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Hey, it's HighScalability time:
- teaspoon of soil: hosts up to a billion bacteria spread among a million species.
- Quotable Quotes:
- Vivek Prakash: The problem of scaling always takes a toll on you.
- @jcsalterego: See This One Weird Trick Hypervisors Don't Want You To Know
- Upgrades are the great killer of software systems. Do you really want a pill that would supply materials with instructions for nanobots to form new neurons and place them near existing cells to be replaced so you have a new brain within six months? Scary as hell. But there's an nanoapp for that.
- Ted Nelson has a fascinating series of Computers for Cynics vidcasts on YouTube. I'd ony really known of Mr. Nelson from his writings on hypertext, but he has a broad and penetrating insight into the early days of the computer industry. He's not really cynical, but I've always had a hard time differentiation realism from cynicism. Suffice it to say he thinks there have been many wrong paths chosen by our industry and not everything is as told by various industry hagiographies. You may like: The Nightmare of Files and Directories, The Database Mess, The Dance of Apple and Microsoft, and The Real Story of the World Wide Web.
- From small beginnings. Where it all started: "the internet" in 1969: His idea for the project was the "spirit of community" and was interested in "having computers help people communicate with other people" (Licklider, Licklider, and Robert Taylor) as opposed to using the computer to communicate for us.... By the end of 1969, ARPANET was able to connect to four locations: UCLA, UC Santa Barbara, SRI, and Utah.
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