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tech related theia - a visual tool for diagnosing hadoop issues a nice quick paper with a use of D3 for presentation. the tail at scale i’ve been recommending this to anyone who will sit still long enough to listen to me on this stuff. there’s some really interesting 2nd order networking effects from this paper. perhaps not of interest to the majority of enterprise folks, but if you’re a member of the “crap is better and moar iterations” school of thought … breathe deeply....

for personal reference and in the off chance it saves someone else the maze of twisty passages all alike i went through. ...

we just got back from two weeks in italy where we stayed in apartments through airbnb as opposed to our usual hotel hopping. as someone who spends a ton of time in hotels for the man this was a notable departure from business usual and something that we enjoyed immensely. this definitely puts a different twist on the personal travel experience almost all of it for the better. ...

we’re wrapping up a couple weeks of holiday and one of the things that this always prompts is a bit of introspection about what’s useful and what’s not useful. of particular interest to me is culling cruft which brings me no value in terms of actionable information sources or things which manifest themselves as generating todo load. one of these sources for potential todo or mental load is the unread figure in my RSS reader....

the nice thing about linux and the let a thousand flowers bloom mode of operation is the explosion of different init replacements you have to choose from. ...