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Haifeng's Random Walk

Personal blog · haifengl.wordpress.comdataprogramming

Haifeng's Random Walk is a personal blog at haifengl.wordpress.com about data and programming. Since 2014, 7 different Hacker News readers have linked it 59 times, most often “The Future of Hadoop Is Misty”. The last post was in 2023, but the archive is still widely read.

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7HN people?
2014–2017first – last linked?
Links on Hacker News per year · peak 37 in 2015

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Most-linked posts?

  1. The Future of Hadoop Is Misty
    2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2016-03-03
  2. Less is More, Sometimes
    2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2015-11-24
  3. OCaml: Objects
    2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2014-08-01
  4. Stay in the Game
    2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2015-01-12

What Hacker News says?

  1. haifeng · 2015-03-16

    Submitted OCaml: Objects as a story · 72 points

    HN discussion
  2. haifeng · 2015-03-20

    Submitted OCaml: Polymorphism as a story · 71 points

    HN discussion
  3. mmastrac · 2014-08-16

    Submitted OCaml: Polymorphism as a story · 48 points

    HN discussion
  4. haifeng · 2015-03-23

    Submitted Big Data Analytics: Spark as a story · 13 points

    HN discussion
  5. haifeng · 2015-02-25

    Submitted OCaml: Objects as a story · 10 points

    HN discussion
  6. haifeng · 2015-03-18

    Submitted Big Data Analytics: MapReduce as a story · 9 points

    HN discussion
  7. haifeng · 2016-02-29

    Submitted There is no big data in machine learning as a story · 6 points

    HN discussion
  8. haifeng · 2014-09-02

    Submitted Big Data Analytics: Hive as a story · 6 points

    HN discussion
  9. smaili · 2016-03-11

    Submitted The Future of Hadoop Is Misty as a story · 4 points

    HN discussion
  10. haifeng · 2017-10-30

    Submitted The Future of Hadoop Is Misty as a story · 3 points

    HN discussion
  11. haifeng · 2016-03-03

    Submitted The Future of Hadoop Is Misty as a story · 3 points

    HN discussion
  12. haifeng · 2016-01-25

    Submitted The Other Side of Sharing Economy as a story · 3 points

    HN discussion
  13. haifeng · 2015-10-14

    Submitted Will Automakers Be Doomed by Self-Driving Cars and Car Sharing? as a story · 3 points

    HN discussion
  14. haifeng · 2015-04-07

    Submitted Dynamo and Riak as a story · 3 points

    HN discussion
  15. haifeng · 2015-03-31

    Submitted MapReduce, Dryad, and Tez as a story · 3 points

    HN discussion
  16. haifeng · 2015-03-30

    Submitted Shark and Spark SQL as a story · 3 points

    HN discussion
  17. haifeng · 2014-08-18

    Submitted Big Data Analytics: MapReduce as a story · 3 points

    HN discussion
  18. a0 · 2014-07-22

    Submitted Introduction to a Functional Programming Language OCaml as a story · 3 points

    HN discussion
  19. haifeng · 2017-10-30

    Submitted What’s Wrong with Bitcoin as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  20. haifeng · 2016-10-20

    Submitted Payroll: An Overlooked Area in FinTech as a story · 2 points

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  21. haifeng · 2016-01-21

    Submitted Oracle's Dilemma as a story · 2 points

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  22. haifeng · 2015-11-24

    Submitted Less is More, Sometimes as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  23. haifeng · 2015-04-06

    Submitted HBase and Accumulo as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  24. haifeng · 2015-04-01

    Submitted Hadoop Resource Management: YARN as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  25. haifeng · 2015-03-26

    Submitted Big Data Analytics: Pig as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  26. haifeng · 2015-03-25

    Submitted Without recursion, you are not a real functional programmer as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  27. haifeng · 2015-03-05

    Submitted Google Glass 2.0 wish list as a story · 2 points

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  28. haifeng · 2015-02-17

    Submitted Learn Asynchronous Programming with Starbucks as a story · 2 points

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  29. haifeng · 2014-09-18

    Submitted MapReduce and Beyond as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  30. haifeng · 2014-09-16

    Submitted Big Data Analytics: Shark and Spark SQL as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion

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