I remember having to resist the urge to map/reduce everything in interview questions :P. Somehow, I don't think interviewers want to hear how you'd use a cannon to solve a tiny problem.
It seems like a strategic acquisition. LinkedIn looks poised to be expanding more into business operations/communications, especially given their previous acquisition of CardMunch. I can definitely see them trying to position themselves as an indispensable communication tool for industry and business professionals.
This is precisely the reason why I keep up with Quora. I've seen so many individuals of note from the industry answering questions on it and it really gives a nice one-degree of separation kind of perspective. It's kind of cool to know that I could ask a question on a topic like data science and someone like Jeff Hammerbacher could reply directly.
I highly recommend using symlinks to synchronize dotfiles with a locally cloned repo. That way, you can make changes to the dotfiles sitting in your home directory and it'll be reflected in your repo should you want to commit those changes.
Agreed, and I'd like to see what this competition will do with respect to McMaster-Carr. For a school design project, I had to order parts from a website and McMaster-Carr had by far the best website of any vendor. From a cursory glance, the Amazon Supply site doesn't have quite the polish or flow of McMaster's.
He was hired for side A, at first sided with A. Then over time he became more educated to the whole situation and became more sided with B, and thusly has switched to side B.
In other words, he saw the bigger picture and (surprisingly!) realized that flawed legislation isn't the way to handle the situation as a whole.
Brand name. Instagram is very well loved on the iPhone by many users and has been something Android users wanted.
Anecdotally, my friends who use Instagram typically verbify the word as well, e.g., "I'm going to Instagram this cup of coffee." That, to me, illustrates the brand penetration Instagram already has.
I'm not sure if this was intended by design or not, but why did you decide to put everything into one .scala file? I know Scala allows you to define multiple objects/classes in a file but it is pretty long and it would be pretty difficult to find what I'm looking for if I were to edit anything.
Otherwise, cool project. I too am also interested in graphs and Scala, so I'll be watching your project. Have you looked at flockDB from Twitter?
Agree. Some of the performance tuning with Hadoop could only be done if you knew how it worked underneath and if you know how the clusters are set up. I'm also not sure if Pig/Scalding/Scoobi can do this already, but it'd also be nice if they could abstract tunable settings as well on a job-level basis.
It seems like there's a huge drop off in prize money after about the top 11. I wonder how the drop off in salary is, if they are paid one at all. eSports is still growing and I don't forsee it being a viable career path unless you're a top 1% tier talent, which loosely mirrors professional sports as well.
My biggest gripe with the App Store (both iOS and Mac App Stores) is that you can't sort what you see by downloads, ratings, or other metrics. There's no granularity with the way the user sifts through the App Store, just what Apple deems to be the "Top ___" with whatever secret sauce algorithm they use. The current method of app discovery is great for the average user, but for a power user/developer like myself it leaves much to be desired.
The nice thing about having new Vim posts every week or so is that I've always learned something new about it each time, whether it's a new shortcut or plugin or whatever. The depth (and appeal) of vim is such that you'd never really stop learning how to use it.
Agreed. The icon buttons would have been fine had they colorized them in some manner. It's a lot easier to distinguish in that manner. I find myself confusing the "archive" and "move to" buttons far too often when working quickly.
From what I've read [1], Valve employs the desk-on-wheels configuration to great success. The higher-order function to this is that teams can be fluid and the process for reconfiguring for new projects is as easy as wheeling your desk around.
It's in Apple's best interest to get this out so they can show off the new Retina Display with native apps. Makes perfect sense from a business standpoint.
I think that's the direction that they're already heading. While Java will be supported by nature, I think Scala is a better fit for the growth the framework itself.
I'm curious as to specific code examples where the author is having problems. I'm thinking about using Play! or Lift for a pet web app using Scala. Does anyone have experience using either?
TF2 was a masterstroke for Valve in PR. I paid $40 for TF2 and I felt like the value that it gave over the past 5 years has more than exceeded what I paid for it. It has generated a huge amount of goodwill towards Valve and Steam that will help anchor them in the PC gaming industry for years to come. It will be interesting to see where they're taking Steam and the PC platform in the near future, especially given all the talk about a possible console.
I am of the school of thought where Heroku and other PaaS offerings are good for prototypes, where you'd throw up some simple apps on the short term. If you need to scale up, then you'd consider hosting it elsewhere and where you'd have more fine grain control. Does no one do this?
I think they just mean that it's supposed to be an easy, versatile API for photo integration into whatever web app you're working on, like how Twilio is an API for phone integration.
And if not that, a copy to clipboard feature would be the next best thing - right now highlighting also grabs the extra text so copy/pasting these takes a bit of extra work and cleanup.