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Perhaps I am not getting the point, but it seemed that the silver bullet was to fix the performance issue.
by norswap 13y ago
Perhaps I am not getting the point, but it seemed that the silver bullet was to fix the performance issue.
- kcorbitt 13y agoI think the connotation of "silver bullet" in this post is an extraordinary idea that solves the problem definitively by changing the rules. A lead bullet, by contrast, acknowledges the current field of play and just plays it better. Less glamorous, but still plenty deadly.
- mturmon 13y agoThese elemental analogies are reminding me of the Manhattan project. One silver bullet (E = m c^2 and Einstein's letter to Roosevelt) and some lead bullets (the long slog of building huge industrial plants to purify the uranium). Maybe sometimes you need both.
- narag 13y agoThe alledged siver bullets, as I understood it, where the set of partnerships and acquisitions that would broaden the product line and surround the web server with enough functionality that we would be able survive the attack. I wonder if this story is related: http://www.jwz.org/doc/groupware.html http://www.jwz.org/doc/groupware.html
- saalweachter 13y agoThe point was that there was no easy fix to the performance issue (a silver bullet). They just had to buckle down and apply a myriad of optimizations, innovations, and hacks to slowly, incrementally get the performance where it needed to be (lots of lead bullets).