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http://queue.acm.org/detail.cfm?id=1053354

The project page itself says 'self-describing'

"I once sat in a crowded hall and listened to Paul Graham give a keynote presentation about going big, doing it quickly, and getting tons of funding. During Q&A, someone asked what was wrong with instead of trying to go big with big money backers, you just went for profit and kept ownership to yourself and Graham said something like "you want to run a little business? Go run a shoe store then"

Matt Haughey http://dashes.com/anil/2011/01/mom-and-pop-at-web-scale.html...

We're not launching any products at #SXSW but we're doing plenty else. Join us for #H4ckers & 80s dancing today http://goo.gl/yV4fP

Also, "Optimizing CPU is easy, Optimizing Memory is Hard"

That interview with Steve Jobs has some interesting insights.

PLAYBOY: Like computers, the automobile industry was an American industry that we almost lost to the Japanese. There is a lot of talk about American semiconductor companies' losing ground to Japanese. How will you keep the edge?

JOBS: Japan's very interesting. Some people think it copies things. I don't think that anymore. I think what they do is reinvent things. They will get something that's already been invented and study it until they thoroughly understand it. In some cases, they understand it better than the original inventor. Out of that understanding, they will reinvent it in a more refined second-generation version. That strategy works only when what they're working with isn't changing very much—the stereo industry and the automobile industry are two examples. When the target is moving quickly, they find it very difficult, because that reinvention cycle takes a few years. As long as the definition of what a personal computer is keeps changing at the rate that it is, they will have a very hard time.

http://cycle-gap.blogspot.com/2007/09/glorious-history-of-hr...