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Re:No one knows how much the government can borrow on Sunday January 24, 2021 @12:01AM (#25889437)
The author of this substack essay doesn't understand how things work
Might not be fast, but sure isn't durable
Re:Claiming your $125 from Equifax is a “moral duty” on Saturday July 27, 2019 @10:37AM (#20542204)
No need for that, you get the settlement as long as your information was compromised
Spark is not too tricky to dive into, even though you can't really take advantage unless you have a big cluster to use :)

if you want to practice data-manipulation, and a lot of the map reduce type stuff you can do with spark, I find Pandas useful for small datasets (And a lot of overlap in functionality as far as Dataframes are concerned)

For pipeline stuff, definitely take a look at Luigi, but again without a cluster it'll be less fun. Still, if you can try automating tasks with a mini luigi scheduler on your localhost, it would be good practice

Re:Show HN: Diversity ranking of 100 top tech companies on Wednesday February 21, 2018 @08:53PM (#16434590)
This is a really interesting initiative! Thanks for sharing! Was there anything surprising you all found? Have you had a lot of feedback from underrepresented groups?
Re:Ask HN: Modern Linux laptop with great battery life? on Tuesday January 02, 2018 @11:20PM (#16058349)
Thinkpad x260 is pretty good, I get at least six (with heavy use), but you can also get an extension for double I think
Re:Learn web development: Django Web Framework on Thursday February 09, 2017 @09:21PM (#13612807)
Huh. Makes me miss php
Re:Apple’s declining software quality on Thursday February 04, 2016 @03:43PM (#11037056)
Meanwhile the Gnome apps are amazing.

Shotwell, Music, Nautilus, and Gedit are brilliant and simple to use applications.

The title isn't grammatical. Math and Do must agree.
Re:Re: Anonymous- Why isn't the KKK a terrorist group? on Thursday November 05, 2015 @05:15PM (#10516503)
TLDR;

they are. back in the day they were charged with terrorism, principally. Among sabotage and other crimes. One of the rare examples of terrorism being used outside of either a wartime threat or leftist organization/labor union.

Re:The 21 Bitcoin Computer on Monday September 21, 2015 @05:26PM (#10255250)
Well it's 400 dollars,* I figure "the suite of pre-configured Bitcoin-dependent software" is what hikes up the price.

1 http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B014RD021C?camp=1789&creati...

Re:The 21 Bitcoin Computer on Monday September 21, 2015 @05:20PM (#10255210)
Is the 'native' cli free?
this is amazing! light of my day!

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