Comment on: So so very much fun...TIS-100 - a game about assembly programming on Steam .. Beware: ADDICTING
2 17 Jul 2015 08:07 u/ShowMeYourGenitals in v/programmingComment on: Come up with the most inefficient, poorly written, and complex way to print out "Hello World!".
Love the "GeneticLotteryWinner"!
Comment on: GCC 5.2 Released
I can hardly keep up.
Comment on: Come up with the most inefficient, poorly written, and complex way to print out "Hello World!".
Run a loop with a Sleep(3000) in it. Have your computer generate a random number, sum down the digits until you reach a number under 26, and if it corresponds to the letter of the alphabet you want, reboot the computer, zero out your free disk space, calculate pi to 30303030303030 places... etc......
Comment on: Can someone more qualified kindly explain Hadoop to me?
Hmm. I could have sworn I read about controlling which nodes the chunks are put to a few months ago. Searching around, it looks like there is customizable policy, but I can't get anything concrete, either.
Comment on: What programming language changed your outlook on creating software?
I tried to do some asm and I realized I was a retard. Made me feel stupid and discouraged me for quite a while.
Comment on: Can someone more qualified kindly explain Hadoop to me?
My recollection was that you can specify how many copies of a chunk and you want and on what nodes you want them to reside. Correct?
Comment on: Can someone more qualified kindly explain Hadoop to me?
So... if I have 5 hadoop nodes, does each one work on whatever piece of the data it has in HDFS, then one of them takes them all in to finish up the process? Or is there (can there) be a dedicated node for that that doesn't hold any persistent data?
Comment on: Can someone more qualified kindly explain Hadoop to me?
As far as I was able to figure out, Hadoop is like running a clustered database/filesystem with distributed RAID. So really, I learned nothing. Of course the execs like hadoop... it looks "free"
These days people really seem to take for granted how unlimited typical computers are. Limits stimulate creativity in a different way from total freedom.