Nov 23 2008
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Oct 30 2008
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Sep 20 2008
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Bear with me here. Moore’s law says computer power doubles every eighteen months—since I’m from 35 years in the future, that means twenty three doublings. So a laptop from my time is the rough equivalent of about eight million, three hundred and eighty-eight thousand, six hundred eight of your best laptops.
Sep 15 2008
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Digg uses Debian GNU/Linux across the board with a mixture of MySQL, Memcached, MogileFS, Python, PHP, Apache, Gearman and various appliances to serve up billions of requests a month (and more every day!) (via How Digg works)
Sep 10 2008
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Sep 09 2008
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“ Conservatism is a partially heritable personality trait that predisposes some people to be cognitively inflexible, fond of hierarchy, and inordinately afraid of uncertainty, change, and death.
Aug 26 2008
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From a William Gibson book to the real world