The purpose of technology has always been to eliminate human labor, yet we still have no social structure in place to help obsolete workers.
@emilepetrone Looks like a job for @tindie http://t.co/Vrc6CuX9
ncpolicelogs It’s illegal for sex offenders to pass out Halloween candy in NC; other states such as SC have special curfews tonight. http://t.co/J8cwOMCc
akpurtell Now too clever by half. http://t.co/66ZWlTSQ
With police stretched to the limit by Hurricane Sandy, bands of hooligans in NYC have been roaming the streets imbibing 20 ounce soft drinks
akpurtell Hadoop World + #strataconf was ok this year if every talk a sales pitch. Miss the meetup feel of 2009 & 2010 though. #bigdata #bigbucks
“We shape our tools and thereafter our tools shape us.” - Marshall McLuhan
@MichaelCasp Exciting times at the Big Data conference in NYC!
Cloudera Impala is a Hive replacement that runs distributed HBase / HDFS queries rather than MapReduce jobs; claims to be up to 30X faster.
B.O. at #strataconf #hw2012 isn’t nearly as bad as #strangeloop. Do Big Data engineers & data scientists have better hygiene? #bigquestions
DurhamCounty Durham County has a new website. You can see it here: http://t.co/f2zzbsfK
http://t.co/zrCi0BP8 is doing amazing work to learn more about the state of communities. The day of the census has passed. #hadoopworld2012
Coolest conference swag EVER; @mikestable’s shirts don’t hold a candle. http://t.co/KpGt8PYJ
I certainly didn’t expect to be awoken at 6 AM every morning by the sound of chainsaws in NYC.
It’s exciting how much data we can now collect & analyze, but simultaneously horrifying when you consider the privacy implications. #hw2012
@mikestable I love how the solution to not manually cleaning the data is to farm it out to Internet peasants.
DEVOPS_BORAT When you are run DROP DATABASE you are have of many problem but Big Data is not of one of them.
A consensus at #hw2012 is the shortage of skilled data scientists; so much data being captured is wasted because it’s not being analyzed.
@ncpolicelogs attended an interesting presentation about building a recidivism risk prediction system for the criminal justice system.
I’ve yet to attend a tech conference that has wireless Internet infrastructure robust enough to handle the load of a thousand geeks. #hw2012
@pmccall777 Don’t think so; I think Drill is a MapR project.
Cloudera announces Impala, a realtime query engine for your Hadoop data. http://t.co/KlEFtcyC
The CIA is recruiting Big Data engineers at #hadoopworld2012
In Manhatten all of 2 minutes and saw a SWAT team raiding the subway. #hadoopworld2012
The TSA agent made today’s body scan opt-out groping quite comfortable and really made me feel like he cared.
Judgenap What if the two-party system was actually a mechanism used to limit so-called public opinion?
At the current rate of growth we’re experiencing in our government & legal system, soon it will be illegal to commit suicide.
RT @rands: Engineers don’t like titles because most titles are lies.
knucklesandwich Ain’t no party like a namenode failover party!!! #hbase
@hoorayimhelping You posted that a minute early, brah.
@mark_a_phelps Email or it didn’t happen.
@emilepetrone Make sure you get it pickled!
@emilepetrone Dayum, so it wasn’t food poisoning, eh?
@MichaelCasp I have to come clean and admit that I’ve been using enhancement drugs. http://t.co/iXiesjf8
@ddahlke I don’t see why not!
It’s not truly a Paleo diet unless you hunt your own food or beat up someone and take theirs.
@carpedurham That DSI event was last month; tonight is a private event at Motorco
@neiltyson More importantly, isn’t there a minimum size of gene pool you’d need to prevent inbreeding from killing off the colony?
TIL 4chan has an API that serves over 50M requests per day. Scariest API ever?
nathanmarz Dear America: there are 3 branches of government. The president isn’t a monarch. You want things fixed? Focus on our dysfunctional Congress.
@gigq True, but he DID break the YouTube record. http://t.co/g6rwhSOf
@hoorayimhelping @pmccall777 @adamrawlings I speculate that my $AAPL will keep going up even though I own 0 Apple products!
ncpolicelogs A 3 hearse collision by the “Carolina Coffin Cruisers” jammed I-77 Sat. Trooper B. Jolly was the first on the scene. http://t.co/guD0SPdn
rands Computer Science Should Be Required in K-12: http://t.co/dEIan6Kr #yup
SUCCESS! Break ALL the records!
RedBullStratos #felixbaumgartner lifts off in a #stratospheric #balloon. photo by @joergmitter @limeximages http://t.co/720j3Uz9
rjurney We are having the first ever Pig NYC meetup at Strata NYC. Failure to attend is likely to result in mediocrity. :( http://t.co/iM9UF4hR
RedBullStratos “Am I afraid heading toward the jump? The opposite. The moment I leap the closer to the safety of Mother Earth” Felix http://t.co/SsXaKJts
Some days I’m a data wizard. Other days I’m a data janitor…
Enforcing stupidly strict password requirements for your web app is a great way to make me leave and never come back.
juliussharpe All your bumper stickers are doing is making people who don’t know you hate you.
Note to self: check helmet for yellow jackets before donning.
@pmccall777 Here’s to hoping that the shock wave from breaking the sound barrier doesn’t rip him in half.
@ameir Isn’t that what people do when they complain of a cracked screen after dropping it?
@mark_a_phelps @hoorayimhelping Seeking RockStar http://t.co/CD0wWwRD guru must also be a UI/UXpert fluent in HTML5, JQuery, & CSS
rands Spending by Apple and Google on patent lawsuits/purchases exceeded spending on R&D of new products: http://t.co/SEtnIOjr
Some scientists expect to cure aging in a matter of decades. I hope others are working on providing resources for faster population growth!
@jefft Here you go: http://t.co/d9CBmHkC
@jefft Well, I was riding my motorcycle and couldn’t tweet until I got off!
One neat aspect of riding a motorcycle is the smells. Like the smell from the folks in the car in front of you who are smoking the reefer.
I buy everything I can from @louisck because he understands how people want to use the Internet to support artists. http://t.co/kILlxcds
Half of my profile photos show me bearded and half are beardless. I’d rather have 50% guaranteed accuracy than waste time updating them all.
@ericboggs I spent $50 through Twitter to promote my @ncpolicelogs account and it earned me ~30 followers. Can’t say I was impressed…
neiltyson Hmm. Obama & Romney spent 22 min on job-creation with hardly a sentence on the seminal role of sci-tech innovation in 21st century economies
@flyosity I made up my mind. http://t.co/VbMjGCzF
Debate Drinking Game: 1) Drink every time a candidate makes a fallacious argument. 2) Drink every time you hear an outright lie. 3) Die.
@jtharp I fill them with the wine I’m making at home. I’ll bring some to the office when it’s ready in December.
Apparently people prefer red wine over white wine: of the 200 wine bottles I’ve collected recently, 170 were dark glass.
“Six dollar footlongs” doesn’t have quite the same ring to it, @subway