Michael Schenck

mobocracy:

The tumblr deploy schedule. Blue vertical lines are deploys, green stacked graphs are requests per second, annotations are my own.

People start deploying just after 10am (not surprising, most folks come in around 10) and keep deploying code until lunch time. Lunch time is a very social thing here, so most folks head out for a bit. After lunch, people are heads down until snack time. Snack time does not really exist. Code pushes resume again after snack time and go until dinner, just after 7pm. After that, last minute bug fixes until just after 8pm. Then sleep.

These opinions are my own. I don’t actually think most tumblr employees go to bed at 8:00pm. There also is not any officially scheduled snack time, although this would be cool.

jacob:

“Read the safety information above”

That’s pretty effective, I presume … I actually stopped treading at step 1

softscribeincpublicrelations:

Thinking machines on horizon

A research team led by Steve Furber, one of the designers of the ARM processor that powers most mobile phones, is creating a new type of computer design.  The spiking neural network architecture, or SpiNNaker, will connect a million chips and simulate a billion brain neurons, more than any computer to date.  Unlike most computers, it won’t have a clock to synchronize computations.  Like a human brain, it will react to events in real time.  Researchers expect to complete the design in late ‘13.

- investors.com 8.7.12 (trends & innovations)

landofivy:

EVIDENCE OF HOW THE MOON FORMED HAS BEEN FOUND

Frédéric Moynier and his team at Washington University in St. Louis have discovered evidence that the Moon was created when a planetary body the size of Mars smashed into the Earth about 4.5 billion years ago.

Moon rocks have been shown to have a tiny excess of a heavier variant of the element zinc. In the Moon’s early formation its surface was hot enough to vaporise zinc. This enrichment likely occurred as heavier zinc atoms condense out of vaporised rock faster than lighter zinc atoms . The remaining vapour escapes before it condenses. This kind of sorting by mass is known as isotopic fractionation and has been looked for in Moon rocks since the 1970’s. Moon rocks are chemically similar to Earth rocks, except for a significantly lower amount of volatiles.

you know, in case you hadn’t already heard

bryanasortino:

gimme!

What do you MEAN there’s no more catnip

llbwwb:

Fire without flame… (by ildikoneer)