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mohon

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About mohon

ex-data guy

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    Comment #45941897

    > History is clear on this: if left to their own devices, speculators will destroy the economy Are you talking about the 2008 financial crisis? or do you mean something else?

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    Comment #43950674

    I see. What's the catch on Hydra.so in terms of CAP theorem? I assume it's the C one, especially the docs mentioned about read replica. Is there any drawbacks/tradeoff that user sh…

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    Comment #43946499

    You're welcome. I think for the write part, it's always back to the old classic consensus. In then end there always that distributed voting mechanism to decide the write order

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    Comment #43946466

    Kudos for the product launch. A bit curious on the product itself, to me the product seems similar to what Neon team does, except Neon doesn't touch the columnar/analytics and just…

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    Comment #43904616

    They keep using the core Postgre while they touch the storage layer to works with S3. Can try ro read more here https://jack-vanlightly.com/analyses/2023/11/15/neon-serverl...

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    Comment #43901487

    basically they separate the compute and storage into different components, where the traditional PG use both compute and storage at the same server. because of this separation, the…

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    Comment #39382784

    especially with the push of whatsapp business, orgs can freely store ur messages to them. also by relying on the whatsapp metadata (the one where you can export by urself), it shou…

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    Comment #38505009

    I rmb someone posted a VSCode plugin where you can achieve similar mode, have multiple windows arranged inside like playing the cards in Solitaire.

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    Comment #37975592

    Good explanation. Quick follow up, so to resolve this issue, what I have in mind are : 1. Make sure the redirect url is a valid harvestapp.com (more checks on state) 2. Encrypt the…

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    Comment #35037267

    Me too, I'm wondering why they decided to switch immediately. Why not provide user with a toggle to switch between old and new UI, then they can see how the data says

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    Comment #34906363

    me too, always learn something new everyday. thanks HN!

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    Comment #33933110

    I think what OP meant is subscribe youtube premium

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    Comment #32675530

    Is the permission also use Zanzibar? or is it using a different thing?

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    Comment #31763549

    If I only have order_count, net_gmv and gmv and then 1 month later I want to add avg_user_session, then what I understand is we need to backfill the `session_time` to the 'main' ta…

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    Comment #31720877

    Yes, we've done some benchmarks using Clickhouse with the same design that you just mentioned (1 single table that contains all relevant dimensions and metrics) In our benchmark, w…

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    Comment #31702524

    Thanks for the SEC reference! Regarding the 1st point, let say I already have the process implemented in place. If I want to add new common column, is there a better way to easily …

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    Comment #31702509

    Exactly. The reason I dont want to create a view is the view will incurr a lot of time being spent to just querying the same thing, making the user wait for it to finish (all of ou…

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    Ask HN: How do you automate your data analytics report?

    I'm currently working on how to speed up our analytics report development workflow. So imagine, you have this table called A with this structure +----------+--------------+--------…

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    Comment #31295117

    Is it because of company focus on VR/AR or due to slow growth?

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    Comment #26676348

    Could you also translate the last section too? Would love to read that as well

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    Comment #24966502

    I'm curious, how do you setup your deployment and the scale of Flagr? The only thing I could found is this [0] [0] - https://github.com/checkr/flagr/issues/139#issuecomment-4028...…

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