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- Quotable Quotes:
- @ibogost: Disabling features of SimCity due to ineffective central infrastructure is probably the most realistic simulation of the modern city.
- antirez: The point is simply to show how SSDs can't be considered, currently, as a bit slower version of memory. Their performance characteristics are a lot more about, simply, "faster disks".
- @jessenoller: I only use JavaScript so I can gain maximum scalability across multiple cores. Also unicorns. Paint thinner gingerbread
- @liammclennan: high-scalability ruby. Why bother?
- @scomma: Problem with BitCoin is not scalability, not even usability. It's whether someone will crack the algorithm and render BTC entirely useless.
- @webclimber: Amazing how often I find myself explaining that scalability is not magical
- @pneuman42: Game servers are the *worst* scalability problem. Most services start small and scale up over time, solving problems along the way
- @jeffsussna: OH: "Amazon outages involve server auto-scaling failures. Microsoft outages involve credit card auto-renewal failures"
- carlosthecharlie: Writing Map/Reduce jobs is like making debt payments on technical debt you don't yet owe
- anonymous: *eye twitches* You maintain secondary indexes in dynamo db fields, managed in application code? Dude. DUDE!
- LinkedIn: Secrecy Doesn't Scale. Winston Churchill: Truth is so precious that she should always be attended by a bodyguard of lies.
- So eternal vigilance really can be crowdsourced: Bill Introduced to Re-Legalize Cellphone Unlocking.
- Engaging discussion with George Dyson: Turing’s Cathedral and the Dawn of the Digital Universe. Template based addressing. DNA is searched by template. You don't have to know the exact location of a protein and the match doesn't have to be exact. Google is template searching for data. He thinks this template idea is a third revolution in computing. Much more flexible and robust. Because of errors you have to build architectures that are more flexible and can deal with ambiguity, which is what nature does. Google as an Oracle Machine. Alan Turing said machines will never be intelligent unless they are allowed to make mistakes. Deterministic computing is limited. A non-deterministic element, an Oracle is required. Machines need to learn by making mistakes, tolerating mistakes, a learning from mistakes. Google is made up deterministic machines. We humans are in Google's loop to act as the non-deterministic signal, as Oracle Machines.
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