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		eli_gottlieb on May 9, 2012 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Bored in grad school? Learn Hadoop Why use MapReduce when you can use the real `map` and `fold`?

finalword on May 10, 2012 [–]

because they're stupid?

hurray for java. the most verbose and dog slow language ever invented.

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