2013/1/3 Tim Starling <tstarl...@wikimedia.org>: > On 03/01/13 16:09, George Herbert wrote: >> Laugh all you want, but the best man at my wedding's scalable P2P in >> the cloud company was acquired by Adobe, then he was poached by Skype >> who were poached by Microsoft, and now he's a Very Senior Architect >> spending most of his time flying around the world to far-flung >> offices, architecting and implementing scalable P2P in the cloud. > > Flying sucks. Time spent flying should be a measure of failure, not > success. > > Anyway, I wouldn't go so far as to deny the existence of > petabyte-sized data sets, or to deny that some organisations derive > value from being able to pass them through CPUs in a reasonable amount > of time. I merely question the value of a mailing list post that says > "hey, big data, we should do that".
Which is not, as far as I understood, what Pine said. I read "Hey, big data, cool topic, interesting articles for who may be interested follow. No action needed." So what's the point of all this sarcasm? (note: rhetoric question, you should not need to answer this). We all know that our problems lie elsewhere, and as far as I am concerned I think that the topic of "Wikimedia and Big Data" is only a great opportunity for anyone who is interested. That said, Pine, thank you for the interesting reading. Cristian _______________________________________________ Wikimedia-l mailing list Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l