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Sat, 30 Nov 2013 23:36:12 +0000

Puff, Pant! THAT was not easy! But finally, “normality” seems not too far away.

Many things have happened in the recent months: we got married; I helped my lovely wife with the pregnancy (well, she did all the hard work); and, on the 7th of November, we have became parents of this beauty:

Leonardo Antonio DE MARINO-SIMOLA

Now, we have to slowly learn to live our new life together: while we learn how to be parents, Leonardo will be learning how to be a baby. What now looks like a difficult, consuming and intense task (ask me how much we sleep at night!), will at some point become “daily routine”. A sweeter routine with Leo at the center of it all!

New Job. New Blog. New Life(?)

Wed, 08 Sep 2010 17:33:23 +0000

A lot is changing in my life. I’m getting older, I’m getting wiser, I’m getting “stupider” (like it was even possible :-P ).

New Job

Last Friday (3rd of Sep 2010) I left Orange Labs UK. After 2 years and 2 months, my work at this the UK branch of France Telecom R&D is over.

I have been involved in a number of projects with various degrees of commitment: some full time, some to land a hand, some to just criticise and make fun of colleagues (just kidding: it was more like trying to shutdown wasteful project branching and focusing on the good targets :-P ).

A new, even bigger City

Sun, 15 Jun 2008 11:35:28 +0000

After a year and a couple of months I’m going to leave Symbian Software Ltd. (London). It has been a very good experience as my first job in [en:UK]: a way to grow mainly, first as a [en:Man], then as a [en:Software Engineer]… and then professionally in general.

A lot of interesting, inspiring, intelligent people (and a lot of NOT), that showed me “their way”: I took where it was worth it, not where it wasn’t… and left where I was able to.

Jigsaw 04

Wed, 04 Jun 2008 23:28:19 +0000

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Sono esterrefatto. Avete lo spirito di osservazione di un Iguana Argentina Estinta. Dove sono Il Bradipo o Nemo (lo so dove e’, don’t worry) o Il Biondo. Insomma, gli intelligenti?

Jigsaw 03

Wed, 04 Jun 2008 17:30:04 +0000

اعجاب مدى التعقيد هي القيام 02 (01) لك!

PS Tra poco, pure chi non capisce l’Italiano risolve questo Enigma.

Jigsaw 02

Tue, 03 Jun 2008 21:42:19 +0000

How Google works

Thu, 17 Apr 2008 22:47:10 +0000

I was looking for info about [en:MapReduce] and I thought that would have been a good idea to take a look at the Tech Talks published by Google. Here we go.

Title: 2007 Seattle Conference on Scalability: MapReduce Used on Large Geographic Data Sets Location: Google Tech Talks June 23, 2007 Speaker: Barry Brumitt, Google Inc. Abstract: MapReduce is a programming model and library designed to simplify distributed processing of huge datasets on large clusters of computers. This is achieved by providing a general mechanism which largely relieves the programmer from having to handle challenging distributed computing problems such as data distribution, process coordination, fault tolerance, and scaling. While working on Google maps, I’ve used MapReduce extensively to process and transform datasets which describe the earth’s geography. In this talk, I’ll introduce MapReduce, demonstrating its broad applicability through example problems ranging from basic data transformation to complex graph processing, all the in the context of geographic data.