SQLite is amazingly prevalent as well. Your own phone probably has hundreds of SQLite databases on it. One challenge with SQLite, though, is you have to download the whole thing to make use of it.
They had a demo of Github realtime activity and I hooked it into a bunch of different events around the org - Salesforce/Yammer/Github/JIRA - was neat to have a "pulse" of daily activity in the background.
> The agency maintains the largest fleet of ferries in the United States at 22 vessels, carrying 23 million passengers in 2014. As of 2014 , it was the largest ferry operator in the United States, and the fourth-largest ferry system in the world.
At what level, company size, and cash/equity split?
I'm co-founder of a local startup here w/~140 people and that's pretty comparable/above average to what I've seen depending on the cash/equity split. The big co's (Facebook, Amazon, Google, Twitter, et. al) will be higher than average due to the nature of how hard it is to hire good folks here.
Seattle is fantastic for people that enjoy the outdoors - hiking, backpacking, rock climbing, ski/snowboarding, camping. The closest ski/snow area is 45 minutes from the city. It doesn't get _too_ cold in Seattle proper - usually around 40° F. The nice thing is that you have the mountains nearby, so if you do want the cold weather it's a quick trip.
One word of caution around UW - your age is definitely on the higher end of other people that will be living in that area. Although the rents are cheap, that's usually for a reason. Reddit is a great resource for info on moving to Seattle --> https://www.reddit.com/r/Seattle/wiki/index
Would very much appreciate that as well as walk-through docs.
Got it up and running easily enough, and connected to Redshift. But seemed like creating a new "slice" required custom JSON params to define it. Unless I missed something?
edit: yep, missed something. Can "explore" a table by clicking it's link in the table listing.
I was a little confused that an "author" rel would be retrieved from a "people" resource. Is there a way to define that author's are people other than the client knowing this?
s/privacy/qa or your discipline of choice that is seen as "slowing down" development. While most devs should be thinking about this, you're correct in that their culture generally doesn't encourage them to.
Amazon S3 lists objects in alphabetical order.