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datancoffeeon SQLNet A social network that looks like Twitter but you write SQL to do anything

Name sounded familiar. Read the post, loved the weirdness of it. Then, flashback. Oracle sqlnet! The original distributed processing framework of the greybeards and Oak Table knights. Anyone remember Oak Table?

datancoffeeon The Great Gatsby is the most misunderstood novel (2021)

Makes me want to read it :)

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Got some interesting uses from the new DuckDB UI tool from Motherduck. Can be used as the query editor for Iceberg data lakes

datancoffeeon Building an Open, Multi-Engine Data Lakehouse with S3 and Python

nice pointer. Thanks! putting Zarr/icechunk/xarray into my weekend projects queue.

datancoffeeon Building an Open, Multi-Engine Data Lakehouse with S3 and Python

Python support of Iceberg seems to be the biggest unrealized opportunity right now. SQL support seems to be in good shape, with DuckDB and such, but Python support is still quite nascent.

datancoffeeon Apache Iceberg

We did an evaluation of various REST catalog options and went with Open Catalog from Snowflake (a Polaris-based managed service that works independently from their data warehousing solution). Lakekeeper is nice - it's one of the few catalogs with FGAC and table maintenance.

https://tower.dev/blog/picking-snowflake-open-catalog-as-a-m...

datancoffeeon Must-Have Tools to Grow Your Startup in 2022

On the Legal Nodes platform, the client (startup) is assigned a personal lawyer picked from an international network of proven attorneys who best understand the needs of a particular business. Helps startups and scale-ups grow without friction and accomplish all legal processes as simple and fast as possible. If you are interested, learn more https://ucluster.org/en/blog/2021/11/legal-nodes-a-personal-...

datancoffeeon Ask HN: What's the best books for startup enterpreneurs?

It was good to me: The Kinfolk Entrepreneur and Winners Never Cheat: Even in Difficult Times.

datancoffeeon Ask HN: Who is hiring? (January 2022)

Thanks, Brad, for the product manager plug.

All, I am the said "colleague".

If you are interested in the PM role, we are looking for someone with: - Good understanding and hands-on experience with databases and distributed data processing systems - Previous Product Management experience in developer tools, data analytics, database or data processing space - Several years pre-PM experience as data engineer or software engineer

If interested, apply here https://careers.snowflake.com/us/en/job/5685575002 I am the hiring manager, so feel free to reach out via LI to learn more about the position https://www.linkedin.com/in/ssokolenko/

datancoffeeon The Collapse of American Identity

I think Russians have the common problem with identity.

datancoffeeon How can startups and the HN community respond to the climate crisis?

I feel a little helpless in this matter, but I would very much like to somehow influence this situation. While trying to save water, electricity, sort waste, buy less, buy used things more often. You can at least come up with an application that will calculate how much each of these actions helps the planet, for example.

datancoffeeon How to find an early stage investor: a list of business angels

This article looks at a category of investors called business angels. We provide a detailed list of the most prolific angel investors who are interested in Ukrainian startups.

datancoffeeon Have any of you heard about Ukrainian startups and if so, which ones?

I want to share the latest list I have found with young but globally promising technology startups. Maybe someone will be interested, or get some ideas)