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colinwilson

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About colinwilson

Data engineer who loves hiking, running, and beer.

email: user at gmail dot com

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    WHOOP | Director of Machine Learning Platform Engineering | Onsite | Full-Time At WHOOP, we're on a mission to unlock human performance. WHOOP empowers its members to perform at a …

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    WHOOP | Director of Machine Learning Platform Engineering | Onsite | Full-Time At WHOOP, we're on a mission to unlock human performance. WHOOP empowers its members to perform at a …

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    Comment #25174314

    Systems like Hadoop and Spark will run multiple versions of the same task writing out to a FS at once but to a temporary directory and when the first finishes the output data is ju…

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    Comment #15309349

    For runs it's mostly just for fun. I use Strava so it has sections they identify along your run that they rank you against your friends and strangers. I do end up running very simi…

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    You can see how off the trace can be here: https://i.imgur.com/eHJI8FH.jpg . You could probably do some smoothing to help fit some of this to a street but I've been on runs where I…

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    Comment #15309268

    As an avid hiker and runner I'm more excited to see what this will do for things like Garmin smart watches. I run through downtown Boston a few times a week and the accuracy is ver…

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    I would say it can be used at it's simplest as a replacement for cron. It supports running programs on a schedule and you can set concurrency rules, SLAs, and triggers around even …

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    Comment #13199577

    In Cambridge, MA one of the local bus' has the power to keep a light green longer than normal with the same/similar system: http://pb.cambridgema.gov/1bus .

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    http://breakingintostartups.com/

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    I might be making this all up, I'll need to actually test it out now. I swear when watching Netflix on a computer, you start an episode and your cursor is auto-hidden. At some poin…

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    I was reading through the wikipedia page for the building and it mentions that when it was built there was a bylaw that required kitchens and bathrooms to have a window in them.

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    Comment #9054728

    I've just started using Deis at work recently. Dokku looks like it was a small project sponsored by the company behind Deis. I haven't looked much at dokku-alt. The thing that I re…

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