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Re: Cell Tower Mapping: How Google did it

hasjd874 — Sat, 07 Nov 2009 04:27:40 -0000

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Re: Thrift Officially an Apache Incubator Project

mike74844 — Sat, 07 Nov 2009 04:27:28 -0000

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Re: The 10 most influential del.icio.us users

Ace192462 — Sat, 07 Nov 2009 02:47:27 -0000

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Re: The iPhone Rocks!

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Re: Living an Agile Life

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Re: Thursday at Noon is the best time post and be noticed (PST)

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Re: Living an Agile Life

DaleShapiro — Sat, 25 Jul 2009 07:15:32 -0000

I think some people are blessed with a sort of natural focus which allows them to maintain steady progress towards the goals you listed, among many others. I'm somewhat envious of you, actually. You sound like you have much more on your plate than I do in terms of real responsibility, and yet every time I sit down to try and get something I want done accomplished, distractions tend to pull me in 1,000 different directions.

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Re: Thursday at Noon is the best time post and be noticed (PST)

microsoftnetdevelopment — Thu, 23 Jul 2009 01:21:33 -0000

Great Post! Really very interesting one. I enjoyed a lot. Thanks.

Re: Thursday at Noon is the best time post and be noticed (PST)

alexmoon — Sun, 19 Jul 2009 10:54:33 -0000

Nice work. nice post!

Re: libevent webserver in 40 lines of c

Andrey — Mon, 15 Jun 2009 09:07:35 -0000

Thanks a lot Arek!!!
I'm feed up with libevent its web server is just too slow!! moving on libev now.

Re: Thrift moving to Apache

insured movers boston — Sun, 17 May 2009 10:54:59 -0000

Promising breakthrough to look forward to. I just hope that the team behind its success would remain consistent in pushing through.

Re: libevent webserver in 40 lines of c

bham — Tue, 28 Apr 2009 21:24:44 -0000

OK that's officially slow as hell!

ab -n 10000 -c 1000 http://localhost/
...
Requests per second: 11222.37 [#/sec] (mean)
...

nginx FTW.

Re: Thursday at Noon is the best time post and be noticed (PST)

celix44 — Sun, 26 Apr 2009 00:39:51 -0000

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Re: Memcached based message queues

Leen Toelen — Thu, 23 Apr 2009 03:23:31 -0000

There's also Kestrel, a port of starling to scala. It is being used and developed by twitter. It is based on the memcache protocol as well.

http://github.com/robey/kestrel/tree/master

Re: libevent webserver in 40 lines of c

Cobru — Mon, 20 Apr 2009 04:31:44 -0000

Yes, it does (valgrind reports memory leak in the generic handler).

Re: Twittering subversion commits

rdmpage — Mon, 20 Apr 2009 04:26:05 -0000

This was really helpful. I wrote a PHP version for my own project, source code here: http://code.google.com/p/bioguid/source/browse/...

Re: Thursday at Noon is the best time post and be noticed (PST)

longshorttrader — Tue, 07 Apr 2009 07:52:22 -0000

Wow, that's pretty interesting analysis. I normally post early in the morning but I'm going to try putting stuff off until late morning instead to see what happens.

Re: Announcing: Thrudb - Document Oriented Database Services

electronic discovery — Mon, 06 Apr 2009 10:01:40 -0000

Thanks for bringing this up, just exactly what I needed, hope I can give some feedbacks after I checked it out.

Re: Working with thrift structures

Sunny Chan — Fri, 07 Nov 2008 03:04:38 -0000

Hi Jake,
Thanks for that great tutorial about Object type handling.
Currently, i am writing an iPhone application which will be communicate with my REST service at the back.
i am thinking to use Thrudb to build the business-tier. So i can just maintain one set of business logic, and my iphone client can talk with the Thrudb directly through Objective-C, and my website can talk through PHP. Thanks to thrift.

But i have one problem, is it good to host all business object in Thrudb?
Will i getting many ObjectType dummy strut in the thrift definition in turns?
would you mind give some idea for me?
coz whole project is solely built by me. i want to use time as effective as possible.

Many thanks,
Sunny

Re: libevent webserver in 40 lines of c

Steve Dekorte — Tue, 21 Oct 2008 00:11:52 -0000

IIRC, the generic_handler function may need a evbuffer_free(buf) call at it's end.

Re: Thursday at Noon is the best time post and be noticed (PST)

Rita Kai — Mon, 15 Sep 2008 21:44:01 -0000

Thank you for doing the research. I was looking for someone to answer this question. Now I know not to publish on weekends or late at night. I've been rather guilty of it.

Re: The 10 most influential del.icio.us users

gray — Sun, 13 Jul 2008 15:50:32 -0000

you don't have to be authenticated to get that data:
http://www.google.com/reader/api/0/stream/conte...

looks like the API changed a bit since i wrote WebService::Google::Reader

Re: Thursday at Noon is the best time post and be noticed (PST)

Rob Scott — Thu, 08 May 2008 06:44:02 -0000

I'm not sure the time of posting makes one iota of difference. The time it lands in Digg or Reddit or whatever may be more important, though. For example, if your post hits the digg "upcoming" list (i.e. is first dugg) at prime web time, then it stands more of a chance of finding readers from that source than at a less busy period. Therefore, I fail to see why any particular time can be considered 'the best time to post.'

Re: Thursday at Noon is the best time post and be noticed (PST)

David Cross — Mon, 05 May 2008 10:51:37 -0000

Like IBM's study in the 70s or 80s that "people are more receptive to new information on a Tuesday" I love data like these because it means if the suggestion become popular, even a "rule", and people really do start posting only between 10am-2pm, Pacific, Tues-Fri, with the belief that is when "popular posts" are published, it will skew the data as everyone clamors for the "right" time to publish, making space for us to post great content at our websites and not get caught in the crowd.

The thing to realize is that there are many metrics that may be important in an online business and "Diggs" or "popularity" may not count at all. As we've seen in the dot-com bubble #1, popularity or eyeballs alone do not a business build. We've proven that low-trafficked but high converting ($$$ or email signups) content far exceed any content where the only metric of success is "popularity".

Keep on publishing these kind of data - I love them.

Re: Thursday at Noon is the best time post and be noticed (PST)

Snigel — Mon, 05 May 2008 05:36:02 -0000

I agree with Rob in that this is nonsensical and the conclusion is plain wrong. What this study shows is merely when people browse the internet; nothing else can be deduced from the data. For this study to say anything at all, it would have been necessary to compare popular posts (the figures in the article) with unpopular posts (with lower rank). If there was a significant difference between the two sets of data in terms of publish time, then a conclusion might have be drawn.

For example, if the data showed that popular posts were more frequently posed during certain hours, it might perhaps be deduced that publish time is correlated to popularity. As it is now, this study shows merely when people surf the Internet. I highly doubt that a significant difference will be found, but I would be overjoyed if someone did the necessary statistics (after all, I came here to learn about when to publish my posts!).

On the contrary, it could be argued that it is bad posting during the hours indicated here, because competition is much stronger (provided that you are not writing things so important or interesting that you will beat everyone else regardless, but I think we can safely assume that is not the case for most people). Instead, posting late at night might give you more views and comments because there is simply not much else around to read. Of course, I cannot back up this hypothesis with any data, but that is true for this article as well.