But it will make mistakes," she says. "Hadoop will probably get us from a hundred thousand buildings down to, like, five thousand."
"So we're down to five days instead of five years."
"Wrong!" Kat says. "Because guess what--we have ten thousand friends. It's called"--she clicks a tab triumphantly and fat yellow letters appear on the screen--"Mechanical Turk. Instead of sending jobs to computers, like Hadoop, it sends jobs to real people. Lots of them. Mostly Estonians."
She commands King Hadoop and ten thousand Estonian footmen. She is unstoppable.
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They say Shakespeare invented the internal monologue."
Oh, I am very familiar with the internal monologue.
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Hadoop! I love the sound of it. Kat Potente, you and I will have a son, and we will name him Hadoop, and he will be a great warrior, a king!
Robin SloanAmerica pays defense contractors to build aircraft carriers. Google pays brilliant programmers to do whatever the hell they want.
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The thinnest tendrils of dawn are creeping in from the east. People in New York are softly starting to tweet.
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I sit up straight and do the first thing a person is supposed to do in an emergency, which is send a text message.
Robin SloanTags: emergencies texting
Have they all bought Kindles? I have one, and I use it most nights. I always imagine the books staring and whispering, Traitor! - but come on, I have a lot of free first chapters to get through.
Robin SloanTags: kindle
[...] We keep a record for every member, and for every customer who might yet become a member, in order to track their work." He paused, then added, "Some of them are working very hard indeed."
"What are they doing?"
"My boy," he said, eyebrows raised. As if nothing could be more obvious: "They are reading.
I've never listened to an audiobook before, and I have to say it's a totally different experience. When you read a book, the story definitely takes place in your head. When you listen, it seems to happen in a little cloud all around it, like a fuzzy knit cap pulled down over your eyes
Robin SloanTags: audiobooks
All the secrets of the world worth knowing are hiding in plain sight.
Robin SloanTags: secrets
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