[billpatrianakos]

The author makes a great point about technology advancing so quickly that the bleeding edge of just yesterday is now just cute compared what we have now and about how cheap of a commodity server hardware has now become.

Unfortunately he had to use the 14 year old girl analogy and exaggerate the ease with we could build Google circa '98 today. Now his whole point is lost to click clacking of a thousand pedants' keyboards. Guys, this isn't about 14 year old girls nor is it about Google per se as much as it is about the fast pace of tech innovation, the ease and costs associated with acquiring infrastructure, and to a lesser extent there's a tiny but about how we're totally spoiled compared to what we had to work with 14 years ago.

The stuff about Google and 14 year old girls is just a literary tool (along with some mild hyperbole) to help illustrate his point which so far is getting completely missed. Come on guys, is this Hacker News or Pedantic Literary Scholar News? Focus on the point, not little Google girls. PLSN does have a nice ring to it but no, we're not on PSLN. At least not yet.