Is it Pokémon or big data technology?

https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1kckcq_uv8dk9-W5rIdtqRwCHN4Uh209ELPUjTEZJDxc/viewform

by RainforestCx • 12 years ago

140 37 12 years ago

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burke• 12 years ago

hadoop is a big data system for counting words

shoma• 12 years ago

To all appearances, Hadoop Pig is pokemon.

andrewguenther• 12 years ago

I have to admit, this made me laugh out loud. For those who don't know, the word counting example is the "Hello, World" of Map/Reduce.

MasterScrat• 12 years ago

They probably took it from the Twitter Scalding readme:

"Hadoop is a distributed system for counting words."

https://github.com/twitter/scalding#word-count

mmanfrin• 12 years ago

Having grown up with pokemon and being a tech worker, I am a little appalled at how many of these I got wrong.

lucb1e2• 12 years ago

Ditto. I still got all the gen one Pokémon, but the rest was a failure.

dyselon• 12 years ago

Ditto is one I recognize. That one is definitely a Pokemon.

ChrisGaudreau• 12 years ago

I got 2 wrong.

Disclaimer: I created the (currently) most popular browser-based Pokemon fan game. So it's pretty sad.

ephemeralgomi2• 12 years ago

If it's Showdown (which, given your description, it must be) then I love you. /dex was incredibly helpful when wending my way through Battle Maison.

panarky• 12 years ago

I bring shame upon famiry.

Just because it's a meme doesn't make it right.

angersock• 12 years ago

Eh, still chuckled.

Consider the accent affected by #BigDataBorat...

joeframbach2• 12 years ago

I have a living pokedex in Y (718 in PC, one of each). I thought I knew my pokemon. This one is called Avalugg, not Crebase. https://www.dropbox.com/s/1puw4bgdtw3hyye/Screenshot%202014-...

Using the americanized Japanese names is not right. Either use the native Japanese names in the correct alphabet, or use the English translated names.

ephemeralgomi2• 12 years ago

Same here (although my living dex has since been deposited in Bank). I was super psyched to take this quiz and then was immediately disappointed by the first question. Too bad, coulda been funny.

jrockway• 12 years ago

Or use them in the wrong alphabet! ピカ中とか。。。

slavik81• 12 years ago

Romanized would be a better description than americanized. Rōmaji is not just about America.

joeframbach2• 12 years ago

Sorry I did not know any of this terminology.

Rangi42• 12 years ago

The first one, "Crebase", turned out to be a Pokemon, but that's its Japanese name (クレベース); it's Avalugg in English, which sounds a lot less like actual technologies like Couchbase or Graphbase.

bookface• 12 years ago

What's with the hashtag?

wingerlang• 12 years ago

Maybe they are implying that "big data" is trendy at the moment? As far as I've seen on HN over the last year or so, lots of people are talking about what is and what is not big data.

Or the company who made the post uses #bigdata on twitter. In case you missed the "if you got 100% send us your resume" on the last page.

danbruc• 12 years ago

Company names, product names, code names...they are neither more nor less strange or meaningless in #bigdata than anywhere else.

guiomie• 12 years ago

"Tokutek claim to improve MongoDB performance 20x. Unclear if this also mean lose 20x as many documents." ... ahaha .

Can anyone elaborate why he said so?

StavrosK• 12 years ago

My experience with MongoDB (granted, this was five years ago) was with it losing half my dataset for no particular reason, so I can certainly relate with the quote (and found it very funny).

venomsnake• 12 years ago

Mongo got a bad rap a few years ago about taking somewhat liberal stance about the integrity of the data stored inside and during sharding/replication.

There were personal accounts about lots of lost/corrupted data.

epsylon• 12 years ago

See "Broken by Design: MongoDB Fault Tolerance"

http://hackingdistributed.com/2013/01/29/mongo-ft/

advm• 12 years ago

I was kind of hoping to see Flareon[1,2] included, even if it is not #bigdata per se.

[1] http://www.solarflare.com/Flareon-Server-Adapters

[2] http://bulbapedia.bulbagarden.net/wiki/Flareon

hardwaresofton• 12 years ago

I really hope this is a precursor for a big-data type breakdown post of how people responded to this survey. Would make for a great follow up

deadghost• 12 years ago

I thought about naming a project rapidash before realizing what I've done.

RodrigoAyala• 12 years ago

"Hadoop is distributed system for counting words"??? Really?

Yeah, indeed it's funny (because I know about Hadoop), but for someone that's learning with this, it could be taken as a serious statement.

masklinn2• 12 years ago

The final page says that if you got them all right you should apply to Big Data Borat Labs. If you're learning from this, you're an idiot (or a genius, the line is thin).

stonogo• 12 years ago

someone that's learning with this

...that person better not exist.

waterhouse• 12 years ago

Similarly, "Startup or Pokemon?":

http://evilbrainjono.net/pages/startup-or-pokemon.py

Which appears to have been submitted thrice in the past: http://hn.algolia.com/#!/story/forever/prefix/0/startup%20or...

ipsin• 12 years ago

I was expecting a summary of right/wrong at the end!

masklinn2• 12 years ago

There's global stats, though they may well be fake: https://twitter.com/BigDataBorat/status/457657512011898880

Summary "Tokutek is database most likely confuse as Pokémon"

Frozenlock• 12 years ago

We all know that only the first 150 (151?) pokémons are the true pokémons.

gaurav_godhwani• 12 years ago

Pure Fun to play :D

pimlottc• 12 years ago

I was waiting for a trick question of a real bigdata project named after a pokemon character.

Is it Pokémon or big data technology?

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