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I always wondered if it'd make sense to run a contest by the community and judged by the community on how to make twitter scale. There have been a lot of sugges

by yan 18y ago

I always wondered if it'd make sense to run a contest by the community and judged by the community on how to make twitter scale. There have been a lot of suggestions in informal blog posts and the like, but nothing official. In one way it would be admitting defeat, in another a way to crowdsource difficult problems to be created and judged by the community. Judging from the interest it harnessed already, I imagine a few intelligent and interested people would submit ideas.

xirium 18y ago
> run a contest by the community and judged by the community on how to make twitter scale. There's already been more effort discussing the problem than fixing the problem. Most of the discussion has been based on very little factual data. For example, armchair architects can safely suggest Blub where Blub != Ruby because it is a theory which is unlikely to be disproved and extremely unlikely to be made in isolation.