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If you recall Jobs' iPhone keynote in 2007 - he quoted Alan Kay saying that companies who are serious about software should make their own hardware. As we see MacBooks today are slim, fanless, passively cooled. That is…

How often is Commoncrawl updated? On a daily cadence? Or weekly/monthly? If Meghan Markle wears a Versace gown, that becomes a BBC article, and that article shows up on Googling "meghan markle" 2-3 minutes after the…

Rust appears to be safe and cool language, many discussions going on about rewriting existing parts of kernels like bootloaders to make them memory safe, etc. Is Rust a good candidate to write an OS like Mac OS? AFAIK,…

Google uses millions of servers around the world to distribute their load in an even manner, and the servers are custom Google servers instead of standard ones like Apache or Nginx. Average Google load is around 40,000…

Hi, I am looking at Elasticsearch currently. Looks like a great search engine tool. I was wondering - what are its performance metrics relative to established players like Google? Like it uses Okapi BM25 algorithm, how…

I have a scenario - a shop runs hundreds and thousands of queries every hour. Each transaction has values like merchant id client id, purchase id, item name, item type, price, time of purchase, etc. Potentially, the…

There are so many laptops out there - Thinkpad, SurfaceBooks, Dell Inspiron, etc. How come they are so bulkier compared to Macbooks? Macbooks are so slim and lightweight, while an Inspiron or Thinkpad is so bulky and…

There are many apps on Mac and Windows based on Qt, as well as ones built using the native SDKs exposed by respective platforms, like Cocoa and Dot Net. Are the ones built on Qt as smooth and performant as the native…