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Hey, it's HighScalability time: The future of technology in one simple graph (via swardley) * $50 billion: the worth of AWS (is it low?); 21 petabytes: size of the Internet Archive; 41 million: # of views of posts about a certain dress * Quotable Quotes: * @bpoetz: programming is awesome if you
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Hey, it's HighScalability time: Hear ye puny mortal. 1.3 million Earths doth fill our Sun. Whence comes this monster black hole with a mass 12 billion times that of the Sun? * 1 Terabit of Data per Second: 5G; 1.9 Terabytes: customer in stadium data usage during
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Hey, it's HighScalability time: Networks are everywhere, they can even help reveal disease connections. * trillions: number of photons constantly hitting your eyes; $19 billion: Snapchat valuation; 8.5K: average number of questions asked on Stack Overflow per day * Quotable Quotes: * @BenedictEvans: End of 2014: 3.75-4bn mobiles ~1.
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Hey, it's HighScalability time: Stunning depiction of every space mission over the past 50 years. (Max Roser) * 700 billion: Apple's valuation; 1: Number of lines of code it takes to bring down UK air traffic control; 20: how old that line of code was in years;
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Hey, it's HighScalability time: What a beautiful example of Moore's law visualized through the evolution of Lara Croft! (from @silenok) * $1 million: per day gross of Clash of Clans * Quotable Quotes: * @dancow: In 45 minutes, the largest trader in U.S. equities went bankrupt because of
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Who's Hiring? * Apple is hiring a Application Security Engineer. Apple’s Gift Card Engineering group is looking for a software engineer passionate about application security for web applications and REST services. Be part of a team working on challenging and fast paced projects supporting Apple's business
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Hey, it's HighScalability time: It's a strange world...exotic, gigantic molecules Fit Inside Each Other like Russian nesting dolls * 1.39 billion: Facebook Monthly Active Users; $18 billion profit: Apple in 3 months; 200 million: Kik users; 11.2 billion: age of the oldest known solar
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Hey, it's HighScalability time: Elon Musk: The universe is really, really big [Gigapixels of Andromeda [4K]] * 90: is the new 50 for woman designer; $656.8 million: 3 months of Uber payouts; $10 billion: all it takes to build the Internet in space; 1 billion: registered WeChat users
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Hey, it's HighScalability time: First people to free-climb the Dawn Wall of El Capitan using nothing but stone knives and bearskins (pics). * $3.3 trillion: mobile revenue in 2014; ~10%: the difference between a good SpaceX landing and a crash; 6: hours for which quantum memory was held
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Hey, it's HighScalability time: UFOs or Floating Solar Balloon power stations? You decide. * 700 Million: WhatsApp active monthly users; 17 million: comments on Stack Exchange in 2014 * Quotable Quotes * John von Neumann: It is easier to write a new code than to understand an old one. * @BenedictEvans: Gross
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Hey, it's HighScalability time: From Introduction to Metabolic Scaling Theory - From cells to ecosystems * 53 kilobytes: total amount of RAM in the world in 1953; 180-200 million: daily transactions at The Weather Channel; * Quotable Quotes * Enquist, Brian: Life operates over 21 orders of magnitude in size -
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Hey, it's HighScalability time: InfoSec Taylor Swift is wise...haters gonna hate. * 6 billion+: Foursquare checkins; 25000: allocs for every keystroke in Chrome's Omnibox * Quotable Quotes: * @wattersjames: Pretty convinced that more value is created by networks of products in today's world than 'stacks&