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7 Symptoms you are turning into a Hadoop nerd

By Sachin Ghai
1. The color yellow does not click a taxi or school bus any longer in your mind

 2. When the word map is mentioned in conversation, while rest of the world thinks Google Maps, you think of MapReduce

 3. You consider Twitter as sentiment analysis data source rather than social networking site.

 4. When you are watching football, you tend to think of player formations as map reduce nodes

 5. You suddenly realize why Japanese is an efficient language since its written in columns and not rows

 6. You think of 'Fastest finger first' in ‘Who wants to be a millionaire’ as an example of Speculative Execution

 7. You now have an official reason to be unstructured in life - but your mom and wife still don't agree… 

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