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Re:Give Me Back My Monolith on Thursday March 14, 2019 @05:45AM (#19387708)
Erlang/OTP and Elixir on top of that, brings more than 30 years of experience of building Reliable, Scalable and High Available Systems.

It's difficult to fight this.

Somebody new to Erlang can get a feel of what Systems Architecture in Erlang really means from a great article by Fred Hebert:

"The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Unexpected" https://ferd.ca/the-hitchhiker-s-guide-to-the-unexpected.htm...

Re:Intel delays 10nm Cannon Lake processors, again, until late 2019 on Saturday July 28, 2018 @04:16AM (#17632196)
The secret behind 10nm technology:

https://www.asml.com/press/press-releases/earnings-growth-co...

“Outlook For the third-quarter of 2018, ASML expects net sales between EUR 2.7 billion and EUR 2.8 billion, a gross margin between 47 percent and 48 percent. R&D costs of about EUR 395 million, SG&A costs of about EUR 120 million. Our target effective annualized tax rate is around 14 percent.”

Re:MacBook Pro with faster performance and new features for pros on Thursday July 12, 2018 @02:03PM (#17517095)
hey Apple, this is how Hacker News' MacBook Pros pain looks like:

search "keyboard" on this page ... 166 entries right now

Re:Gluon – A configurable and small virtual machine which runs Erlang ... on Tuesday June 12, 2018 @08:06AM (#17292488)
it looks there is also a more recent proof of concept work to implement the Erlang VM in Rust: https://github.com/kvakvs/ErlangRT
Re:Mobile Changes Everything on Tuesday June 23, 2015 @04:29AM (#9763307)
slide 31 / video min 16:07

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Global SMS: 20 bn messages a day

WhatsApp: 30 bn messages a day.

(with just 40 engineers)

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should be refactored:

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Global SMS: 20 bn messages a day

(10.000 Engineers using C/C++/Java - just guessing)

WhatsApp: 30 bn messages a day

(with just 40 engineers using Erlang)

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Software Estimates - reply on erlang-questions by Joe Armstrong

Posted by lucian on Thursday September 19, 2013 @08:58AM
from the erlang.org dept.

http://erlang.org/pipermail/erlang-questions/2013-September/075427.html

... Most time isn't spent programming anyway - programmer time is spent: a) fixing broken stuff that should not be broken b) trying to figure out what problem the customer actually wants solving c) writing experimental code to test some idea d) googling for some obscure fact that is needed to solve a) or b) e) writing and testing production code e) is actually pretty easy...

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New MacBook Pro with Retina Display: 2880-by-1800 resolution

Posted by lucian on Friday July 06, 2012 @05:10PM
from the apple.com dept.

http://www.apple.com/macbook-pro/features/

...One screen. Five million pixels. When you pack over 5 million pixels into a 15.4-inch display, the results are positively stunning. The pixel density is so high, your eyes can’t discern individual pixels. Images take on a new level of realism and text is pin sharp. And with a 2880-by-1800 resolution, you can see more of your high-resolution images onscreen with pixel-for-pixel accuracy. So...

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