Most interesting aspect of the article was the last section and first comment, linking to SkipNet: http://research.microsoft.com/en-us/um/people/alecw/usits-200

Most interesting aspect of the article was the last section and first comment, linking to SkipNet: http://research.microsoft.com/en-us/um/people/alecw/usits-2003.pdf http://research.microsoft.com/en-us/um/people/alecw/usits-20... Ideas like SkipNet are what differentiates a hack like me from genuinely smart people who can look at the definition of in-memory data structure and spot properties useful to an Internet-sized system