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Re:Passport on Thursday June 03, 2021 @03:17PM (#27386063)
Interesting if Passport starts aggregating content into one spot like an RSS feed.
Re:Uber's crazy YOLO app rewrite, from the front seat on Monday May 24, 2021 @02:05PM (#27267680)
My takeaway -- even the highest regarded engineering orgs are still shitshows behind the scenes.
Re:Ask HN: Allowing sign up from only work emails? on Sunday May 09, 2021 @12:23PM (#27097234)
Helps them identify orgs interested in their product by the domain. Easier to reach out in the future to [email protected] as opposed to [email protected]
Wow, over 200 teams competing!
There are many data engineers at companies who have to write custom little scripts to take data from spreadsheets into an analytics DB.

Thanks for removing some boilerplate from that process for people!

Re:Stop Calling Everything AI, Machine-Learning Pioneer Says on Wednesday March 31, 2021 @04:41PM (#26652882)
The hero HN doesn't deserve.
Re:The deck we used to raise our seed funding on Wednesday March 31, 2021 @04:04PM (#26652380)
How is Airbyte optimized for building new integrations? Can you explain or point to article on that, i'm curious :)
Re:Unsplash is being acquired by Getty Images on Tuesday March 30, 2021 @09:14AM (#26634195)
Good for the Unsplash team. I've used their images on a bunch of my content. It's a great resource!
Re:Show HN: Arc, an open-source Databricks alternative on Thursday March 25, 2021 @08:02AM (#26579160)
Can you specify between complete pulls of the source vs incremental based on a timestamp field?
Re:TikTok vs. Douyin: A Security and Privacy Analysis on Wednesday March 24, 2021 @01:43PM (#26570538)
I have no idea what most of this means, but I'm glad somebody is doing it.
Re:How to create a 1M record table with a single query on Wednesday March 24, 2021 @09:29AM (#26566904)
Creating realistic fake data is useful in lower environments and for load testing. Outside of SQL I like faker: https://github.com/joke2k/faker
Re:Compare AWS and Azure Services to Google Cloud on Wednesday March 24, 2021 @09:15AM (#26566757)
All 3 clouds have their warts and the grass will always seem greener once you pick one. Hard to go against AWS based on size and head start though...
Re:My Python testing style guide (2017) on Wednesday March 24, 2021 @09:02AM (#26566610)
If you're in the serverless space, a useful addendum: https://towardsdatascience.com/how-i-write-meaningful-tests-...
Re:CERN experiment hints at new force of nature on Tuesday March 23, 2021 @09:55AM (#26554992)
Quote describing the new force:

“There could be a new quantum force that makes the B mesons break up into muons at the wrong rate. It’s sticking them together and stopping them decaying into muons at the rate we’d expect,” Allanach said. “This force could help explain the peculiar pattern of different matter particles’ masses.”

Re:Amazon S3 Object Lambda on Saturday March 20, 2021 @09:30AM (#26523105)
Athena is such a blackbox with "query exhaustion" errors. Wondered this as well.
Re:The Distributed Data Mesh (2019) on Friday March 19, 2021 @09:46AM (#26513238)
Found this to be a good explanation of data lakes IMO: https://databricks.com/discover/data-lakes/introduction
Re:Common Mistakes of New Engineering Managers on Wednesday March 17, 2021 @10:19AM (#26491581)
nice piece! agree re: asking questions
Re:A deep dive into APL on Tuesday March 28, 2017 @09:09AM (#13976224)
I used to work at a large insurance company as an actuary, and although it's dying out, there's still APL code modeling insurance products in use. One of my jobs was to add the new years' assumptions into arrays.