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[I work on BigQuery] BigQuery also supports in-place querying of datasets on GCS (or S3/Azure using Omni) via external/BigLake tables. https://cloud.google.com/bigquery/docs/query-…

Currently the main benefit of BigLake over the current external tables is governance: you get row and column level security over cloud storage data. The governance is uniformly enf…

I work on BigQuery. All of these are great points: just wanted to point out that BigQuery can federate into external data sources as well: e.g. files on cloud storage and BigTable.…

Former A9 employee here. A9 was not an acquisition - it was bootstrapped as a Bay Area subsidiary. Initially A9 focused on web search, then pivoted to doing product search for Amaz…

Could you explain further?

Lucene is a low level library which is internally used by ElasticSearch and Solr. Vespa is built from the ground up - it does not use Lucene.

They should really dispatched to fix the Google Drive Client program for Mac. It consistently maxes out a CPU even when there is no sync going on. I can consistently reproduce this…

The Android browser is not Chrome or Chrome-based.

Why do you say that has to be order of magnitude smaller? Other BigTable clones like HBase are atleast 100K lines of code, if not more.

> "He's single" but I'm guessing half of my readers can see why. New York based. What do you mean by that?

James Franco is very impressive as well. From his Wikipedia page http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Franco#Personal_life : Franco has been described as having "an unusually high me…

Actually Broadcast.com was a 5.7B deal, believe it or not.

I found Concrete Mathematics to be a bit dense and not very suited for self learners like me. Also it does not cover the basics like proofs, counting etc.

Can someone suggest a good book for learning Discrete Math? I have Rosen's book, but I did not like it much.

It's Khan.

InfraDNA http://infradna.com/about is the company Kohsuke founded to offer professional support for Hudson.

As far as I know, Netflix does not handle the actual streaming of bits - it is done by CDNs like Akamai or Limelight.