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Interesting to see the competitive analysis with Fivetran in the article but then see almost identical copies of infographics used between their site and Fivetran's. Airbyte: https…

Thanks for this answer - this is what I was looking for. I think you make a great point that the regulator needs to constantly adapt to the changing market, and this may be the cas…

Does anyone have any insights into how the railroad industry fared after it was broken up? I'm curious what the impact of the overall industry was as a result of the Sherman Act. D…

I wish they kept their Mailbox app as well - I really enjoyed using it ( https://www.theverge.com/2015/12/8/9873268/why-dropbox-mailb... )

I often find myself responding with "interesting" when I haven't yet formulated an opinion - to me it's an indication that I'll have to get back to you on how I feel about it. I ha…

I heard this phrase in Shanghai and never knew it may be a curse - thanks for sharing this - I usually say this every once in a while but maybe shouldn't

I found this blog to be very helpful for understanding lockfree algorithms: http://www.1024cores.net/home/lock-free-algorithms

I always had a hard time remembering the regex syntax and form until I learned about scanners/lexers/tokenizers and finite state machines. Then it really clicked and made a lot of …

Thanks for sharing those tips!

Which tool do you use to follow users on HN?

Sowell's "Controversial Essays" was helpful for me to understand the conservative mindset a little more. He comes from the Chicago School and Milton Friedman.

It depends on the courses you pick. With your Math MS, you might actually do really well in the Machine Learning/AI courses that they offer. The projects are mostly in Python and a…

It heavily depends on the courses you pick. I'm a full time employee (9-5 job) but no family and I usually dedicate a hour or two of my mornings and early evenings to the course as…

I second this - I'm 3 semesters into the online MS in CS program at GATech and it's been a huge level up for me. I highly recommend the investment IF you have the time - it is a la…

This is an interesting paper - thanks for linking!

"If you roll 2 six-sided dice, what are the chances you roll at least one dice above 5 (5 or 6)?" A nice trick to visually solve this in your head I heard once is: If you think of …

Doesn't golang not support `a specification: https://go.googlesource.com/proposal/+/refs/heads/master/des...

I'd love to read more about the golang team's comments about generic syntax - the only thing I could find was this: https://go.googlesource.com/proposal/+/refs/heads/master/des... …

The VIM ones are my favorite - I'm always blown away with the simple keyboard shortcuts that could have saved me hours had I known them 2 years ago. TIL just typing "=" in Vim fixe…

Have you read it? Just curious if you found it to be good because the only review for it wasn't very hopeful.

Gmail gives you the capability to automatically give access to a list of emails if you're inactive on your Gmail for x amount of time: https://www.google.com/settings/account/inact…

I kind of like to look at these kinds of posts as if it were a very attractive person complaining that so many people are hitting on them. There are a lot of people who would do an…

Thank you for the recommendation - I will add it to my reading list since I've been curious to learn from other's experiences trying the same thing.

I'd like to propose a different yet slightly related stream of thought. One month last year, I decided to restrict my usage of lights (house lights, digital screens, ect.). What I …