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Benchmarks & Tips for Big Data, Hadoop, AWS, Google Cloud, PostgreSQL, Spark, Python & More...
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Every blog post that took off on Hacker News, ranked by the votes of its best submission. 49,213 posts.
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Introduction to PostgreSQL physical storage
I initially wrote this post for myself, I wanted to understand enough about the underlying physical storage to be able to grasp other concepts which can affect your database. This post is probably more aimed to people with similar interests, I will try to keep it accurate but the aim is to make it simpler to…
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On the death of my family's dairy farm
This Christmas, like every other, I traveled to northern Wisconsin to stay with my parents on the dairy farm I grew up on.
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We need to take CO2 out of the sky – an overview of climate tech
To keep below two degrees, we'll need to dramatically reduce current emissions and simultaneously remove 10-15 gigatons of CO2/yr from the atmosphere by 2050. Read on for what that means, why, and how we might do it.
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The Decline of Investment in San Francisco Startups
Data analysis reveals 50% drop in San Francisco startup funding, with Series C & D rounds falling 66-75%. Key insights on shifting venture capital trends in 2016-17.
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We’ve got a science opportunity overload: Launching the Wolfram Institute
The Wolfram Institute will pursue opportunities in scientific research based on a new multicomputational paradigm found during a project to develop a fundamental theory of physics.
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Analysis of bank PIN numbers
Is your PIN number too predictable? Detailed analysis on PIN number databases.
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How to copy a file between devices? (2022)
Introduction Copying a file across devices is painful. You’re on your phone, but you want to access a file that’s on your laptop. How do you do it? What about the other way around? What about copying any file between any of your devices? I asked my dad how he copies a file from his phone to his computer, and he…
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Using ChatGPT is not bad for the environment
And a plea to think seriously about climate change without getting distracted
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Too many people are buying cars using financial products they do not understand
It was free!” announces Bob the Dinosaur, an adorable moron from the Dilbert cartoon. Bob is driving a bright red convertible. “They just make you sign papers!”, he elaborates. That cartoon is a qu…
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Async Queue – One of my favorite programming interview questions
For the past 7+ years, I've been conducting a programming interview that has been a true personal favorite of mine. It was passed down to me from good friends (Jeremy Kaplan and Carl Sverre, and it was the latter whom I believe invented it). This interview has probably been
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Using a catch-all domain is a mistake
After about a decade of dealing with this madness, surely it's been worthwhile? No, not really.
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Software engineering job openings hit five-year low?
There are 35% fewer software developer job listings on Indeed today, than five years ago. Compared to other industries, job listings for software engineers grew much more in 2021-2022, but have declined much faster since. A look into possible reasons for this, and what could come next.
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What went wrong for Yahoo
Yahoo let two future trillion-dollar companies get away. One of them twice.
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Beware of Developers Who Do Negative Work
Not all developers make positive contributions. Some create more work for others than they do themselves.
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MongoDB's Server Side Public License Is Likely Unenforceable
Update: Afew more thoughts on the SSPL in response to some counterarguments that have been raised. A few days ago, MongoDB, Inc changed the license of its widely-used database software to the "Server Side Public License" or SSPL. They also submitted the SSPL for review by the Open Source Initiative,
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Some Insights from a Julia Developer
In this post I would like to reflect a bit on the Julia programming language. These are my personal views and I have had more than a year developing a lot of packages for the Julia programming language. After roaming around many different languages including R, MATLAB, C, and Python; Julia is finally a language I am…
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GraphQL: The enterprise honeymoon is over
GraphQL solves a real problem, but in many enterprise setups that problem is already handled by BFFs. After years using Apollo in production, I think the tradeoffs often outweigh the win.
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It's quite hard to lose a Duolingo streak
Well not really - just don’t practice for a day right? Oh wait, streak freezes. OK, don’t practice for a couple of days. Three? No, five? No, more! What?
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World War II was totally unrealistic
Your life is the best story! Just start your blog today!
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Robinhood and How to Lose Money
Don't be the gravy
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Are you nice or kind?
Last week Avi and I went outside to unbury our car after the storm, a task we assumed we could do ourselves but ultimately involved our whole neighborhood.
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Is true hacking dead? What we lost
Realtime rendering and videogame programming mostly, but I love computer science and visuals in all their forms. This is a notepad of my ideas.
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Satoshi Nakamoto is probably Nick Szabo?
I recently became interested in identifying the pseudonymous creator of Bitcoin, Satoshi Nakamoto. I started from the Bitcoin whitepaper [0] published in late 2008, and proceeded to run reverse tex…
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Parkinson's Law: It’s real, so use it
Yes, just set that deadline.
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