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Ask HN: Apache Beam Usage 2018?
Anecdotally, what's the uptake like of Apache Beam at the moment? Are you doing it? Are your friends?If it's likely to pick up enough of a following to be maintained, it looks like an excellent framework for a few of our solutions.But at the time of writing there are < 700 questions tagged apache beam on Stack Overflow...
Re:HyperNormalisation (2016) [video]
on Thursday February 09, 2017 @06:33AM (#13606197)
In considering our time more pivotal than any before, are we not guilty of the same sensationalism and irrational behaviour that this film observes?
Re:HyperNormalisation (2016) [video]
on Thursday February 09, 2017 @06:31AM (#13606195)
"History may not repeat itself but it does rhyme..."
Some guy, last century
Are there really no parallels for popular opinion straying significantly from established facts and resulting in irrational behaviour before natural correction...? Are the South Sea Bubble and the Cold War not two such such examples of this?
Re:What I learned from spending 3 months applying to jobs after a codi...
on Monday November 21, 2016 @12:24PM (#13007095)
"At Hack Reactor, we’re trained to mask our inexperience. In our personal narratives, we purposely omit our bootcamp education."
Assuming most people who do bootcamps are changing careers, how do you explain suddenly becoming a developer after years of another career?
The Government IT Self-Harm Playbook (UK)
Re:Dell, EMC, HP, Cisco are the walking dead
on Monday October 12, 2015 @10:56AM (#10374879)
"I think there is a world market for maybe five computers."
Thomas Watson, president of IBM, 1943
"Nuclear-powered vacuum cleaners will probably be a reality within ten years."
Alex Lewyt, president of Lewyt vacuum company, 1955
"Two years from now, spam will be solved."
Bill Gates, founder of Microsoft, 2004
Re:Google's Secret Hiring Tool
on Friday October 02, 2015 @12:45PM (#10319631)
Is accessing foobar.google.com a puzzle in its own right?
Or is it strictly invite only?
Re:Why C# Is Not My Favorite Programming Language
on Monday September 28, 2015 @09:13AM (#10290255)
No feature or optimisation is free
One must eventually compromise in every language/system at some cost according to the value to its intended user
Many of these genuinely interesting criticisms of C# are the "other edge" to the sword we love it for
Re:The US Marines tested all-male squads against mixed-gender ones
on Friday September 11, 2015 @05:18AM (#10202734)
this study is definitely deeply flawed - and disappointing as this would have been a really interesting set of results if it wasn't uncontrolled.
Re:An enraging proposal to speed up queues: Serve the last person first
on Monday September 07, 2015 @12:29PM (#10182011)
This article doesn't consider the myriad issues likely to be caused by as many people arriving as late as possible - like the almost inevitable delays to event start times or how in practice you would measure who the last person to arrive was..
Krebs on DNS and booter services
Thoughts on DNS - DDoS, Booter Services and other abuse
Re:Ask HN: Would you get an MBA at the Technion?
on Monday August 17, 2015 @10:57AM (#10073398)
Yes - as a software engineer I would be interested in learning how to manage a business tailored to the field I would be most interested in managing a business in.
>> No. Getting an MBA is all about the contacts that you make.
Who's to say you wouldn't make the most relevant contacts for your business on this program.
Re:Ask HN: Do you work in a company that will fire you for average per...
on Thursday August 06, 2015 @11:32AM (#10017149)
Have they clarified that those they retain are exceptionally high performers? Or their performance could simply be exceptional in some other regard...
Re:Make sure you turn this off (Google users)
on Monday August 03, 2015 @12:49PM (#9997622)
this looks suspiciously like anti-Google marketing rather than an interest article