Can someone with better knowledge of finance than me explain the significance of this sentence?
> A.W.S. was 10 percent of Amazon’s revenue, but more than 100 percent of the company’s operating income.
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> A.W.S. was 10 percent of Amazon’s revenue, but more than 100 percent of the company’s operating income.
Speaking as a Python developer who needed to pick up JS and maintain two Ember codebases this year, getting to know JS has actually been a pleasure. I was dreading it and I cursed it for a while. But using ES6 with Ember has been... pretty nice. There are objectively bad parts of it - some that are historical baggage, others that are just unfortunate (undefined and null!!). Oddities aside, I find it nimble and fun. I like Douglas Crockford's characterization of JS as "a LISP in C's clothing".
I know less about my great-grandparents, but I admire them for emigrating to America and struggling to make a better life for their kids.
Granted, on the cosmic timeline their actions don't amount to too much (because nobody's do). But I definitely feel the impact of my great and great-great grandparent's decisions.
About us: We are a research group at the University of Chicago and Argonne National Laboratory that develops tools to better understand cities. http://www.urbanccd.org/
The project: The Array of Things (http://arrayofthings.us) is an urban sensing project involving the installation of at least 500 multi-sensor devices in the City of Chicago. The project relies on an open source platform, Waggle (http://wa8.gl), developed by Argonne National Laboratory.
Your role: As we deploy Array of Things (AoT) nodes, we need to ensure that the data we are collecting will be available to the public in the form most useful to them. For scientists, we need to develop APIs that enable analytics workflows. For developers, we need to minimize latency to allow near-real-time applications. For policy analysts without advanced data munging skills, we need to present interfaces that make the data easy to discover and use.
Technologies: You'll mostly be programming in Python. (The AoT storage system - https://github.com/waggle-sensor/beehive-server - and our open data hub - https://github.com/UrbanCCD-UChicago/plenario are both written in Python.) For storage we use Cassandra and PostgreSQL + PostGIS.
Location: We require you to be onsite most days, but we're flexible about which of our sites you want to work at: Downtown Chicago, University of Chicago campus, or Argonne National Laboratory. Perks: Everything we do is open source. Great university benefits.
Official job description: http://jobopportunities.uchicago.edu/applicants/Central?quic...
Email me (willengler@uchicago.edu) or apply through the University of Chicago job listing.
About us: We are a research group at the University of Chicago and Argonne National Laboratory that develops tools to better understand cities. http://www.urbanccd.org/
The project: The Array of Things (http://arrayofthings.us) is an urban sensing project involving the installation of at least 500 multi-sensor devices in the City of Chicago. The project relies on an open source platform, Waggle (http://wa8.gl), developed by Argonne National Laboratory.
Your role: As we deploy Array of Things (AoT) nodes, we need to ensure that the data we are collecting will be available to the public in the form most useful to them. For scientists, you will develop APIs that enable analytics workflows. We also want to ensure the data is accessible to the general public and policy analysts without advanced data munging skills. To that end, you will be tasked with integrating AoT data into Plenario (http://plenar.io/), our user-friendly open data hub.
Technologies: You'll mostly be programming in Python. (The AoT storage system - https://github.com/waggle-sensor/beehive-server - and the open data hub - https://github.com/UrbanCCD-UChicago/plenario are both written in Python.) For storage we use Cassandra and PostgreSQL + PostGIS.
Location: We require you to be onsite, but we're flexible about which of our sites you want to work at: Downtown Chicago, University of Chicago campus, or Argonne National Labs near Naperville, IL.
Perks: Everything we do is open source. Great university benefits.
Official job description: http://jobopportunities.uchicago.edu/applicants/Central?quic...
Email me (willengler@uchicago.edu) or apply through the University of Chicago job listing.
Back in 2011, I got into a few prestigious schools (CMU, U Chicago) that talked a big game about need-based aid. They trimmed a good bit off the sticker price for me, but it was still more than I could afford without getting into more debt than I was comfortable with. I'm graduating next month from the University of Pittsburgh where I pay no tuition because I grew up nearby and my high school performance was up to par. So my friends who do pay tuition are subsidizing my degree.