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>thousands of ideas Yeah me too. It’s a curse... wish I could focus on just one more often. Things I’ve “invented” in my mind only include mesh networking in 1
by natch 6y ago
>thousands of ideas
Yeah me too. It’s a curse... wish I could focus on just one more often. Things I’ve “invented” in my mind only include mesh networking in 1997 (people thought I was crazy... why would someone share their bandwidth?). Actually submitted that one internally to a company that had the wherewithal and positioning to do it, a multi billion dollar idea, and they said “nope.” That company is now barely a wisp of a shadow of the behemoth it once was.
I’m of the school of thought that it’s the doing that counts, and I respect it when someone brings things past a finish line.
Anyway nice that you’ve found a fun and rewarding outlet for some of yours.
- LoSboccacc 6y agosame, I wrote a nosql in 2004 it used XML on the api because json wasn't even a thing back then and I didn't even realize it was innovative it just felt the right solution for a customer's problem
- hedora 6y agoI did the same and invented MapReduce a few years before the Google paper. I had a different fault tolerance model because the programs only needed a half dozen machines to run to completion, but the programing model was the same. It was so obviously the only way to handle datasets larger than RAM that I assumed it was common knowledge. I reinvented database query execution engines and an informal relational algebra on top of SQL a few years later. That thing was basically a JSON service API, except it used a home grown XML RPC layer (it was closer to modern approaches than the XML RPC standards being pushed at the time). Since then, I’ve developed an appreciation for good marketing people.