links for 2008-01-22

Neat – this is one of the defining games of my career – defining some very late nights and sleepy days

“GMane has 2.5m messages indexed by Google but more than 50m messages archived.” so 95% of the messages are unindexed…!

A thought provoking essay on the design of ultra large (software) systems: “Not only do ULS systems fail to live up to Fred Brooks’s ideal of being designed or architected by a single mind, a ULS system cannot be designed by a single team of any size.”