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In practice product requirements can get in the way of technically ideal solutions. One example of this is that analytics products allow users to pass in and analyze arbitrary numb…

> I'm convinced the only people who have good things to say about using linux (or BSD for that matter, been there done that, no thanks) on a laptop are the kind of people who keep …

Examples, suggestions?

Why take 60% of the rating space up by negative ratings? It seems like what you really care about is degrees of goodness. An alternative approach: 1 - I disliked it. 2 - It's OK 3 …

https://fishshell.com/ for sure Just having sensible defaults on a shell works wonders on my day-to-day productivity. Add a couple of aliases for productivity and off you go. abbr …

In europe, https://eagronom.com/ is taking an interesting approach - rather than throw all existing farming practices out with the bathwater, try to build on top of them and modern…

This smells a lot like meteor. Would love to see an actual semi-large app built with this approach.

How so? The code still documents what is happening, the commits however lay out the whys. The point is that these two are separate questions, and that trying to use comments as a c…

There's an infinite amount of detail that's impossible to capture in a comment and which invariably changes over time and doesn't hold in the future. For my team, the solution has …

You need a queue in front of your database irregardless of write latency. Otherwise you tie your availability to database availability as downtime (even for upgrades) is often unav…

Note that working remotely takes some getting used to just as with working at an office. Yes, you can dump someone into unfamiliar conditions and draw conclusions from that, but th…

But you just said this: > I've looked at large articles I contributed to a few years ago and they are now disasters. Examples would be welcome.

Would you mind elaborating on what sort of remote positions yelp offers. Here's a few common ones: - It's okay to work from home a few/most days of the week. - Anywhere, same worki…

Remote work is an option. :)

Regarding a), a sharded postgresql (i.e. with citus data) can easily accomodate that workflow with just a tiny bit of extra overhead. Re c) this strongly depends on the usecase, I'…

You can always reach out to companies yourself. I graduated from a second-tier university in a small eastern-european university and did find internship opportunities in SV so I ca…

Please keep in mind I was responding only to the original comment, which I quoted in its full glory. It had nothing to do with what you assert above, just a mistaken assertion that…

Original comment was: > And the US isn’t putting nukes into Estonia? Honest question: Where is this coming from? I'd hate to call this war-mongering and spreading misinformation, b…

You're missing a cultural reference. http://www.thelittleprince.com/work/the-story/

This is great, I can see myself using this. However, this suffers from being a SPA: - URLs are not persistent, meaning if I cannot bookmark searches I care about. - Outbound links …

Note that the project is quite new and has a really active dev base - if you use those features, feel free to submit a PR (or add an issue) and it's pretty sure to get accepted.

De-identification has its limits and information can still be learned even from anonymized datasets. An alternative to this is something like Sharemind [1][2] where sound cryptogra…