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TechCrunch on Twitter: Translation
- jamesjyu 18y agoThis is so spot on and hilarious. Funniest thing I've read in a while.
- randy 18y agoI've been sitting here trying to think of an insightful comment I can add to this post, but I've come to the conclusion that you can't improve on perfection. It's unfortunate that this post won't be read by nearly as many people as it needs to be.
- nreece 18y agoGreat post. The original TechCrunch article is another instance of talking about how things fail (miserably), rather than talking about how things can be improved to not fail. Poor journalism. The real issues about Twitters scalability are best covered in a blog post @ http://www.hueniverse.com/hueniverse/2008/03/on-scaling-a-mi.html http://www.hueniverse.com/hueniverse/2008/03/on-scaling-a-mi...
- michaelneale 18y agoWorth a chuckle. Although most "translations" in this style I have read seem to have at one point: "I am high as a kite" - shame they didn't continue that meme.
- astrec 18y agoYup. Given the omission it's not a proper Fisking. Well done otherwise.
- tdavis 18y agoWhenever I see these type of analyses I always get to thinking how awesome it would be to make all these "translations" in my head as I read. They also make me consider how easy it would be for one to come to a conclusion about the "twitter problem" by reading an article like the one on TC even though it goes out of its way to not come to any real conclusions. As in, "I read on TC that twitter's problem is..." and actually believe it. In essence, he could have written "Twitter went down again two days ago," simply leaving it at that, and it would have essentially provided the same amount of meaningful content.
- axod 18y agoRails does not seem the best language to write essentially a messaging architecture in though. Surely the core of twitter has little to do with the web, and more to do with efficiently passing messages around - something that c or java could do like a walk in the park. I don't know though, sounds like lots of it isn't in ror already which makes the point a bit moot. Maybe twitter intentionaly break their system every once in a while now to get some coverage on blogs etc. Much like 'celebrities' release a dirty video or go into rehab. Oh I'm just kidding :) although...
- tlrobinson 18y agoBesides referring to Rails as a language rather than a framework, it's a valid point. Twitter doesn't seem like it's the kind of thing that fits cleanly into Rails way of doing things.
- axod 18y agoOfftopic, but what's the difference between framework and library?
- tlrobinson 18y agoI would say that all frameworks are libraries but not all libraries are frameworks. A library could be a small chunk of code that helps accomplish one little task, or it could be a huge framework. A framework is basically a large library or collection of libraries for building applications on.
- bkovitz 18y agoWikipedia: one of the top 10 web sites by traffic, and run by 15 people, most of them not even technical. http://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Current_staff http://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Current_staff
- tlrobinson 18y agoCraigslist too (as of 2006): http://www.craigslist.org/about/pages.and.peeps.html http://www.craigslist.org/about/pages.and.peeps.html
- antirez 18y agoGreat article, we need people unmasking from time to time articles without any clue that may sound reasonable just because the blog publishing them has N*million users/month.
- tlrobinson 18y agoCan we add the keyword "Twitter" to the Hacker News blacklist? This is getting ridiculous.