Party Tricks and Secret TalentsEveryone (okay, *most* people) has a party trick or little piece of skill they can pull out when they need to show off. Tell us how you impressed everyone (then drove away in your Honda Accord), or alternatively how you fell flat on your face.
(, Thu 14 May 2015, 17:24)
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And now AWSToday I build scale able architectures on AWS, yet somehow still picture those processes, it certainly gives you insight into efficient process design.
In the same machine room we had drum store, 1/4 ton cylinders coated with ferric oxide and a strip of magnets as read write heads down the side, spinning at 20,000 rpm, it was primitive ssd then.
They took 3 hours to power up, and we're reputed to occasionally - around he world - to come off their bearings, one drilled down through a building, another walk through the processor cabinets out of the room. To be hit by one was described as creaming, though it never happened. Can't picture one of those on my wrist with a touch screen.
It was a strange sensation to walk past 20 or 30 of these peering in through the glass view ports at the unimaginable kinetic energy beyond.
J
(, Wed 20 May 2015, 0:53, Reply)
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