Hey, it's HighScalability time:

(The Shard Scaling 6)

• 3500+: number of species found underneath miles of ice; 360 TB/disc data capacity: 5D optical memory in glass; 50% Of Internet Traffic: Comes From Only 35 Sites/Services; 60 billion: potential alien planets that could give Snowden asylum
• Quotable Quotes:
  • @ieure: "How concert app Loudie doubled its users in two weeks" The other co-founder finally signed in.
  • @michalbe: "Daddy, how is software made?" "Well, when a programmer loves an idea very much they stay up all night and then push to github the next day"
  • @TomDSweeney: Alan Kay: “The past 30 years have been completely mundane. It’s all been scaling (of old technology) and Angry Birds”
  • Rick Branson: Adopt a technology by understanding what it's best at and letting it do that first, then expand…
  • K. Eric Drexler: System-level design seeks flexible models and accepts complexity, accepts imprecision and buries it in margins of safety, recognizes unpredictability and seeks to avoid it, embraces competing options and seeks to add more, all in a world in which questions have a range of satisfactory answers and testing can establish a narrow yet valuable truth: “This one works.”


• In a recent Twitter Architecture it was observed how "Much can be implied by the implicit social contract when bidirectional follows don’t exist." To see this idea in action here are some very cool influencer maps. Identified are 6 types of social networks that are an overlay on Twitter's follower model: polarized networks, in-group networks, brand/public topic networks, bazaar networks, broadcast networks, and support networks.


• OK, this is funny: Nikola Tesla Pitching Silicon Valley VCs. It's a vision thing.

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