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Re:Don't Bet on Moore Saving Your Ass by icey on Wednesday January 07, 2009 @03:17PM (#423888)
All this Moore's law talk is driving me insane. Improvements in performance are only a side effect of Moore's law.

Moore's law only states that the density of transistors on a chip will double every 2 years. This will fail because of the Zeno's paradox-like effect of limited miniaturization.

At some point, transistors will have to become molecule size, and then atomic, at which point it should be theoretically impossible to get any smaller.

(Sorry for the derailment, and yes, I also go bonkers over centrifugal vs centripetal.)

Finally, DHH may be amazing at writing frameworks, but he is just about the absolute last person I would trust with anything that resembled math.

Re:Don't Bet on Moore Saving Your Ass by skenney26 on Wednesday January 07, 2009 @07:57PM (#424265)
The issue isn't about math. The opinion of anyone who's maintaining a profitable business should be given extra attention.
Re:Don't Bet on Moore Saving Your Ass by mattmaroon on Wednesday January 07, 2009 @10:59PM (#424427)
I don't agree with that. Running a profitable business doesn't automatically make your opinions on everything unusually worthy of consideration.