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Research at Google
- thenerdfiles 13y agoGood bye, Ivory Tower. You have to stare at terminals like we do now. [=
- chrismonsanto 13y agoWhat does that even mean?
- thenerdfiles 13y agoIt means reproducibility is essential to publication, and reproducibility requires software development.
- dinkumthinkum 13y agoWhat does this mean and what does it have to do with the topic?
- thenerdfiles 13y agohttp://reason.com/archives/2013/11/10/just-say-no-to-college http://reason.com/archives/2013/11/10/just-say-no-to-college
- dinkumthinkum 13y agoI was wondering the same thing.
- tzury 13y agoSo we have got today on HN front page Research from Google, Microsoft and Facebook, nice. Note, there is no Research-Publications at Apple. They do their research secretly and silently.
- threeseed 13y agoNeither does Nike, Samsung, Coke, BMW etc. Apple is a product company. The above are as well but they also deal a lot with raw engineering problems which lend well to being shared and communicated with others.
- selmnoo 13y ago> Neither does Nike, Samsung, Coke, BMW etc. Apple is a product company. Apple is more in line with Microsoft (what with the operating systems and all) than your other examples. Apple should be duly faulted for their closed nature ways in this context.
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- ekianjo 13y agoApple is mainly a software company (outsourcing manufacturing to other partners, while they do the design internally). So I don't really see why they shouldn't share anything about their software/engineering work just like the other companies.
- rimantas 13y agoApple makes software mainly to sell hardware. Does Nike make shoes in their HQ?
- adventured 13y agoThis is not correct. Steve Jobs: "Apple views itself as a software company" http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dEeyaAUCyZs http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dEeyaAUCyZs
- gwu78 13y agoDoes Apple's view of Apple matter more than an objective view of Apple? The Apple Store sure sells a lot of hardware - proprietary hardware, no less - for a "software" company. How much software in the App Store is written by Apple? A "software" company that writes software that only runs on its own proprietary, tamper-resistant hardware? A "software" company that sues competitors not on software copyright infringement but on hardware design patent infringement? Apple might view itself as a software company, but I am quite certain they are still a hardware company. If they were to only sell software and stop selling hardware, then I believe their business would fail.
- jmduke 13y agoEven if it's not entirely altruistic, I'm glad Big Tech has recognized the tremendous value proposition of dedicating resources to pure unabated research. It's a cliche example, but the work of Xerox PARC will outlive the work of Xerox; and if the best way to conjure meaningful research is to throw money at the geniuses, then sign me and my pitching arm up. (Note: I don't mean this as a criticism of Google, Microsoft, or Facebook -- as a company committing themselves and publishing research is unequivocally better than one which doesn't.)
- axaxs 13y agoAbsolutely agree. As "evil" as ATT is now, and obviously not the same company, think about Bell Labs. I honestly don't know howmuch Bell gained from it, but its existence has had a huge impact in various fields. Its works will long outlive the company.
- thenerdfiles 13y agoimport requests from bs4 import BeautifulSoup
- hrasyid 13y agoWhy do we suddenly have all these "Research at XXX" at the same time in the front page?
- samworm 13y agoBecause when an area of a business is reported in a positive light the supporters of other business with similar activities all want to shout "me too". Such is life.