wetha

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by wetha 7y ago
What is an example of these absurd hoops you talk of, w.r.t the google interview process specifically? I just went through the process and had a much more positive experience, so i’m interested to know.
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by wetha 7y ago
>> If a bird shits on your hand will you use paper or water to clean it ? >That's a misleading analogy. Do you eat off your butt? If I got bird poo on my bare foot, I'd wipe it off in the dirt and move on. Most people sho
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by wetha 8y ago
> Some people criticized anesthesia as a “needless luxury”; clergymen deplored its use to reduce pain during childbirth as a frustration of the Almighty’s designs. It’s become fashionable to take potshots at Christianity, justified or ot
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by wetha 8y ago
Around query pricing, my understanding is BigQuery charges by bytes scanned uncompressed. Redshift Spectrum/Athena charges by bytes scanned compressed. That makes Athena/Spectrum cheaper as well.
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by wetha 8y ago
I’m not the author of the post. Your comment assumes a well known schema. My understanding from the post is that this solution can join and filter on “custom” datasets of arbitrary schema that each of their customers upload.
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by wetha 9y ago
I assume CloudSQL is google’s alternative to AWS RDS. Less of an excuse to not make the setting user configurable when the competition (AWS) does.
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by wetha 9y ago
“You can only request that they call you.” Sounds like exactly why Amazon is much better. They don’t put you on hold, and there’s no IVR menu to suffer through.
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by wetha 9y ago
This, if done maliciously, is a valid DOS attack vector known as Slowloris/SlowPost attacks. I know it’s easier said than done, but there should be active mitigation in place, rather than only monitoring.
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by wetha 9y ago
> because that is who America has designated as their community support system. This seems unjustified. Your statement assumes (a) Support systems in the community are run only by religious people. This implies (b) Non-religious people d
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by wetha 9y ago
I knew of Prince Rupert’s drop before[1]. Reading about Prince Rupert’s cube sent me down the rabbit-hole of reading up on Prince Rupert himself. Why do we no longer have Renaissance men/women today, contributing to the sciences, philo
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by wetha 9y ago
Can’t speak to Azure, but why is this difficult on AWS? You can stop and restart your instances, and you’ll be charged only when they’re running. Your data will need to be on EBS volumes.
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by wetha 9y ago
AWS. t2.Micro instance = $15 monthly. EBS Cold HDD 1 TB = $26 monthly. With the free tier, the T2 instance is free the first year. Plus, all the cloudy goodness of EBS Snapshots for backup and easy scalability.
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by wetha 9y ago
Indian currency is not on the Gold Standard.
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by wetha 9y ago
What makes Krakow inherently better than say, Bangalore? Not snark, just asking.
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by wetha 9y ago
The level of national discourse in India has reached such a low point that questioning or raising doubts about any of the government's policies/actions leads to one being labelled a traitor to the country. It is depressing to see
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by wetha 9y ago
Here's an interesting trip down the rabbit hole - Kerala, the state mentioned in the article, is surprisingly distinct from the rest of India. It has some of the highest literacy rates in India (something like 92%) and an HDI comparabl
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by wetha 9y ago
The reason these videos appeal to people is because it returns some power back to the customer being mistreated. Any fairly frequent flier will have horror stories of being mistreated by airline or border personnel, and most times the only
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by wetha 9y ago
That's too simplistic. While individual people need not be rational, a better theory is that society as a whole is largely rational when taking into account disruptions due to causal factors (people, groups, situations). These causal
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by wetha 9y ago
It is possible you see better representation of both genders in a society where people choose their career based on potential ROI. Fewer societies allow its people to truly choose their career based on interest or passion alone, which might
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by wetha 9y ago
Thank you for [1], I found the transcribed interview wonderful. However, I did not read his words as taking "perverse pride in being illiterate" but rather more of being happy with his current situation and not wanting to change i