Google's Director of Technology, Craig Silverstein: "The biggest issue when you have more than 10,000 computers is that network management tools based on visualization become inadequate to the task: even if the UI is very good, there's often too much going on (ie, going wrong) to work effectively."
"The image translators work for the construct program. But there's way too much information to decode the Matrix. You get used to it. I...I don't even see the code. All I see is blonde, brunette, red-head. Hey, you uh... want a drink?"
"Why Linux rather than FreeBSD?", I had been curious about that too.
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