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This is insane. Why does guy who digs a hole and sell's oil need to care about high tech?!

• pjc50 10y ago
  Oil industry is extremely high-tech.
  • oh_sigh 10y ago
    Nah, don't you know that the oil industry is just digging holes. Real high-tech is working on hard problems like how to deliver grilled cheese sandwiches
    • Aloha 10y ago
      Artisanal, organic, locally sourced, (and optionally) vegan and gluten free grilled cheese sandwiches.
      • bzbarsky 10y ago
        Organic and gluten free oil should not be too hard. Locally sourced is pretty location-dependent. Artisanal may take more work; whether one considers petroleum vegan is an interesting philosophical question. I sense a business opportunity here; perhaps artisanal, organic, locally sourced oil sandwiches?
        • pjc50 10y ago
          Drill an artesian well and hope that nobody notices the spelling?
          • Aloha 10y ago
            can confirm; am writing business plan and looking for seed funding ;-D.
  • toyg 10y ago
    High tech but often as cheap as stallholders. I did tech support for one big firm at some point, and their IT was shockingly old. I asked why and was told that's how you shave profits in lean years -- which is fair enough. When you've been around as long as these guys have been, your priorities probably don't include "being fashionably high-tech".
• saryant 10y ago
  Chevron operates one of the world's largest Hadoop clusters.
  • mooreds 10y ago
    http://hadoopilluminated.com/hadoop_illuminated/Hadoop_Use_Cases.html#d1575e1632 http://hadoopilluminated.com/hadoop_illuminated/Hadoop_Use_C... a link for the unbelievers
• Apocryphon 10y ago
  https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9442637 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9442637