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If you haven’t yet read Joel Spolsky’s interview on Salon, then by now you’ve at least seen someone else link to it. But it’s worth a read. Not very tech-y; just enough to make the point.

There’s a subtle little bit in there about distributed systems that really struck me:

What’s kind of surprising is that it has turned out to be easier to rewire the entire world for high-bandwidth Internet than it is to make a good replication architecture so you can work disconnected!