News to me too, but according to that same article, they were more in that direction (but moved in the bazaar direction in response to CatB). Closed-source, meanwhile, is the obvious next step from "source is unavailable except when the cabal releases" to "source is unavailable, full stop"; the original definition of "cathedral" does represent that, if only by presenting a weaker form of it.

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TED has already been mentioned. There are some others out there, I'm sure.

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TED has already been mentioned. There are some others out there, I'm sure.

"Get one service to post copies to the other", presumably.

I hope they only plan to feed this to animals that they hate.

Fourthed.

New rule for Science Journalism: If your article can be summarized as "No.", don't write it.

You say "millions of ... daily hits". For simplicity, let's say that you get about 1 million hits per day; that's about 10 hits per second, and that's if they're spread out evenly throughout the day. If it's fairly business-centric and USA-centric, then let's say that you get about 90% of those hits during a period of about 10 hours; that's more like 25 hits per second. Now how long will it take your server, on average, to process one hit (taking multiple processes/threads/etc. into account)? The difference between 0.02 seconds and 0.12 seconds now determines whether it gets swamped or not.

If you do run this type of volume on your own kit, then you'll need to pay serious attention to (1) optimizing for processing speed (including volume of data sent back and forth between your site and the user) and (2) using multiple web servers and/or database servers with load balancing.

Project Xanadu: Original 17 rules

6. Every document can contain links of any type including virtual copies ("transclusions") to any other document in the system accessible to its owner.

Youtube demo (the actual demo starts at about 3:15)

Just this past weekend, I moved some stuff off an old Windows 98 workstation at a client. I'm pretty sure the user hadn't been performing percussive maintenance... Also upgraded the primary application software (for the first time since 2005 or so) and a few custom reports (dating back to the pre-Crystal Reports era).

This turns out to be about 200 miles west of Seattle. Hmm...

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TFA is slashdotted right now, so this is necessarily a guess, but maybe they're talking about e.g. 1,000 CPUs each doing one operation in 330ns as basically equivalent (in terms of net work done) to 1 CPU doing all 1,000 of those operations in 330ps apiece?

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• Option, e.g. "I pay you $100 and you agree to (sell to me / buy from me) 1,000 shares of XYZ at a locked-in price of $50 apiece whenever I decide to exercise my option" (I may decide not to exercise it at all, and I may have a time limit)
• Binomial options pricing model, a formula for how valuable an option is in practice
• Closed-form expression, pertaining to a method that gets values out of a formula without resorting to brute-force approximation or other such PITA methods
• Gosper's algorithm, pertaining to proving that there ain't no such method for this model

...an anti-laser capable of emitting a beam of pure anti-anti-matter.