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Hey, it's HighScalability time: So you think you're early to market! The Man Who Invented VR Goggles 50 Years Too Soon If you like this sort of Stuff then please support me on Patreon. * 99.9: Percent PCs cheaper than in 1980; 300x20 miles: California megaflood;
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Hey, it's HighScalability time: Hot rods in space. The Smith Cloud plummets towards our galaxy at nearly 700,000 mph. Vroom! If you like this sort of Stuff then please support me on Patreon. * 3 of top 5: Stackoverflow questions are about Git; 3,000: four-passenger cars could
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Hey, it's HighScalability time: A wondrous ethereal mix of technology and art. Experience of "VOID" If you like this sort of Stuff then please support me on Patreon. * 2+ billion: Google lines of code distributed over 9+ million source files; $3.6 bn: lower Google taxes
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Hey, it's HighScalability time: This is the entire internet. In 1973! David Newbury found the map going through his dad's old papers. If you like this sort of Stuff then please support me on Patreon. * 2.5 billion+: smartphones on earth; $36,000: loss making a
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Hey, it's HighScalability time: Here's a 1 TB hard drive in 1937. Twenty workers operated the largest vertical letter file in the world. 4000 SqFt. 3000 drawers, 10 feet long. (from @BrianRoemmele) If you like this sort of Stuff then please support me on Patreon. * 98%
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Hey, it's HighScalability time: A phrase you've probably heard a lot this week: AWS announces...If you like this sort of Stuff then please support me on Patreon. * 18 minutes: latency to Mars; 100TB: biggest dynamodb table; 55M: visits to Kaiser were virtual; $2 Billion: yearly
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Hey, it's HighScalability time: Margaret Hamilton was honored with the Presidential Medal of Freedom for writing Apollo guidance software. Oddly, she's absent from best programmers of all time lists.If you like this sort of Stuff then please support me on Patreon. * 98 seconds: before camera
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Hey, it's HighScalability time: Now you don't have to shrink yourself to see inside a computer. Here's a fully functional 16-bit computer that's over 26 square feet huge! Bighex machine. If you like this sort of Stuff then please support me on
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Hey, it's HighScalability time: Hacking recognition systems with fashion. If you like this sort of Stuff then please support me on Patreon. * 9 teraflops: PC GPU performance for VR rendering; 1.75 million requests per second: DDoS attack from cameras; 5GB/mo: average data consumption in the US;
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Hey, it's HighScalability time: A pattern from the collective unconscious of the universe. Scott Kelly's brilliant Year in Space Photos. If you like this sort of Stuff then please support me on Patreon. * $1.5 million: new iOS hack bug bounty; 120 Terabits per second: Google
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Hey, it's HighScalability time: The worlds oldest analog computer, from 87 BC, the otherworldly Antikythera mechanism. If you like this sort of Stuff then please support me on Patreon. * 70 billion: facts in Google's knowledge graph; 80 million: monthly visitors to walmart.com; 50%: lower cost
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Hey, it's HighScalability time: Everything is a network. Map showing the global genetic interaction network of a cell. If you like this sort of Stuff then please support me on Patreon. * 18: Google can now drink and drive in Washington DC.; $10 billion: cost of a Vision Quest