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by zacman85 13y ago
Snapchat was likely trying to value itself in comparative terms to Instagram. Instagram was a threat because it had both the meteorically rising product AND the engineering team capable of scaling ahead of that growth. I think Facebook crea
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by zacman85 13y ago
We cache aggressively, at multiple levels, and manage the dependencies between caches. In the overwhelming amount of cases, we are serving straight out of SSD caches. The on-the-fly work only happens if the image does not already exist.
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by zacman85 13y ago
You are not wrong. And we were very well aware of this. However, we found the reality of the problem being solved is much more about network latency, routing, and caching than actual graphics processing throughput. Our pain points have been
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by zacman85 13y ago
They do a fair enough job for what we needed. Really, it was more about what we could get quickly, with a certain expectation of consistency, just to get us moving forward.
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Cruise Ships(blog.chriszacharias.com)
7 points by zacman85 14y ago|0 comments
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We Need to Think Beyond the Aaron in ‘Aaron’s Law’(wired.com)
49 points by zacman85 14y ago|1 comments
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by zacman85 14y ago
Actually, to be fair, I did not mean to imply that anyone was "bragging". People may have been celebratory, and justifiably so, but I never felt anyone in particular was bragging.
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by zacman85 14y ago
At first, through YC, and then mainly through my existing network, word of mouth, and some serendipity.
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by zacman85 14y ago
I really like only using AJAX for content that is conditional. For instance, a comment form that opens up only when a user clicks on it. If they never go to add a comment, the AJAX request is never made. Anything that is actually going to b
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by zacman85 14y ago
I'll rework the wording. Also, it wasn't that the videos were necessarily taking 20 minutes to load. That was simply projections based on the numbers we were seeing at the time. There was not enough data of people actually waiting for 20 mi
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Page Weight Matters(blog.chriszacharias.com)
717 points by zacman85 14y ago|164 comments
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by zacman85 14y ago
I went through YC as a solo, first-time founder and I would not recommend it to anyone. Despite working the hardest I have ever worked in my life, I barely made it through Demo Day, and my Demo Day presentation was not exactly riveting. Fur
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by zacman85 14y ago
We actually talked to some Safari engineers about this and the response was that image-sets were the way forward. I am not sure I agree. The key argument was that the accepts header puts the burden entirely on the server and does not accoun
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by zacman85 14y ago
The device pixel ratio is simply the conversion ratio between device pixels and css pixels. It is on the device makers to determine how to interpolate image data into CSS pixels in the browser. There are many devices that have non-integer b
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by zacman85 15y ago
I loved Tim's (approximate) celebration quote: "I don't want to say this is the end of the game publishing as we know it...... I'm sure a few games will still need publishers." Classic.
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by zacman85 15y ago
Does anyone know how to get those graphs to show up in the current version of WebKit? They seem to have disappeared or are hidden.
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by zacman85 15y ago
As someone who was rejected by Google the first time, and hired the second time through, I went through a similar range of emotions during that first rejection. (I did not have an Ivy league education and only had a 3.2 GPA) It was only aft
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by zacman85 15y ago
Entrepreneur logic and VC logic are very different, so try to see it from their side. First off, not all of the VCs will get in on Pinwheel, and may be looking for something similar to invest in. Secondly, competition in a space simply vali
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An nginx-statsd module(github.com)
5 points by zacman85 15y ago|0 comments
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The B Corporation(bcorporation.net)
6 points by zacman85 15y ago|0 comments
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by zacman85 15y ago
Is there any historical evidence that a meteoric rise in traffic, of this magnitude, has translated into a long term success? I am not making any prediction on Google+'s future; I am just interested if there are examples that I am not able
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by zacman85 16y ago
I've often wondered this myself when designing login forms, but doesn't identifying which field failed expose a security issue? A malicious user could use the feedback to determine if accounts exist or not. This seems like a concern to me.
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by zacman85 16y ago
These ads seem to have been engineered from the start to stir up controversy, which in turn will generate more mentions of Groupon in the news cycle and on the web. While I can appreciate the perspective that any press is good press, margin
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by zacman85 16y ago
I mean what I said when I use the term Front-End Engineer. The people who have built the parts of YouTube that you touch on a daily basis fit very nicely within the traits I have outlined and I would most certainly call them engineers throu
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by zacman85 16y ago
Yes. This is exactly what I intended. Thank you for clarifying.
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by zacman85 16y ago
If I had been more definitive, I would risk making the same mistakes that the people who inspired this article were making. That is, to rigidly define what a front-end engineer is in terms of completely arbitrary constraints. I wanted to pr
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by zacman85 16y ago
While I understand your point, I feel like mine was missed. Perhaps I should have worded it differently. The fact is, the web is a constantly evolving ecosystem that as a front-end engineer, you do not get much control over. Yes of course t
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by zacman85 16y ago
Inspired by: probably. Stolen: absolutely not.
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by zacman85 16y ago
Someone mentioned a while back about using distributed Javascript to generate Mandelbrot sets. This was something I built sometime last year when I messing around with the idea. Please note, I misspelled "Mandelbrot" in the AppEngine name a
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Mandelbrot Generation Using Distributed Javascript(mandlebrotapp.appspot.com)
6 points by zacman85 16y ago|1 comments

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