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    Posted by Michał ‘mina86’ Nazarewicz on 14th of December 2014

    Don’t you hate when you need to do something you had done before, but cannot remember how exactly? I’ve been in that situation several times and sometimes looking up for a correct method turned out considerably harder than it should. To alleviate the need for future Googling, here’s a bag of notes I can reference easily:

    Looking for Python stuff? Those are now in separate post:

    Map-reduce explained

    Posted by Michał ‘mina86’ Nazarewicz on 18th of May 2014

    Outside of functional programming context, map-reduce refers to a technique for processing data. Thanks to properties of map and reduce operations, computations which can be expressed using them can be highly parallelised, which allows for faster processing of high volumes of data.

    If you’ve ever wondered how tools such as Apache Hadoop work, you’re at the right page. In this article I’ll explain what map and reduce are and later also introduce a shuffle phase.

    Slackware post install

    Posted by Michał ‘mina86’ Nazarewicz on 25th of January 2014

    Same as my previous article written in Polish, this text will describe some steps I take after installing Slackware Linux. I try to strike a balance between performance, security and usability, but not everything written here may work for everyone. You have been warned.