Build What Had Previously Not Been Possible

Re:Build What Had Previously Not Been Possible by ynniv on Friday August 06, 2010 @01:19PM (#1581635)

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

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Re:Build What Had Previously Not Been Possible by BobbyH on Friday August 06, 2010 @01:43PM (#1581716)

You 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.

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Re:Build What Had Previously Not Been Possible by mikeklaas on Friday August 06, 2010 @06:04PM (#1582435)

Greed has done more to improve humanity's standard of living than philanthropy ever will.

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Re:Build What Had Previously Not Been Possible by ynniv on Friday August 06, 2010 @08:45PM (#1582793)

Greed has done more to improve humanity's standard of living than philanthropy ever will.

Standard of living, sure. Quality of life... not so much.

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