July 2011
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Jul 30th
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Jul 30th
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Jul 24th
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“[Tabloids] exist to break down the barriers of access that keep social elites at...”
– Ryan Linkof, a friend with some sharp analysis and historical context on the NotW scandal in today’s New York Times.
Jul 20th
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Staircar: Redis-powered notifications
engineering: Staircar’s performance was beyond our expectations and very consistent, with average response times per request at or under 5ms, even during peak traffic. Extensive benchmarking showed Staircar was able to handle roughly 30,000 requests a second per server. Blake made your notifications an order of magnitude faster and more reliable, and I bet you didn’t even notice (which...
Jul 19th
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Jul 19th
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Jul 14th
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Tumblr Engineering: Welcome, Fellow Nerds →
Could not be more excited to finally have a place to show off the work of my brilliant fellow engineers.
Jul 12th
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Jul 10th
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Jul 8th
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“In college, Bachmann was a Democrat and campaigned for Jimmy Carter. Her...”
– Meet Michele - FT.com (via felixsalmon) So we have Gore Vidal to blame for this?
Jul 6th
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Jul 2nd
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“The issues seem to revolve around gems and god.”
– Michael, on the Graham Greenian struggles of Tumblr ops.
Jul 1st
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