Mironor
Re:Ask HN: What are some of the best technical talks you've heard?
on Monday October 15, 2018 @11:47AM (#18220660)
Silver bullet: Hadi Hariri (2015) - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3wyd6J3yjcs
Every time people think a technology will solve all their problems (remember guys from NOSQL back in the days?), they need to see this talk. The speaker also did this talk as a keynote a couple of times during other conferences.
Re:Mara: A lightweight ETL framework, halfway between plain scripts an...
on Thursday May 10, 2018 @08:55AM (#17038402)
You don't have to have a cluster to run spark scripts, setting master to `local` (and running it on one machine) is often enough for small anounts of data.
Re:Ask HN: What is your favourite tech talk?
on Monday April 16, 2018 @12:15AM (#16846645)
Silver bullet: Hadi Hariri (2015) - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3wyd6J3yjcs
Every time people think a technology will solve all their problems (remember guys from NOSQL back in the days?), they need to see this talk. The speaker also did this talk as a keynote a couple of times during other conferences.
Re:How to Read a Book [pdf]
on Wednesday August 03, 2016 @02:39AM (#12216057)
> 1-3 pages of notes per 100 pages of text is a good goal to
shoot for; more than that is often too much.
I often used a technique of transforming a book into a mindmap, it's much more visual and readable than a simple plain text with notes.