Founder of Lucene, Nutch, Hadoop & Avro.
Joined July 2007
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4 Oct 2022
Goodbye, Twitter. I'm quitting. I love reading my friends' tweets, but I don't have the self-control to not waste hours every day also reading junk.
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28 Sep 2022
"the biggest impact open source has had on industry is from the free (as in beer) effect" blog.hansenpartnership.com/p…
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23 Sep 2022
"If we normalize baiting developers with an open source license to gain traction and switching to a non-open source license to monopolize the returns on that traction, then the logical next step for investors will be skipping that first step entirely." redmonk.com/sogrady/2022/09/…
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23 Sep 2022
I think this oft-repeated flee from open source is almost inevitable for companies who build a business around a single (initially) open-source project.
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23 Sep 2022
"Monetizing open source" is now a phrase that strikes fear in me.
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20 Sep 2022
Want to go on a mountain bike ride with me in Napa County, with lunch afterwards? Want to support parks in Napa County? Want to bring up to 7 friends? 1/4 nvspa.betterworld.org/auctio…
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Doug Cutting retweeted
5 Jul 2022
Nobody will remember:
- Your salary
- Your fancy title
- How busy you were
- How many hours you worked
People will remember:
-Your general body plan if you're buried in an anoxic environment in a subsiding sedimentary basin & get exposed by erosion again in the geologic future
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Doug Cutting retweeted
10 Dec 2020
Feel like someone on #EnergyTwitter should be responsible for posting a version of this every day.
Lets always prioritize the most important battles!
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Doug Cutting retweeted
8 Jun 2022
Anne Cottrell leads the six-way race for Napa County District 3 supervisor, with John Dunbar in second, according to early returns posted at 8 p.m. Tuesday. napavalleyregister.com/news/…
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Doug Cutting retweeted
25 May 2022
Discourses around "teaching machines to be ethical" are frankly just a distraction, and one grounded in fantastical ideas about "AGI".
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20 May 2022
RT @brianbehlendorf: A great essay (as always from @doctorow) on the competing philosophies in the blockchain/P2P space, that of "global re…
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4 May 2022
I wrote a disassembler for GNU Emacs byte code.
3 May 2022
What was your first Open Source contribution?
I fixed a broken link.
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24 Mar 2022
"By accelerating our transition to cheap and abundant renewable fuels, we can address two grave threats to the planet at once: the climate-warming, air-polluting menace of hydrocarbons and the dictators who rule their supply." nyti.ms/37X3PCR
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Doug Cutting retweeted
18 Mar 2022
Our World in Data is participating in Google Summer of Code this year! If you’re finishing studies and interested in doing some open source hacking with us, please check it out.
summerofcode.withgoogle.com/…
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