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Sexy factor is definitely with the search company.

Decided after 2 years at my job that it was time to move n due to issues with Product Management and sales leadership. Have 2 opportunities I like and it is killing me to decide which to go with. Total comp for both is within 5-6 % of each other, one is higher base the other has a commission...

At this point I don't even have a resume. If recruiters want to get me interested in a job they can export my LinkedIn and live with it. It is fun being a purple squirrel or my personal favorite "A Unicorn that Craps Rainbows".

Uhh what tech startup isn't 99% Apple? The one I work for sure is.

I think the way the list works is that those skills get buoyed by each other as part of "hadoop". It is just a numerical analysis of salary average for folks with that buzzword in their skill list. I can tell you that those numbers are pretty real, my customers complain about the lack of talent...

Interaction and key design will be significantly different from a syntax perspective. The physical storage format is fairly similar to hbase in that it is BigTable inspired and speaks in SStables. Hbase still uses thrift and the concept of a "row key" with a bunch of key/val pairs "columns"...

Hadoop and NoSQL are different things. The Hadoop file system is best used as a "Data Lake" where you just dump everything from important to almost worthless data and then run analytics on it. Integrations with RDBMS is not really the point, just dump the data in to Hadoop. Lets your data...

I betcha that restaurant at the end is Pedros. Where VC deals are done while eating crappy mexican food right off the 101!

On the working from home topic, don't underestimate how productive you can be. The issue is mostly culture, there has to be a "everyone acts like they are remote" culture for it to work. The company I work at has a vast majority of remote engineers, both on the open source and proprietary add on...

The sales engineer in me sees that while c# is a great language, a vast majority of shops that use it are stone age abominations. The trends I see are that Python and Scala are both on the rise, have a new hire on my team that came from Typesafe showing me the light on the awesome of Scala...

Stock is where the big money is, choose wisely and you can make 200+k and get pre-IPO stock and that is how you actually get rich at this gig.

Sorry for the derail, just hit a topic I feel strongly about.

My go to for table wine would probably trend more towards a Barberra, Langhe Nebbiolo, or Dolcetto. They are all excellent wines for lower cost. That or old vine zin is always a enjoyable Drink. Rose replaces it in the summer with Tavel being the best but there are lots of options for dry rose.

@Tenks - Why the fuck would you guys use Hbase? Cassandra is 100x better. Disclaimer, I may work for DataStax.

Edward Jones benefits are abysmal, like bottom of the pack awful. Not sure where you heard they had good benefits. My wife was a manager there and she was on my benefits. They don't even have maternity leave, it is short term disability. High deductible medical, almost no 401k match, etc.

So I moved into pre-sales (Sales/Solution Engineer) role to keep my travel to shorter trips about 3 months ago or so. Still working at a NoSQL company, doing big things. Kinda fun being the first technical contact with cool projects around the country and doing use case planning, initial...

French wines are quality to a much lower price (but only when IN France) than wines in the USA. A bottle of 7Euro wine there will totally blow away anything 10$ here. The only wines that are drinkable in the 10$ range IMHO are Zinfindels and Rose here which is a shame.

Speaking of Sauvignon Blanc, my favorite by far is2012 Sauvignon Blanc - Merry Edwards Winery - Sonoma County.

I love the 2-3 hour delays it causes at SFO, just love it... a lot!

Yea, Santa Barbara and surrounding areas make what is considered quality and lower cost Pinot. The downside for me is I have a strong preference for Russian River Valley and Sonoma Cost styles. As far as Burgundy itself, Hoate Cotes de Nuits might be in that 20ish price range or lower and...

Schnucks sells it in STL, as does pretty much every store.

Pinot is awesome, the problem is it doesn't usually show well under 25-30$. Try a Siduri Sonoma County at ~ 22-24$, that is the best value expression of what Pinot can be. You can also look for a Borgogne but that is going to be a crapshoot. Start with a good wine then breakout the cheapshit...

Lack of comments about wine here! I am really getting into the hobby (habit) and have built my cellar up to ~ 150bottles. Huge fan of Pinot Noir (CA, Burgundy, Oregon... in that order most of the time but have a few Grand Cru Burgundies set down for a few years), Nebbiolo (Barbaresco, Barolo)...

I just have the 25k options they gave me at start, but my 1yr is coming up so maybe get more then (not sure tbh). Strike price is 1.60 and the current valuation puts shares at ~9-10 (after we took 100M in VC round E). So not a big pot yet, but this is the kind of company that could hit 40 post...

Hoping this is me in a few years when my company IPOs. Things looking good, new valuation (after taking VC) is 8x my option strike price already and we are 2 years from IPO. Hard to not do the math but also have seen lots of stories of paper millions going poof from my peers in their past jobs...

Have tickets to dodgers/cards games 3 and 4. Hope I only have to use the first set and can put the $$ towards some NLCS goodness! Love October in STL!

Just to give more context, we are pretty serious wine fans but mostly know American and Italian with depth. We tend to educate ourselves on wine by visiting the region and finding out what we like best and then getting deep knowledge to be able to pick what we like out at a wine ship.

Thanks a ton for the recommendations, and yes we plan to taste our way through Burgundy and Provence with guided highend tasting tours (so we get into the good grand cru and premier cru ones). We left off Alsace this year, it will be part of our German trip next year. We are mostly red fanatics...

Heading to France with the wife in September. Have the locations/attractions booked out but are in dire need of restaurant recommendations and particularly good places to get exceptional wine by the glass. Current Schedule is: Paris - 4 Days Avignon - 5 Days Beaune - 4 Days

My parents are mid 70s and are totally self sufficient. They are slowing down (joint issues etc) but still get around just fine. Hell my dad still has a side business in his retirement building security cam DVR/NVRs for banks. Keep active physically and mentally and you can be active well into...

There are limits, both in theory on how compressed something can get and on CPU power to calculate the compression. It usually becomes a balancing act, but new faster compressions are constantly being developed. The thing is, they are far from universal because the better algorithms require...

I developed a quantum computer, but it is only correct when you don't read the answer.

I agree with that one, it didn't fit as well as the rest. They even mentioned Github earlier in the season as well. When at the techcrunch they started talking about a scalable acid database I started yelling at the screen, but I guess that fits in fiction

They really try to get the industry down, from terminology being real to some of the tools they use. The white boarding of how to jack off 800 people in 10min was the best vision into how a real nerd's mind works I have ever seen on TV. The topic becomes completely irrelevant in the face of...

The patcher for this game is epic bad, what the hell? Has noone learned from WoW's streaming client?

The biggest thing holding me back there is my ties to St.Louis, I agree that this would be ideal. But no companies here are hiring Director level jobs in Big Data, and if they are the pay is worse than my SA pay or on par.

That is a good description, not a huge fan of their product line but then again I took my current job because I like the product (NoSQL database) and now am facing 60-70% travel despite them telling me to expect 20-30%.

I do have ~25k options but I would have to stay 5 years to vest them. The problem is as an SA it is really hard to be flexible as you are the tip of the sword. You are the technical face of the company to every customer, if the other SAs are booked you go no matter how far (I see the Sr SAs...

I usually find something to do, I do find friends to go out with when some live nearby or I do something typical of the area. I still find the nights that isn't possible make me really resentful. The problem is I am an SA so I am going out solo a lot right now, just me and the customer. Most of...

Anyone who travels for work have any advice to make it suck less? Now that I am married every trip makes me feel a bit depressed going to bed by myself. Leading me to drink a lot to kill that time before bed and be bummed whenever I hear I have to go somewhere.