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by BarkMore 16y ago
Many of the changes in the new version bring it closer to Instagram's design.
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by BarkMore 16y ago
Yes, I received a 33% off one item coupon yesterday. They sent 50% off one item coupons around the first of the year. I never buy anything at Borders without a coupon.
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Rejections of landmark CS papers(vf.utwente.nl)
4 points by BarkMore 16y ago|0 comments
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Yes, it's feeble. The article does not connect some of the trends it discusses to the problem of income inequity. For example, there's no discussion of how increased taxes will fix income inequity nor is it obvious why it will. Gates, Buf
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by BarkMore 16y ago
Not only have the client to server protocols been reverse engineered, some proprietary IM services supply libraries for using their proprietary client to server protocols. When I mentioned IM, I was referring to the fact that service to ser
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by BarkMore 16y ago
What if social networking is like instant messaging? After many years, the proprietary instant messaging services have not been replaced with an open alternative. Open does not always win.
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Earlier in this thread you estimate that GTalk and Facebook have 10% of the instant messaging market. Does IRC have more users than 10% of the instant messaging market?
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by BarkMore 16y ago
IRC is not proprietary and I did not say that it is. I think it's great that you are using IRC in your project. Overall, there are many more active users of XMPP than there are users of IRC. When I say active users, I mean users who send a
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by BarkMore 16y ago
XMPP does have a lot of use (Google Talk, Facebook chat, Chrome browser sync, ...) and is the most successful non-proprietary instant messaging protocol. I wonder what the state of the world would be like today if XMPP had been more approac
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After all these years, XMPP is still a PITA to implement. Starting at the lowest level, XMPP streams are framed by the 2nd level elements in an XML document. Clients and server must keep an XML parser open for the lifetime of the connectio
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Debunking the Google Interview Myth(technologywoman.com)
126 points by BarkMore 16y ago|88 comments
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Facebook is aware of the rule in question. The Facebook restricted stock plan was designed so that the participants are not considered stock owners. I doubt that Facebook went ahead with this deal without carefully examining the issue.
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by BarkMore 16y ago
I know that Facebook created Cassandra, but do they use it for anything substantial? I read that Cassandra was created for the Facebook inbox, but I more recently read that Facebook is now using HBase for the messaging platform.
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by BarkMore 16y ago
Previous discussion on this article: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1955717
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by BarkMore 16y ago
Previous discussion here: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1984449
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I find that the live feed is difficult to scan because everything jumps to the right and down when a new photo is added. I recommend changing the grid location where a new photo is displayed instead of shifting the photos.
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The comparison is between Facebook and Microsoft's online services, not all of Microsoft. Microsoft's online services didn't do 60B a year in revenue.
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If Microsoft is really concerned about Google gaining a competitive advantage by looking at search query traffic from Microsoft IP addresses, it would be much less expensive for Microsoft to hide the traffic through proxies than it is to bu
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by BarkMore 16y ago
The comparison to Facebook is not fair. Facebook is now profitable and Microsoft online services are not. Facebook was never in the red to the tune of 2B a year. Microsoft online services had a multiple year head start on Facebook.
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Can you share your reasons for switching from Node.js to Rails?
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Word² was originally named Scrabbly. Here's the previous discussion on the application: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1656057
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by BarkMore 16y ago
There's no caveat for using YAJL. An application can feed data to YAJL from connection:didReceiveData: and know that the document is complete in connectionDidFinish:. This works if there are one or many calls to connection:didReceiveData:.
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The author is using a library that parses an entire JSON document in one go. In order to use this library, the author points out that the application must collect the entire document from the network before parsing the document. It does not
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All of these things are possible with Tornado by using simple blocking calls and running more than one instance of the Tornado application behind a reverse proxy. If one instance blocks, then there are other instances of the application to
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by BarkMore 16y ago
Tornado solves the specific problem of building web applications. What compatibility was tossed in accomplishing this goal? As far as I can tell, Tornado is compatible with HTTP, HTML and other related web standards. What are some of the th
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You and FriendFeed, Hipmunk, Brizzly, Bitly (they recently built async mongodb driver for use with Tornado), Quora (for long polling), ...
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Looking at the data, it appears that the performance drops are related to the StackContext feature. This feature is a convenience and not about doing things correctly to work in the real world. Because the very earliest versions of Tornado
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by BarkMore 16y ago
It's a feature that the websocket upgrades from an HTTP connection. If your web server can support it, you can use your regular HTTP handler code to authenticate incoming requests and then upgrade to the websocket protocol. The API is not
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It's working for me now. Can bodies and titles contain HTML markup?
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The host is refusing connections on port 80.

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