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by sedachv 4163 days ago
> Also, hadoop is so painfully slow to develop in it's practically a full employment act for software engineers.

It's comical how bad Hadoop is compared even to the CM Lisp described in Daniel Hillis' PhD dissertation. How do you devolve all the way from that down to "It's like map/reduce. You get one map and one reduce!"
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JabavuAdams 4162 days ago
Programming is very faddish. It's amazing how bad commonly used technologies are. I'm so happy I'm mostly a native developer and don't have to use the shitty web stack and its shitty replacements.
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sedachv 4162 days ago
What really puzzles me is that Doug Cutting worked at Xerox PARC and Mike Cafarella has two (!) CS Masters degrees, a PhD degree, and is a professor at the University of Michigan. It's not like they were unaware of the previous work in the field (Connection Machine languages, Paralations, NESL).
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