It does exhaustive searches of all combinations of months in which you can take actions, but thanks to modern computing power and careful programming, our Maximize My Social Security program can run through millions upon millions of combinations of decisions incredibly fast.

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This opens the power of Hadoop to a much wider audience than if traditional MapReduce programming in Java or other such languages is required.

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Semmelhack, 42, founded a company called Bug Labs two years ago to shift power toward the average Joe, or at least a Joe with programming skills.

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Thirdly, as Netflix tries to push for original programming it may face resistance from pay-TV service providers who have good spending power and might see Netflix as a threat rather than a complement.

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The task has been set by Japan's second largest mobile phone provider, KDDI, which wants its customers to soon be able to use special television programming on their handsets, and has asked the two electronics companies to come up with a better power source.

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