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We use Snowflake. It's been great. We use Fivetran for loading into it. For reporting, we use Looker.

We used to use Vertica + Tungsten. It was a brittle combo and also not well supported by HP.

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That's not how it works with New Story as they are not putting their own operating funds towards funding houses. It'd be odd and a question in the auditing process if a non-profit operated the way you described.

I think there is more information that is let on here. I've talked with some folks at prominent bootcamps who are likely to be shutting their doors or hard pivoting soon if their revenue situation doesn't drastically improve.

I think you are being unfairly downvoted for your opinion. I upvoted you though I disagree.

I'd like to know, how do you feel about the legality of cigarettes and alcohol. Presumably, you don't want your kids smoking cigarettes. Would you like them to be illegal to sell?

I'm also not really sure your thoughts on availability really hold in the way you are thinking. Take for instance glue and paint. These are both widely available for getting high currently, but are rarely used to do so because people understand the negative tradeoff associated. Under your view though, it would seem you prefer these be made illegal to prevent availability?

Plug for David Marquet's book "Turn the Ship Around" about his time improving training / operations on a submarine he commanded. Every one had to announce their intention to do an action before actually doing it, this gave others the chance to identify when someone was going to take an incorrect action before it happened.

It's a really great, short read that I'd highly recommend and gives some more background into the operational issues with the Navy.

Kudos to Brad. He did some machine learning work for us as well! Hope we keep seeing advances in this field.

We have a quiet room with a hammock. I've napped on it many a time.

Well, depends on what you do. Sure, it can be nice to be offline for some coding, but most work these days, even predominantly coding work, is a team affair and requires communication to work well. Further, being able to get quick access to docs, tickets, etc. is quite useful.

But also, if one is responsible for the functioning of significant amounts of infrastructure, then it's not so great to have to worry about internet flaking out in the middle of working through production issues.

But yeah if you were working on something solo, then bad internet wouldn't matter as much.

How's the internet there? I'd imagine that would be a significant barrier to productivity.

I don't know, I mean surely there are some network effects of the more users that are using heroin the more that safe practices are developed, shared, and (socially) enforced. It'd be interesting to see if anyone has studied that. Granted, a counter-argument might be that even if it were safer from greater use it may just be that greater use nearly always leads to greater regulation.

They seemed to be suffering some external attacks / DDoS but I never saw a post-mortem from them on it, hopefully one is forthcoming (or maybe is out but I missed it)

>how to actually unite and pacify the various ethnic/religious communities and prevent them from fighting each other

That is exactly what dictators do! Not perfectly, but a lot better than what has happened in the countries you've noted where the dictators were ousted or attempted to be ousted. So, I'd disagree that it should be a global interest to crush dictators. So far, this has caused much greater harm than good.

Thanks Jeremy and Rachel for always sharing with the community!

I think that's a fair point, but would argue that it's likely not true for a sizable amount of the population (e.g. my childhood fears have mostly left me). But further, there are lots of services which actually sell getting past your fears, perhaps they are just not selling well enough yet to overcome the amount of fear being produced continuously? Mainly, just questioning how much it is "forever" fear vs. a constant influx of new fear.

>Joy is much harder to manufacture than dread

Is it though? And is it just harder in our current configuration or absolutely harder no matter how resources are allocated?

I'd argue that Joy is easier/cheaper to produce, we just haven't optimized for it (yet).

Best thing you can do is make sure the developer track is separate from the management track. Then, it just depends on the size of the company. If you have a small team, then something like: Junior -> Senior -> Principal -> Distinguished works quite well. No need to come up with something atypical, these roles / titles are tried and tested. If you have a larger team then you can just add I,II,and III to the above as well as having on the management side, eng manager, sr. eng manager, director, VP.

Not disagreeing, but just to test this a bit. I'm in San Francisco. What's the safest and easiest way for me to go acquire Bitcoin or Ethereum right now? Note, I don't have a credit card.

Sort of. I sought a conservation easement but it wouldn't actually provide much. Out of about 150 acres, of which probably about 30-40 is lightly forested with Oaks/Pines, the tax break would only be a few thousand dollars and only one time deal. It works off of the assessed value of the land which for raw land with no housing on it is usually quite low and thus the easement tax break is low.

They cite the U.S. as having 60% of purchases under $10 to be in cash. However, that should likely take in the context that many (most?) shops won't allow purchases using debit/credit cards when the purchase is < a certain minimum, usually $5 but sometimes more.

It is true though that going cashless can create a second class of citizens who can't easily enter the digital world. Despite the ubiquity of cell phones there are still almost 2 billion unbanked people in the world. I hope governments will take this into account when considering going cashless.

Did you have a way to release excess air from the hydraulic ram? I set one up with similar dimensions to what you described but it would always quit after about 15-30 minutes, presumably due to air in the line. If I evacuated the line and got it going again then it would run for 15-30 mins again and then stop. Never figured out a solution :(

Hmm, maybe. How many people take the bar exam from non-accredited institutions? My understanding it was a much lower percentage, and if that's the case then it wouldn't weigh very much on the overall passage rate.

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We're hiring someone who wants to make the world a better place with us through working on the systems that serve https://www.kiva.org We're a non-profit helping to alleviate poverty through connecting lenders to borrowers across the world and here in the US. It's a hand up not a hand out. We offer awesome benefits including a partner trip to anywhere we work in the world to meet our borrowers and partners after 1 year. We're looking for systems oriented folks to help us with our operations and security. We have a mix of self-hosted and AWS systems and are pretty well setup but have had some folks leave for greater things and need to shore up the team. If those aren't your thing then we're also going to be hiring for other positions later in the year, just shoot me an email (my username at gmail) and let me know! https://kiva.org/careers

Love reading all the "Code Like a Girl" stories. Start my morning off with them every workday morning :) Thank you for sharing and creating!

> I only use Uber as a last resort now.

I really don't get this. You are livid with the company and yet you will still continue to pay them. Why would they do anything different then? Why are there situations where you absolutely have to use Uber as a last resort? What did you do in those situations previously before Uber came about?

Even more familiar now that he is a criminal: http://www.startribune.com/fbi-investigating-hansmeier-s-dis...

Is there something new here? This is the same post that was posted here 3 months ago.

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That be easy to test though if you were bot was effective or not, just post to unpopular subreddits, make bot votes on those submissions, then check back the next day. If votes not counted, then your bot is being ignored and you'd move on to changing your IP address or building your next bot or such.