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I think this is the exception, not the norm. My experience is business users (incl. PMs) are lost outside of Excel.

I don’t know anything about the game, but I’m guessing the new account was created to protect his identity, should the ploy fail?

That program sounds quite impressive, I wonder if any equivalencies exist in the US?

The slides [1] helped me grok what problems this tool solves pretty quickly. Everything big data is moving to blob storage these days, but streaming can lead to small files problem…

I assume they are using something like DB2, which has very specific meaning when it comes to temporal or bitemporal tables. https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/db2/10.5?topic=tables-bitemp…

Since duckdb is OLAP, it would directly compare with other columnar database technologies like Redshift, Presto/Athena, etc. Most of these systems strongly encourage or outright en…

Fantastic article. Searching the stock ticker (CSCW) on Reddit turned up some humorous old posts about how this penny stock is about to take off.

Thanks for the recommendation! Now that you mention it, I’ve seen similar behavior on Dateline. Wonder if there are other terms for essentially “digging the hole deeper.”

Wow, quite brazen. What an interesting read. Couple things that stood out to me was that the incident occurs in December and the raid ensues March 24th, so roughly 3 months. Buildi…

While certainly focused on larger vehicles, by all appearances Ford is much more exciting and innovative than its traditional domestic counterparts. The new electric F150, electric…

This looks really great, like a local version of redash but way more in the way of charting options. Such simplicity to boot.

Fantastic work! This looks like an arguably better/more generalized version of something like Streamlit. Great concept for building rapid applications.

That is correct. Typically used to enable or modify a feature in the client on your own time table vs. App Store approval.

Keeping in mind DE can mean different things at different companies, I spend a lot of time working on infrastructural components to just get at data reliably. Working in a product …

If not a serverless model, then Docker at the very least. Something like Kubernetes might be overkill but containers make life easier both starting out and managing future growth.

Interesting, I’d guess list operations are significantly faster because of the cache, even a hash map like Redis? That can be a real slowdown in s3 with large quantities of files.

At least in the AWS ecosystem, Athena makes this very simple to implement. Stream load balancer logs to S3 and query directly.

With direct integrations to EMR, Lambda, and Athena, its a great tool for building pipelines and effectively costs nothing on its own and is completely headache free.

Admittedly, its not always apparent. I think a general rule of thumb for me is if I can effectively write the script in my mind ahead of time. Anything beyond that and I might regr…

Shell scripts are obviously imperfect, but I don’t necessarily agree with this absolutism view. In the right circumstances, you can quickly prototype an idea or process information…

[0] returned a 404, but this appears to be substitute: https://statlearning.com/

The URLs include some unique identifier that’s traceable to you. As far as my company is concerned, merely clicking it is grounds for security training. Edit: I guess the argument …