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by alanctgardner3 12y ago
If you want to work in a "big data"-type role as a developer, I wouldn't worry about finding huge data sets. There's a dearth of candidates, especially ones who actually have hands-on experience, and having deep knowledg
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by alanctgardner3 12y ago
There are companies using Kinect to track users travelling through retail stores. There's also using existing WiFi recieved signal strength, which is not terribly granular but benefits from existing infrastructure.
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by alanctgardner3 12y ago
Is the goal that the user will enter a binding contract to buy without knowing what they'll pay? There already is price competition. Anyone who can Google for 5 minutes can find the lowest price, and that's probably fulfilled by A
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by alanctgardner3 12y ago
It depends on how much you want to idealize things. If you add the assumption that all flights/trains/etc. are available every day, and the price never changes, then yes. In reality, trying to traverse a weighted graph optimally w
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by alanctgardner3 12y ago
Did you just describe git? Git has revisions of files, and they can be tagged, merged, etc. It still works on top of a conventional file system though, because why reinvent the wheel?
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by alanctgardner3 12y ago
Frankly, Canada has a fetish for Waterloo. I think you have some misconceptions though: their placement rate for co-ops is like 98%. Students aren't dropping out because they can't find a position, although they are forced to trav
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by alanctgardner3 12y ago
uOttawa grad here: is there any co-op option at Carleton? It wasn't very popular at uOttawa, to the point that my employers were getting Waterloo grads because they couldn't find anyone local. There's a lot of cool companies
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by alanctgardner3 12y ago
I spoke to a Palantir recruiter once, if you aren't in the Bay Area you'll be doing customisation for customers - not the core engineering stuff that's really cool. Do you know what team at FB you'd be working with? For
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by alanctgardner3 12y ago
CPAN is much higher quality, though. For every Perl package that works and has unit tests and documentation, there are 10 node packages someone tried for a month to write, then gave up and left at 0.01 with no docs. Perl isn't sexy, bu
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by alanctgardner3 12y ago
I didn't think of the box versus letter issue as well. Fetching parcels from my local post office is a 20 minute walk, it can be annoying after a long day of work. That said, based on the testimony I've seen here I might try a few
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by alanctgardner3 12y ago
This. I wanted so badly to sign up, my girlfriend and I go to Chinese grocery stores and stock up on junk food a few times a year. Getting top ups and bring exposed to Japanese products would be awesome, but $25 a month is pretty dear for a
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by alanctgardner3 12y ago
It'd be nice, but you could fit 40 Canadas into China (population-wise), and most of us already have credit cards due to our proximity with the US. It's sad but completely rational that so many American services don't bother
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by alanctgardner3 12y ago
Another commenter pointed this out, but what you're trying to compute is cosine similarity, in which case you're missing the normalizing part in the denominator (the product of the magnitude of both vectors). In other words, two i
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by alanctgardner3 12y ago
Much like the Clouderan commenter, I wouldn't put a lot of stock in Berkeley's Big Data Benchmark. I reran a similar test with columnar storage and found Impala handily beats Shark. Operationally it's also much easier to depl