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Well they started off in Boston and were MIT/Harvard grad students. And the backend was a DARPA project. So not really Brooklyn at heart, though some millennial
by carabiner 3y ago
Well they started off in Boston and were MIT/Harvard grad students. And the backend was a DARPA project. So not really Brooklyn at heart, though some millennial New Yorkers pretended it was. They even had a personality trait for how much a user reminded them of Harvard girls. Like many "only in New York!" things it was really something that had mass appeal and gave a sense of quirkiness that was actually widespread in our generation.
"New Yorkers will say 'only in New York!' and it's the most normal shit ever."
- a-dub 3y ago> And the backend was a DARPA project. the similarity/CF stuff? what was the DARPA project? other than that it seemed a rather ordinary consumer webapp?
- fader 3y agoI think they're referring to the Internet.
- carabiner 3y agohttps://pdos.csail.mit.edu/papers/okws-usenix04.pdf https://pdos.csail.mit.edu/papers/okws-usenix04.pdf
- kerneis 3y agoNot sure if it was DARPA, but the web server used Tame, a custom event-driven framework at a time where the thread vs. events debate was all the rage in the academic community. (I did a PhD on the topic and that's how I learned about Ok Cupid!) You can read the paper they published: "events can make sense" https://www.usenix.org/legacy/events/usenix07/tech/krohn.html https://www.usenix.org/legacy/events/usenix07/tech/krohn.htm... I met some ex-OkCupid engineers at a later company who said the framework was smart but a pain to maintain in then long run.