Viewing profile — turk-

Story for those who didn't see it: https://intuitiveexplanations.com/tech/replit/

It's not clear what the value add of this is vs OSS DIY Spark + Iceberg? Free option is already available through OSS Spark/super low cost EMR. What's your value add over those?

Apache Nifi and Accumulo do come to mind, both out of NSA.

Buy the dip!

No idea. Time will tell but a high number of mutations is not ideal.

Yes. And there is a small possibility that something even worse happens for those previously infected/vaccinated called antibody-dependent enhancement (ADE). ADE occurs when the an…

I don’t understand what capability you are saying Databricks lacks. This capability is literally the entire premise of the Data Lakehouse. With Snowflake you need to export data ou…

Here is the thing with the lakehouse though, you have flexibility and don’t need to use multiple engines to achieve the lakehouse vision. Databricks has all the security features a…

With a datawarehouse, you can only interface with your data in SQL. With big query and snowflake, your data is locked away in a proprietary format not accessible by other compute p…

Interesting. I've always wondered why tomatoes in the US taste like shit. Why is there a trade off between high yield and taste? Is there not a high yield + great taste variety?

This comment doesn't make any sense. I don't see how Cloudflare publishing the source code to their own hosted s3 service would help prevent lockin when an open source alternative …

No it wouldn't, no executive at any company would risk federal time and money laundering charges if it was made illegal.

What you're describing entrepreneurship. I'd imagine pretty much every entrepreneur realizes they have an extremely low probability of success, but some people prefer the thrill of…

Spark/Databricks + Delta lake would be a good solution for combining streaming and batch analytics. MemSQL is good for low latency streaming.

Seems like a straightforward case for small claims court against KitSplit. You just have to sell the judge on a very straightforward case. The thing about not getting fucked over i…

Globalization is the cause of inequality. Technology just facilitates it. Capitalism leads to a concentration of wealth in the hands of a few and periods of globalization have resu…

"Talented tech followers in the process who are willing to work for him in exchange for prestige and a lower salary" To be fair these engineers are taking a lower salary but are ge…

Interesting, I've never heard of kdb. Probably because the pricing is absurd from the little research that I have done so far: http://quant.stackexchange.com/questions/3156/is-ther…

"The Drug War doesn't have a sound moral basis" Drug War is immoral because drug laws almost exclusively enforced on the poor and minorities. Big banks getting away with funneling …

hmm I wonder who could be doing this. https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20140518/17433327281/cisco...

Policies that prohibit discussion of Salary are illegal. http://www.npr.org/2014/04/13/301989789/pay-secrecy-policies...

This completely false. Five countries neighboring Syria - Lebanon, Jordan, Turkey, Iraq and Egypt - host 97% of the refugees. Turkey, Lebanon and Jordan have taken in 3 million ref…

When you are a working on a side project 10-15 hours a week and need to integrate payments, being able to integrate stripe in a few hours is a game changer. Imagine having only 10-…