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Emperors, kings, they always have the last word.

After dazzling Taunton, Richards moved briefly to Wales to light up Glamorgan days. On strike to Malcolm Marshall in a county match in Swansea, something disturbed him. He pulled away with a regal sense of theatre and then walked - if we can call it that with Viv - down the pitch, past Marshall, past the umpire and towards the many steep and famous steps that brought pain or pleasure to the climb of returning batsmen. Suddenly, in no man’s land, he stopped. “Hey you, you, yes you,” he shouted with withering accusation to an alarmed spectator above the sightscreen, who was idly thumbing the pages of the Daily Telegraph. “You got David Gower at slip, Robin Smith in the gully, Malcolm Marshall is bowling to Vivian Richards, and you reading the effing newspaper!”

• My favorite cricket writer Mark Nicholas about Vivian Richards

(Source: espncricinfo.com)

Map Reduce a Local File?

Here is what I want to do. I have a large data file (more than 50GB), I run scripts to get some numbers out of it.

A traditional script looks at the file in a sequential order and performs some operation. Making it multi-threaded does not help much as the file is accessed sequentially, and the threads will be blocked on it. Also writing such a multi threaded program is very painful.

Is there way I can load the file at different offsets, load it in chunks basically and process the chunks individually. Rather perform Mapper and Reducer Jobs, on a local file without the hoopla of Hadoop - Hadoop without the network.

Does this make sense, or am I bat shit crazy. Are there any tools which allow me to do this?

It is better to be a human being dissatisfied than a pig satisfied; better to be a Socrates dissatisfied than a fool satisfied. And if the fool or the pig thinks otherwise, it is because they have no experience of the better part.

—JOHN STUART MILL, Utilitarianism

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