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No, Flickr did not deploy base58 encoded URLs before October 31st. 2008 I wrote that code, registered the flic.kr short URLs, and helped draft the initial OAuth spec to facilitate …

The story isn't _good_, it's just a bit more complicated. The pharma company's trade association published this recently which talks about it in depth: http://www.phrma.org/report/…

Two things going on with the rebates. 1. I think the article is a little one sided in their explanation of the rebate system, though it certainly more opaque than it should be. (so…

The article does a good job of starting to explain the forces, but it's actually even more complicated. A number of the PBMs are cross invested in pharmacies and insurance companie…

We actively resist automating this process. Because of the way Etsy development is structured this gap gets fixed periodically and then we have to go back and un-automate it. It's …

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Acquisitions were much much smaller in those days.

Slightly dated, but I recommend Cal's book on the lessons we learned scaling Flickr, http://www.amazon.com/Building-Scalable-Web-Sites-Applicatio... Also remember that premature sc…

As the creator of MagpieRSS I know exactly what you're talking about. And yes, you include it. There are skills demonstrated in a popular open source project which are interesting …

Step 0. in getting started with continuous deployment is having an organization that doesn't lose it's mind every time there's a blip. That often means you need managers who are es…