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Hi HN, I'm curious if anybody else has noticed an uptick in calendar syncing issues, such as the ones I describe below. Background: My organization uses Google Calendars, and I mee…

Thank you for sharing <3

[dbt Labs employee here] Cloud costs increasing could be a sign of more data being utilized productively. In any way, a mixture of data engineers and analysts is a healthy way to s…

[dbt Labs employee here] Check out dbt-expectations package[1]. It's a port of the Great Expectations checks to dbt as tests. The advantage of this is you don't need another tool f…

I've come across a number of people recently who insist on storing their secrets (e.g., passwords, private keys, credentials) in a secrets manager such as HashiCorp Vault or AWS Se…

> The name means to shift away from Oracle, red being an allusion to Oracle, whose corporate color is red and is informally referred to as "Big Red. I learned this recently and tho…

Thanks! I eliminated that it was my machine -- I observed the same phenomenon on two machines. I launched my own EC2 web instance in us-east-1 and hosted one of the slow files, and…

I recently signed up for Internet service with Magenta (formerly T-Mobile) in Vienna, Austria. It's a basic 40 down / 10 up home service, and generally works well and as-advertised…

I'm so sorry to hear that. I wish the best for you and your sister.

Warby Parker | New York, NY | Full-time | Onsite Warby Parker is a transformative lifestyle brand with a lofty objective: to offer designer eyewear at a revolutionary price while l…

Warby Parker | New York, NY | Full-time | Onsite Warby Parker is a transformative lifestyle brand with a lofty objective: to offer designer eyewear at a revolutionary price while l…

Codeforces is similar to TopCoder, well-used, and is only focused on algorithms. http://codeforces.com/

NYU team coach here writing from Russia. :) Indeed, most of the top competitors have been practicing since high school. We were lucky to assemble a team that has been training well…

A good non-technical solution to this problem is an intentionally slow/standard Internet connection, such as at my cafe of choice. For me, it is frustrating to be at this cafe at p…

How does it feel to have a front page profile on HN? (Hi vlad! :D)

More UO nostalgia: I started playing UO when I was about 13. My parents paid the monthly fees for a few months, but I couldn't convince them to keep paying for it. ("Do your homewo…