anyone have this? what's it like?
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Based on what you described, it sounds like you're coming in at founder level, so you should be a co-founder and have equity on par with the other founders.
There has even been a Star Wars Ride at DisneyWorld for like, what-15 years (?)
In short-- it looks awesome, and according to the talk, should be faster than NumPy
If you want to get practice with map-reduce patterns themselves, but not spend much time worrying about the ops associated with setting up hadoop clusters, you can play with Elastic-Map-Reduce (EMR) on AWS.
There is even a great python-based open source tool called mrjob (http://packages.python.org/mrjob/index.html) made by some folks at Yelp that makes using EMR really easy. There are a bunch of great tutorials already out there.
As basic and important as salting + hashing passwords is, it is the sort of task that ends up on the technical debt list or scrum back-log, never to be looked at until it becomes a problem.
Think of how awful getting work in acting has become thanks to agents. Would we want to give the keys to the kingdom to a middle-person? And who would step up to be the first set of agents? I bet it would be the same recruiters we all love to hate.
Much has been said about recruiting and hiring and all that. I'll only add that I think the direction things are headed in seems to be that developers are going to start needing a portfolio by which potential employers can judge them.
what do you want to do?
Amazon Prime is certainly best for consumers-- but for merchants it is very difficult to turn a profit.
In our case, FBA (Fulfillment by Amazon) was useful for a few things, but increased profit was not one of them.
On the contrary, we used FBA to sell 'hot' items quickly, which in turn led to boosts of higher customer feedback for our merchant account.
Ultimately though, the increased traffic you might get with your FBA items is seriously offset by the increased competition you will get from other merchants and even Amazon itself. And After Amazon takes the cut for doing the fulfillment, you are left with pennies per sale in profit if you are lucky enough to get the volume sales.
Another unexpected negative aspect of using FBA is that occasionally Amazon fulfillment centers claim that there is "something wrong" with your goods or they are "damaged in shipment" and they refuse to store them or ship them. You have to eat the cost in these cases.
I think FBA can be useful if you are a merchant with a specific product line that won't experience direct competition, or if you are a small merchant trying to build some traction.
On a side note, I think FBA is a brilliant win-win strategy for Amazon: they get paid for storing stuff whether it sells or not, and they get merchants to test out product lines at ZERO cost to themselves.
The problem I see with Java is that we're not sure whether Oracle is taking good care of it.
But like mcherm, I am bound by my connections to my relatives/friends with whom I would likely otherwise lose touch.
I spent a lot of time trying to figure out a secure way of uploading large (>100 MB) files directly to S3 from the browser. I couldn't figure out a good way to use a javascript solution because of the issue of needing access to the AWS secret key.
I ended up using a java applet called jumploader to get the job done, but I always wondered if I gave up too soon and there really is a good way to do this from the browser.
I found it to be highly beneficial for several reasons (some of which were mentioned in the blog post): -since I am usually exhausted by the end of the day, I found the early time to be really conducive to clear thinking -early part of the day is so quiet-- no interruptions -I felt like I accomplished quite a bit even before arriving at work, so I somehow felt more productive even though I should have been more tired
I intentionally did not keep up the early time on the weekends and slept in-- btw, 8am felt like sleeping in :)
Since the class finished, I kept up the habit and wake up early to code or read.
I admit it isn't for everyone, but it is worth a try for anyone who wants to code after work but feels too tired or easily distracted.
I am about half-way through and loving every minute of it.