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On Thursday, August 07, 2014 10:36:35 PM Alec Ten Harmsel wrote: |
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> > Which operating systems does you Hadoop systems run on top of? |
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> We use RedHat, although we make a fair amount of custom RPMs. It's just |
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> too much having to deal with Gentoo while maintaining high performance |
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> filesystems and schedulers, which are apparently a real pain. |
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If you already make custom RPMs, why not build binary packages for a Gentoo |
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based cluster? |
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> > Whilst research, I ran across a FAT PAYCHECK at a startup for Hadoop |
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> expertise (California) : "Extremely competitive pay: 150-175K base |
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> salary, large bonus plan, and a generous equity stake" |
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I'm wondering what "Unlimited vacation policy" actually means. |
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> Lolz, a few of the full time staff regularly get headhunted for similar |
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> positions. I'm still a student and would like to finish the degree, |
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> though, so no high paying jobs for me yet. |
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Good decision. |
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