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20,202karma·4,635submissions·June 13, 2018
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Any idea what makes R's data.table so fast compared to the others?
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Not sure as it doesn't exactly match your description, but it's close: I Sell Onions on the Internet https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19728132 …
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> From a distance, procrastination looks like a time management problem. There is growing evidence that it is rather an emotional management problem — a flight response. It's eye opening how a…
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r/AskHistorians and r/AskAnthropology come to mind as well.
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This is based on AgensGraph: http://bitnine.net/downloads-2020/ I found this presentation from 2017 about AgensGraph: https://www.slideshare.net/mobile/kisun…
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Could you share more details about the limited JOIN capabilities? AFAIK, Clickhouse has multiple join algorithms and supports on-disk joins to avoid out of memory: https://github.com/C…
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Likely killed by a spam filter. See: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10638699 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10473918 …
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I'm not sure PostgreSQL is the right choice for large analytical workloads. Unless you considser TB size datasets less than 1% of the cases? https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2…
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https://archive.is/DuxBD
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> To maximize your impact, then, teaching must be central to your strategy. This means documentation, tutorials, examples, videos, tweets, and more. I think this is one of the main reasons the Fast…
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Indeed. Please consider sponsoring him on Github: https://github.com/webrecorder . Disclaimer: I'm just a happy user of this extension. It allowed me to archive a complex website …
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Non-FAANG: https://goo.gl/X45Dtt The salaries at the bottom of the spreadsheet with a timestamp >= 2021/01/25 are from senior people, as they resulted from the survey bei…
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> It seems that that long history plays a really important role in today's value of Gold. It explains a big part of the 'semantic value'. Indeed. Would the 'semantic value'…
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In my opinion, the rise of Bitcoin reflects a more general phenomenum: the decline of authority. Somehow, the widespread exchange of ideas and information enabled by the Internet is making people ques…