Comments for The Wandering CIO

Comment on 20.5 Million hits a day using an Amazon Micro server ($15 a month) and Node.js by Dan

Dan — Tue, 01 May 2012 10:37:24 +0000

Evan – that is spot on!

Comment on 20.5 Million hits a day using an Amazon Micro server ($15 a month) and Node.js by Ewan

Ewan — Tue, 01 May 2012 07:44:36 +0000

I think you’re absolutely right in your last paragraph.

It’s not so much about specific point technologies like node.js, or nginx, but that building a high performance web server today is so much simpler than it was 5 years ago, and this is going to trigger all sorts of innovative services to appear because they’ve suddenly become economically viable.

Comment on “The future is already here, it’s just unevenly distributed.” by Dan

Dan — Thu, 15 Dec 2011 14:48:24 +0000

You are spot-on. I have always been intrigued by the aspect of the idea that in labs today exist some the technologies we will come to know “in the future”. If you work in one of those labs you are literally “inventing the future”.

So when Steve Jobs visited Xerox PARC he saw the future and brought it forward to the rest of us.

Comment on “The future is already here, it’s just unevenly distributed.” by webdev

webdev — Thu, 15 Dec 2011 08:28:21 +0000

Actually, I think the quote refers to the fact that most every technology we can think of are already available but it is not available to everyone yet or are still in prototype phase. Space travel, Telekinesis, Nano technology, Gene modification etc.

Comment on The federal budget by Chris

Chris — Mon, 29 Aug 2011 20:06:57 +0000

Good thing Mr. Jones has that stash of gold socked away. He might start thinking about selling a little bit to raise cash and pay down some debt at these record prices.

Comment on The federal budget by Dan

Dan — Mon, 29 Aug 2011 19:52:39 +0000

Thanks Chris – you have a good point about the mortgage analogy. Perhaps the best way is to look at total household debt – credit cards, mortgage, auto loans, etc. and compare to the total US debt. More apples to apples.

The counter is that US goverment tends to use treasuries with a duration of 10 years or less and rolls them.

Comment on The federal budget by Chris

Chris — Mon, 29 Aug 2011 19:40:36 +0000

I wholeheartedly agree with the sentiment, but I have a slight problem with the analogy. To say that the fictitious Jones family has an outstanding balance of $142k on their credit card doesn’t quite equate. Wouldn’t it be more appropriate to liken the Jones’ debt to a home mortgage (more comparable to the govt debt in interest rate and term)? In that case, the numbers start to look quite real for a household, and it is clear that the Jones family’s main financial problem is their low annual income, not their spending and debt (which seem quite reasonable for a fictitious family). Which sort of supports the case for raising federal revenues. Thanks for the good post, Dan.

Comment on Cloud Computing = No More Corporate IT? by jodie_microsoft_smb

jodie_microsoft_smb — Tue, 19 Oct 2010 13:46:39 +0000

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