holdenk

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by holdenk 7y ago
I'm starting with a book designed to teach kids Apache Spark using garden gnomes ( http://www.distributedcomputing4kids.com/ ) and depending on how that goes I want to branch out and do some other topics.
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by holdenk 8y ago
Dataflow it's self isn't open source. Beam is not open source Dataflow, however you can use the Beam SDK with Dataflow as a runner.
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by holdenk 8y ago
When I graduated and tried to find work in Canada multiple firms told me I was "too weird" and "should move to California", so I did and I'm super happy that it worked out the way it did -- but I still feel sad abou
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by holdenk 10y ago
Some of the highest traffic blog posts I've written have been on the "entry-level" side of things.
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by holdenk 10y ago
There are corp jobs which pretty much require a lot of travel - doing developer relations has been a great way to see the world for me (and meet all sorts of cool developers).
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by holdenk 10y ago
Its called volunteer because there is mandatory service or conscription in other countries.
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by holdenk 10y ago
I'd encourage you to look at http://48hills.org/2016/02/16/five-myths-about-the-homeless-... :)
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by holdenk 10y ago
Nope is often a great strategy when asked to do something impractical. It's better when its followed up with an alternative, but stopping someone from building something terrible early on is much better than having them try to fix it a
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by holdenk 10y ago
Julia Evans' zines are the most entertaining way to learn about linux/unix internals I've encountered yet :)
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by holdenk 10y ago
So I agree the US health care system is pretty crap - but as a trans person it was still better than my options in my home province (and by options I mean option). I think we can all agree that there are corner cases for each system where t
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by holdenk 10y ago
I'd like to second O'Reilly having a good infra setup - compared to pushing around word documents working with the O'Reilly tooling people is awesome. If you get stuck with their build or asciidoc they have a tools support al
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by holdenk 10y ago
If you forget to negotiate with them, and you go with O'Reilly, they are really good at sending free books for book signings to conferences which can be a really great chance to both get the word out and meet people that care about the
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by holdenk 10y ago
I've co-authored some Spark books and while the first one is hella out of date - the second one which was written against the 1.X APIs is only somewhat out of date and still selling really well.
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by holdenk 10y ago
I'm not sure I agree with you - having a higher encounters rate need not be limited to simple neighborhood selection for policing (although there is likely bias there too) - rather simply choosing who to interact with may exhibit bias
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by holdenk 11y ago
Zeppelin is really neat, but still quite early stage (I can't even export notebooks :( ). For day to day use & teaching I've had good results with Jupyter + Spark
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by holdenk 11y ago
Thanks for helping represent the refugees pro bono :)
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by holdenk 11y ago
If anyone is interested in working on this (or other exciting Spark related things) @ IBM please reach out to me ( my HN username with the letter k removed at us.ibm.com )
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by holdenk 11y ago
PhD stipends tend to be much lower than industry pay.
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by holdenk 11y ago
I think that undergraduate degrees are generally viewed as the "next step" among many Americans and the ROI is generally viewed as a positive (regardless of it is or not). Also while you do need a work visa once your OPT has expir
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by holdenk 12y ago
For better or worse, the system isn't really set up for that. Under the current system you might want to look for a doctor that believes in "informed consent" and "harm reduction".
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by holdenk 12y ago
So with the system of mirrors that is in place with distributing some open source software (e.g. debian, ubuntu, etc.) this is less true. A local mirror could selectively serve bad packages (and serve the correct packages to the verificatio
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by holdenk 12y ago
I think its more that the industry standard among publishers is to demand the right of first refusal on additional books.
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by holdenk 13y ago
Ah good catch, however the logic remains the same (they both avoid residential delivery surcharges for the respective carrier).
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by holdenk 13y ago
Ah the joys of "SmartPost". SmartPost is popular for residential deliveries in a large part because it doesn't have the residential surcharge which other options do. SmartPost shipments also generally don't have guarante
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by holdenk 13y ago
I got a similar message because I had a commit against the scala project :(
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by holdenk 13y ago
Anyone have any experiences with E-1 or NIWs?
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by holdenk 13y ago
The SEC press release is at http://www.sec.gov/News/PressRelease/Detail/PressRelease/137...
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by holdenk 14y ago
That was actually tried for a little while. Airports could opt-out of the TSA but still had to meet the screening guidelines. For example if you fly out of SFO you are going to be screened by not the TSA. As of 2011 however the TSA stopped
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by holdenk 14y ago
>Personally, for a lot of use cases I prefer exact string matches over BS stem indexing. Really? I've worked on a few search projects in different spaces (venues (aka places/stores), source code, and products) in the past, and while exa
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by holdenk 14y ago
I am not a lawyer, but it might be worth talking to one especially if you are in California and interested in moonlighting.

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