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Rising Tide Rents and Robber Baron Rents

O'Reilly

The answer can be found in the theory of economic rents, and in particular, in the kinds of rents that are collected by companies during different stages of the technology business cycle. They are a price that we pay for a rising tide of innovation. For example, consider drug pricing. But not all rents represent abuse of power.

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The Return of the Frame Pointers

Brendan Gregg

2005-2023: The winter of broken profilers However, the change was then applied to x86-64 (64-bit) as well, which had sixteen registers and didn't benefit so much from a seventeenth. We may get there with future technologies I'll cover later. The actual overhead depends on your workload.

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SQL Server I/O Basics Chapter #2

SQL Server According to Bob

​​ With new ​​ innovations ​​ come ​​ new terms, designs, ​​ and ​​ algorithms.

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Digital Squalor

The Agile Manager

A contract from 2005 between one firm and another is a binding legal document in the context of that relationship. We've spent most of the past 60 years in technology creating tools to automate and digitize tasks and transactions. Historically, Information Technology has focused on the "technology".

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