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On the quadrupling of the estimate from $250 million to $1 billion between 1995 and 1996, the article states: " The cost increase was the result of detailed engineering studies con…

Yeah that's totally fair. I live at Geary and Stanyan, and made liberal use of the 38L and 38[A,B]X busses, which cut that time down a lot. I used to go to the gym every morning be…

There does seem to be a "center of gravity" in SF that is incredibly bizarre to me. For a lot of people, if you live west of Divis or south of 24th st, you might as well be, for al…

It's not revolutionary, but it does a lot of things right and has more features that what you mentioned above: * maintains a semaphore of currently processing requests, and will im…

> you're just given some basic data structures that handle pretty much everything under the sun, and you go from there This only works because the size of your n is small, possibly…

I'm not sure if you can count this as a startup, but I bought my King-sized Sleep Innovations (memory foam) mattress with Amazon Prime for $530. And if I wanted the less-think 10" …

Django still powers a lot of the DISQUS infrastructure. That said, we're in the process of breaking certain parts of it off into independent services and out of Django. But Django …

While I don't disagree that Apple's technical skill isn't best of breed, where Apple has shined - both now and in the past - is their ruthless determination and focus on UX and HCI…

I'm a huge fan of office "suites" - smallish offices which comfortably hold 3-6 people. It's a good sweet spot between open spaces full of dozens of people and individual offices. …

> NodeJS is suitable for apps that do plenty of short lived requests. I'm confused. Isn't Node's event-loop style programming ideal for long-lived requests? I.e. ones that, under a…

Hulu, Living Social, All of 37 Signals, Groupon, AirBnb, Scribd, Zendesk, Soundcloud, etc. Twitter's scale is unlike nearly every single web app online, so I think the real story w…

Oh weird. Less than 24 hours after I first saw it from Twitter, the account was no longer active. Nice to see it's back!

There was a Soundcloud account with a like every essential mix ever on it the other week, but shortly after it disappeared - I think due to licensing issues with BBC content outsid…

I wrote a similar blog post back at my old job about our usage of Riak. http://devblog.seomoz.org/2011/10/using-riak-for-ranking-col... Keep in mind we used Riak pre-1.0, so YMMV.

> Isn't this just a method of implementation for your option 3? I don't really see a substantial difference between mocking the server and mocking the API. The short answer is that…

Awesome, thanks for the extra info. I think your setup sounds really good :)

In my opinion, having to replicate S3 in development and test isn't the best idea. There are a few problems I see: You have tied yourself to S3's API, you must maintain this "other…

I think this article title is misleading. It's not 10 million hits a day on Wordpress , it's 10 million hits a day using Varnish to a single URL. Might as well say you can serve 10…

If you know what these commands are doing under the covers, these commands are a true time saver. If you don't know what these commands are doing, they're basically "magic" and in …