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I just want to add to the other good replies:

* today's petabyte feels lighter than 10 years ago. It's not only disk space, it's bandwidth: from network to bus to ram to cpu.

* often a matter seems trivial when you have a proof that a given design actually works. But someone had to build it the first time and get it right; understand which of the many were important, invest and risk. You can find spectacular failures even with less unknowns.

* the devil is in the detail.




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