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I am currently building something similar for my company. We are enabling people to host apps with python backends as well, so that people can do more complex tweaking of data for …

I have tried this a few times. If you live in the woods with lots of standing water, then it has literally no effect. I bought a giant supply of bacillus thurengensis pellets and p…

Absolutely, every time I have had a job that I couldn't answer these two questions with a confident affirmation, I have burned out in under a year. It certainly is a trial of your …

Fuck all the people responding to with shameful posts about breast feeding being better. I did a fair amount of research into why, and the only conclusive thing a found was that br…

Location: Portland, Maine Remote: Yes Willing to relocate: No Technologies: Python, SQL, AWS, ETL, Any relational database (mysql, postgres, sql server, snowflake, etc), elasticsea…

Do a search, there was a thread on this yesterday and another a couple days before that. The summary is read a book or two but be ready to adapt to your babies individual needs. Pr…

Come to Maine. Billboards are illegal here! All of the surrounding states talk about how beautiful it is here, I think that a huge part of the beauty is the lack of forced exposure…

I'd say higher demand led to more R&D. Supply alone wouldn't drive the price declines, as it used to cost too much to produce high battery capacity so there was a price floor. As d…

I have only really done technical interviews. My process is to give the resume a once over to understand what technologies and project they have used that I have a deep understandi…

Fist off, its a virus not a microorganism. Second, high humidity reduces the spread of viruses. That is why you get the common cold more often in winter, when it is very dry.

We're starting to see the mass layoffs begin. I wonder how much effort it would be for a company like Amazon to employ them as Temps. There is going to be a massive increase in ava…

I forgot to answer your other question about tracking employee engagement. We make people track their work down to the 15 minute increment, and make sure they hit specific allocati…

We like to encourage developers to go for certifications in the technologies that we use (AWS certifications, Snowflake certifications, etc). Our vizualization folks get Tableau an…

Hah, too true. I find giving them smaller, well defined tasks and checking in frequently helps erk some productivity out of them. Also having lots of check-ins and pair-debugging s…

I think you're on to something here. I certainly value a lot of freedom and need the challenge of solving big problems myself. I get demoralized when some scrum master is breaking …

I'm with you man. Never held a job for more than a year or so. Though for me it is because I quit once I feel myself losing interest. Nothing gives a jolt to my apathy quite like q…

I'm surprised to see only a cursory mention of Snowflake in this article. In my experience, they are really the pioneers of the new distributed, cloud-first database. They really e…

Yea I'm not sure what the alternative would be. You can do some drag and drop dashboard creation or export small data sets to excel, but at some point you gotta get to SQL if you w…

I do. I work in data consulting. I prefer tableau on top of snowflake for 99% of jobs, but for massively scaling insert performance elasticsearch has a niche. Kibana seems like a m…

Look at the cost of existing databases that do this. Snowflake, Elasticsearch, etc. Their pricing models are public.

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I like to map tilda, tab, and caps lock to 0, 9, and 8 so that my left hand doesn't have to reach as far.

It definitely feels good to wake up in the morning and say, "I'm faster than anyone else on this planet at peeling lemons with my toes"

It is surprisingly difficult for private sector data scientists and engineers to help with any type of research. Universities look at data problems and just throw unpaid/underpaid …

+1 for high adrenaline sports. Everyone is different, but I sure find that if I don't get my heart pumping from an extreme sport once a week, then I fall into a slump of boredom an…