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One thing about dealing with clients, who pay you money and you give them something back instead — is that disasters happen. They really do, and this is a sort of a natural law to me — if they didn’t, the whole concept of customer service could become an abstract. But how would you [...]
I didn’t — and now it occurs to me it’s a nice way of browsing through news. Granted, it isn’t the most productive way if you need to find what’s going on in the world — quickly, but can certainly be used to kill some of that invaluable resource we all love to [...]
How to answer a question, without actually answering it
By sigizmund On April 19, 2010 · 370Leave a Commenthttp%3A%2F%2Fsigizmund.com%2Fhow-to-answer-a-question-without-actually-answering-it%2FHow+to+answer+a+question%2C+without+actually+answering+it2010-04-19+14%3A03%3A42sigizmundhttp%3A%2F%2Fsigizmund.com%2Fhow-to-answer-a-question-without-actually-answering-it%2F
An absolutely brilliant bit which I came across on T-Mobile’s website:
Can I use the internet on my phone or mobile broadband in Europe without buying a Booster?
We have boosters to buy so that you’ll always know exactly how much you’ve spent and know that you won’t get any unexpected bills. Using the [...]
Well, there’re few prerequisites to this method:
You should have a DMZ’ed (or accessible from outside world in some way) server running in your home network which you can SSH into. Your home Mac should be on (you can use etherwake command from within your network to wake it up first).
As long as these [...]
Guess who — and what is this about?
After he leaves, I am finally left alone with an iPad. Finally I get some finger time. I peep under the slip holder, and there it is. When I switch it on, a little sigh escapes me as the screen lights up. Ten minutes later I [...]
In a hindsight, it appears that it could’ve been a better idea to take this photograph through the clean window rather than the one close to me. But whatever’s done — is done. Too bad it didn’t last more than couple of minutes.
Hadoop’s “DistributedFileSystem vs DistributedCache” mystery
By sigizmund On March 23, 2010 · 352Leave a Commenthttp%3A%2F%2Fsigizmund.com%2Fhadoops-distributedfilesystem-vs-distributedcache-mystery%2FHadoop%27s+%22DistributedFileSystem+vs+DistributedCache%22+mystery2010-03-23+16%3A52%3A22sigizmundhttp%3A%2F%2Fsigizmund.com%2Fhadoops-distributedfilesystem-vs-distributedcache-mystery%2F
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 try { FileSystem dfs = DistributedFileSystem.get(hadoopJobConfiguration); final FileStatus[] sts = dfs.listStatus(new Path(this.hdfsDirectory)); for ( FileStatus s : sts ) { if ( s.getPath().toString().endsWith(".jar") ) { log.info("Jar found: " + s.getPath().toString()); DistributedCache.addFileToClassPath(new Path(s.getPath().toUri().getPath()), hadoopJobConfiguration); } } } catch (IOException [...]
No, really, have you seen it at all? I bet you didn’t because otherwise you would’ve tell the world about it — I’m using it for quite a while now, and I can firmly say: this is a program which just works, and makes my life substantially easier.
What is it anyway? Here you go: [...]
On cycle superhighways and shining wisdom of TfL
By sigizmund On March 17, 2010 · 3481 Commenthttp%3A%2F%2Fsigizmund.com%2Fon-cycle-superhighways-and-shining-wisdom-of-tfl%2FOn+cycle+superhighways+and+shining+wisdom+of+TfL2010-03-17+15%3A52%3A07sigizmundhttp%3A%2F%2Fsigizmund.com%2F2010%2F03%2F17%2Fon-cycle-superhighways-and-shining-wisdom-of-tfl%2F
Personally, I think that Cycle Superhighways project is bogus — at least in a way it is right at the moment. Why is it? It’s simple. Take a look at this photograph:
What you think, is there anything wrong with it? Lanes are blue, highly visible and all that stuff — sure [...]
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