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Sunday, September 12, 2004
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I could have quoted from any of a numbers of posters about the RSS
non-scaling non-controversy, but Dare offers a round-up of the bleating
masses
The RSS Sky is Falling...Again.This is becoming a broken record. Every couple of months some web site that hasn't
properly prepared for the amount of bandwidth consumed by having a popular RSS feed
loudly complains and the usual suspects complain that RSS is broken. [Dare Obasanjo aka Carnage4Life]
Sure, RSS doesn't scale. It doesn't not scale either. All of the
problems with scaling have thus far been shown to depend on nothing
particular to RSS.
Scoble attemps to show RSS
not scaling a) generating a gedankenexperiment where hits on the RSS
are a fixed factor greater than HTML hits, and b) by quoting figures
that the bandwidth consumed by RSS requests (for what site I'm not
sure) per month is growing at a much faster rate that bandwidth for
HTML. The former shows exact parity in scaling between RSS and HTML,
while the latter fails to factor in the relative popularity of RSS
versus HTML readers. If new traffic for RSS is N times new traffic for
HTML, but new requestors of RSS are 10 times new requestors for HTML ,
this is also parity in scaling between RSS and HTML.
There are attempts to blame the automated nature of RSS
requests, but HTML can be and is requested by machine as well. Either
way, requests at regular intervals may affect the absolute value of the
traffic but bear no relation to the scaling of the traffic growth.
Certainly Amdahl's law would tell you that if RSS is a significatly
larger portion of your traffic that it may be worth while
applying some RSS specific fixes. However, the discussion is not really
about a scaling problem in the sense that the proposed solutions do not
affect scaling. If requests are still growing exponentially, reducing
response size may delay the point at which you hit any particular
traffic level but it cannot prevent it. This is independant of
what the response is, and also independant of the absolute size of the
response.
10:42:15 AM
Categories: Pushing rectangles... Radio
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Sunday, August 08, 2004
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I do not know what idea is more frighening: that regular people
might think we use such overwrought terms as "silicon nanosurgery", or
that someone at work might read this and think it would be a good idea
if we started.
6:39:54 PM
Categories: Pushing rectangles... LiveJournal
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Saturday, June 19, 2004
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Some days I feel like my company's products are marketed by morons. Other days I have proof.
Intel's Tablet PC Centrino Surfboard.
I
don't know what to say. Intel has gone and taken the ur-joke of the
internet and made it reality by incorporating a tablet PC into a
surfboard, allowing pro surfer Duncan Scott to literally, yes, surf the web.
The laptop is integrated into a Jools Matthews board and communicates
via WiFi with a hotspot on the beach. I fully expect to go outside now
and find a laptop built into the BQE with a huge arrow pointing to the
'Information Highway.'
Read [Pocket-Lint]
[Gizmodo]
9:41:26 AM
Categories: Pushing rectangles... LiveJournal
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Tuesday, June 15, 2004
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Monday, June 14, 2004
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K10 Architect Leaves AMD. AMD Zone Jun 13 2004 5:41PM GMT [Moreover - moreover...]
All I can say is that's it's kind of sad that Andy Glew has his CV posted on a geocities site.
7:53:42 AM
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Sunday, April 04, 2004
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Intel's AMD64 Sucks?. AMD Zone Apr 4 2004 5:55PM GMT [Moreover - moreover...]
The fanboys that complained about how Intel's 64-bit was identical
to AMD's 64 bit now say that it performs badly and go off on some
tangent about "emulation". What they fail to mention is that EVERY x86
processor on the market emulates x86 anyway. Accusing Intel's 64-bit of
being emulated is like accusing water of being wet.
I can't read German, so I don't actually know if the original c't
article quotes actual perfromance metrics. Certainly I haven't seen
anyone who points to the article quote any numbers, so no one can
comment on the numbers.
7:23:14 PM
Categories: Pushing rectangles... LiveJournal
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Wednesday, March 03, 2004
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Tim Bray deleted his commentary on his own site, leaving only the
quote, so you'll have to go off what's here. Anyway... Tim, up in the
this air where people make new languages like XML, is shocked (shocked,
I tell you!) to read that there are function of programming that are
"mind-numbing". Not only are they mind-numbing, but most of the low end
of the salary spectrum does nothing but those kinds of task all day
long. Welcome to the quite desperation of someone who works for a
living.
At best, I could read that as Tim misinterpreting the quote as saying that all code-writing is mind-numbing.
Coding Makes You Dumb. I quote from an article in this week’s Economist (read it here
if you’re a subscriber) arguing that the negative impact of
“Offshoring� is exaggerated. The reasons we need not worry include ...
the bulk of these exports will not be the high-flying jobs of IT
consultants, but the mind-numbing functions of code-writing. There
you have it; I guess Dennis Ritchie and Bill Joy and Dave Cutler and
Charles Simonyi and Linus Torvalds and Larry Wall somehow managed to
conceal the mental numbing. [ongoing]
7:35:51 AM
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Geek gamers rejoice. Finally, a hot chick they can score with.
Video game vampire to go topless in October Playboy
[Boing Boing] By radar@poboxes.com.
Keeping America Safe from wireless internet. AKMA gets hassled by the man:
So Weirdly Wrong: And I walked back to the studio, dumbfounded that someone just rousted me for picking an open wireless signal in public — indeed (as it turns out) for using a laptop within a wireless signal’s range of the library. Weird.
We should all be glad that the local contstabulary are able to invent federal laws at a moments notice to save us from the scourge of freely available internet access. However, those godless commie librarians seem to have gotten off scott free.
By radar@poboxes.com.
Keeping America Safe from Ted Kennedy. Ted Kennedy's name is similar to an alias of some "evil doer". Proof that this list only catches the innocent is left as an exercise for the reader.
If Senators are allowed to roam freely about the country, then the terrorists have already won!
Reuters. Kennedy -- one of the most recognizable figures in American politics -- told a Senate committee hearing on Thursday he had been blocked several times from boarding commercial airline flights because his name was on a "no-fly" list intended to exclude potential terrorists. [John Robb's Weblog] By radar@poboxes.com.
Any sufficiently nice person is indistinguishable from someone who likes you. Yet again, I find I have underestimated just how deep into pathetic geekdom I am when confronted by others of the species. We're pointed that this damning refelction by Joey de Villa, an actual example of the cool geek that the rest of us pretend that we could possibly be but really can't.
I don't know how I ended up looking at a page in Everything2 (imagine a less academic Wikipedia written by LiveJournalers), but someone has come up with a geek lament treatment of the Clarke Axiom:
By radar@poboxes.com.
fun Fun FUN. Whee... isn't working late fun?
Someone bring be some dinner, okay? By radar@poboxes.com.
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