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Yes, that is definitely a downside for these tests. The worst is when the text of some exception is printed and it includes line numbers. It does still require some discipline to t…

A very small number of people trade by voice on trading floors and they are generally professionals. This is categorically different from phone apps that reach into every ordinary …

Derivatives have underlyings. An option is the right to purchase or sell a stock (or something else); a future is the right/obligation to accept delivery of something at a future t…

What did the US do to yogurt?

If you don't allocate, you won't garbage collect. GC pauses would be really bad, but you can avoid them, or at least avoid them happening at bad times, if you're careful. It does r…

I think maybe you're getting the wrong impression about the tone I intend (my fault, I am not putting a lot of effort into tone or careful writing). I realize that what I wrote can…

okay, you're right, i wasn't paying attention. shame on me. Still, I think it is a stretch to point to the use of this passive participle as the reason why this sentence works or d…

While I agree with the general point that basic and direct sentence structure is not always the right choice, there is no passive voice in the sentence you quoted. "it is a truth u…

here is a french press for $15. It can arrive on thursday. https://www.amazon.com/dp/B07HC22KQH/ref=sbl_dpx_B00008XEWG_... Is google not giving its employees monitors during this t…

I wonder as well. I did a project with him when I was a teenager and we didn't entirely get along. He was a very talented guy, though, and I wasn't entirely fair to him. I hope he'…

I don't get it, I don't understand how the author of the article has a PhD if this is what he thinks. Like, > Why do advanced-math classes bother with proofs almost no student can …

Thanks for clarifying! I was 90% just joking, but I wasn't actually aware that it had such a long history.

Did you read his link? It directly addresses your point. I will summarize and add some context, since I don't know if you read Russian. The word мир in Russian has two meanings, "p…

That is basically LiveRamp's business model. There are other companies who do this as well. See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Data_onboarding

Unless you're also going to disclose all your cookie ids, mobile device ids, connected tv ids, transaction history, income/demographics/consumer preferences, etc. etc., there will …

Why do you think Java is so much harder to refactor? Java and python are not that much different, and Java has static types which aid refactoring as well as a really strong tooling…

Yeah, inflation is not negative, so it doesn't seem reasonable to say that the value of a dollar is rising.

hah, you're right, I definitely am looking at it with distributed system goggles on. With just one machine, yes, it will probably make sense to fully process one job before moving …

Just replying to the top bit, since we're exchanging multiple comment chains. Hadoop, Spark, etc. are built on top of a job scheduler, so if you have multiple competing jobs, it wi…

I'm not saying that past a terabyte is a point where you definitely want to use distributed processing, just that at that point, you should really strongly consider it. There is us…

I agree with your first two points. It's definitely possible to efficiently process quite a bit of data on a single machine, although I think that past a terabyte, there begin to b…

You're probably right. I'm thinking of specific coworkers when I think of the level of knowledge that should be expected, and generally the standard I would hold coworkers to would…

You're absolutely right. Probably my estimate of "anything greater than 1TB" was not quite the right number. At that point, though, careful indexing is probably the more expert opt…

That's a good point. It's really hard to give a clear cutoff because there is quite a bit that you can potentially do on a single machine now. But there are disadvantages to doing …

I agree in general. But I think you underestimate how large the set of use cases are where people are processing > 1TB of data. This includes quite a bit of the adtech industry, fo…