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Idea for Canada
March 18, 2009
I was thinking — I wonder if there is a country in the world with a constitution like the United States Constitution that hasn’t drifted as far towards socialism as the United States has. I’m too lazy to search for that… but while I was thinking of that, I had an idea for Canada.
What if it adopted the original US Constitution, implemented the FairTax, incentives for establishing & growing businesses, and gave special incentives for Americans with annual incomes over $250k to relocate? It would be a bold, bold move, and I think they could “steal” a lot of America’s wealth.
I’d very seriously consider moving across our northern border.
What have we come to?
LinkedIn architecture evolution
March 10, 2009
Great read for web application geeks: http://hurvitz.org/blog/2008/06/linkedin-architecture
Interesting narrative on how they started with a monolithic app, and eventually broke it down both vertically (services) and horizontally (partitioned by type and/or ID ranges), and how they surrender to the reality that the data isn’t going to be 100% up-to-date for all uses.
