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by flyt 14y ago
Correct. See the second part of my post.
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by flyt 14y ago
If you don't like what your friends post to Facebook then you should reconsider if you want to be friends with them, or if you should begin using the tools FB already provides to control the content in your feed.
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by flyt 14y ago
The data not reflected here is the housing quality for the given price, and included features. For example most of these locations East of the park probably don't have parking, which could be an additional hundreds of dollars per month, if
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by flyt 14y ago
The center engine is on a gimbal.
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by flyt 14y ago
While the SimCity servers handle those functions, apparently large portions of the economic and simulation calculations for regional activity in the game (i.e. what happens between cities) occurs on the server and would also need implementa
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by flyt 14y ago
What if the code in the game server contains non-GPL/free libraries? What if it includes bindings to proprietary services and sensitive data? How much time should EA devote to repackaging game server code for open source release, knowing th
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by flyt 14y ago
I'm not disagreeing with you, but at the end of the day EA has the exact numbers of how many players move from one game to the next, and are making business decisions with that in mind.
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by flyt 14y ago
Exactly. We can get into a discussion of AWS best practices but without more detail on their application's structure their usage of AWS right out of the gate shows that somebody at EA/Maxis has their head in the right place.
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by flyt 14y ago
Not for game servers. We're talking about full applications that have to run somewhere, written years ago, by people that may not be at the company. Each additional game they have to support as a 24/7/365 service incurs some support costs t
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by flyt 14y ago
Most people that play Madden games move yearly to the new releases. The servers that support the old games probably drain fast and are unneeded after some predictable period of time. Whether or not server shutdown behavior encourages this y
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by flyt 14y ago
How liquid is the RI marketplace?
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by flyt 14y ago
Facebook already integrates with Microsoft products: Bing is a search option on their site, and all of their embedded maps (Events, etc) use Bing Maps. On the MSFT side, Windows Phone has always included deep integration with Facebook since
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by flyt 14y ago
Cisco: Buy hardware and associated licenses to use them with a WiFi control "box", then purchase optional support contracts to receive replacements/repairs when/if hardware breaks. Meraki: Buy hardware and a time-based license per unit, typ
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by flyt 14y ago
It's tradition. The Facebook office used to be directly above Jing Jing back in the day.
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by flyt 14y ago
AWS doesn't have a presence in Texas.
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by flyt 14y ago
All I've ever heard and seen in practice is that RDS should generally be avoided for production usage. Its opaque reliance on EBS is its downfall.
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by flyt 14y ago
You can't remember the names of <10 people that you count as your best friends and are already connected to on Facebook?
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by flyt 14y ago
Or build your application with the characteristics of the underlying platform in mind. Nobody would run a DB server on a single spindle drive since occasionally they fail. Accordingly, nobody should deploy non-multi-az AWS applications beca
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by flyt 14y ago
Add those people to your "close friends" FB friend list (it's a default list that everybody has and can't delete) and you'll get a FB notification every time they do something. It can be noisy but if you have a small core of people it'll en
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by flyt 14y ago
rkalla's answer is good, but there's also the issue of the US east coast being a good place to deploy applications that need decent performance to the majority of the english-speaking world. Dropping your servers there puts them within reac
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by flyt 14y ago
Spot instance prices change hourly, so they probably don't make sense to add to a static list like this.
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by flyt 14y ago
How many of these games are exclusive to OnLive? How many of them have better experiences (multiplayer, controls, DLC) on other platforms like PS3 or XBOX 360? Pretty much all of them.
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by flyt 14y ago
Super simple: put the ID card in a microwave for a few 5-10 second bursts to disable the RFID circuitry. Every time you need to use the card just say "it doesn't work for me", and when they issue you a new card do it over and over. You "don
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by flyt 14y ago
Forget that, the service has about 10 games. Total. No way am I going to make a long term investment of $50 per game into a service that can't grow its library with the new stuff coming out, and that could implode at any second.
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by flyt 14y ago
Seriously. We should have a Government Accountability Office to keep an eye on things like this.
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by flyt 14y ago
Facebook isn't the devil, it's just a bunch of nerds running a hugely complicated system and trying to be self-sustainable. Anything else is simple paranoia.
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by flyt 14y ago
- Few now, but more soon as ISPs ramp up IPv6 deployment - Almost none require v6 - It provides future compatibility as the v4 address space is (effectively) used up and can't cover new services joining the internet in the future. Full Inte
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by flyt 14y ago
Not all of Facebook is written in PHP; most backend systems are C, Java, Python, or something else.
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by flyt 14y ago
http://www.quora.com/Facebook-Engineering/Why-does-Facebook-... Why does Facebook not need to produce particularly high-quality software? By paying less attention to quality, Facebook has been able to focus on other things, like making th
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by flyt 14y ago
Considering that Mark Zuckerberg holds the majority of voting shares, I'd say FB is only responsible to Mark, and him to FB.

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