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Nicholas Carr
Personal blog · nicholasgcarr.combusinessculture
Nicholas Carr's personal blog at nicholasgcarr.com covers business and culture. Since 2008, 4 different Hacker News readers have linked it 6 times. No feed was found, so read it on the site itself.
Too few sampled comments (2) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN readers cite Nicholas Carr's writing on computing as a utility, drawing on the idea from The Big Switch that economies of scale make outsourced computing cheaper than running it yourself, as with electricity.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 2 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
What Hacker News says?
This is wrong for the same reason you don't produce your own power. See: http://www.nicholasgcarr.com/bigswitch/ Economies of scale create a cheaper alternate solution. That was accomplished in physical goods years ago and the cost of "transporting" physical goods is much higher than the cost of "transporting" massive data processing power.
Comment linking /bigswitch/
on “Amazon P/E ratio 3x that of Apple and Google”Submitted The Strategic Value of Complements as a story · 14 points
HN discussionShe failed to show sufficient deference to the VP (who in other posts I've frequently called "crazy french lady"), who had on occasion gone to the board of directors and gotten other VPs fired. As developers, we like to pretend that we're above office politics, or that our tools are our own, and other things like that. Nope. To managers, we're all as interchangable as furniture. And it wouldn't surprise me that much…
Comment linking /doesitmatter.html
on “Ask HN: Trivial etiquette question - can he touch my laptop screen?”Submitted Conservative Innovation as a story · 12 points
HN discussionSubmitted Conservative Innovation as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted The Z Curve and IT Investment as a story · 1 points
HN discussion
