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I've always wondered if consistency would add significant value but it is hard to argue with the cost of free solar power.

I don't know - on the other side of the coin imagine if no data was collected. It would be near impossible for companies to do any sort of troubleshooting or QA. Taking it a step f…

That's not exactly accurate. Transocean was the contract driller on deepwater horizon but BP still took the brunt of the liability and PR backlash. The contract structure actually …

That occurred during drilling not production so all the standard well head facilities were not in place.

^This.. I don't see why people thinking hoarding cash when capital is cheap is a bad strategy. It totally ignores the fact that ease of raising and cost of capital is time dependen…

This is really good advice. I'd say it generalizes to learning most engineering challenges: Pick a problem you're interested in and solve it from top to bottom, tweaking all compon…

Isn't something about to be open source the opposite of vendor lock-in? Couldn't you just use databricks and then pretty easily migrate over to your own managed spark cluster if yo…

Honestly, if you really rationally break it down, starting a business rarely makes financial sense when factoring in the risk. If you want to maximize guaranteed lifetime income, h…

except it does carry actual health risks?

lol yes, whats the quote on "Don't assume bad intention when incompetence is to blame"? After seeing how people write code in the real world, I'm actually surprised there aren't mo…

This is more of an opinion, I'm sure there are plenty of cases where the founders didn't know each other directly but were introduced due to common interests and it worked out just…

The interesting thing here is that I find many young engineers want to work on the newest tech, however, they also want the 10-5 schedule. If you want to work on new and exciting, …

Exactly, would allow companies to hire from pretty much any major city and would allow people to relocate back to where they are from and maintain a great lifestyle and still have …

I actually think we'll end up somewhere in the middle, where people work remote most of the time but companies may have more smaller offices for people to go into. My wife works re…

I mean $2 seems fair for them to hold it in inventory and take the risk.

The Wonga Coup - https://www.amazon.com/Wonga-Coup-Ruthless-Determination-Oil...

I do highly recommend the book though, easy read during travel.

I've been thinking about this for a while actually. A lot of the data is available but generally requires going through FOIA which is difficult to do at scale.

This makes so much sense and frequently overlooked. I find even in other areas (such as sports), what makes someone seem really impressive generally isn't what is actually importan…

Meetings - I think anytime someone mentions they won't be able to get things done because of meetings, they should reassess if the meeting is needed at all.

I agree with this mostly, but I've also heard that algorithms questions can be a good proxy for actual software engineering skills. I've never validated this claim but I'm curious …

Coming from the other side of the process, even if a question may be arbitrary (Although, I'd argue a lot aren't) it can still be helpful in evaluating a candidate's thought proces…

Agreed, it'd be tough to leave a company where things are going well to become a contractor at a no-name company. I also think I'd be much less willing to make a jump unless I had …

Oh great, thanks for the reply. I think thats about where I think we'll land... keep S3 as the primary source, but have HDFS be used for intermediate jobs.

We're actually having a debate now as we're starting to process larger datasets as to whether or not we should keep everything on S3 or start using HDFS w/ Hive. I'm curious if you…