rdeboo

Does "financial gravity" imply that noble missions are generally less profitable? Is there a way to align that (maybe by governments structuring the market with taxes / regulations)? Is that realistic?

I work as a Data Engineer and in my country Azure is pretty big, and as a consequence their Data Factory service has become a common choice for enterprises. It's a GUI based ETL tool, architects prefer it since it is a managed cloud service and supposedly is easy to use.

In practice you lose all the benefits of abstraction, unit testing, proper CI/CD, etc. I haven't met an engineer that likes the service. Some projects have resorted to writing code generation tools, so that they can take config files and programmatically generate the JSON serialization of the pipelines that you're supposed to develop by clicking and dragging.

I think the comparison was Snowflake vs Databricks SQL. Databricks SQL is a PaaS service just like Snowflake. Also, it uses their Photon engine, which is a proprietary engine written in C++. It is not Spark.

I've had this experience in Germany and it turned out that the waitress gets a cut of the turnover, at least for drinks. So they have an incentive to keep the glasses full. I'm not sure if this is common in Germany.

You must be jeroen

I started reading "The Master and Margarita" this year after seeing this title pop up on HN so often. I could not finish it, I found it rather boring. I'm curious, am I the only one? What does everyone find so great about this book?

My girlfriend works as a GP. One of her colleagues was on a visit and had to call an ambulance. She was able to do so by reaching out to the police via Facebook.. (not sure how the address was communicated and what the privacy impact is of that)

How is it more secure? Do you read the entire source code to search for backdoors?