I highly doubt sales would increase by 10x, or even 2x.
This book isn't trying to sell itself by saying "hey, buy me and you'll be entertained for three hours, which is a better value than a movie ticket".
This book is trying to convince potential customers that it will help them graduate from junior engineer at local_company to senior engineer at FAANG. It's no coincidence that the author mentioned right here in his opening post that he landed a senior role at AWS. (I realize that's not a dream for many, and the whole FAANG thing is aggravating, but enough people think this way.)
If you (as a potential customer) aren't convinced, then you have no reason to buy this book even for $10.
On the other hand, if you are convinced, then the upside is so large that this book is worth buying even for $500.
Not many people will be on the edge pondering "I really think this book could help me triple my salary and status but that's worth $10 to me, not $40".
I did not point to him being a senior engineer at FAANG, I pointed to him mentioning that he's a senior engineer at FAANG, as evidence that the book is marketed towards people who also want to become senior engineers at FAANG.
As mentioned in my original comment, I fully realize that plenty of people couldn't care less about becoming senior engineers at FAANG, and am not making any claims about the intelligence or qualifications of the author or the quality of the book.
If you're all connecting directly to a streaming server (instead of using something p2p), the server will have 10 connections for inbound video feeds and then 10*9 open outbound video connections to send each video to each client connection.
> 100 outgoing video feeds. Not many machines can encode 100 video feeds in realtime
The server will send 9 video streams to each connection, but it has to process only 10 video streams since it will send the same video data to all clients, if we ignore client bandwidth.
The parent post explicitly took the client bandwidth into account, that's why it was 100 instead of 10.
But your point about 10 vs 9 still stands. Still, 81, and if you bucket into 3 tiers, that's still 27. Which at least scales linearly instead of quadratically.
Exactly. It scales linearly, not quadratically. I forgot to mention that since clients do the "original" encoding, the server actually does less work (regarding resolution tiers).
The fundamentals are about positional elements and strategic principles.
For example: Relative value of the pieces, Control of the center, Pawn structure, Tactics, Initiative, Tempo, Opposition, Keep the position balanced, Develop multiple ideas/areas (strategy), Control open lines (files/ranks/diagonals) and crossings
Yes, it's indeed a property, not a problem. The problem is the accidental complexity which has the tendency to increase and requires constant effort/energy from us to keep it low.
"I have yet to see an interesting piece of code that comes from these OO people [...] It claims that everything is an object. Even if it is true it is not very interesting"
