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Steve Yegge, "What Would You Do With Your Own Google?" - OSCON Data 2011

O'Reilly · 66.1K views · 2011-07-26 · 15:05

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Steve Yegge's OSCON Data 2011 talk imagines what you could do with Google-scale storage and compute a decade later. He argues smart people should work on hard problems such as biology rather than cat pictures, and the talk ends with a moment many took as him quitting Google.

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Cited for its critique of talent wasted on social media and for the data-mining-for-biology argument, plus the around-14-minute quitting moment.

Recommended by 1 HN people across 1 months · HN mentions 2011–2016

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shoeless · 2011-10 · Recommendation

I recommend watching Steve Yegge's excellent presentation at O'Reilly's OSCON Data. He points out a number of books in the video, but in general this is an excellent talk about preparing to solve hard problems in bio. [VIDEO]

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betolink · 2016-01 · Reference

This is getting serious here in southern Mexico, we just had a chikungunya outbreak a year ago and now this. These situations remind me of a talk given at Oscon Data by Steve Yegge about working on the things that matter[0]. Virus are complex and modelling molecular biology requires CS expertise, it's kind of sad that we're normally discussing the new JS frameworks instead of working on the hard(and important)problems. [0] [VIDEO]

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jrs235 · 2014-03 · Reference

Like cat picture projects. Interesting how people think the OP story is real and many people mistakeningly think Steve Yegge quit Google (he just quit the project). [LINK] [VIDEO]

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