Archive for the 'Aside' Category
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March 8, 2010
⇒ SnapGroups: Mark Fletcher’s Lightweight Discussion.I’m a big fan of lightweight, ridiculously easy group forming, and of Mark Fletcher’s work, so I’m excited about SnapGroups. More interesting to me though is to see he chose to use Mongo, as Mark handrolled a custom datastore to Bloglines. Validates some of my cautious optimism for Mongo delivering on some of its promise.
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February 16, 2010
⇒ Wikimedia has a users RPE of 30mil.“Wikimedia Foundation currently employs 14 technical people (not all of whom are developers). At 400 million readers/month (as of February 2010), that’s about 1 developer per 30 million users. Accounting for open source developers probably doesn’t change that ratio by an order of magnitude.” (not exactly apples to apples, but still interesting)
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February 11, 2010
⇒ OAuth Echo – delegation in identity verification – mehack.Glad to see Raffi getting this stuff out. These “vouched for” experiences are going to be the next key pieces towards enabling decentralization and service re-composition.
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⇒ Dens: First thoughts on Google Buzz for mobile (Alex is telling me the web version is a whole new can of worms).
“#3. Is Google Buzz the Facebook / Twitter / foursquare killer? No. Using Buzz requires more thought / more work than Facebook or Twitter and comes with less reward … For social apps the feature overlap is irrelevant – it’s about the motivation to use the product and the culture that drives participation.”
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February 10, 2010
⇒ Flickr Developer Blog: 5 Questions for Simon Willison.My interview with Simon is up, and full of wildlife, machine tag goodness, and a couple of easter eggs as well.
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February 9, 2010
⇒ Why I love everything you hate about Java « Magic Scaling Sprinkles.NK: “All that boilerplate is really important when you work at massive scale and where efficiency really matters.” More meditations on the coding for scale question and the role of cleverness and abstractions. That said I think the factories actually hide the hard learning that’s gone into those pool size choices.
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⇒ Abusing MySQL: The Federated Engine « mikhail panchenko.
Mike, I think my head hurts.
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February 8, 2010
⇒ Richard Crowley: OpenDNS MySQL abuses.“INSERTs contains values that are pre-sorted in PRIMARY KEY order to avoid deadlock … To delete old data, a new table is swapped into place using RENAME TABLE … MySQL is still a pretty heavy hammer.” Beautiful.
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February 6, 2010
⇒ Joe Stump: Fail fast and often.And this isn’t just for startups, the times when we’ve lost track of our ability to fail have been the most difficult times at Flickr.
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February 2, 2010
⇒ Facebook: “our engineering team is relatively small — there are over one million users to every engineer”.Throw away line in the Facebook HipHop post gives us the Facebook RPE, 1mil vs Flickr’s 2.5mil.
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⇒ the hose drawer (tecznotes).
“The firehose offers a continuous flow of data, yet requires us to break that flow down into discrete chunk … t-shirts cut from unending tubular knit fabrics, continuously-cast steel, simulated egg yolks sliced from unbroken cylinders.” Glass beads on a wire.
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January 30, 2010
⇒ “Normalization is for sissies” will never work!.Found this Kottke post from 2004, quoting Cal’s original (I think) “normalization is for sisses” talk. Love reading through the comments on that post patiently explaining how it will never work!
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January 29, 2010
⇒ Flickr Blog: Fence Friday.Twitter has #followfriday. If I were ever to rebuild Flickr from the ground up, I’d collapse the distinction between tags and groups for thematic collaboration. Explicit grouping is useful only when you need to create a sense of place, a trick most easily accomplished in virtual environment by articulating a membership, and a history. Collaboration does not need place, it needs energy.
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January 26, 2010
⇒ Fewest days in the month = least commitment to sparkle motion.Haughey’s post in what I see as a new genre of “I-miss-blogging” style posts, distinct from the old “I’m-sorry-I-haven’t-posted-recently” apologies we used to see.
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November 19, 2009
⇒ Noticings in Midtown West, New York, United States.Currently I’m the only one, with Web 2.0 Expo is going on I thought there would be more. Play in New York is currently very sparse. The bespoke uploadr may help.
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October 25, 2009
⇒ A literary appreciation of the Olson/Zoneinfo/tz database.I’m a card carrying member of the Olson fan club, but it’s still great reading see Jon’s love note. ADO has a posse. (actually I only have 5 posts tagged olson, while I have 7 posts tagged udell )
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August 20, 2009
⇒ “Alive in Joburg” is a glimpse into how brilliant “District 9″ could have been.Textured, balanced, thought provoking, visually distinctive. D9 in contrast was shallow, focused on easy laughs, and gross out gags, and deeply problematic portrayals of apartheid and race. (via cal)
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April 17, 2009
⇒ #2 Every Building with a Shoebox in it’s Basement.“Buildings could offer WiFi photo uploading service, in return for keeping the photos taken of them….… what if Cloudgate were built with servers and wireless inside, right from the start, offering to consume the photos taken of it. You take a shot with a wireless enabled camera and it could store a copy for you. It’s building up a library of itself, in all seasons, in all weather. Meanwhile you, have a backup, findable by time and browsing, stored safely in the Cloud!”
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April 6, 2009
⇒ rev=canonical: url shortening that doesn’t hurt the internet.A URL shortener that implements rev=”canonical”.
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March 6, 2009
⇒ World Builder by Bruce Branit.Wow.
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