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Very early in my web career I was introduced to the almost mystical holy grail of web (and now app) properties: increasing user engagement. The reason is simple. The more time people spend with your property the more stuff you can sell them. The more stuff you can sell the
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We’ve had computation using slime mold and soap film, now we have computation using water droplets. Stanford bioengineers have built a “fully functioning computer that runs like clockwork - but instead of electrons, it operates using the movement of tiny magnetised water droplets.” By changing the layout of the
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How do you program a computer with 10 terabytes of RAM in a single address space? When the great Adrian Cockcroft was interviewed for Enterprise Initiatives Episode blog, that’s one of the answers he gave to the question of “What’s the next big thing?” Adrian says we are
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Warning: A quote I use in this article is quite graphic. That's the power of the writing, but if you are at all squirmy you may want to turn back now. Debugging requires a particular sympathy for the machine. You must be able to run the machine and