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[AtW]

You get some good articles in Communications of the ACM & Queue from time to time.

Aye.

Pretty good mag and you get it free on top of your ACM membership and access to very nice digital library of articles from all over the world.

I wish I had time to read them.

[PAH]

You get some good articles in Communications of the ACM & Queue from time to time.

Did that appear as a guest publication on Have I Got News For You?

Sounds a bit dry. Is there an audiobook version read by Ken Dodd?

[minestrone]

Twitter is a technology failure because they are down half the time I try it despite fairly easy to deal with problem (mostly read only DB with very short record sizes).

Can you just tell me what you think 'a half' actually means before we progress with this discussion?

Is it 1/2 or 50% or do you just make up basic maths constructs outwith common mathematical terminology.

Let me give you an example, if I go down the high street to buy a loaf of bread and one bakers has 100 people in the queue and the other has 50 which one has the half sized queue?

[doodab]

Aye.

Pretty good mag and you get it free on top of your ACM membership and access to very nice digital library of articles from all over the world.

I wish I had time to read them.

You need to eat more fibre.

[AtW]

Can you just tell me what you think 'a half' actually means before we progress with this discussion?

It's down (overloaded to run search) frequently enough to be noticeable.

It's not 50% of the time, but easily around 10% - no other top site does that, and no other top site has got as simple problem with data (small size never updateable message added to read only DB).

I'd solve it for $10 mln, right after sorting out NHS.

HTH

[minestrone]

It's down (overloaded to run search) frequently enough to be noticeable.

It's not 50% of the time, but easily around 10% - no other top site does that, and no other top site has got as simple problem with data (small size never updateable message added to read only DB).

I'd solve it for $10 mln, right after sorting out NHS.

HTH

So you think a half is 10%. OK.

[AtW]

So you think a half is 10%. OK.

10% is very noticeable and can give perception site is down more than actual time it is down.

They are just raising $400 mln out of $800 mln round and perhaps they'll get it fixed.

[PAH]

The clue is in "It's down half the time I try it".

Maybe just unlucky that it's down half the time he tries it. Should try it more often to get a better success rate.

[d000hg]

10% is very noticeable and can give perception site is down more than actual time it is down.

If it was 5% would that seem like more or less than 5%? At what magic value does a number appear to be it's actual value?

[minestrone]

What is this about twitter being a read only DB?

Beyonce rubs her belly and gets 9000 posts a second.

You honesly are a complete idiot claiming that and also that 10% is a half.

Has that Dutch guy given up yet on you?