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Shouldn't users really be the ones to decide who gets to show their listings? Maybe they want their listings shown on PM as well as CL. Or maybe they don't.

I'd like to be able to buy a laptop-sized retina display, without the Macbook. Something that I could hook up to any other computer. Now that would be useful.

Can you show me where I said: "all programmers at Google" "amazed" "world-changing ideas" What I see are your words, not mine. Yet they are attributed to me. If this is an "argumen…

Right. I would say it's more about execution. For that Google gets full credit. And I do find the execution impressive. The mediocrity line is my opinion. Not necessarily fact. Dow…

Because you consider a problem to be "hard" and because someone else has proferred a solution that previously was not obvious to you does not lead me to the conclusion that map-red…

Sorry, but applying an old concept to a new problem (actually just new buzzwords... it's only the size of the problem that's new) does not make a "novel" solution. Moreover, it's a…

The thing is that "MapReduce" is a concept that was in practice, e.g. by LISP programmers, long, long before Google rediscovered it. Much like Google's many acquisitions that the p…

I call hypocrisy here. I've seen this guy on a news program and he was almost jumping out of his seat about "inanimate" gadgets. "Why would someone take time out of his day to..." …

You fail to see the human element in this. I guess that's not something they teach at your b-school. There is nothing inherently wrong in filing patent applications and building po…