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Re: Amazon diagnosis

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jay Ashworth)
Thu May 5 16:53:37 2011

Date: Thu, 5 May 2011 16:51:11 -0400 (EDT)
From: Jay Ashworth <jra@baylink.com>
To: NANOG <nanog@nanog.org>
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----- Original Message -----
> From: "Ryan Malayter" <malayter@gmail.com>

> I like to bag on my developers for not knowing anything about the
> infrastructure, but sometimes you just can't do it right because of
> physics. Or you can't do it right without writing your own OS,
> networking stacks, file systems, etc., which means it is essentially
> "impossible" in the real world.

"Physics"?

Isn't that an entirely inadequate substitute for "desire"?

Cheers,
-- jra


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