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If you go to the website, there's another (what looks like) personal website for the guy behind this bot. I can't honestly tell what the hell it is for, but he has mentions of vari…

How do you all handle code review for projects that use specific frameworks or libraries? I write a lot of PySpark and the "flavour" of code is sort of different than traditional P…

There are so many stupid "courses" and SaaS tools doing this I imagine that the value of the many of these certificates is close to 0. Many of them you can simply take the exam ove…

Can anyone attest if young people are actually taking up cigarettes again? I was talking with a friend that teaches teenagers and she was explaining how many students that once wer…

Same attitudes as others in this thread. For personal projects and side company, I get to join in on some of the fun and really multiply the amount of work I can get through. I ten…

Having been on way too many middle-of-the-night Zoom calls watching my company's DevOps and development teams aimlessly troubleshoot issues with containers and similar cloud first …

Are there really any other managed Spark/full data platform providers that come close to the level of ergonomics and maturity of Databricks? I agree some of their features are half…

We actually baked a rule to catch UDF usage into our Python linter. Almost always, a UDF can be refactored to use only native PySpark functions.

Yep, exactly. You couldn't reach the computer unless you undid the knot.

My dad used to tie up the Ethernet cable on our family's home router and hide it in a closet. The knots were to prevent us from reconnecting the router and putting it back before h…

I had a chuckle on my way home yesterday. Standing on the train platform and seeing "Next departure in: (Vercel Connection Error)" on the screen. :P

Great post. I'm still going through this process. I was offered the management cap a few years ago as an escape from the drudgery I was dealing with at the time. Now I am not sure …

Comments in the code for items that need to be addressed before final review. e.g. "XXX: Blah blah.." or "TODO: Investigate blah blah". For other types of notes useful to future me…

Seems like a whole new market is opening for people looking to game the hiring process. In my short few years being involved in interviewing, I've seen 1) obvious AI use off screen…

I work as a data engineer in the financial services industry, and I am still amazed that CSV remains the preferred delivery format for many of our customers. We're talking datasets…

I must be in the extreme minority, I always prefer light themes.

The Canadian government has apparently introduced a framework for sharing your banking data securely with third parties (budgeting apps, financial products) in an effort to elimina…

My whole organization picked up Bruno after the whole Postman fiasco. I've found Bruno to be very unpolished and buggy. We've run into bugs where the UI will show one value, but wh…

I've only had probably 3 or so migraines in my life, I sympathize with people who get them often. I can't imagine that level of pain regularly. One strange thing about migraines fo…

I am a new manager and I am struggling to get my team to understand the value in code reviews. I have been through so many rewrites and re-re-writes of spaghetti code, I am much mo…

My company has shared slices of very large datasets (100s of GBs to TBs) through Delta Sharing since we're already heavily invested into Databricks. Thought I'd see if anyone on HN…

I manage a team of about a dozen who receive many emails per day. These range from alerts/notifications from internal tools, internal work chatter, meeting invites, and external re…

Strongly considering donating to the creator of Visidata, it's one of the terminal tools I can't live without. I use it every day.

Suffered through 7:15AM start time all throughout high school... no thank you.