dwineman

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   by dwineman 14y ago

   Huh? When Twitter's down, no one can post, so immediacy is meaningless. This is like saying "my car's faster than yours after yours hits a tree."
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   by dwineman 14y ago

   Author here: a few people have raised this point. Perhaps I should have made a distinction between "federated within the same data center" and "federated across the internet." They are two entirely different problems.
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   by dwineman 14y ago

   Right, but since Twitter manages all of Twitter's servers (and the dedicated low-latency network via which they're presumably all connected) they can satisfy both of these constraints without sacrificing the third (immediacy). I'm speculati
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   by dwineman 16y ago

   I'm the guy whose blog is linked here. I've posted a followup: http://venomousporridge.com/post/909651311/whereto-patent-fo...
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   by dwineman 16y ago

   Note that the patent doesn't necessarily cover the functions of the 3rd-party app. It's only the diagram that I'm sure is a copy.