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Anne > What’s Aphyr? Bob > -Aphyr is that guy who wrote, ‘Call Me Maybe.’ You know, the distributed systems and BDSM guy? Anne > What? Did you say BDSM? Bob
by bch 11y ago
Anne > What’s Aphyr?
Bob > -Aphyr is that guy who wrote, ‘Call Me Maybe.’ You know, the distributed systems and BDSM guy?
Anne > What? Did you say BDSM?
Bob > -Yeah, BDSM. It’s San Francisco. Everyone’s into distributed systems and BDSM.
This hilarity demonstrates the tone, and alone is worth the price of admission. Great job with this article.
- ahelwer 11y ago"Paxos is like this really old distributed consensus protocol from the 70s that no-one understands or uses." I've run into this. In reality The Part-Time Parliament was published in 1998 and Paxos Made Simple in 2001.
- Dewie3 11y agoMaybe they got their IT-timescale mixed up with our normal timescale. Things that happened in IT in the 70s on the normal timescale was like 200 IT years ago on the tech timescale, man.