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Re:America Lacks Meaningful Innovation by thorwed123 on Friday May 13, 2011 @04:35PM (#2546085)
Hadoop rather mapreduce came from Google which is a great innovation.

Cassandra came from Dynamo; And Dynamo is from Amazons R and D efforts. Btw Amazon is an innovation as it leads to large amount of savings in energy.

Thrift,Tornado,HipHop -> not innovations useful programming tools but not gonna change anything.

Rarely any innovations have come out of Web Applications. In fact the best innovation in data mining [The correct term for Big Data], have come from Universities or R&D efforts of IBM/MSFT/Google/IBM/Amazon.

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Re:America Lacks Meaningful Innovation by william42 on Friday May 13, 2011 @08:16PM (#2546720)
Are you seriously saying that Google and Amazon aren't web application companies?
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Re:America Lacks Meaningful Innovation by aphexairlines on Saturday May 14, 2011 @07:36AM (#2547527)
Amazon is of the web, but it has a big impact dependencies on the physical world as an enormous retail & logistics operation.
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Re:America Lacks Meaningful Innovation by FrojoS on Saturday May 14, 2011 @10:01AM (#2547665)
Sure! The Kindle for instance is one of the greatest pieces of hardware I ever owned.
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Re:America Lacks Meaningful Innovation by rhc2104 on Friday May 13, 2011 @10:36PM (#2547009)
The Open Compute Project produced a data center with a PUE of 1.07, making it far more energy efficient.

Disclaimer: I work for Facebook.

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