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by dwhitney 14y ago
I agree with eloisant, if you get a decent machine with an SSD, Play is quite snappy. Recompilations are around 1 second on my MacBook Pro with retina display, which is a small price to pay for the type safety you get with Scala
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by dwhitney 15y ago
I can't believe they never played "Don't Tread on Me"
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by dwhitney 15y ago
I'm taking the ML class and I love it! I agree with everything you said above, and I'd love to see a more advance ML class in the future. Keep up the good work!
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by dwhitney 15y ago
32 Slaves. Now what?
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by dwhitney 15y ago
I agree (in a less caustic way). I'd make this jump only if I had ample time on my hands. I'm sure there is context here that justifies it which was left out of the post.
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by dwhitney 15y ago
I had to write a sudoku solver in a job interview on a white board. I felt and still feel that it was a bit non-trivial for a job interview question, but nonetheless I arrived at the same answer Peter Norvig did.
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by dwhitney 15y ago
Yeah, I agree with wtetzner, I've been using STM in Scala via both ScalaSTM and Akka for almost 2 years now. It's incredibly easy to use and I use it far more than any of the other concurrency controls out there. I've written a blog entry
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by dwhitney 15y ago
Down voted :) I think this is my first comment. Anyway, yes, I'm the CTO for a small startup and we regularly spin up 500 node clusters on AWS for data processing. Yes that's a quarter of what Facebook is claiming, and yeah I see that the
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by dwhitney 15y ago
awsome
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by dwhitney 15y ago
Bah! Largest?!? I'm absolutely certain Hadoop Clusters of that size are spawned on Amazon Web Services several times a day. In fact, I'd say something more along the lines of, "wow, look at how old skool Facebook is!"
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by dwhitney 15y ago
Trust Metrics is being built primarily with Scala