Humor: Cargo Cult Programming

Tom Buskey tom at buskey.name
Thu Nov 14 21:29:03 EST 2002


John Abreau said:
>
>By that metric, I've never experienced a non-local network connection 
>that didn't suck. Not just on dialup, but on attbi, on many corporate 
>networks at various contract jobs where both offices were on T1 lines
>in separate cities.

I was lucky enough to work at Genuity for awhile.  10T to the internet. 
And to all the remote data centers.  Ok, the link to tokyo and london 
had some latency issues but they weren't on our network.

It was probably one of the few jobs that would make a cablemodem or DSL 
line feel slow.

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