Hacker News: samkone

New comment by samkone in "Swisscom to discontinue MMS service"

samkone — Thu, 10 Feb 2022 18:50:41 +0000

I want to discontinue Swisscom overall.

New comment by samkone in "GitHub, fuck your name change"

samkone — Wed, 17 Mar 2021 16:41:03 +0000

I am black, and I honestly find this change ridiculous. Born in Africa and lives in the US. And honestly this is ridiculous. At some point this becomes painful it spare the real discussions that need to have about slavery and history.

New comment by samkone in "SRE for single-tiered software applications"

samkone — Fri, 21 Feb 2020 20:24:41 +0000

Macroservice ??? Oh lord !!!

New comment by samkone in "Santa hat removed from VS Code after complaint"

samkone — Thu, 19 Dec 2019 11:06:39 +0000

Stupid

New comment by samkone in "The boring technology behind a one-person Internet company (2018)"

samkone — Mon, 16 Sep 2019 21:44:05 +0000

That's not boring. That's sane.

New comment by samkone in "Geneva Freeport"

samkone — Sat, 24 Aug 2019 16:10:22 +0000

Same here. Lived in the same area as the freeport, and all questioned myself while biking around, how many stolen or confiscated arts pieces are in there. Most of the focus has been on Tax fraud, and terrorist funding from arts stolen in Syria, but I would like the Swiss Customs to evaluate arts from 3rd world countries, especially Africa and south america.

New comment by samkone in "No boundaries for Facebook data: third-party trackers abuse Facebook Login"

samkone — Wed, 18 Apr 2018 21:30:31 +0000

Duh ... hasn't this been going on for years now. Tealium cited in the article uses this as one of their pain source of data collection

New comment by samkone in "Decades-Old Graph Problem Yields to Amateur Mathematician"

samkone — Wed, 18 Apr 2018 21:26:58 +0000

Dude, my whiskey is almost over, still waiting for you to shatter centuries of mathematical foundations. Don't make me wait too long please. Getting drunf af.

New comment by samkone in "Stock Markets Tumble Amid Worries Over Tech Firms and Trade Tensions"

samkone — Mon, 02 Apr 2018 21:34:30 +0000

Efficacy?? Lol I guess time will tell.

New comment by samkone in "Palantir worked with Cambridge Analytica on the Facebook data it acquired"

samkone — Tue, 27 Mar 2018 23:45:38 +0000

Does this even come as surprise?

New comment by samkone in "Ask HN: What are you using for http load testing?"

samkone — Sun, 04 Mar 2018 09:21:53 +0000

New comment by samkone in "A Swedish rail line now scans microchip implants in addition to tickets"

samkone — Sun, 02 Jul 2017 15:51:54 +0000

Hell no.

New comment by samkone in "Apparently the CIA Pays for Sublime Text?"

samkone — Thu, 09 Mar 2017 23:15:15 +0000

So, is wikileaks run by morons these days or what?

New comment by samkone in "President Obama's International Visits from 2009 to 2016"

samkone — Mon, 16 Jan 2017 08:59:32 +0000

Accurate how? At the time Medvedev was President of Russia, and Putin was Prime Minister. Since he was President before that, it's ok for him to be referred as President, like any former President of country.

New comment by samkone in "Peter Thiel considering bid for California governor"

samkone — Sun, 15 Jan 2017 05:05:26 +0000

Thiel vs Zuck. Should be fun. Reign of the billionaires. Slowly but surely America is descending on its downward path to join other banana republics. Welcome to the club.

New comment by samkone in "Reasons not to use Skype (2012)"

samkone — Sat, 07 Jan 2017 17:04:02 +0000

Good for you Richard. Still don't care

New comment by samkone in "Simplify Service Dependencies with Nodes"

samkone — Sat, 10 Dec 2016 20:41:17 +0000

Hum .. don't think so. Not quite yet at least. Underneath this, there is Finagle on top of which most services at Twitter is built on. It offers a java API, but remains a Scala library. And there's still a lot of existing code inside to twitter to ditch Scala right away. Java 8 is awesome, but Java is still not an FP language.

New comment by samkone in "Data Wrangling at Slack"

samkone — Thu, 08 Dec 2016 12:17:34 +0000

Avro is Row oriented like said before, you should see it ine the categories of Thrift, Protobuf. Albeit a lot better in flexibility. But he gist of it is that it's a Serialization format for than a storage format, which Parquet is. Usually, when using Kafka or the confluent platform, I'd use Avro, and for long term storage and analytics Avro isn't really suited. Instead use Parquet or ORC if you're using Hive. With things like Spark, Impala or Presto, aggregations queries for ad hoc analytics are an order of magnitude more efficient and faste with Parquet than with Avro.

New comment by samkone in "Palantir plan to engage in disinformation and document fabrication [pdf]"

samkone — Tue, 29 Nov 2016 22:38:20 +0000

MAde laugh but totally agree. Wikileaks clearly chose sides in the last elections. As far as I'm concerned they lost any respect from me a while ago.

New comment by samkone in "Learn the basics of data science with these books"

samkone — Tue, 22 Nov 2016 10:58:45 +0000

True. But still I really love your book. Read it, and still reading to speed up many things. Are you planning another version?