Today’s coffee companion works in DevOps.
We talked about:
- the nature of what constitutes BIG data, and whether it’s possible to describe a scale that starts with a single bit, and goes up into the biggest imaginable sets of data (for example, Visa and Mastercard transactions?).
- what would be at the top end of that scale, and where does the international unit of data size, The Library of Congress, fit?
- peaks and troughs in demand
- how the 31st of January is a big day for HMRC systems, but so, strangely, is 26th December
- Holocracy
- why consolidating systems so often just ends up with “one more system”
- why people still ask for a photocopy or scan of the front of your passport? Passports used to have a little window on the front page with the number in it. That hasn’t been the case for decades, but people still ask for a facsimile of the front cover nonetheless.
- the ragged political system and the appeal of benevolent dictatorship.
- whether an actual monarchy would be more honest
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