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Hey, it's HighScalability time:
- $7 trillion: US spend on patrolling oil sea-lanes; 82 billion: files served by MaxCDN in 5 months
- Quotable Quotes:
- @StephenFleming: "Money doesn’t solve scaling problems, but the actual solutions to scaling problems always cost money." http://daringfireball.net/2014/01/googles_acquisition_of_nest
- David Rosenthal: Robert Puttnam in Making Democracy Work and Bowling Alone has shown the vast difference in economic success between high-trust and low-trust societies.
- @kylefox: That's a huge advantage of SaaS businesses: you can be liberal with refunds & goodwill credits w/o impacting the bottom line much.
- Thomas B. Roberts: That’s the essence of science: Ask the impertinent question, and you are on your way to pertinent science.
- Benjamin K. Bergen: Simulation is an iceberg. By consciously reflecting, as you just have been doing, you can see the tip—the intentional, conscious imagery. But many of the same brain processes are engaged, invisibly and unbeknownst to you, beneath the surface during much of your waking and sleeping life. Simulation is the creation of mental experiences of perception and action in the absence of their external manifestation.
- Urbane apps are the future. 80% world population will be in cities by 2045
- Knossos: Redis and linearizability. Kyle Kingsbury delivers an amazingly indepth model based analysis of "a hypothetical linearizable system built on top of Redis WAIT and a strong coordinator." The lesson: don't get Kyle mad.
- If a dead startup had a spirit, this is what it would look like: About Everpix. A truly fine memorial.
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