The Epic Story of Dropbox’s Exodus From the Amazon Cloud Empire
Half-a-billion people stored files on Dropbox. Well, sort of. Really, the files were in Amazon’s cloud. Until Dropbox built its own. And threw the switch.
Hasnain says:
This is a great read on both hardware and software.
Also surprised to hear they're using Rust in production.
"Measuring only one-and-half-feet by three-and-half-feet by six inches, each Diskotech box holds as much as a petabyte of data, or a million gigabytes. Just 50 of these machines could store everything human beings have ever written."
Posted on 2016-03-15T06:10:36+0000
Western Digital makes a $46, 314GB hard drive just for the Raspberry Pi
"PiDrive" is based on WD Blue, has intro price of $31.42.
How Badoo saved one million dollars switching to PHP7
We did it! Hundreds of our application servers are now running on PHP7 and doing just fine. By all accounts, ours is only the second project of this scale (after Etsy) to switch to PHP7.
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Posted on 2016-03-15T05:44:15+0000
Road to North Korea - Photography - M1key - Michal Huniewicz
Road to North Korea - Photography - M1key - Michal Huniewicz's Personal Website
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"The North and South Koreans might be one nation, but after a few generations living completely apart, they have less and less in common. Not only are the North Koreans shorter on average because of malnutrition (Christopher Hitchens called them a nation of racist dwarfs) [4], it also makes one in four of young men too mentally retarded for military service [5] - too slow to even follow orders..."
Posted on 2016-03-15T05:37:14+0000
Mathematicians Discover Prime Conspiracy | Quanta Magazine
A previously unnoticed property of prime numbers seems to violate a longstanding assumption about how they behave.
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Posted on 2016-03-14T16:02:57+0000
Stop Daylight Saving Time
Daylight Saving Time is an archaic practice, but it isn’t just irrelevant in 2016 — it’s dangerous. A rise in fatal traffic accidents and increased energy costs are just two of the many ways DST impacts us today. Join us, and let’s put a stop to changing the clocks once and for all.
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"Between 1986 and 1995, fatal traffic accidents rose 17% the Monday following the switch to Daylight Saving Time."
OK, I'll be extra careful on Monday...
Posted on 2016-03-13T09:10:21+0000
AlphaGo vs Lee Sedol - Game 4 (LIVE STREAM)
This is the live stream of Michael Redmond and Chris Garlock's commentary of the third game between Lee Sedol and AlphaGo. Join us to discuss the game as it happens.
Hasnain says:
At least the humans win one game against our new overlords
Posted on 2016-03-13T09:00:43+0000
What's Really to Blame for San Francisco's Housing Crisis
It's not just the tech bros.
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Posted on 2016-03-12T04:57:53+0000
Facebook's new front-end server design delivers on performance without sucking up power
The new design packs more than twice the compute capacity into each rack while maintaining the rack power budget.
San Jose Is The Most Forgettable Major American City
What’s that California city again? Starts with “San,” has a million people, near the coast? Almost everyone can think of San Francisco or San Diego. But San Jose, the nation’s 10t…
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Posted on 2016-03-12T04:36:13+0000