lessthunk

Yahoo is dying slowly.

I think the article is a bit simplistic;

There are different types of skills -- and if you can combine them, you are the 10 to 100x times person;

Understand the business problem, and then have enough tech skill to solve it and you can move mountains. Most managers know neither the business domain, nor the technology, which makes it even harder.

Like in everything in life, 90 to 95% is BS.

a funny way to look at regulation; how arrogant!

What are your main motivations to use GNU Hurd? Not wanting to troll, fishing for a link for good background reading

Reddit has a much wider user-base. I guess most of us on hn have a tech background.

I wonder what the performance impact is.

Why do young students no longer learn C? Don't you want to be closer to the underlying OS?

Politicians are too short sighted, always protecting the status quo.

We should all help promote the use for Tor!

Too many companies do 'big data', as it's currently a hype.

In most cases hadoop is total overkill -- developers don't understand how to reduce problems, might have never heard of sampling, good data-structures, know your problem, etc.

For sure, there are valid use scenarios for map reduce/hadoop, etc. but in many cases it's a big waste of money.

as a Ph.D. I agree with the title

We should all support new innovation. Governments don't build, they most of the time get in the way.

poverty is a mega trend that will cause revolutions if not fixed;

Excited! Let's see how it performs.

A picture says more than a 1000 words;