#random - September 2018

JSON’s license only allows use for good, so when Google dropped their “don’t be evil” slogan they had to build protobuf

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That's because Moore's Law really is over, he says: "We are now a factor of 15 behind where we should be if Moore's Law were still operative. We are in the post–Moore's Law era."

This means, Patterson told engineers attending the 2018 @Scale Conference held in San Jose last week, that "we're at the end of the performance scaling that we are used to. When performance doubled every 18 months, people would throw out their desktop computers that were working fine because a friend's new computer was so much faster."

But last year, he said, "single program performance only grew 3 percent, so it's doubling every 20 years. If you are just sitting there waiting for chips to get faster, you are going to have to wait a long time."

We are in the post–Moore's Law era.