wsmith

Sometimes I feel there's an inverse correlation between the strength of claims for the future and the end result.

> I had hit a ceiling in terms of what I was learning and I got bored, to be totally honest.

I wish more companies understood how common this is.

I also liked how you didn't investigate the idea of Kickstarter that much. I've heard other people say this too about good work they've done, that they fell into things. It makes me wonder if we're paying attention to the right signs before making decisions.

Which signs do you pay attention to now?

If a programming language wants to stay fast it must eventually become a database. I realize this is an unpopular opinion but popularity is the wrong metric to judge by.

If so, he deserves to be applauded. There are things a founder/CEO has to do you can't say.

I wonder how long it will take before C++ accidentally becomes a Lisp.

For the kinds of processing both Spark and MemSQL do (e.g. join operation) is Spark faster than MemSQL?

How much does a month's premium data subscription cost?

I once also used an obscure, powerful language to solve a very common problem. The language helped me think better and I was able to find a simpler solution than the solution non-obscure, less powerful languages had found.

Maybe what to look for in a language isn't obscurity but power.

It would be absurd to suggest that women’s votes will be taken away or that this would solve the political problems that vex us.

So true.