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shmooth··on Salesforce is buying Tableau for $15.7B
I played with Denodo (data virtualization software) a couple years ago and thought it was pretty legit.

In theory, it could be used to provide that industrial strength abstraction layer between your Tableau/Looker/etc. and your bajillion weird and not-so-weird (RDBMS) data sources.

That would seem to make sense to me from the point of view of -- I would want my data visualization/analytics-type company to be able to concentrate on data visualization/analytics, not building some insane and never-ending data abstraction layer.

The part that surprised me was that Denodo could allegedly do a lot of smart data caching, thus speeding things up (esp hadoop-oriented data sources) and keeping costs down.

I'm guessing the other data virtualization providers can do similar.

shmooth··on America's Seed Fund: Up to $1.5M for Zero Equity
At least no room for corruption
shmooth··on U.S. senators introduce social media bill to ban 'dark patterns' tricks
dark patterns like offering health insurance...
shmooth··on Ask HN: I feel sad about my life and job, and do not know what to do
...will add that, yes, a terrifically-horrible code base can and will depress you -- as in, clinical depression.

i think just like anything, spend some time studying the code. maybe it will eventually start to make a bit more sense once you become familiar with the over-engineered, abstracted-to-hell piece of shit object-oriented codebase.

shmooth··on Ask HN: I feel sad about my life and job, and do not know what to do
They definitely already depressed. Need to call up a therapist and book an appointment for tomorrow afternoon, go, and then start to feel better.

Not sure where to get a recommendation for a therapist -- best thing is to just call, book the appointment, and go. Tell them your problems, ask what you should do.

Then go from there.

If that therapist sucks -- I figure 35% will -- then do the same thing with a different therapist.

Find someone close to your office or home.

shmooth··on Being a middle-aged junior
Shit hired at 52 fucking a
shmooth··on Burger King is introducing a vegetarian patty from the start-up Impossible Foods
Pretty sure I had a Burger King veggie burger about 20 years ago in Sydney
shmooth··on Ask HN: What programming language should I learn next?
i second this.

mainly because that pg god guy says it's good or something.

but i also happen to believe it.

even osama bin laden was right about some things.

shmooth··on Ask HN: How to grow your career reputation after spinning your wheels so long?
The best way to get ahead is to stay someplace a long time

Advance through attrition mainly

It’s boring and not challenging but...

shmooth··on Physics explains why time flies as we age
English?
shmooth··on Atlassian built a $20B dollar company with no sales team
Needs more plugins
shmooth··on Atlassian built a $20B dollar company with no sales team
Either that or this is a lie
shmooth··on What Made Apollo a Success? (1971) [pdf]
Had to be Agile dev with CI/CD
shmooth··on Object-Oriented Programming is Bad (2016) [video]
yeah, that was pretty good. i guess OOP is not the end-all be all. prob would have been more useful if this was produced 10 years ago instead of 3 years ago. is anyone still using OOP?
shmooth··on Object-Oriented Programming is Bad (2016) [video]
i love any kind of 'hate' article, and this guy is hilarious, so +1
shmooth··on Ask HN: How to speak like a leader, not like an engineer?
a leader would ask for clarification, so there's always that.
shmooth··on Well-Meaning Bad Ideas Spoiling a Generation
god - most stuff i listen to from this site has _some_ quality about it - something i can learn, but this is just garbage. 15 minutes, one quarter of the way thru -- done.

i didn't know it was just some right-wing psychobabble.

shmooth··on Updates from YC
oh those poor flailing and flailing liberal coastal cities!

maybe Republicans can teach them something, by, for example, the coastal city of......Knoxville, TN.

:-D

shmooth··on Updates from YC
YC in SF gonna be like Joakim Noah in NYC :-D
shmooth··on Updates from YC
Sam finally too far off the deep end
shmooth··on The Silicon Valley Exodus Continues
It’s got more ayn rand types

They live on their own form of welfare called Venture Capital

shmooth··on The Silicon Valley Exodus Continues
SF is still SV duh
shmooth··on NYC Open Letter to Jeff Bezos
This shit is gd insane

Fuck amazon

shmooth··on Ask HN: Is it just me, or is CSS too damn hard?
holy shit i'm old.
shmooth··on Ask HN: Is it just me, or is CSS too damn hard?
CSS is the worst.

Git and CSS are the two hardest things anyone will ever try to learn in computers.

To the extent I've had some success with CSS, I've used bootstrap, and went back and did some CSS 101 stuff because none of it is intuitive -- actually learning how they did CSS helps a lot b/c trying to figure it out will never work -- it's all back-asswards at best.

and that's before you get to browser differences.

shmooth··on Ask HN: What is the product development process at your company/startup?
this sounds like a good place to work.
shmooth··on Ask HN: Does Scrum work?
yes, scrum works

and so does every other methodology

and yes, it's b/c of scrum.

and yes, it's in spite of scrum.

and yes, it's a full on scam/fad, just like every other methodology.

my best guess on where things currently stand is that: 1) most shops use it 2) most shops use it very loosely, at best 3) most shops know to publicly despise waterfall but know that scrum and the rest are just watered-down waterfall and any shop doing near-actual scrum would kill to have a 'waterfall' dev model again -- that is, a realistic dev plan without requirements that change on the hour 4) until one of the new pseudo-methodologies (like design thinking) replaces it, Scrum/Agile will continue to reign supreme (b/c it ultimately exists b/c it is very management-friendly -- it's useful for controlling employees -- not for any other reason like 'productivity', etc.)

shmooth··on Ask HN: What is your favourite programming language? Why?
hero
shmooth··on Ask HN: What stack would you use to build a CRUD web app in 2018?
i've been an occasional defender of php, but darn...those backslashes.

and, symfony is the worst garbage in the history of the planet. worst mistake ever.

shmooth··on Ask HN: What stack would you use to build a CRUD web app in 2018?
what does this mean in English?
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