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• 100GB: entire corpus of articles written at the NY Times; 80GB: data for one human genome; 3%: Linux desktop market share; 3.5M: fake Wells Fargo accounts; $18,000: world’s most expensive vacuum; 2000: Netflix recommender taste groups; 27%: year-over year-growth rate of Python on SO; 4M: Time Warner hacked; 143M: Equifax hacked; $800M: ICO funding in Q2; $257M: Filecoin ICO; 


• Quotable Quotes:
  • Brendan Gregg: jobs are also migrating from both Solaris and Linux to cloud jobs instead, specifically AWS. The market for OS and kernel development roles is actually shrinking a little. The OS is becoming a forgotten cog in a much larger cloud-based system. The job growth is in distributed systems, cloud SRE, data science, cloud network engineering, traffic and chaos engineering, container scheduling, and other new roles. 
  • @DrQz: The Performance Paradox: The better u do ur job, the more invisible u become. https://goo.gl/1aTRvw  🐵 🙄
  • @kennwhite: $100,000+ spent on thousands of [Facebook] ads, tied to on 470 fake accounts, all linked to a propaganda troll farm with ~600 staff in St. Petersburg.Kenn White added,
  • marssaxman: 10.6.8 was the best Mac OS ever. Since then I've felt increasingly uncomfortable with the heavy-handed, paternalistic direction Apple has been taking their OS; it just doesn't feel like home anymore. I believe in personal computers as tools of personal empowerment; it's my machine, not Apple's. I really resent being told what I can and can't do with it, and I neither need nor want an itunes account.
  • @jemangs: "Amazon spent $16.1 billion on R&D last year, a figure that should strike fear into its competitors" - Recode
  • @xaprb: OH: "I have some really junior staff and they were bitching about having to wait 5 minutes for an EC2 instance. GET OFFA MY LAWN."
  • Nora Jones: Chaos doesn't cause problems, it reveals them. 
  • Littlefinger: chaos is a latter.
  • Ken Stanley: sometimes in order to make discovery possible, you have to stop having an objective
  • GeneticGenesis: Whenever a "config change" (Note: this includes adding or removing targets to a target group, EG Autoscaling) happens on an ALB, the ALB drops all active connections, and re-establishes them at once, at high load, this obviously causes significant load spikes on any underlying service.
  • Stefano Bernardi: Call me old fashioned, but wanting to raise half a billion dollars for a pre-product endeavor is absolutely f*cking insane.
  • revscat: This was my first experience with modern JavaScript frameworks and TypeScript. I wanted to do it right, so worked closely with team members who were more versed in this stuff, and followed the various recommended best practices. By the time all was said and done the PR for this thing had 27 files in it. For a modal. This seems ludicrous to me. 
  • Tony Seba: [on disruption] Technology convergence is when several technologies and business model innovations converge at one point in time to enable functionality at a certain cost.
  • Tony Seba: Business model innovation is every bit as disruptive as technological innovation.
  • Tony Seba: By 2030 95% of all passenger miles are going to be autonomous electronic vehicles. There goes the internal combustion engine industry. There goes the individual ownership of cars. We will have cars as a service just as we have movies as a service. 
  • @Noahpinion: 15 years ago, the internet was an escape from the real world. Now, the real world is an escape from the internet.
  • @jbeda: Hot take: [new AWS LB] similar to but more limited to GCP L3 LB. AWS LB is zonal and looks to do NAT. GCP L3 LB supports anycast across regions and DSR.
  • @GossiTheDog: Tip - if you want in to a bunch of factory networks, don't target the companies - target their ICS suppliers. Find names via case studies.
  • @GossiTheDog: Because vendors usually self managed black box VPN appliances at sites, the actual company doesn't see logs = doesn't know they are owned.
  • @ftrain: Giant company: We are geniuses worth a trillion dollars. Me: I would like to log into two different accounts at once. Company: Holy shit.
  • @GossiTheDog: Equifax's infrastructure is a weird mix of IBM WebSphere, Apache Struts, Java.. it's like stepping back in time a decade.
  • catvalente: “The Internet used to be full of original content & lively debate” is the new “in my day we walked to school in the snow uphill both ways”
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