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The Infrastructure Dynamic
November 25, 2009 in Business, Life, News, Politics, Science, Technology, infrastructure, problems
I just posted Rupert Murdoch vs. The Web, over at Linux Journal. In it I suggest that the Murdoch story (played mostly as Bing vs Google) is a red herring, and that the …
WGBH and public radio’s future
November 25, 2009 in Art, Berkman, Business, Future, Ideas, Journalism, Live Web, News, Past, infrastructure, music, problems, radio
@robpatrob (Robert Paterson) asks (responding to this tweet and this post) “Why would GBH line up against BUR? Why have a war between 2 Pub stations in same city?” (In …
WGBH/WCRB go the way of WNYC/WQXR
November 23, 2009 in News, radio
The longest thread in the history of this blog belongs to Why WQXR is better off as a public radio station, which I posted on July 26, and still has comments this month. The …
Catching up
November 21, 2009 in Business, Places, Travel
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Swelling ground
November 16, 2009 in Berkman, VRM
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November 4, 2008 at 6:31 am
SueMarks
It has been like that over a week. How about a THWAAAACCKKK on the side of the head of twitter
November 4, 2008 at 8:27 am
Mike Warot
It’s bad engineering done by kids with no experience trying to cram 2 new features into code that already consumes 511 of the available 512 bytes of code in a 68HC11. Or at least that’s what this crotchety old programmer thinks.
The last time I did the math, twitter had an aggregate flow rate somewhere around 60k / second. Let’s presume growth, and say it’s now 100k/second. I’ve got a stack of old PCs in my office, and I’d be willing to bet cold hard cash that I could take 10 of them, and make them into a cluster capable of handling the full tweet load.
Twitter is the Chicago Cubs of networking services. It’ll be better, just wait until next year!
–Mike–
November 4, 2008 at 8:29 am
Mike Warot
By the way.. this is what Cold Hard Cash really looks like:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_Silver_Eagle
Not some namby-pampy soon to be hyperinflated greenback.