October 2009
11 posts
Hadoop, Pig, and Twitter →
A presentation by Kevin Weil.
Best thing about this presentation.. Twitter’s Scala based Hadoop library is called ‘Twadoop’.
Tom Waits, true confessions →
Q: What’s heaven for you?
A: Me and my wife on Rte. 66 with a pot of coffee, a cheap guitar, pawnshop tape recorder in a Motel 6, and a car that runs good parked right by the door.
Cottage Computer Programming by Paul Lutus →
Paul Lutus is my hero. I’m not sure if he wrote this before or after he spent 3 years circumnavigating the globe in his beautiful 31 foot sloop ‘Selene’.
Minimalism in Computing →
A presentation by Alex Payne
Hurry →
“Maybe you’re waiting for validation. You’re waiting for that someone you respect to say, ‘Yes, you bright person, you should do that thing.’ It was your parents when you were a kid and then it was your first boss, but now it simply needs to be you.” — Micheal Lopp
grizzly bear, i live with you
bear in heaven, lovesick teenagers
random rules by silver jews