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http://xkcd.com/214/ Congrats. You've just automated the whole thing :)

>> Coworkers that are really smart that you can learn from? So how do startups solve this paradox? - founders/current employees are always looking to hire someone better than thems…

yes, see Zepto OS and publications. http://www.mcs.anl.gov/research/projects/zeptoos/

Makes me wonder, can I make that money doing stuff like this? I know systems research is irrelevant and all that (Rob Pike)... AFAIK the last successful operating systems startup w…

Time to invent a new term for 'slashdotted' applied to HN. (Especially since HN seems to drive a lot of referral traffic). Any good suggestions anyone?

Riak.. sounds good! Is this just an implementation of Chord ( http://pdos.csail.mit.edu/chord/ ) with a REST API?

A lot of research went into building group communication tool kits like Spread and Ensemble. Today they are being used in server/cluster environments. I was playing with re-purposi…

I am working on something exactly similar in my free time as a side project. Nothing to show yet, but I am currently playing with rsync to support incremental diff-based syncs. Wil…

Very cool! My wishlist: 1. 360 degree camera (so I can walk in any direction without turning around) 2. 3D vision (in the operator interface!) 3. Wings, jet pack 4. Multiple lasers…

I think user generated tags go a long way in filtering out which stories I'd like to read/explore. (I used to read Slashdot until I found HN a few weeks ago). For now I just use th…

Steve Jobs summed it up in his talk at D8. To approximately quote him from my memory - `Enterprise software is a very different beast; the people who use it don't get to make the d…