public marks

PUBLIC MARKS from bhartzer with tags why & over

2009

Why is 10G Better for Network Latency?

Why is 10G better for latency? In a word, serialization - the time it takes to process a packet and send it out on the wire (or read it back) is reduced by roughly a factor of 10 over 1G.

NYSE Stops Trading for Over 200 Stocks

A computer glitch stopped trading for 40 minutes in more than 200 stocks at the New York Stock Exchange today. Why did the NYSE not have a failover backup for this?

2008

6 Reasons Why Stay-at-Home Moms Should Buy Cards from CardsDirect

While CardsDirect is mostly known for catering to businesses, Ms. Cards Etiquette goes over some compelling reasons Moms might want to consider buying cards there as well.

2007

Why Nobody Should Buy Digg

It hasn’t even been a week and my once positive outlook of Digg has come to a sour end. Yesterday, Brian Clark over at Copyblogger wrote that Digg is dead. You know, for awhile, I was giving Digg the benefit of the doubt.