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Or maybe that is THE SMART THING. Realizing that you need resources to accomplish it, and throwing money would do it for you.
by malkia 8y ago
Or maybe that is THE SMART THING. Realizing that you need resources to accomplish it, and throwing money would do it for you.
- user5994461 8y agoMonkeys have no salary and no rights. It's more scalable and easier to manage than regular employees. Get a lot of monkeys and put them at work. They will produce something. Better have something than have nothing.
- malkia 8y agoThat's a bit like trying to use Apple ][ machines for cloud business.
- mmt 8y agoAlthough your simile is reductio ad absurdum, a version of this idea does, occasionally get surfaced, in the form of using (modern) small, lower-power processors (e.g. Atom, mobile ARM) in very large numbers in the datacenter. While touting the purchase cost or energy benefits, these ideas routinely ignore the overhead cost inherent in a distributed system, let alone the Fallacies [1], which is the GP's and OC's (and possibly your) point, I believe. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fallacies_of_distributed_computing https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fallacies_of_distributed_compu...