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by sstrudeau 17y ago
How many people used AIM at its peak? How many use it now vs. Skype / GTalk / etc.? Watching the shifting sands of Friendster / Orkut / MySpace / Facebook has made me believe that Facebook's hold on its currently vast user-base will always
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by sstrudeau 17y ago
Agreed. Every app seems to have a slightly different authentication/authorization/identity model. Docs works differently than Analytics, works differently than Ad Manager, works differently than Feedburner. I'm currently managing 3 "Googl
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And even if the management (all the way up to the Executive Director) can see through the fog of their daily firefighting to see the potential of expanded an IT budget to make the overall mission more effective & efficient they often ca
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by sstrudeau 17y ago
I think it's a bit of a leap from "Apple sent a DMCA takedown notice to github asking them to remove code for which Apple holds the copyright" to "Apple is terrified of iphone web-apps being as good as native apps." It is suspicious that Ap
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Disk IO and throughput benchmarks on Amazon's EC2(stu.mp)
37 points by sstrudeau 17y ago|14 comments
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Traffic Server is finally here (Y's http proxy/cache server)(ogre.com)
43 points by sstrudeau 17y ago|11 comments
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This would help to distribute requests for individual objects, but doesn't help for multi-get requests. The problem is adding more nodes increases the number of actual requests a multi-get call needs to make (assuming you're asking for a s
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by sstrudeau 17y ago
Right. Though, to argue with the article's title -- while a straightforward addition of more memcached nodes did not solve their capacity problem, the strategy of replicating nodes & load balancing read requests between them appears t
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by sstrudeau 17y ago
I tried this with VMWare Fusion on a Mac running XP and couldn't get the MS VirtualPC images to work. Anyone have success running VPC with these test images in a VM (VirtualBox, Parallels, Fusion?) on OS X?
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by sstrudeau 17y ago
My former roommate and good friend Joe is trying to start a brew pub near Madison, WI. His blog chronicling the process and related topics: http://republicbrewpub.blogspot.com/
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by sstrudeau 17y ago
The "small team" is his wife and some community managers -- no other engineers or admins. He builds & runs the whole stack himself, and he has duties outside of the admin/development pieces of the business. So he's still essentially a
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Moving Beyond End-to-End Path Information to Optimize CDN Performance(research.google.com)
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by sstrudeau 17y ago
Recent talk by newspapers & the AP have been to put up all or most of their content behind paywalls. What Ars is doing is placing long form/higher cost content (e.g., long form PDF documents), exclusive features (e.g., ability to vote
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Node.js: Event-based I/O for V8 javascript(tinyclouds.org)
27 points by sstrudeau 17y ago|1 comments
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by sstrudeau 17y ago
Perhaps this explains the American Express Centurion Card (aka "Black Card") which is made from anodized titanium--its weight is immediately noticeable. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Centurion_Card
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by sstrudeau 17y ago
Chicago used to have an underground tunnel delivery system, using tunnels originally built to house telephone lines, used to deliver coal & remove ash: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chicago_Tunnel_Company
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by sstrudeau 17y ago
I'm sure the typo domain squatters could probably come up with a way to squeeze money out of the residual incoming traffic from links -- since tr.im links will continue to get some volume of traffic for a long while yet -- so the question i
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by sstrudeau 17y ago
I agree with the suggestion to drop IE. If someone is willing to dedicate enough time to play through a Civ game, they're probably not at work and probably willing to install a third party browser, so you're not sacrificing too much potenti
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FreshDirect wrote "an enormous amount of code" to minimize boxes per order(cityroom.blogs.nytimes.com)
19 points by sstrudeau 17y ago|7 comments
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I'd probably work in a kitchen or learn woodworking & make cabinets.
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by sstrudeau 17y ago
http://www.apartmenttherapy.com 6/2009 - 4.3m visits / 2.3m uniques Firefox 42.52% IE 33.59% Safari 19.44% Chrome 3.07% All others under 1% each
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by sstrudeau 17y ago
StackOverflow's traffic numbers: * 16 million page views a month * 3 million unique visitors a month * 6 million visits a month ... which is very similar to what my sites are doing (we do more than 20m page views w/ about the same # of uniq
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by sstrudeau 17y ago
Travis, yeah my impression is similar -- a reverse proxy cache (e.g., Squid or Varnish) plus a light weight layer 7 load balancer (which is how I tend to use nginx)
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"When you look at it from that perspective, it’s a no-brainer. You sue everyone and everything you can. If a 65 year old woman’s grandson downloads a CD of songs from Sesame Street on her computer, you sue her, sue the kid who spawned the l
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by sstrudeau 17y ago
Luke Wroblewski's "Web Form Design" http://www.rosenfeldmedia.com/books/webforms/ makes this case well. He calls it "gradual engagement." It's also one of the best books on a web design topic I've ever read.
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Google/Yahoo support rel="canonical"(jeffreybarke.net)
3 points by sstrudeau 18y ago|0 comments
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Data is the Public Good. Data is the Infrastructure. Data is the Stimulus.(blog.fortiusone.com)
2 points by sstrudeau 18y ago|1 comments
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by sstrudeau 18y ago
Bittorrent isn't sequential by design, but you can tweak a torrent client to ask for pieces in order (e.g., Pando, using a bittorrent-like protocol, can do this) -- though if you have a moving target in terms of the set of blocks you are in
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by sstrudeau 18y ago
What I'd like (and what I'd build if I had more spare time & mental capacity) is a photo-hosting service driven by a Flickr-like API, but designed to be an intelligent "asset store" for photos so large sites or communities can use this