There is some extremely nice 2018 research paper on new routing paradigms that seems to be blowing out older stuff, and that is only possible because MPLS exists. The NSDI paper is linked below.
I was an intern in FB in 2010 and I distinctly remember getting this email. My full-time buddies, some of which included very senior engineers who often work with Mark, mentioned the got the shivers when they saw the title and thought they just got booted :)
I don't know why, but I find watch mechanics super fascinating.
Few favorites for people with spare time (and lots of money if one wants to buy these):
Tourbillon: a watch complication where the main mechanism is mounted on a rotating wheel so that gravity doesn't affect the watch in a single direction.
Spring drive: A very recent mechanism that produces a perfect sweeping motion of the seconds hand. It combines both mechanical power (no battery) with a quartz crystal in a super cool way.
Minute repeater: a mechanical way for a blind person to tell the time.
And for about $100, you can still buy a mechanical Seiko with a see-through caseback so you can watch everything in motion. A gateway drug for many... but also a fine stopping point because Seikos are wonderful machines in their own right.
(Although, Seiko is doing away with their most affordable mechanical models, all the newer ones are $200+)
That was a surprisingly common occurrence on SO even before. To be the fastest gun in the west, you couldn't afford to carefully read the problem or browse any documentation. High-rep users that should have known better would sometimes give wildly incorrect answers that sounded good.
