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February 21, 2018 (8y ago)
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curious about open source development
  1. Ask HN: Forensic analysis for 50 year-old tape?

    Im posting for a friend who moved recently. He found a magnetic tape that was written over 50 years ago. He says, if he recalls correctly, the tape would have contained 2 file, EBCDIC encoded, written by an IBM utility…

    57 points 33
  2. Ask HN: Is PySPark a Dead-End?

    I am contracted by a major financial services firm to refactor an analytical model used for revenue forecasting to PySpark executing on a AWS EMR cluster. The project's current status is documented[0]. The client's team…

    9 points 9
  3. SAS vs. WPL copyright case filed in Eastern District of Texas (eff.org)
    2 points 1
  4. Ask HN: Are There Generalized Transpilers?

    I have a client who has tens on thousands of legacy Base SAS programs for calculating Current Expected Credit Losses (CCEL) models. Base SAS is a commercial, interpreted language used widely in financial services for…

    2 points 6
  5. Robotic Rules of the Road (economist.com)
    1 points 0