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it is like old school with time sharing systems -- you gotta be efficient when your turn comes up in the lab on the punch card and mainframes... instead of the mindless and endless…

True stories? Anyone else have stories to share?

This company has like 0 press -- but $37m in funding, are they for real?

Sure why not -- I mean redshift is a cluster of Postgres databases as well. What you don't get is scale -- so its fine for a small data warehouse (in which case is it really a data…

I was pondering this as well -- and wondering should I buy SNOW stock or is it a bubble ?

This is a good story for all to realize -- you CAN talk about your OWN pay to anyone you want. Every employer I know has tried to say "you can't do that" or "its in your contract" …

Standup is a grind .. I think of ways to get out of it, like an extended toilet break

Hmm i think the pace of changes has made software break more, but unit tests and integration tests are an improvement. But I agree writing unit tests takes a hella lotta time, not …