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by flyt 15y ago
Can somebody point me to a photo series of Google employees giving a detailed tour of the inside of their most current datacenter? I was under the impression that Google values openness more than all other companies, but I can't seem to fin
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by flyt 15y ago
This works really well, and is a good motivation for adopting IAM. Our shop has a number of people that need access to the AWS console and in only a couple hours we got this setup for everybody. Now when people leave the company we just rev
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by flyt 15y ago
It's a legal gray area because a password is something in your brain and compelling you to reveal the password can be interpreted as testifying against yourself. If you refused to give the police a key they could use physical means to extra
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by flyt 15y ago
PARC gave the world Graphical User Interfaces, object oriented programming, ethernet, laser printers, precursors to PostScript, and a few other major breakthroughs. It wasn't necessarily a "secret lab", but its distance from XEROX managemen
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by flyt 15y ago
swatch or splunk or graylog2 http://www.graylog2.org/
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by flyt 15y ago
It'll be a similar design to the datacenters in Prineville, Oregon and Forest City, NC. They pull in outside air, cool it a little bit with evaporative mist, mix it with air already in the datacenter, and then send it to the servers. The ai
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by flyt 15y ago
Many of the 5by5 shows have morphed into "listen to a nerd rant for 60-90 minutes about boring topics" If Dan could keep his "hosts" on a leash, introduce some structure, and cut the shows down to 30 minutes then they might have something t
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by flyt 15y ago
Why not just give them $500k outright?
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by flyt 15y ago
we do
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by flyt 15y ago
English locales only for now. See http://www.quora.com/Anne-K.-Halsall/Quora-for-iPhone/Announ...
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by flyt 15y ago
You're right, it would be cheap to colocate two boxes to run DNS. Unfortunately you still have to: - Purchase the hardware - Receive the hardware - Install an OS on the hardware - Harden the OS from intruders - Decide how to manage the serv
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by flyt 15y ago
Nobody in their right mind wants to build a business that is 100% beholden to record labels. Facebook is focusing on building a platform first, and anything else would be a [time|money] distraction.
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by flyt 15y ago
or don't rely on a service with only 200 million total (not active) users
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by flyt 15y ago
Roughly 2 billion people in the world have access to the Internet. 800 million of them are active Facebook users (30 day active). Last week 500 million users logged into FB in a single day . Facebook is a very popular service that makes
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by flyt 15y ago
I know right? All my friend on Facebook are talking about Google's new hangouts API. Nobody has even mentioned the new ticker and if they like it or not!
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by flyt 15y ago
Also take note that the CEO of Turntable.fm is scheduled to speak tomorrow at Facebook's f8 conference.
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by flyt 15y ago
Listening to the same thing as your friends right now makes a great demo, increases time on Facebook.com, and is a first step in gathering new data that can be associated with facebook uid's. Once Facebook has the data for what every person
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by flyt 15y ago
Nov 28, 2010
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by flyt 15y ago
The most troubling aspect of Google these days is the shift from passively indexing the work of others (Google crawler) to deliver relevant ads and search results, to owning the data itself and granting access (G+, Zagat, ITA).
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by flyt 15y ago
What you mean is: Last time FB held their f8 conference they introduced the Like button, which has experienced moderate success.
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by flyt 15y ago
Related post on All Things Distributed by Amazon's CTO: http://www.allthingsdistributed.com/2011/08/amazon-elasticac... and on the AWS Engineering blog: http://aws.typepad.com/aws/2011/08/amazon-elasticache-distri...
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by flyt 15y ago
Amazon says "This title will be auto-delivered to your Kindle on November 21, 2011." for me
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by flyt 15y ago
is_fb_employee() is an internal FB function that can be used to gate features to employees only on facebook.com.
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by flyt 15y ago
Zuck is UID 4. UIDs are no longer allocated in ascending order since maybe early 2007ish. Here's the full history of how FB UID's have been assigned over time: http://www.quora.com/What-is-the-history-of-Facebooks-user-I...
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by flyt 15y ago
They are. Facebook is absolutely telling the truth about this metric. 750 million active users in the last 30 days, 50% of that daily and 80% of 750mil weekly.
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by flyt 15y ago
Is this a joke? When I see people using their phones in public the #1 app, bar none, that I see open is Facebook. people are just browsing their feeds, commenting, liking, etc. This is mostly on iOS devices but increasingly on Android as th
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by flyt 15y ago
"Some pundits are complaining that the technology is not new, but that’s besides the point. Case in point: at MySpace we launched what Zuckerberg is announcing in 2007 (try googling “myspace skype partnership”), and MySpace also had one-on-
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by flyt 15y ago
click "most recent" on the main "news feed" page and then pick one of the lists from the dropdown to see only stories from people in that list.
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by flyt 15y ago
yes, all of them.
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by flyt 15y ago
Who uses email? Not anybody under 21.

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