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kite_and_code

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About kite_and_code

You can contact me via my corporate email address at florian.wetschoreck which is reachable on the official Databricks domain.

All my views that I post here are my own though and not the viewpoint of my employer and I don't act on their behalf or command.

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    Ask HN: What do you want to ask a Nobel price laureate?

    I have a chance to talk to one and I look for inspirations on what to ask

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    Ask HN: What do you use instead of SQL?

    I see SQL (query language) being used widely. I am wondering: is there something better? Did you choose or find a (better/different) alternative instead of SQL at some time or in a…

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    Comment #32650506

    Can you ship to and from Europe?

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    Ask HN: How to protect your nose from nasty smell?

    What are different methods to protect your nose from smell? I would be curious to learn more about the range of solutions. E.g. how do people cope who work in very smelly environme…

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    Ask HN: I want to name a library after a dead person. Do I need permission?

    Background: The San Jose State University library is called Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. library. If you want to do a similar thing. Whose permission do you need for using the name?…

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    Ask HN: Situations when people changed their behaviors / habits?

    Some examples: I think that grocery store analysts found that mum's are likely to change their purchasing behavior before/after the birth of their child. The new habits might stick…

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    Comment #31465274

    Trusted Housesitters matches people who have a pet and want to go on vacation with people who would like to take care of the pet while staying at the other persons house (usually f…

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    Comment #31455725

    Thank you for sharing that observation and the suggestion! I will keep that in mind :)

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    Comment #31455711

    Cool to hear that! To be honest, we regularly refactor our architecture at bamboolib in order to make sure that there is almost no gap between what we would love to say in natural …

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    Comment #31455681

    Fair points. I guess in this specific case at hand, companies can switch between bamboolib, mito, dtale and it is less likely that all of them will become unavailable at the same t…

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    Comment #31451565

    I can totally relate that finding a suitable open-source business model is a fuzzy journey. Nevertheless, from the user perspective I would love to hear a more clear answer - at le…

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    Comment #31451420

    Thanks for mentioning Altair. I am personally also a big fan. I am one of the co-founders of bamboolib and we are actively thinking about adding support for altair to the Plot Crea…

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    Comment #31451384

    bamboolib co-founder here: It's correct that bamboolib is (still) closed-source (which might be subject to change but I don't make promises). It's also correct that customers can e…

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    Comment #31451349

    To the founders of mito, regarding the mito GPL license: What is your take on that regarding usage inside cloud provider's notebooks like AWS, GCP, Azure, Databricks? Is it allowed…

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    Comment #31451290

    bamboolib co-founder here. We are also thinking about adding Excel-type formulas to the UI and already have internal prototypes. However, please be aware that bamboolib might soon …

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    Comment #31451258

    I love how mito enables companies to use the power of open-source! You might want to think about enabling companies to create the company specific extensions themselves e.g. via a …

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    Comment #31451129

    Yes, I am one of the co-founders of bamboolib and employed by Databricks. I already added my disclosure to the following answer [0] in this thread but I was hesitant to add it to e…

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    Lux might also be interesting: https://github.com/lux-org/lux