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This GIF is both (a) an imitation-Apple ][-screenshot and (b) valid, compilable C code for Hunt The Wumpus. amazing! it reads: “COMPILE THIS FLAG: gcc -no-integrated-cpp -DGIF89a=”char *s=\”” -x c -W flag.gif”
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covering MapReduce, GFS, and — a new one to me — Global Work Queue: ‘like old-time batch processing .. schedules queries into batch jobs and places them on pools of machines. The setup is optimized for running random computations over tons of data.’
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more info on the Google backend systems
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milk crates hold special status down under — this is excellent
