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Comment by grenran | Hacker News Reader

Walking to the store is faster than catching a plane

I believe the point of the article is that people seem to have a poor intuition for when it’s appropriate to choose the plane over walking.

I assume this is mocking the article as obvious, but it starts from someone using Hadoop to process 1.75GB of data.

The default advice is that you should catch a plane to go anywhere, and the author is showing why you should walk.

1.75 GB of data is going to the supermarket down a street with a plane still. Hell, perhaps just to the fridge. It is nowhere near big data when a 10 years old low-end phone can hold it in memory.

Yes, that's the point I was trying to make, could have phrased it better.

But it's hard to get investors to give you hundreds of millions of dollars to buy tennis shoes, easier to get it for a Gulfstream

But if you're going to keep adding destinations and going to them, an airport is a better idea.

Depends if it's just another store within walking distance. I think the gist of the GP comment was that they use a big tool for a small job. Many small jobs don't make the big tool any more useful.

Of course, there are uses.

But if you have many jobs that you have to maintain and run, standardizing the tool and workflow is really helpful.

might depend on the distance between destinations

Fine. Maybe a bus or taxi service.

But standardizing helps and hadoop and other tools provides that.

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