for the data entry and updates, leav
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by six2seven 7y ago
As an alternative, there's an open-source OpenDistro for ElasticSearch [1] that offers X-Pack-like security with some other X-Pack-like features. Although it is not officially supported by elastic.co, but it's a pretty good altern
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by six2seven 7y ago
You see, around ~10 years ago I could just buy online a (even non-genuine) refill kit and just refill the ink in the cartridges by myself. And I could use the printer whenever I wanted. If I run out of the ink, I would just buy the ink refi
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by six2seven 7y ago
That's a really good question! I've been using for quite some time Tika as the Swiss-army knife for text extraction. They don't seem to be even using Tika behind the hood as any of the bundled tools. Perhaps anyone has some c
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by six2seven 7y ago
You might be interested in Software Craftsmanship [0] manifesto. There are many communities and initiatives around the world gathering folks with the interest in producing high-quality software. From the few of the folks I have been working
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by six2seven 7y ago
Try to release this tension a bit, stay with the team, adapt, work hard and observe. You have now perspective after only one month. Revalidate it after 3 and then after 6 mo. And don't forget to not stop improving and adjusting. Your s