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You saved 5 cents, and your code is not readable, congrats!
I found myself reading this post, and at some point, I really wanted to cry:
We had relatively long, descriptive names in MySQL such as timeAdded or valueCached. For a small number of rows, this extra storage only amounts to a few bytes per row, but when you have 10 million rows, each with maybe 100 bytes of field names, then you quickly eat up disk space unnecessarily. 100 * 10,000,000 = ~900MB just for field names!
We cut down the names to 2-3 characters. This is a little more confusing in the code but the disk storage savings are worth it. And if you use sensible names then it isn’t that bad e.g. timeAdded -> tA. A reduction to about 15 bytes per row at 10,000,000 rows means ~140MB for field names – a massive saving.
Let me do the math for a second, okay?
A two terabyte hard drive now costs 120 USD. By my math, that makes:
- 1 TB = 60 USD
- 1 GB = 0.058 USD
In other words, that massive saving that they are talking about? 5 cents!
Let me do another math problem, oaky?
Developer costs about 75,000 USD per year.
- (52 weeks – 2 vacation weeks) x 40 work hours = 2,000 work hours per year.
- 75,000 / 2,000 = 37.5 $ / hr
- 37.5 / 60 minutes = 6 cents per minutes.
In other words, assuming that this change cost a single minute of developer time, the entire saving is mute.
And it is going to take a lot more than one minute.
We have been working vigorously to get Turba onto other digital download services besides just hosting it on our website. We know that buying directly has its advantages and disadvantages so we want to give you guys some options. After fruitless efforts with services like D2D and Impulse;…
Microsoft unveiled its smaller, sleeker Xbox 360 design, packing a 250GB hard drive and built-in wireless-n. Microsoft’s Don Mattrick said it will be in stores by the end of the week, and will still cost $299.
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