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by mrflip 15y ago
By the way, the majority of the code that powers our platform is open-source: check out Ironfan at http://github.com/infochimps-labs/ironfan and the full suite at http://infochimps.com/labs Would love any early feedback on the documenta
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by mrflip 15y ago
The foursquare venue comes in from the firehose, so we have information on venues that have seen recent checkins. Thus the coverage (though imperfect) is best for venues that are most popular. If that doesn't meet your needs please get in t
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by mrflip 16y ago
Much easier to configure and install. * You get Pig, Wukong and Dumbo out of the box. Don't learn Java hadoop, use one of those. * Standardized setup which really helps if you have to seek IRC or other outside help * Reasonable default para
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by mrflip 16y ago
DrawnToScale, Infochimps and Cloudera are having a [Hadoop on Chef on Cloud] hack day this Monday before the Hadoop Summit. Holler (@mrflip) if you're interested in the hack day, or if you'll be at Hadoop Summit and want a demo. We've been
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by mrflip 17y ago
A testament to the #ruby community: http://bit.ly/whymir In 2 days _why's projects all recovered and 15/23 have new maintainers. Ongoing progress will be posted at http://whymirror.github.com/
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by mrflip 17y ago
http://github.com/whymirror/poignantguide/tree/master
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by mrflip 17y ago
I've merged yours to be the head of whymirror/camping, and made you admin. Thanks for carrying the torch!
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by mrflip 17y ago
I've set up a mirror of re-forks of his repos at http://github.com/whymirror This isn't anything super-scientific, I just forked the first google hit for site:github.com "fork of why/THISREPO" -- http://bit.ly/whyrepo Still missing: gre
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by mrflip 18y ago
This is great stuff. Will get it into infochimps on the next update.
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by mrflip 18y ago
There's largely no such thing as "closed source" data. Many of the restrictions people claim on publicly distributed data are bogus: you cannot claim copyright on a comprehensive collection of facts. http://www.iusmentis.com/databases/us/
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by mrflip 18y ago
Hey! That's me &co., yay. Our goal is to build the best free repository of data on the web, like a 'flickr for datasets' or the almanac to wikipedia's encyclopedia. There's some similar, excellent work being done by numbrary.com, swiv