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As someone who is not personally humiliated by my interest in computers/tech/programming, I wasn't really entertained by the constant "oh yea lol it's cause I'm a waste of oxygen that I know that, don't you hate me as much as I hate myself?" Maybe I know too many nerds with actual self esteem issues to find it funny.
inb4 facebook resolves this issue by banning anyone who's connected 24/7. (that wouldn't solve the problem either way, btw -- a small group of people could conspire to pull this data at irregular intervals and then share the data with one-another to get a more complete picture while still staying reasonably undetectable if done right.)
mfw banned
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If you found the article funny you may also enjoy one of the author's other projects, Swagify[0]. The source code[1] for said project is pretty great. Kind regards, [24x7BLAZEIT]XxXhUCkYau$XxX [0] http://swagify.net/ [1] http://swagify.net/static/js/swagify.js
Uh oh they know
> If you reload the page you’ll see approximately fifty-bajillion network requests go off as Facebook desperately tries to load all the junk that it needs to display facebook.com. I like this part. As a developer I've often looked at the network usage of large websites / web applications and it's always surprising to me just how...unoptimized it is as far as network connections go. I mean Facebook loads decently enou…
I suspect their mobile apps are more conservative about using fewer requests (and probably a binary protocol).
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What's striking about this writing style is that (as a junior dev) it's a lot easier to understand what he's doing. By sticking to jokes and a simple style, I never felt confused or lost in lingo.
I was thinking at the same thing today reading some tutorial. You have these serious ass tutorials that are an horror to read. And then you have these gems, these very informal tutorials with jokes and slangs and ... and reading them is a pleasure. I guess if you're a serious company like Apple, you can't really have that kind of tutorial for iOS dev. But that would really help.
> If you reload the page you’ll see approximately fifty-bajillion network requests go off as Facebook desperately tries to load all the junk that it needs to display facebook.com. I like this part. As a developer I've often looked at the network usage of large websites / web applications and it's always surprising to me just how...unoptimized it is as far as network connections go. I mean Facebook loads decently enou…
I mean, isn't that how monolithic apps tend to happen? Someone leaves, new person comes along and adds more to the cruft.
> If you reload the page you’ll see approximately fifty-bajillion network requests go off as Facebook desperately tries to load all the junk that it needs to display facebook.com. I like this part. As a developer I've often looked at the network usage of large websites / web applications and it's always surprising to me just how...unoptimized it is as far as network connections go. I mean Facebook loads decently enou…
Have you considered that your opinion on the best way to serve data to a billion users might actually be wrong? That maybe Facebook actually knows what they are doing?
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Uh oh they know
Do you have stairs in your house? (i.e. do you browse SomethingAwful, because your style of sarcastic humour is pretty similar, going by your writing & the animated frog on Swagify, and yes yes i know the rules of HN...)
But hey, I was 17 and also it was me so... I'm biased.
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What's striking about this writing style is that (as a junior dev) it's a lot easier to understand what he's doing. By sticking to jokes and a simple style, I never felt confused or lost in lingo.
I was thinking at the same thing today reading some tutorial. You have these serious ass tutorials that are an horror to read. And then you have these gems, these very informal tutorials with jokes and slangs and ... and reading them is a pleasure. I guess if you're a serious company like Apple, you can't really have that kind of tutorial for iOS dev. But that would really help.
they are written in a humorous tone, and intersperse joke drawings between the chapters.