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Leaving Twitter
- niggler 14y agoI hate to be that guy, but who is Nathan Marz?
- dpritchett 14y agoOne of the more commercially successful figures in the Clojure world. Early employee of a YC company (Backtype) with a successful exit to Twitter. [1] http://www.crunchbase.com/company/backtype http://www.crunchbase.com/company/backtype [2] https://github.com/nathanmarz/storm https://github.com/nathanmarz/storm
- jgrahamc 14y agoYou are not alone in wondering.
- tlrobinson 14y agoFrom TFA: "I open-sourced Cascalog, ElephantDB, and Storm, started writing a book, gave a lot of talks, and in July of 2011 experienced the thrill of being acquired. My projects spread beyond BackType and Twitter to be relied on by dozens and dozens of companies." He's pretty well known on HN. "Hacker-News-famous", you could say.
- TallGuyShort 14y agoAmong other things, he leads Storm (where I know his name from). It's a tool for processing unbounded streams of data (think Mappers and Reducers for Twitter Firehose-style datasets).
- calibraxis 14y agoHis talk "Become Efficient or Die" (not currently on his talks page) is very insightful: (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QDT8OH1x28E&playnext=1&list=PL32BC9281709E0A44&feature=results_main http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QDT8OH1x28E&playnext=1...) Most startups I know lack many of the most important things he mentions. (I realize I probably shouldn't respond to this question, which would have been satisfied by simply reading the link. But it gave me an excuse to post this talk.)
- sergiosgc 14y agoI absolutely loathe videos. There went 15 minutes of my life to get a short message: be minimalistic in processes and code. Not that it isn't a good message, but hardly worth more than the ten seconds needed to scan it in text.
- calibraxis 14y agoActually, the talk is the 3 videos in that playlist, not just the initial one. For instance, he gets into "knowledge debt", using Clojure and Neo4j as examples. I suppose potentially interested people will want to skim until they find something they're interested in; it starts out slow. Sorry you didn't find it worth your time, though I found it worthwhile.
- toisanji 14y agoI use cascalog and storm everyday at my startup http://truelens.com http://truelens.com and they are great contributions to software and big data systems. I'm looking forward to what Nathan is cooking up next.
- teraflop 14y agoThe new title, "Leaving Twitter", is much less descriptive than the previous one, "Nathan Marz is leaving Twitter". Could someone please change it back?
- michaelhoffman 14y agoI don't understand why Hacker News allows us to submit titles with our links. If they are just going to be overridden, then the software should automatically fetch the title from the web page without user input.
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- crandles 14y agoFunny, I see "Leaving Twitter (nathanmarz.com)". That's pretty descriptive.
- catharsis 14y agoI had no idea who Nathan Marz was. When I saw the title, I assumed "Leaving Twitter" was implying discontinuing usage of Twitter from an outsider's perspective, not an employee parting ways with the company. The original title is completely unambiguous.
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- diego 14y agoI can't wait to find out what Nathan has in store. I'm not a fan of Twitter's mission, I hope he continues building useful infrastructure that's not directly influenced by the need to show more ads to more people.
- visualcsharp 14y agoEmployee leaves company. News not at 11, because who cares?
- danbmil99 14y agoOh I thought it was some random tweeter closing his account. That would be news.
- hrishikeshio 14y agoAm a big fan of storm. Can't wait to see what he is onto.