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by ajones 12y ago
Maybe it's just me, but it seems that several data engineering organizations are picking up Scala. Is there a reason for this outside of Slide 13 in the presentation that I am missing? My team has plans of moving away from Scala and to
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by ajones 12y ago
I attended UberConf a few years ago and found it to be pretty interesting. A lot of the talks seem to repeat from year to year, so it was likely a one-time thing, for me. https://uberconf.com/
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by ajones 12y ago
I'm not very familiar with the DC market, but I did a quick search on AngelList to write this comment. Here's a few company's that jumped out to me: - FiscalNote: Real-time open data analysis - Contactually: CRM - Vero Analyt
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by ajones 12y ago
When I left college, I joined a big bank and eventually made the jump to a startup. Here's why: - I spent my first of two years as an applications developer and didn't push more than 20 lines of code into production. My days were
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by ajones 12y ago
I'm a big fan of the guide that Twitter put together titled Effective Scala: http://twitter.github.io/effectivescala/ For those who want to learn Scala, Twitter has also put together a set of lessons called Scala
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by ajones 12y ago
I only got through one class, but have heard my concerns echoed by many who are only continuing the program because the have invested so much into it. The program is based on weekly discussion board posts and a few exams per course. For the
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by ajones 12y ago
Here you go! http://datascience.berkeley.edu/academics/curriculum/
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by ajones 12y ago
I spoke with Berkeley when deciding where I was going to apply and got the sense that they plan on leaning on their more established programs to provide instruction. While this may sound great, you won't get the specific data science i
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by ajones 12y ago
Craigslist is definitely the way to go. There's a section specifically for temporary housing. http://newyork.craigslist.org/sub/ With the price range you mentioned earlier, you can likely afford a room in one of t
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by ajones 12y ago
I agree with the statement about Astoria. I live next to the neighborhood on Roosevelt Island and spend many Saturdays/Sundays walking the neighborhood because of the great food and people. The NQ line that runs through Astoria will ta
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Request Period for .nyc Domain Names Begins Today(ownit.nyc)
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by ajones 12y ago
Agreed. I load a few GBs of data into memory for analysis without any issue. This is a huge difference from my old 2GB MBP.
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by ajones 13y ago
This is a very interesting idea. After the cost of stamps, paper, ink, etc., are you making ~1 dollar per letter sent? What inspired you to build the site?