kahseng

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   by kahseng 18y ago

   I agree with the reasoning. However, more from a hacker's point of view, wouldn't you rather hide the implementation details of your email system you use behind something that you know will stand the test of time? For example, if gmail were
2. 122.▲
   by kahseng 18y ago

   Why don't you get your own email address @stormpulse.com instead of gmail?
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   by kahseng 18y ago

   Sell it to tipjoy :)
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   by kahseng 18y ago

   I did think of that, but I realized that there wasn't too much additional value because map-reduce can be run cheaply enough on Hadoop clusters via EC2. I wonder if there are other ideas that this would open up.
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   by kahseng 18y ago

   Indeed, but I'm being realistic here. This isn't just a hypothetical "wouldn't it be nice if...".
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   Ask HN: What would you do if you had access to a supercomputer for a week?

   4 points by kahseng 18y ago|10 comments