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Is it Pokémon or big data technology?

140 points by RainforestCx 12y ago

LiroXIV 12y ago
I saw through the smokescreen of Staravia's Japanese name, at least.
burke 12y ago
> hadoop is a big data system for counting words
- shoma 12y ago
  To all appearances, Hadoop Pig is pokemon.
- andrewguenther 12y 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 12y 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 https://github.com/twitter/scalding#word-count
mmanfrin 12y ago
Having grown up with pokemon and being a tech worker, I am a little appalled at how many of these I got wrong.
- lucb1e 12y ago
  Ditto. I still got all the gen one Pokémon, but the rest was a failure.
  - dyselon 12y ago
    Ditto is one I recognize. That one is definitely a Pokemon.
    - lucb1e 12y ago
      Ha! Glad someone saw my pun ;-)
ChrisGaudreau 12y ago
I got 2 wrong. Disclaimer: I created the (currently) most popular browser-based Pokemon fan game. So it's pretty sad.
- ephemeralgomi 12y 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 12y ago
  > I bring shame upon famiry. Just because it's a meme doesn't make it right.
  - angersock 12y ago
    Eh, still chuckled. Consider the accent affected by #BigDataBorat...
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joeframbach 12y 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%202014-05-01%2018.14.46.png 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.
- ephemeralgomi 12y 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 12y ago
  Or use them in the wrong alphabet! ピカ中とか。。。
- slavik81 12y ago
  Romanized would be a better description than americanized. Rōmaji is not just about America.
  - joeframbach 12y ago
    Sorry I did not know any of this terminology.
Rangi42 12y 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 12y ago
What's with the hashtag?
- wingerlang 12y 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 12y ago
Company names, product names, code names...they are neither more nor less strange or meaningless in #bigdata than anywhere else.
guiomie 12y 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 12y 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 12y 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 12y ago
  See "Broken by Design: MongoDB Fault Tolerance" http://hackingdistributed.com/2013/01/29/mongo-ft/ http://hackingdistributed.com/2013/01/29/mongo-ft/
advm 12y 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 http://www.solarflare.com/Flareon-Server-Adapters [2] http://bulbapedia.bulbagarden.net/wiki/Flareon http://bulbapedia.bulbagarden.net/wiki/Flareon
hardwaresofton 12y 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 12y ago
I thought about naming a project rapidash before realizing what I've done.
RodrigoAyala 12y 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.
- masklinn 12y 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 12y ago
  > someone that's learning with this ...that person better not exist.
waterhouse 12y ago
Similarly, "Startup or Pokemon?": http://evilbrainjono.net/pages/startup-or-pokemon.py 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%20pokemon http://hn.algolia.com/#!/story/forever/prefix/0/startup%20or...
ipsin 12y ago
I was expecting a summary of right/wrong at the end!
- masklinn 12y ago
  There's global stats, though they may well be fake: https://twitter.com/BigDataBorat/status/457657512011898880 https://twitter.com/BigDataBorat/status/457657512011898880 Summary "Tokutek is database most likely confuse as Pokémon"
Frozenlock 12y ago
We all know that only the first 150 (151?) pokémons are the true pokémons.
gaurav_godhwani 12y ago
Pure Fun to play :D
pimlottc 12y ago
I was waiting for a trick question of a real bigdata project named after a pokemon character.

140 points by RainforestCx 12y ago

LiroXIV 12y ago

I saw through the smokescreen of Staravia's Japanese name, at least.

burke 12y ago

> hadoop is a big data system for counting words

shoma 12y ago
To all appearances, Hadoop Pig is pokemon.
andrewguenther 12y 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 12y 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 https://github.com/twitter/scalding#word-count

mmanfrin 12y ago

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

lucb1e 12y ago
Ditto. I still got all the gen one Pokémon, but the rest was a failure.
- dyselon 12y ago
  Ditto is one I recognize. That one is definitely a Pokemon.
  - lucb1e 12y ago
    Ha! Glad someone saw my pun ;-)

ChrisGaudreau 12y ago

I got 2 wrong. Disclaimer: I created the (currently) most popular browser-based Pokemon fan game. So it's pretty sad.

ephemeralgomi 12y 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 12y ago
> I bring shame upon famiry. Just because it's a meme doesn't make it right.
- angersock 12y ago
  Eh, still chuckled. Consider the accent affected by #BigDataBorat...

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joeframbach 12y 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%202014-05-01%2018.14.46.png 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.

ephemeralgomi 12y 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 12y ago
Or use them in the wrong alphabet! ピカ中とか。。。
slavik81 12y ago
Romanized would be a better description than americanized. Rōmaji is not just about America.
- joeframbach 12y ago
  Sorry I did not know any of this terminology.

Rangi42 12y 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 12y ago

What's with the hashtag?

wingerlang 12y 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 12y ago

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

guiomie 12y 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 12y 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 12y 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 12y ago
See "Broken by Design: MongoDB Fault Tolerance" http://hackingdistributed.com/2013/01/29/mongo-ft/ http://hackingdistributed.com/2013/01/29/mongo-ft/

advm 12y 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 http://www.solarflare.com/Flareon-Server-Adapters [2] http://bulbapedia.bulbagarden.net/wiki/Flareon http://bulbapedia.bulbagarden.net/wiki/Flareon

hardwaresofton 12y 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 12y ago

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

RodrigoAyala 12y 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.

masklinn 12y 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 12y ago
> someone that's learning with this ...that person better not exist.

waterhouse 12y ago

Similarly, "Startup or Pokemon?": http://evilbrainjono.net/pages/startup-or-pokemon.py 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%20pokemon http://hn.algolia.com/#!/story/forever/prefix/0/startup%20or...

ipsin 12y ago

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

masklinn 12y ago
There's global stats, though they may well be fake: https://twitter.com/BigDataBorat/status/457657512011898880 https://twitter.com/BigDataBorat/status/457657512011898880 Summary "Tokutek is database most likely confuse as Pokémon"

Frozenlock 12y ago

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

gaurav_godhwani 12y ago

Pure Fun to play :D

pimlottc 12y ago

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