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

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What it is

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.

Why Hacker News recommends it

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.

  • 1 people recommended it
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  • first 2011, last 2016

What HN commenters said

  1. “this is an excellent talk about preparing to solve hard problems in bio.”

    Excellent talk on preparing to solve hard problems in biology.

    shoeless, 2011-10 · Recommendation · in “BioCurious, a hackerspace for bio now open to public”

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Topics: steve yegge, oscon, google, biology, data mining

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