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Rising Tide Rents and Robber Baron Rents

O'Reilly

In the early idealistic days of internet expansion, the leading companies earned outsized profits by solving the attention allocation problem. As the internet grew, the amount of information available to consumers became so vast that it outran traditional human means of curation and selection. The market was maturing.

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32 MiB Working Sets on a 64 GiB machine

Randon ASCII

In a steady-state process (not allocating excessively) on a system with sufficient memory (this system had 64 GiB of RAM and roughly 47 GiB of that was available) the number of page faults should be close to zero, and this was a long way from that. That is remarkable. But “eligible” is doing a lot of heavy lifting in that sentence.

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Expanding the Cloud for Windows Developers - All Things Distributed

All Things Distributed

By Werner Vogels on 08 May 2012 02:00 PM. s world of Internet services has become incredibly diverse. Amazon RDS currently supports SQL Server 2008 R2 and plans to add support for SQL Server 2012 later this year. Werner Vogels weblog on building scalable and robust distributed systems. Expanding the Cloud for Windows Developers.

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Load scripts async

Speed Curve

Here's what loading 14 scripts looked like in Internet Explorer 7: I've added a red arrow at the beginning of each script request. Browsers added support for this attribute starting with Firefox and Chrome in 2010, followed by Safari and Internet Explorer in 2012. As a result, the page renders quickly (0.7 Async Adoption.

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The Persistent Imbalance Between Supply and Demand for Software Development Labor

The Agile Manager

Each major expansion in software development - automation (60s), productivity (80s), internet (90s), mobile (00s) - has been additive to the total stock of software in the world. The horrific explosion of the oil tank train that devastated Lac-Mégantic in 2012 was in no small part the result of demand exceeding supply.

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The State Of Web Workers In 2021

Smashing Magazine

The web is streaming, meaning it has none of the resources locally available when you open an app for the first time. Low-end phones on the other hand are getting cheaper , making the mobile internet accessible to demographics that previously maybe couldn’t afford it. 2021-06-30T12:00:00+00:00. 2021-07-13T02:07:04+00:00. The Future.

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VC++ and Win8 Metro apps: May 18, livestream and on-demand

Sutter's Mill

From the page: Join the Microsoft Visual C++ and Windows teams in Redmond on May 18, 2012 for a free, all-day event focused on building Windows 8 Metro style apps with C++. All sessions will be recorded and available for on demand viewing on C9. All sessions will be broadcast livestream and then available for viewing on demand.

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