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by eli_gottlieb
4469 days ago
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>So why are less companies devoting resources to working on facets of networking, optimizing computer architecture, writing more efficient compilers and operating systems? I can think of a couple reasons: 1) Because hardware/microarchitecture companies do devote effort to architecture and compilers. 2) Because low-level software/OS companies do devote effort to networking, compilers, and operating systems. 3) Because network effects mean that only a very few mutually incompatible languages and OS's can survive on the open market, with a larger but still fairly small variety surviving on open-source volunteer efforts. >Not being able to effectively cure cancer isn't the issue Silicon Valley is facing. Oh really? Aren't there some computational problems we could work on that have cancer-cure-level impacts? |
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