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New comment by rdeboo in "I'm Eric Ries, author of "The Lean Startup" and new book "Incorruptible" – AMA"

rdeboo — Wed, 10 Jun 2026 15:21:17 +0000

Does "financial gravity" imply that noble missions are generally less profitable? Is there a way to align that (maybe by governments structuring the market with taxes / regulations)? Is that realistic?

Removable batteries in smartphones will be mandatory in the EU starting in 2027

rdeboo — Mon, 04 May 2026 15:10:41 +0000

Article URL: https://www.ecopv-eu.com/en/blog-en/replaceable-smartphone-batteries-2027-eu-regulation/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48009697

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New comment by rdeboo in "Bypass Paywall Reader, A website to bypass paywalls on articles to read for free"

rdeboo — Wed, 04 Sep 2024 08:40:10 +0000

Such a site exists since many years (https://www.blendle.com), I don't think it has taken off hugely. People don't want to pay for content.

New comment by rdeboo in "Open Source Python ETL"

rdeboo — Wed, 19 Jun 2024 09:54:02 +0000

I work as a Data Engineer and in my country Azure is pretty big, and as a consequence their Data Factory service has become a common choice for enterprises. It's a GUI based ETL tool, architects prefer it since it is a managed cloud service and supposedly is easy to use.

In practice you lose all the benefits of abstraction, unit testing, proper CI/CD, etc. I haven't met an engineer that likes the service. Some projects have resorted to writing code generation tools, so that they can take config files and programmatically generate the JSON serialization of the pipelines that you're supposed to develop by clicking and dragging.

New comment by rdeboo in "Snowflake’s response to Databricks’ TPC-DS post"

rdeboo — Sat, 13 Nov 2021 07:06:48 +0000

I think the comparison was Snowflake vs Databricks SQL. Databricks SQL is a PaaS service just like Snowflake. Also, it uses their Photon engine, which is a proprietary engine written in C++. It is not Spark.

New comment by rdeboo in "Long Beach has temporarily suspended container stacking limitations"

rdeboo — Sun, 24 Oct 2021 06:41:06 +0000

It's definitely a long term thing. Some guys from my university founded a company around foldable containers in 2008 (https://4foldcontainers.com/). It's still not common.

New comment by rdeboo in "Confessions of a Michelin Star Inspector"

rdeboo — Wed, 22 Sep 2021 11:24:46 +0000

I've had this experience in Germany and it turned out that the waitress gets a cut of the turnover, at least for drinks. So they have an incentive to keep the glasses full. I'm not sure if this is common in Germany.

New comment by rdeboo in "Ask HN: Agriculture startups doing interesting work?"

rdeboo — Wed, 23 Oct 2019 11:38:10 +0000

You must be jeroen

New comment by rdeboo in "Ask HN: Recommend one book I need to read this summer?"

rdeboo — Tue, 02 Jul 2019 10:55:44 +0000

I started reading "The Master and Margarita" this year after seeing this title pop up on HN so often. I could not finish it, I found it rather boring. I'm curious, am I the only one? What does everyone find so great about this book?

New comment by rdeboo in "Dutch Telephone Outage Takes Out Nation's Emergency Number"

rdeboo — Tue, 25 Jun 2019 17:19:39 +0000

My girlfriend works as a GP. One of her colleagues was on a visit and had to call an ambulance. She was able to do so by reaching out to the police via Facebook.. (not sure how the address was communicated and what the privacy impact is of that)

New comment by rdeboo in "Paul Buchheit on Joining Google, How to Become a Great Engineer, and Happiness"

rdeboo — Fri, 19 Oct 2018 12:01:42 +0000

"Boreout" is an established term, it's kind of the inverse of a burnout. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boreout

New comment by rdeboo in "Ask HN: What interesting thought did you read on HN but couldn't find later?"

rdeboo — Sun, 27 May 2018 16:05:27 +0000

Perhaps this essay by Paul Graham?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8753526

New comment by rdeboo in "The sad state of sysadmin in the age of containers (2015)"

rdeboo — Wed, 16 May 2018 16:22:57 +0000

How is it more secure? Do you read the entire source code to search for backdoors?

New comment by rdeboo in "Repair cafés waging war on throwaway culture"

rdeboo — Sun, 18 Mar 2018 08:24:01 +0000

Outboard motors for boats work like this. If you hit a rock with the propellor, a piece of plastic in the drive train breaks. This prevents the propellor or some other part of the motor from serious damage.

New comment by rdeboo in "Uber self-driving trucks are now moving cargo for Uber Freight customers"

rdeboo — Tue, 06 Mar 2018 18:49:10 +0000

I don't have data but my gut feeling says that the numbers of Bank Tellers has peaked. In my country (Netherlands) a lot of small branches of banks have closed. The general trend is towards self-service / online.

Anecdotically, I went to the bank across the street 2 years ago to ask some question about insurance. I was told to go to the website and look up the information there. The branch is now closed.

New comment by rdeboo in "Satellites see big fishing’s footprint on the high seas"

rdeboo — Sat, 03 Mar 2018 22:15:47 +0000

Actually a couple of people mention the GFW in this page. Good to see that people are aware of the work being done.

New comment by rdeboo in "Satellites see big fishing’s footprint on the high seas"

rdeboo — Sat, 03 Mar 2018 22:08:06 +0000

This absolutely happens. Fisher boats will turn off AIS routinely. The nonprofit Global Fishing Watch is doing research to analyse AIS signals, and determine if illegal fishing happens in protected areas. See http://globalfishingwatch.org/fishing-vessel-behavior/signal...

If you browse their site, there's also stories about other illegal activities, such as laundering fish (it's being mixed with fish caught in legal areas on sea). Also some boats are staffed with people that are essentially slaves. They typically stay on sea permanently, and are fueled on sea. (http://oceana.org/blog/how-global-fishing-watch-can-combat-s...)

New comment by rdeboo in "Resources to learn AWS"

rdeboo — Thu, 28 Dec 2017 13:39:19 +0000

I subscribed at https://acloud.guru/ for the solution architect course.

Price is quite low (I think 20-30 euro) for which you get 20 hours of excellent video material. After each section there is a practice where you build something (using your own AWS account billed against your own credit card).

New comment by rdeboo in "Microsoft makes Databricks a first-party service on Azure"

rdeboo — Wed, 15 Nov 2017 20:12:00 +0000

AFAIK it is not multitenant, you get your own machines.

They spin up the VMs with either open source Spark or the Databricks runtime - you get to choose the distribution and version before spinning up the cluster.

If you have enough workloads you can run your own pool of VMs to provide a 'serverless' experience to your Spark users: https://databricks.com/blog/2017/06/07/databricks-serverless...

New comment by rdeboo in "Microsoft makes Databricks a first-party service on Azure"

rdeboo — Wed, 15 Nov 2017 17:38:09 +0000

The startup time of a HDInsight cluster is quite long; it's not really suited for ad hoc clusters (which are really easy to spin up quickly in Databricks).