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- $268,895,000,000: Apple's cash and investments; 60%: growth in Amazon's ad revenue; ~80%: movie tickets sold in China are sold through mobile apps; £27,000: King Edward's yearly income; 3: new Google undersea cables; 7,500: Google edge caching nodes; 50,000x: microprocessor performance compared to a 1978 mini-computer at 0.25% of the cost; $15bn: spending on hosting services; 0.2 cycles per byte: ridiculously fast base64 encoding and decoding; $165B+: 2018 games software/hardware spending; 328 feet: air purification tower in China; 42 million: proteins molecules in a yeast cell;
- Quotable Quotes:
- Richard Jones: For now, what we can say is that the age of exponential growth of computer power is over. It gave us an extraordinary 40 years, but in our world all exponentials come to an end, and we’re now firmly in the final stage of the s-curve. So, until the next thing comes along, welcome to the linear age of innovation.
- mikekchar: Just talking out of the hole in my head right now, but I think the main thing is that programmers generally like to program. They like to have freedom to try approaches that they think will be successful. As much as possible, it's probably best to allow your teammates, whoever they are, to have the freedom that they need. At the same time you should expect to have your own freedom. Getting the balance is not easy and sometimes you have to change jobs in order to get into a team where you are allowed the freedom to do your best. In my experience, teams that take this seriously are the best teams to work on (even if they sometimes do stupid things).
- @jfbastien: It's been 0 days since C++ silently truncated a static constexpr 64-bit integer to 32-bits. Or has it been 4294967296 days? 🤔
- Ben Bajarin: Again, to reiterate this point, third parties used to market, and spend energy talking about their integration with iOS or support of iPhone/iPad with the same rigor they are now talking about Amazon’s Alexa. This can not be ignored.
- @pkedrosky: Quite a stat: “Amazon’s advertising revenue is growing 60% a year, according to estimates. Analysts peg it at $4.5B+ for 2018, and it's already larger than Twitter and Snapchat’s ad business. “ /v @CBinsights
- Mark Callaghan: [Meltdown] tl;dr - sysbench fileio throughput for ext4 drops by more than 20% from Linux 4.8 to 4.13
- @manisha72617183: My favorite quote, when reading up on Frequentists and Bayesians: A frequentist is a person whose long-run ambition is to be wrong 5% of the time. A Bayesian is one who, vaguely expecting a horse, and catching a glimpse of a donkey, strongly believes he has seen a mule
- @jasonlk: What I learned from 5 weeks in Beijing + Shanghai: - startup creation + velocity dwarfs anything in SF - no one in China I met is remotely worried about U.S. or possibly even cares - access to capital is crazy - scale feels about 20x of SF - endless energy - not SV jaded
- @barrelshifter: C++ is like C if C was also the Winchester Mystery House
- @sprague: "The Chinese government has punished a U.S. firm for the activities of a U.S.-based employee on a U.S.-based social media platform that is blocked in China and that U.S. firm acquiesced without a fight."
- @mtnygard: AWS Serverless Application Repository... am I reading correctly that there's no way for application publishers to make money from their work? It's 100% open source and users only pay Amazon for resource usage?
- Mike Elgan: It’s not that I’m bad at taking vacations. I’m just good at choosing an office.
- Jordan Novet: Amazon lost share in the public cloud business in the fourth quarter, while Microsoft continued to gain momentum, according to research from KeyBanc analysts. Amazon Web Services had 62 percent market share in the quarter, down from 68 percent a year earlier
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