> So, the internet couldn't scale. This was the basic beginning of the scaling issue on the internet. It couldn't scale, wouldn't scale, clearly. Many people wrote their Ph.D. theses on why it wouldn't scale.
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People get that people who write Ph.D.s about how things break and fail in narrow domains tend to be obsessively interested in making them work, right?
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He didn't cite these various theses and I was to young to have noticed them then but I'm willing to bet that a lot of those folks who wrote Ph.D. theses on it? They went on to engineer protocols and systems that afforded better scaling *because* of their earned insights.
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So yea, court that "damn the naysayer's!" following all you want — it's very much part of the game. But, the idea that people doing Ph.D.'s are disinterested or pessimistic documentarian's is pretty fucking dumb. (Image source: http://matt.might.net/articles/phd-school-in-pictures/ …)pic.twitter.com/kCqkDDDTrL
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