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It is off topic and my (irrelevant) personal preference, but please, pretty pretty please, find something more beneficial to humanity than convincing people to
by ynniv 16y ago
It is off topic and my (irrelevant) personal preference, but please, pretty pretty please, find something more beneficial to humanity than convincing people to purchase things that they don't need. Innovation is exciting when it is about ending a war, or reducing pollution, or creating cheaper energy, or making it easier to find information. Every time people talk about "mining the clickstream to increase ad revenue" I have the temporary urge to abandon computing become a farmer.
kthxbye
- BobbyH 16y agoYou could also use Hadoop to analyze data from, say, a global network of distributed pollution sensors to find factories that are polluting. Anyway, the point I was trying to make is that Hadoop is a nice building block. You could use Hadoop to mine any large data set, my examples were arbitrary.
- mikeklaas 16y agoGreed has done more to improve humanity's standard of living than philanthropy ever will.
- ynniv 16y agoGreed has done more to improve humanity's standard of living than philanthropy ever will. Standard of living, sure. Quality of life... not so much.