A comparatively small number of problems are constrained by the speed of the algorithm. A comparatively large number of problems are bounded by the speed of the developer.
100W of power * 8 hours = .8KWh, or somewhere around 8¢ of power. So, if resume from hibernate takes 30s of your time, then you should only use hibernate if your time is worth less than 8¢*(3600/30) = $9.60 per hour.
But I’ve learned never to say never about technology. A phone-sized device that would work as a development machine is no more miraculous by present standards than the iPhone itself would have seemed by the standards of 1995.
His firm made $20 billion between 2007 and early 2009 by betting against the housing market and big financial companies. His personal cut would amount to nearly $4 billion, or more than $10 million a day. That was more than the 2007 earnings of J.K. Rowling, Oprah Winfrey and Tiger Woods combined.
Joel needs someone like Atlassian to shake him up and get him going
if there is one thing Rand’s life shows, it is the power, and peril, of unjustified self-esteem
One of the nice things about this career is that you can get a job by being good at it instead of being good at interviews
gallant, driven, brilliant, brash, cruel … and ultimately self-destructive
Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn’t do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover.
