Googler’s Excuse for Slacking Off
Image of the Day December 24th, 2007 - By Haochi
“The #1 Googler excuse for legitimately slacking off. - My mapreduce is running ___ .” I think “slow” goes into the blank, but it could be something else though. In case you wonder, MapReduce is a programming model Google used to processe and generate large data sets that are often over 100+ terabytes.
UPDATE: The excuse is actually just “My mapreduce is running”, in reference to this xkcd comic. Ahh, very clever… [thanks Googler Rory]
[photo by Googler Ellen Spertus, used under a CC-license]
December 24th, 2007 at 8:02 pm
I suspect there is no other word. It’s just, “My map reduce is running.” The poster looks like a derivation of the XKCD comic on the same theme, where a programmer’s excuse for slacking off is, “My code is compiling.”