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This is so impressive, to see behind the curtains of what has become the central repository of humanities knowledge, during a moment of loss of one of humanity's greats.
> during a moment of loss of one of humanity's greats. Compared to, lets say Bill Gates who's saved millions of lives? Even artistically, I'm not sure Prince was up there in the top 1% The power of marketing.....
This is so impressive, to see behind the curtains of what has become the central repository of humanities knowledge, during a moment of loss of one of humanity's greats.
> during a moment of loss of one of humanity's greats. Compared to, lets say Bill Gates who's saved millions of lives? Even artistically, I'm not sure Prince was up there in the top 1% The power of marketing.....
I never saw Prince live, but talking to people who did, he commanded the stage and the audience like few others. Without exception they describe him as one of the best live performers they have ever seen.
I don't see why you bring up Bill Gates. His philanthropy is laudable and that stands on its own. I don't see how recognizing that Prince is probably up there with the best performing artists in human history takes anything away from that.
This is so impressive, to see behind the curtains of what has become the central repository of humanities knowledge, during a moment of loss of one of humanity's greats.
> during a moment of loss of one of humanity's greats. Compared to, lets say Bill Gates who's saved millions of lives? Even artistically, I'm not sure Prince was up there in the top 1% The power of marketing.....
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> during a moment of loss of one of humanity's greats. Compared to, lets say Bill Gates who's saved millions of lives? Even artistically, I'm not sure Prince was up there in the top 1% The power of marketing.....
I totally agree with the sentiment of this comment (though I'm not sure how much marketing is involved.) Prince was very good at music and was, well, kind of a dick. I don't quite get the massive outpouring of grief that has ensued.
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Downvotes aren't punishment. Up/down votes indicate "this comment ought to be more/less prominent on the page". The sentence was somewhat ambiguous and your misunderstanding is understandable. But your comment is not useful to the discussion because most people understood and in any case it's tangential.
Okay honestly am I the only one who reads "in front of a hundred million people" and thinks it actually means he was in front of a hundred million people? I don't see it as an ambiguity, it's simply a wrong statement. I'm okay with people being uninterested in (and even downvoting) a correction, but I'm baffled that anyone could read the sentence as anything other than incorrect. I mean, they even describe the weathe…
a hundred million people in one venue is certainly an unbelievable number though.
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I totally agree with the sentiment of this comment (though I'm not sure how much marketing is involved.) Prince was very good at music and was, well, kind of a dick. I don't quite get the massive outpouring of grief that has ensued.
"Kind of a dick" I think could easily apply to Gates as well, no?
David Bowie, Wikipedia web hits: https://tools.wmflabs.org/pageviews/#project=en.wikipedia.or...
I don't think WMF staff are credited enough for the work they do in keeping Wikipedia running. They seriously know how to scale, I think the only ones better than them are honestly Facebook and Twitter!
Even in peak it's just ~800 hits per second - it shows how is irrelevant the C10k problem (yes, I know it's not exactly about hits per second, but still).
The C10k problem is absolutely not irrelevant, and certainly not because one page only saw 800rps during a worldwide event. Two things there: (1) 800rps TO THAT PAGE is the metric. The entire rest of Wikipedia was still getting traffic, and as an educated guess I would estimate raw traffic to be on the order of magnitude of 3-4krps (across editing and views). They are quite open with operations and if I weren't mobil…