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Run pneumatic tubes alongside optical fiber cables and we unite the digital and material worlds.

• 1 billion: searches on DuckDuckGo in 2013
• Quotable Quotes: 
  • pg: We [Hacker News] currently get just over 200k uniques and just under 2m page views on weekdays (less on weekends). 
    • rtm: New server: one Xeon E5-2690 chip, 2.9 GHz, 8 cores total, 32 GB RAM.
  • Kyle Vanhemert: The graph shows the site’s [Reddit] beginnings in the primordial muck of porn and programming.
  • Drake Baer: But it's not about knowing the most people possible. Instead of being about size, a successful network is about shape.
  • @computionist: Basically when you cache early to scale you've admitted you have no idea what you're doing.
  • Norvig's Law: Any technology that surpasses 50% penetration will never double again.  
  • mbell: Keep in mind that a single modern physical server that is decently configured (12-16 cores, 128GB of ram) is the processing equivalent of about 16 EC2 m1.large instances.
  • @dakami: Learned databases because grep|wc -l got slow. Now I find out that's pretty much map/reduce.
  • Martin Thompson: I think "Futures" are a poor substitute for being pure event driven and using state machines. Futures make failure cases very ugly very quickly and they are really just methadone for trying to wean programmers off synchronous designs :-) 
  • @wattersjames: Can your PaaS automate Google Compute Engine? If it can, you will find that it can create VMs in only 35 seconds, at most any scale.
  • Peter M. Hoffmann: Considering the inherent drive of matter to form ever more complex structures, life seems inevitable.


• The marker for a new generation, like kids who will never know a card catalogue, Kodak film, pay phones, phone books, VHS tapes, typewriters, or floppy disks: Co-Founder Of Snapchat Admits He's Never Owned A Physical Server. 


• Want the secret of becoming a hugely popular site? Make it fast and it will become popular. It's science. Are Popular Websites Faster?: No matter what distribution of websites you look at – the more popular websites trend faster. Even the slowest popular website is much faster than those that are less popular. On the web, the top 500 sites are nearly 1s faster (by the median), and on mobile it is closer to 1.5s faster. 


• In 1956 we may not have had BigData, but BigStorage was definitely in. Amazing picture of IBM's 5 mega-byte drive weighing in at more than 2,000 pounds.

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