Leaving Twitter

[teraflop]

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]

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.

[ananthrk]

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]

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

[niggler]

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

[dpritchett]

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]

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.)

[tlrobinson]

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]

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]

You are not alone in wondering.

[toisanji]

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]

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]

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

[hrishikeshio]

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