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contol-mon Faster PostgresSQL to BigQuery Transfers

[I work on BigQuery]

BigQuery also supports in-place querying of datasets on GCS (or S3/Azure using Omni) via external/BigLake tables. https://cloud.google.com/bigquery/docs/query-cloud-storage-u...

contol-mon Amazon Redshift re-invented

Currently the main benefit of BigLake over the current external tables is governance: you get row and column level security over cloud storage data. The governance is uniformly enforced across BigQuery and also the BigQuery storage API. The storage API can be used by any engine and we have pre-built open source connectors available for Spark, Presto/Trino, Dataflow and Tensorflow.

We're constantly working on improving BigQuery performance over open file formats on cloud storage. Some of these features will be specific to BigLake. Please stay tuned.

contol-mon Amazon Redshift re-invented

I work on BigQuery. All of these are great points: just wanted to point out that BigQuery can federate into external data sources as well: e.g. files on cloud storage and BigTable. Relevant feature is BigLake: https://cloud.google.com/bigquery/docs/biglake-intro

contol-mon AWS acquires Wickr

Former A9 employee here. A9 was not an acquisition - it was bootstrapped as a Bay Area subsidiary. Initially A9 focused on web search, then pivoted to doing product search for Amazon retail.

contol-mon Azure cracks, AWS strong: Covid-19 stress-tests the cloud

Could you explain further?

contol-mon Dear Search Guard Users

Lucene is a low level library which is internally used by ElasticSearch and Solr. Vespa is built from the ground up - it does not use Lucene.

contol-mon Google's ‘Gopher Team’

They should really dispatched to fix the Google Drive Client program for Mac. It consistently maxes out a CPU even when there is no sync going on. I can consistently reproduce this issue on all Macs I own.

contol-mon Chrome to take No. 2 browser spot from Firefox

The Android browser is not Chrome or Chrome-based.

contol-mon NSA built a NoSQL database

Why do you say that has to be order of magnitude smaller? Other BigTable clones like HBase are atleast 100K lines of code, if not more.

contol-mon Rather hilarious & honest dev job posting

> "He's single" but I'm guessing half of my readers can see why. New York based.

What do you mean by that?

contol-mon Natalie Portman - Scientist

James Franco is very impressive as well. From his Wikipedia page http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Franco#Personal_life :

Franco has been described as having "an unusually high metabolism for productivity...a superhuman ability to focus". Dissatisfied with his career's direction, Franco reenrolled at UCLA in the fall of 2006 as an English major with a creative writing concentration. Having received permission to take as many as 62 course credits per quarter compared to the normal limit of 19 while continuing to act, he received his undergraduate degree in June 2008 with a GPA over 3.5.

He moved to New York to simultaneously attend graduate school at Columbia University's MFA writing program, New York University's Tisch School of the Arts for filmmaking,and Brooklyn College for fiction writing, while occasionally commuting to North Carolina's Warren Wilson College for poetry.[1] He received his MFA from Columbia in 2010. Franco is a Ph.D. student in English at Yale University and will also attend the Rhode Island School of Design.

contol-mon What happens after Yahoo acquires you

Actually Broadcast.com was a 5.7B deal, believe it or not.

contol-mon Great Math Books as Recommended by Our Readers

I found Concrete Mathematics to be a bit dense and not very suited for self learners like me. Also it does not cover the basics like proofs, counting etc.

contol-mon Great Math Books as Recommended by Our Readers

Can someone suggest a good book for learning Discrete Math? I have Rosen's book, but I did not like it much.

contol-mon Increasing Popularity of MIT OpenCourseWare

It's Khan.

contol-mon Hudson’s Secret: Kohsuke

InfraDNA http://infradna.com/about is the company Kohsuke founded to offer professional support for Hudson.

contol-mon The Full Stack, Part I

As far as I know, Netflix does not handle the actual streaming of bits - it is done by CDNs like Akamai or Limelight.

contol-mon Rob Pike: Notes on Programming in C

There is a lot more in his book, "The Practice of Programming" - http://cm.bell-labs.com/cm/cs/tpop/toc.html

contol-mon Facetime for the Mac

Nope. Yahoo Messenger video chat works on a Mac as well.

contol-mon Getting rejected

I can relate to this - even though I probably got more rejections than offers from job interviews, I learned a lot from them. However, I wish companies would give some interview feedback to candidates they rejected. Companies don't do this for the fear of getting sued.

contol-mon In Death, Nexus One Does What It Couldn’t Do In Life: Sell

I got my Nexus One just after they stopped selling it. (bought a new one off eBay) and couldn't be happier with it.

contol-mon Analysts: Oracle vs. Google May Hurt Future of Java as Dev Platform

I'm wondering if the lawsuit has anything to do with Apple. Ellison and Jobs are best friends, as far as I know.

contol-mon Nexus One Developer Phone

Does anyone know if the developer phone come with a warranty and customer support? The original Nexus One sold by Google had a 1 year warranty and phone support.