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Re:Ocient Database Sandbox on Wednesday June 17, 2026 @08:57AM (#48569844)
Interesting sandbox for using a database that is normally paid for. It has some interesting datasets already loaded
Re:Ask HN: Burned Out. What Now? on Wednesday January 19, 2022 @04:34PM (#30000502)
This is a good blog on the subject by a friend of mine: https://ravik.substack.com/p/focus-flow-and-burnout
Got excited about an open source reactor pattern
Re:Ask HN: Who is hiring? (August 2018) on Wednesday August 01, 2018 @02:09PM (#17665188)
Ocient | Chicago, IL | FULLTIME, ONSITE | www.ocient.com

- Database Engine Development in C++

- Web Admin Tool Development in Node.js and Angular2+

- System Performance Engineering

- Software Test Engineering (SDET)

Current Big Data technologies are built for organizations with datasets measured in terabytes. Ocient is building a hyper-scale database solution for datasets measured in tens of terabytes, petabytes, or exabytes — with trillions or quadrillions of rows.

Ocient is a knowledge-driven technology firm building the next generation of supercompute scale big data solutions. We are innovating in radical and profound ways to solve our customers’ current complex challenges.

email: [email protected]

Re:Ask HN: The most cyberpunk city in the world? on Thursday April 06, 2017 @09:29AM (#14050289)
Definitely not Shanghai (unless you consider everyone heads-down on their phones a symptom of cyberpunk.)

Shenzhen is a good choice though.

How about Tallinn

I switched to mint online. Not quite identical to Quicken, but both my wife and I can access it where ever we are. Quicken always sucked at multiple users.
Re:Will you upgrade to Ubuntu 10.10 tonight? on Sunday October 10, 2010 @06:52PM (#1778158)
Already did. No issues
Re:If I could change the C language... on Sunday August 01, 2010 @08:46PM (#1566480)
This is the same kind of thinking that lead to C++. Most of these changes would add complexity (while at both ends of a loop????) for very little benefit