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— It says on your CV you are very quick at maths. 2746 x 8463 ?

— 82736!

— Not even close.

— Yes, but very quick! (same for Big Data)

Unexpected factorial!

Unexpected base 26 factorial!

How do you know it's base 26?

"t" "o" "r" "i" "l" would've exceeded hexadecimal. There were no capitals or numbers, so I just assumed base 26.

I'm sad I only have one upvote to give. Please have it.

I'm a big fan of "Hadoop is a distributed system for counting words."

The Atlassian bit is in equal parts true and depressing.

“Atlassian has somehow duped several software companies into thinking they need JIRA to be agile; if only we all had the agility move in real life.”

Such a good laugh.

The Software AG comment is funny to: “We’re not sure what we do either”

It’s write only performance: it writes to /dev/null.