Archive for the 'Aside' Category
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February 9, 2010
⇒ 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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(Aside data, flickr, fluffy clouds, new cities, photography) -
April 6, 2009
⇒ rev=canonical: url shortening that doesn’t hurt the internet.A URL shortener that implements rev=”canonical”.
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(Aside Code, cool uris don't change, gae, history, infrastructure, revcanonical, urls, web) -
March 6, 2009
⇒ World Builder by Bruce Branit.Wow.
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January 17, 2009
⇒ Belkin is paying people to say their products don’t suck.I wonder how much they’d pay for me to take down this post and the 60+ associated comments.
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January 12, 2009
⇒ Twitter Grader, Brooklyn.Via swissmiss, I’m amused to find myself among the “Brooklyn Twitter elite”, not the least because its clearly down to having had dinner once with the Grader.com VP of Engineering. And you thought it was a level playing field
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December 21, 2008
⇒ Sci-Fi Hi-Fi: If it looks like a leaderboard, and quacks….“…social software is a medium turns all communication into a self-representation game…”
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December 13, 2008
⇒ 7 Free WikiPedia iPhone Apps Compared.This is the blog post I’ve been promising myself I’d write for 2 months. Though it also highlights the failure of the feature matrix based approach to classifying apps. The three-word summary of my once and future blog post: Quickpedia, it’s quick.
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December 11, 2008
⇒ My Flickr API library for PHP.I’m a big believer in Norvig’s “Code is liability” maxim. Which is how I justify my ugly, but functional Flickr API implementation, in 40 lines of PHP (not the most expressive of languages), which I wrote in about 15 minutes one evening, and I now use for all of my Flickr side projects. And all apropos of digging through other folks Flickr API impls, trying to get them working on GAE. Thankfully blech is already there.
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October 29, 2008
⇒ Video of electronic voting machines totally failing to accomplish the simplest of tasks..The current crop of electronic voting machines are so bad it’s criminal, and the companies that manufactured them should be put out of business on the grounds of constituting a clear and present danger to our national security.
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(Aside politics, video, voting)
