Programming
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In this article I digested a number of MapReduce patterns and algorithms to give a systematic view of the different techniques that can be found on the web or scientific articles.
MapReduce Patterns, Algorithms, and Use Cases « Highly Scalable
Course documents available through these Web pages are either plain text files, Postscript files, or PDF (Portable Document Format) files. You can read the latter using Adobe's Acrobat Reader, which is available on the machines in our instructional cluster as the program acroread .
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self improvement - What is the single most effective thing you did to improve your programming skills? - Programmers - Stack Exchange
I always thought of my self as a pretty hot-shot programmer. Then a new guy, call him Aaron, was hired into our team. Aaron was obviously much better than me in most areas.MongoDB Presentations - Python Development with MongoDB
With foursquare's growing popularity, we were fast approaching the point where it would no longer be feasible to store user checkins on a single physical machine. MongoDB's auto-sharding capabilities enabled us to easily transition to a multi-node cluster that will enable us to continue to grow for the foreseeable future.
They're the magic behind a whole bunch of core Python features. When you use dotted access to look up a member (eg, x.y), Python first looks for the member in the instance dictionary.
Hidden features of Python - Stack Overflow
Message Queue Evaluation Notes - Second Life Wiki
One of the infrastructure tools that we've identified for the future internal architecture of Second Life is messaging.
12 resolutions for programmers
Here's a starter list of analog activities to try, each of which takes about a month of dedicated effort to transition out of the novice (and into the seasoned beginner) stage:
