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@eaxitect
1) As mentioned few times here, "cultural variations" can not be handled as such, unless you have a special training on this -which I don't read so -.
2) It's totally a back pusher on applicants, if someone says "I see through you, and tell if you're evil", I say, "no thanks, have a nice day with your corporate culture". Indeed, I'm not considering to apply YC with this attitude. (Therefore, I'm not good, possibly caught by JL-radar)
3) Regarding 2, I think YC became too picky, so they're starting to sound these -nonsense- ideas to cutoff pouring applications.
I miss PG's guidance.
1) Do one thing well - Hadoop is so stacked up because of this (which has pros and cons). Every single component of Hadoop is designed specific to a job (there are many overlapped components, though)
2) Hadoop's main idea is to be data-local, yet this Pachy thing not to be: "Data is POSTed to the container over HTTP and the results are stored back in the file system". Data-locality (almost) always win.
3) There is no scheduler like YARN specified, yet fleet and etcd are not schedulers.
4) You may not like Java or JVM-based things (like I do), but there is no problem of being Java-based or JVM-based.
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I really understand that a startup with scarce resource would like to do its best shot. However as discussed long ago (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2385424), it is really frustrating that asking math puzzles are assumed as the best way to hire the best for the job.
For regular earthlings, RoR, Py, PHP and alike are still more feasible than C for "getting the job done".
But the article's point of view is a bit shallow in that sense, since it's looking a way of replacing conventional frameworks (RoR etc.) for C. If you gonna develop a high-perf application in C, you probably use more wide variety of specialized libraries for focused tasks(like json processing, I18N, handling SSL, developing nginx/HAproxy modules,extensions for load balancing, etc.) rather than using a single "C framework".