Ethereum set aside tons of eth to fund development in the premine. I wonder if they are broke, greedy, dumb, or what.

Ethereum has a massive amount of development under way, with 248 repositories listed on the official Ethereum Github project page alone:

https://github.com/ethereum

Just use bigquery.

Just use bigquery. The last thing I want these days is to manage a cluster. Next to last thing I want is to worry about the zillion tuneables on hadoop/spark.

No.

For Spark/etc I only care about throughput. It can stall all it wants. Exception (possibly) being spark streaming.

Even sidestepping the 46% less "For Whom" : Qwerty/dvorak/whatever .. No one is really worried about cranking out Words per minute anymore. Nor is it going to significantly change RSI injuries where one wasn't already going to happen.

Way to go Cambec!

thanks!

If Netflix had sold, I doubt that today the service would be nearly as good. There would probably be a better competing service.

Something orders of magnitude faster than anything else that I can't use or see the source to.... Yawn!

I see PG's resume, but I seriously wonder how many programmers he's interviewed, hired, managed, and fired in the last 5 years. How often has he thought about what to pay his engineers in relation to their output and others in the group. How much experience does he personally have with offshoring? I bet not that much actually.