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— I Am Devloper (@iamdevloper) February 17, 2014
Month: April 2014
36+ Terabytes of free cloud storage
Chinese cloud service offers 36+ TB of free storage (!!!). Â The biggest disadvantage here is that the whole website is in Chinese, but apparently there are several translations and guides in other languages available online. Â Immediately after the registration you get 7 GB. Â Once the desktop client is installed you get another 10 TB. Â If you install a mobile client, you get additional 26 TB. Â And then you can increase it even further by clicking through ads, promotions, etc.
Via Yuri Timofeev.
Facebook and the Linux kernel
Within Facebook, anyone can look at and change the code in its source repositories. The facebook.com site has its code updated twice daily, he said, so the barrier to getting new code in the hands of users is low. Those changes can be fixes or new features.
As an example, he noted that the “Look Back” videos, which were created by Facebook for each user and reviewed all of their posts to the service, added a huge amount of data and required a lot more network bandwidth. The process of creating and serving all of those videos was the topic of a Facebook engineering blog post. In all 720 million videos were created, which required an additional 11 petabytes of storage, as well as consuming 450 Gb/second of peak network bandwidth for people viewing the videos. The Look Back feature was conceived, provisioned, and deployed in only 30 days, he said.
On managing Linux kernel development
The Linux kernel is one of the largest collaborative software projects in the history of the world and has almost nothing in the way of formalized management structure. We have people who have a strong operating systems background who have been contributing code, and then we have people like me. I have a background in fruit fly genetics and yet someone lets me get close to the Linux kernel; this seems wrong. And then we have people who are genuinely kids in their bedroom. It’s a miracle it works as well as it does. We should be astonished that we’re able to get it so right so much of the time.
The Expert
I have recently shared somebody’s Facebook post with this video:
A lot of people laughed about it and that was that. Â A few dug deep into the story and found where it came from. Â But until today I haven’t really seen anyone coming up with the solution. Â Here it is, for historical purposes.
Found here.