aristus

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811.
by aristus 16y ago
Also big blue computer shop, which fended off action from IBM.
812.
by aristus 16y ago
The crux of the problem is data and latency, right? I imagine it's infeasible to have a hybrid architecture the way cloud providers structure their networks and pricing today.
813.
by aristus 16y ago
It's actually webserver-neutral, implemented entirely in PHP and Javascript. The basic idea is that each "pagelet" does its own data fetching and rendering and returns a thunk of HTML, js & css dependencies, onload hooks, etc, as a data
814.
BigPipe: Pipelining web pages for high performance(facebook.com)
90 points by aristus 16y ago|32 comments
815.
by aristus 16y ago
Good detective work, but man, there is a reason the summer is called "the silly season" in the journalism trade. :D
816.
by aristus 16y ago
Yep. Both professions spent way too much time uncovering other people's bugs.
817.
by aristus 16y ago
It's more complicated than that and I'm talking and about edge caches in general here, not for my employer. I once saw a Flickr employee (Cal Henderson?) pluck the original Ludicorp logo out of Yahoo's edge caches. That's not to mention ISP
818.
by aristus 16y ago
I'll look into what's happening, but in general it's expensive / complicated to delete from edge-caching CDNs. If there is a photo that gets constant traffic, the edge caches will do their job of keeping it around. Poking around the Googles
819.
by aristus 16y ago
A friend of mine wrote a reservation system for the Aloha Airlines. (Aloha is now out of business, but I don't think that was the reason. :D) Ping me (email in my profile), maybe he can give you some advice and / or contacts.
820.
by aristus 16y ago
This is truly beautiful stuff. ( Buying five copies for my mother. ) A surprising thing: I use a lot of links and footnotes, which don't translate well to print. If writing for both print and web, I think my style would change quite a bit,
821.
by aristus 16y ago
Paragraph 20: "There are reports of sudden disappearance of bee populations from honeybee colonies. The reason is still not clear. We have compared the performance of honeybees in cellphone radiation exposed and unexposed colonies. Para 2
822.
by aristus 16y ago
Yes but from there it's a short hop to duchamps toilet and warhols "art is what you can get away with". You still have to do the work of discovering why you do or don't like a piece.
823.
by aristus 16y ago
And in general, minority investors should always be handled with the assumption that they can and will do arbitrary things to kill deals. And then, they will sue you. :( It's not that bad all the time, but prepare for the worst and hope for
824.
by aristus 16y ago
Fair enough. I hope that everyone learns English too. But I also hope that if it does happen, it does not happen at gunpoint or to the exclusion of other languages, cultures, literary and oral legacies. That is what happened when Old Englis
825.
by aristus 16y ago
Well, that wasn't what I intended. I am truly unsure the original intent. English is pretty good, I agree, though phrasal verbs are the work of the devil. It has a head start in aviation, mathematics, engineering, some television, finance,
826.
by aristus 16y ago
I'm not sure if you are joking, but language is highly political. You could say that language is the root of cultural, and thus national and ethnic, identity. Language domination tends to follow political, trade, and economic domination. Th
827.
by aristus 16y ago
Ah, you are correct. I just tried it (with a dummy account). Apologies. I work at FB but don't delete my account often. :) It looks like you will be asked to confirm deletion if you log in during the waiting period. Simply logging back in w
828.
by aristus 16y ago
This is unfortunately a common misperception. If you deactivate your account you can bring it back. If you delete it the data is deleted.
829.
by aristus 16y ago
It was a great effort and a brilliant design, Jake. Thanks for all of your help when I was using ThruDB at Archivd.
830.
by aristus 16y ago
Oh, the irony runs much deeper than that. http://www.nytimes.com/2010/01/21/business/media/21times.htm... My theory is that the Old Grey Lady is going senile. Their public editor wrote a piece in 2004 rejecting the idea of the paper of re
831.
by aristus 16y ago
A counterpoint: people don't notice when you show up; they notice when you are still around . Determination, blah blah blah. It also means that if you train yourself to notice others it pays off.
832.
A Dismal Guide to Touchscreens(carlos.bueno.org)
5 points by aristus 16y ago|0 comments
833.
by aristus 16y ago
Please reconsider. Also reconsider serving data from olark.com and, generally, try to reduce your attack surface. There are too many "javascript viruses" running around already.
834.
by aristus 16y ago
I make no comment on the purpose of this tool, but I strongly recommend serving your Javascript, if not the whole site, under httpS. If you are going to tell everyone to run arbitrary Javascript in the context of their Facebook sessions,
835.
by aristus 16y ago
I know nothing about Twitter, but in general it's simple. If there are 199 employees, you can't give the 200th more than 0.5%, else that would be unfair, right? That person would have to be something really special, like a CEO or VP, to exp
836.
by aristus 16y ago
A question I'm surprised isn't on here: what's the motivation to do this? Is it becoming harder for YC companies to hire, or a way to share resources, etc?
837.
Touchscreens are Fingerpaint - Facebook Engineering(facebook.com)
1 points by aristus 16y ago|0 comments
838.
by aristus 16y ago
Generally sites lock down info that can be used to help users reset passwords when they forget them. Also, birth dates are used to help ensure compliance with child-protection laws. You can't change your birthdate on Yahoo either. (I work f
839.
by aristus 16y ago
I used to work for a company that did this. Rather, they had moved on to advising people who did this. Cashflow brokering is sometimes a sensible business for actual businesses, eg you have $1M in firm orders and need some cash today to fil
840.
by aristus 16y ago
I don't think so; it's just a different tradition of thought. You can be different without having a medical condition. I and I'm sure you have worked with people who could run a nuclear reactor and seem to function OK, but can't manage eye

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