"Maybe we'll have a specialized tumor/organ at some point in our bodies, holding just artificially inserted data and the mechanism to read that data and output it to one of our senses. Or even an Nth sense: "read DNA memory". Finally, a way for our species' knowledge to survive even if civilization collapses."

As another dune fan this is awesome! On side note the first breast implant was done in 1895 to actress who had mastectomy but surgeon used a benign growth on spine as implant. So idea of using such things as data storage is not completely nuts.

Mobile phone contracts with 'all you can eat' exceptions for Netflix. As one example.

Perfect unix. One job and does it well.
Saved my career on many occasions.

For those who don't know curl is open source command line tool for doing http (s) requests.

IRC but invite only channels. Works in browser without plugins.

API allows text commands to invoke external services like Google hangouts. Also allows bots ( again like IRC) to post in channels.

For myself it was algebra taught by nun at secondary school. 'Woot you can divide, subtract, add on BOTH sides of equal sign and is same thing!

I am firm believer that in maths in particular you need to go as far back as possible to get students to grok core concepts.

I hate idea that so many students are left behind in maths early on as don't have these core revelations.

Dude totally mirrored you up to jcl ( amdahl 9000 with cics/cobol ) afraid our way diverged when I went down Perl route.

Still poking '10 rem' was fun using codes from back of zx81 manual?

I think a combined 1000gbit/sec dedicated connectivity to West coast us. So for 4.5million population makes huge sense to make best use of it.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Southern_Cross_Cable

Amazing how much lit and unlit capacity is being strung around world. Once it was cheaper for us to do back haul between continents and back than worry about cross country xfer.

For apps with not big requirements for low Latency changes where you stick the edge nodes. Imagine one factor behind Netflix and amazon launching in 100+ countries in past 18 months.

"so it's not the project, it's the thing you put into the project." Well said and bang on.

Fail safe is usually to disable system - as in this case.

As for backup comms route ( manual in building, sms or even plain old modem ) good point

Low delta to land and take off. Lots of easy to excavate resources. Hydrocarbons everywhere. Obvious

$600 is nuts but very unwise to mess with such a powerful drug which in very controlled doses treats serious conditions but minor variances outside that dose can lead to death or serious conditions.

That a pint of beer - Basically 500ml of water with a dash of alcohol and some bubbles - now costs the same as a beautiful, intricate and tiny computer.

You stars archive.org

Blimey I wouldn't do that and running a bog standard stream service never mind an airline with 100 million a day of revenue.

500 servers is about 50 racks. About 500,000 a year plus about 2,000,000 for kit and 4,000,000 for software and licenses and 250,000 for interconnect . So capex 6,000,000 and opex call it 1,000,000 per annum.

I normally rate a major dc failure ( more than 10min ) at about once every 5 years.

Easy business case.

Also generator and ups fail over is tough to test with one dc. Which hit this one bad.

You have got it 'notice is for co-workers not for employer'. Even 2 weeks is enough for key gotchas. Nice morals but also better long term career. Amazing how the best Co workers crop up in other companies you interview with in IT.