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So, you guys forked gemfire, spark and spark-jobserver. Are you planning on going back into mainline or will you be maintaining the forks to stay current at some interval?

Hey, sorry, got busy yesterday and forgot to respond to this. Well, I work for a Hadoop distribution, so I may have some biases showing through in my setup. I like to use spark in …

Shameless plug for a series of blog posts that I wrote in 2014 about this dataset. The aim was to demonstrate how to analyze data with Spark and Python, but probably the most inter…

Great idea! I signed up, but I worry that there's no geographical adjustment for salaries. For instance, I make $200k and live in Cleveland. Even 20% more in NYC or SF is a very di…

If you are interested in this, you might be interested in my (warning: shameless plug) 5 part blog series located at http://blog.caseystella.com/pyspark-openpayments-analysis.ht...…

I agree, I was super skeptical when I started with my current employer due to this policy. I cynically assumed it was intended to somehow deter me from taking any vacation. Then I …

So does Hortonworks as of 2.1 http://hortonworks.com/blog/announcing-hdp-2-1-tech-preview-...

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I've been the engineer in that scenario a number of times in my life. Almost every time there were management people who stayed who just couldn't contribute. Honestly, I didn't par…

I guess this means IPO isn't going to happen this year.

First thing that comes to mind is maybe you're underselling your successes in your resume. In particular, if you've been working a long time in the banking sector and you don't men…

Hey, sorry, one more time. The updated link is also wrong, it's relative to your blog rather than absolute i.e. http://technocalifornia.blogspot.com/2011/04/research.yahoo.... as o…

Just curious, why would you tell them your current salary? In salary negotiations, wouldn't that give the employer a substantial advantage in bargaining? I've been asked this befor…

I just wanted to point out that the link on your blog to PureSVD points to the wikipedia page for Discounted Cumulative Gain.

Well, I do disagree on the quality aspect. I'd like to see a high quality Calc I and II textbook that's free, coherent, and not aimed at MIT students. My wife is a faculty member a…

I have not, thanks for the tip. I looked at a book or so, but didn't see an easy away to comment on individual paragraphs like in "Real World Haskell", but maybe more of the interf…

Well, I'd love and welcome a good high-quality open source textbook movement that happens to also be high quality. It's the quality issue that's the major problem at the moment, I'…

I think you defended your use of satire very well. Good job.

Yeah, I came across Barr and Wells 5 years ago in grad school and found it almost impossible to buy. I ended up getting a copy from the library and photocopying and rebinding it. L…

Any suggestions for a good Category Theory texts that're oriented to CS and go beyond the "classical" connections between cartesian closed categories and lambda calculi? Or am I st…