There are few things more frustrating than an AWS Hadoop virtual machine that’s supposed to work and doesn’t.

Oh my goodness, now it’s three school shootings in one day. When will this madness end?

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This is disgusting: we have a twofer on school shootings today. When will we say “enough!”? huffingtonpost.com/entry/one-kill… huffingtonpost.com/entry/northern…

Finally someone has a common-sense plan to break gridlock in the House: advertise for a Speaker on Craigslist. talkingpointsmemo.com/livewire/mark-…

Someone has *really* wanted Apple’s stock price to be 110 for the past week…. I suspect someone who sold a big options position.

Been getting compliments on my “Bernie 2016” hat around Boston, except for one person in Financial District who spat “Hillary!” at me.

I saw black smoke coming from the Capital, indicating the House couldn’t elect a Speaker. They’ll remain locked in the Capital until they do

Tablets are making more inroads than the press thinks: after all, they have killed off the Kindle. thebookseller.com/news/waterston…

Facebook: we need big data loads to work every time (not just most of the time), which is why we built Presto Raptor.

Facebook: HDFS just isn’t up to producing consistent predictable loads of very large data sets.