Joshua Andrews

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@api_assasin Others have said it but a low interest rate mortgage is one of the few, if not the only, real hedge that middle income folks have against inflation.

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@StefanFSchubert Competence is not the same across fields. There are some areas of life where it’s not that applicable. Competence in something like “life coach” for example is laughable. Elon’s point is that what passes for competence at Harvard is really just skill at climbing a hierarchy.

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@_Mira___Mira_ I share your frustration with “just call sales” and bloated corporate bureaucracies and wasted lunches. But… Good engineering at scale in a Demming sense requires not cutting corners, solid process, and a bigger picture respect for the impact of what you do beyond short term $.

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@inerati Can you give some examples of why it is so bad? I’ve been meaning to try it but haven’t had a chance yet.

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@matsonj I also found when I switched to Mac for work that I hadn’t realized how frustrating Microsoft’s disrespect for users was in terms of constant patch reboots which I could never seem to control, overriding of settings, etc. Much more respectful on Mac.

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@sv_techie @laurenbalik got it sorry about this. Saw “distributed SQL” mentioned and was not clear.

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@pdrmnvd ask a developer to solve a problem for you and he writes a bunch of code. have to go back and say “no I meant the most efficient way to solve the problem and if you must , code”

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@ergestx Agreed. Which is why I always think timestamp data types that explicitly force/include definition of time zones are superior to those that don’t (if you have a choice.)

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@NateSooter And we are going…

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@NateSooter We are a services firm so we are a vendor but we are also practitioners… I’m just as happy to talk the finer details of SQL and query plans and data modeling without anyone buying anything…

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@mikpanko Need the ability to version code and write automated tests in code. Then whole process of PR reviews, merges, etc. A lot of these GUI tools don’t support that at all, or if they do in some way it doesn’t really fully and cleanly integrate with git.

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@NateSooter I disagree on this. I see tons of cases where the source application where data entry is done has no validation, no reference vocabulary, no referential integrity, and no responsibility for data quality.

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@natmiletic that…. is so true

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@SashaMTL Worse than that. Underlying all of that, everything, is philosophy. You can’t make any claims about any of these things without a philsophical grounding for them. And most modern STEM folks have no education in this and don’t think they need it.

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@medriscoll @pwang I don’t understand this because, for example, everyone in a business wants one “customer” table. Nobody wants to go look at a bunch of Kafka streams to deduce their own definition of that. And getting that kind of table requires tons of complex modeling.

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@sherrod_im hah I was at Caesar’s in June and the same thing was showing in the elevators…. terrible that they still haven’t fixed it.

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@imrobertyi Hard part is when you are both AKA “Head of Data”

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@antonycourtney @dhh it’s funny how this is so similar to a lot of SQL/NoSQL arguments. For a while a lot of the NoSQL folks were saying “you don’t need schema!” (hence no types.) Wellllll… You don’t hear that as much now.