Leaving Twitter

138 points by ananthrk 13 years ago | 22 comments

teraflop 13 years ago |

The new title, "Leaving Twitter", is much less descriptive than the previous one, "Nathan Marz is leaving Twitter". Could someone please change it back?

michaelhoffman 13 years ago | |

I don't understand why Hacker News allows us to submit titles with our links. If they are just going to be overridden, then the software should automatically fetch the title from the web page without user input.

mkr-hn 13 years ago | | |

I wouldn't mind so much if it were accountable. There's no mechanism to challenge a title change. Between that and the arbitrary banning of sites, I usually think twice about submitting good things.

ananthrk 13 years ago | |

I agree. I am the original poster and I expanded the title to make it more clear. But looks like the mods don't see it that way.

crandles 13 years ago | |

Funny, I see "Leaving Twitter (nathanmarz.com)". That's pretty descriptive.

catharsis 13 years ago | | |

I had no idea who Nathan Marz was. When I saw the title, I assumed "Leaving Twitter" was implying discontinuing usage of Twitter from an outsider's perspective, not an employee parting ways with the company. The original title is completely unambiguous.

niggler 13 years ago |

I hate to be that guy, but who is Nathan Marz?

dpritchett 13 years ago | |

One of the more commercially successful figures in the Clojure world. Early employee of a YC company (Backtype) with a successful exit to Twitter.

[1] http://www.crunchbase.com/company/backtype

[2] https://github.com/nathanmarz/storm

calibraxis 13 years ago | |

His talk "Become Efficient or Die" (not currently on his talks page) is very insightful: (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QDT8OH1x28E&playnext=1...) Most startups I know lack many of the most important things he mentions.

(I realize I probably shouldn't respond to this question, which would have been satisfied by simply reading the link. But it gave me an excuse to post this talk.)

sergiosgc 13 years ago | | |

I absolutely loathe videos. There went 15 minutes of my life to get a short message: be minimalistic in processes and code. Not that it isn't a good message, but hardly worth more than the ten seconds needed to scan it in text.

tlrobinson 13 years ago | |

From TFA:

"I open-sourced Cascalog, ElephantDB, and Storm, started writing a book, gave a lot of talks, and in July of 2011 experienced the thrill of being acquired. My projects spread beyond BackType and Twitter to be relied on by dozens and dozens of companies."

He's pretty well known on HN. "Hacker-News-famous", you could say.

TallGuyShort 13 years ago | |

Among other things, he leads Storm (where I know his name from). It's a tool for processing unbounded streams of data (think Mappers and Reducers for Twitter Firehose-style datasets).

jgrahamc 13 years ago | |

You are not alone in wondering.

toisanji 13 years ago |

I use cascalog and storm everyday at my startup http://truelens.com and they are great contributions to software and big data systems. I'm looking forward to what Nathan is cooking up next.

diego 13 years ago |

I can't wait to find out what Nathan has in store. I'm not a fan of Twitter's mission, I hope he continues building useful infrastructure that's not directly influenced by the need to show more ads to more people.

danbmil99 13 years ago |

Oh I thought it was some random tweeter closing his account. That would be news.

hrishikeshio 13 years ago |

Am a big fan of storm. Can't wait to see what he is onto.