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by voberoi 2y ago
You are right that the landlord can't just raise the rent to make up for the loss of this one time payment unless the market will accommodate it. I am not arguing that it will end up in the rent. I was only arguing that, if it did, tha
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by voberoi 2y ago
Easily $4K+
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by voberoi 2y ago
Links to parts of today's NYC Council meeting where this passed today -- - The Speaker, Adrienne Adams, talks about the bill here: https://citymeetings.nyc/city-council/2024-11-13-0130-pm-sta... - The prime sponso
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by voberoi 2y ago
The fee will end up somewhere. If it's in the rent, it's better to amortize the cost of the broker fee over a year vs. pay upfront. Between the fee + first month's rent + security deposit (+ sometimes an additional month&#x27
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by voberoi 2y ago
> "I have a dream" doesn't derive its power from any law King helped pass, but from how it reorganized our relationship with possibility. --- MLK was an incredible organizer whose work helped get the Civil Rights Act and V
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How citymeetings.nyc uses AI to make it easy to navigate city council meetings(vikramoberoi.com)
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by voberoi 3y ago
I know the market you are targeting with your product plug and the problems you point out are real challenges that businesses have. But the lack of all of these features is what I absolutely love about Heroku Dataclips and products inspired
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by voberoi 3y ago
It's open-source Heroku Dataclips (one of my favorite products ever)! I haven't used Blazer, but I have followed and love the idea behind this project. If folks have used it here, I'd love to hear from them.
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How many concurrent conversations can you sustain before OpenAI rate limits you?(vikramoberoi.com)
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by voberoi 3y ago
https://vikramoberoi.com I started writing publicly late last year. It's been tons of effort but it's been tremendously fun and fruitful. Some of my more-visited or favorite posts: * A primer on Roaring bitmaps: what t
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The Family That Mined The Pentagon’s Data for Profit(wired.com)
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The Longest-Trending BuzzFeed News Articles Overall, by Year, and by Month(buzzfeed-trending.vikramoberoi.com)
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Using Metaphone to handle bad transcriptions in voice search for sommeliers(vikramoberoi.com)
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by voberoi 4y ago
Here's a play-by-play of a software engineer at Atari building a spellchecker for VAX mainframes in the 80's: https://atariemailarchive.org/thread/on-building-a-spellchec... It's a game of problem whack-
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by voberoi 4y ago
I wrote this post about how I made atariemailarchive.org: https://vikramoberoi.com/how-i-made-atariemailarchive-org/ . The whole project was fun, but I think the story behind it is neat too.
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Using Polars on Results from DuckDB's Arrow Interface in Rust(vikramoberoi.com)
2 points by voberoi 4y ago|0 comments
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Compilers with David Beazley: a recursive descent into madness (and delight)(vikramoberoi.com)
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by voberoi 4y ago
You might want to take a look at bestpracticer.com — they’ve been doing great work in this space.
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by voberoi 4y ago
Just chiming in here on behalf of SingleSprout -- I know the two founders, David and Natan, and have recruited through them multiple times at Harry's when they and we were both fledgling companies in NYC. I have also been in touch with
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How I made atariemailarchive.org(vikramoberoi.com)
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by voberoi 4y ago
I’m really curious about this. Are you able to share a bit about your use case and how you use roaring bitmaps outright (vs. through search infra like Solr or ElasticSearch)?
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by voberoi 4y ago
I had the same takeaway when I read these papers. It felt like a game of whack-a-mole. There's a massive performance benefit to doing this at the cost of implementation complexity. I haven't studied the implementations or tried my
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Roaring bitmaps: what they are and how they work(vikramoberoi.com)
226 points by voberoi 4y ago|60 comments
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Using bitmaps to run retention analyses over billions of events for $100/mo(vikramoberoi.com)
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by voberoi 4y ago
This is the way -- also never had an issue across US healthcare and enterprise SaaS.
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by voberoi 4y ago
How does one do that? I think Jed's messages are probably archived -- text files linked to at the bottom here too: https://www.jmargolin.com/vmail/vmail.htm
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by voberoi 4y ago
Yes, this was part of the public discourse around video games in the 80s. See: https://atariemailarchive.org/thread/on-claiming-that-video-... This is a quote from an Erma Bombeck article ( https://en.wikiped
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by voberoi 4y ago
The author was laid off in 1984 -- presumably around the time this email was written: https://atariemailarchive.org/thread/on-atari-s-future-38 . [Shameless plug: I made Atari Email Archive and it's fun to peruse i
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by voberoi 11y ago
Have you looked at Code Climate? https://codeclimate.com/
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by voberoi 11y ago
NYC -- Harry's (www.harrys.com) is hiring full-stack engineers and data engineers. We're a high-growth company with a small engineering team (11 of us) across our web platform and data engineering teams. We've grown our busin

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